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Jake had many years of practice pretending he wasn’t suffering from mental health struggles in his youth, but now, he had to push those struggles even further out of sight as he faced a series of challenges in prison, each more difficult than the last.
We follow Jacob Wideman’s decades-long journey through the Arizona prison system and hear how he prepared to tell his life story to the parole board.
Part 3 of Violation examines America’s opaque parole system and how Jacob Wideman prepared to argue for his release.
Was Jake Wideman a “bad seed”? The question emerged not long after Jacob Wideman murdered his summer camp roommate, Eric Kane, in 1986 seemingly with no motive.
Not long after Jacob Wideman murdered his summer camp roommate, Eric Kane, in 1986 — seemingly with no motive — a question emerged in the breathless news coverage of the tragedy: Was Jake a “bad seed”?