Nov 07 2024 22 mins
Psychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder knows how to mess with people’s heads. When she no longer wanted to split custody of the child she shared with her baby-daddy, psychiatrist Michael Weiss, she didn’t take him to court. Prosecutors say she made a plan to kill him.
That plan included brainwashing and bamboozling her bi-polar younger cousin, Jacob Nolan. His family was delighted when the accomplished and seemingly kind and caring Buchbinder offered to let Jacob live with her and help take care of her young son.
Only instead of helping him deal with his mental instability she recruits and masterminds him to fulfill a mission to murder her son’s father armed with a bizarre map of his office, a knife and a sledgehammer.
Fortunately, the tall and imposing Dr. Weiss was able to fend off the homicidal attack from the young man who was falsely told Weiss was abusing his cousin and her son.
Jacob even took a selfie of his bloody face in Michael’s office to prove to Buchbinder he did as he was asked. At Jacob’s trial for attempted murder he claimed he was under duress and only did what he did because she manipulated him and convinced him he was killing a molester and an abuser, neither of which was true.
Did the jury believe him or blame Buchbinder?
Join us for more on the case in the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, "Doctor's Orders: How Psychiatrist Pamela Buchbinder Brainwashed Her Cousin Patient to Kill for Her!"