An Old Man by Eric M. Black6/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Jacob’s father, John Edgar Wideman, is an acclaimed author of many books on race, violence and criminal justice. This debut episode of “Violation,” a podcast from The Marshall Project and WBUR, introduces the story of the crime that has bound two families together for decades. ![]() Flagstaff Police Departmentīeth Schwartzapfel, the reporter and host for the “Violation” podcast, outside the Arizona State Prison Complex in Tucson, where Jake is incarcerated, in December of 2022. The next morning, the car was gone and so was Jake. The night before Eric was found fatally stabbed, Jake asked Hammond, the camp counselor, for the keys to the Oldsmobile they were traveling in. The motel in Flagstaff, Ariz., where the campers stayed the night of the murder and where Eric’s body was found. The police department redacted the faces of the other campers because they were minors at the time. ![]() Jake with Bill Hammond, a camp counselor, on a trip that they took with Eric and two other boys to see national parks in the West in 1986. He is pictured here on the trip during which he killed Eric. ![]() In 2016, less than nine months after he was released, Jake was put back into prison. Jake spent three decades in prison for killing Eric when he was 16. Family photo provided by the Kanes to the parole board Eric was the youngest of three children and loved to read. In 1986, as a teen at summer camp, Jacob Wideman murdered fellow camper Eric Kane, pictured here in 1985. ![]()
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