# Jeffrey A. Weisheit

> Sentenced to death in 2013 for the deaths of his girlfriend's two children, Alyssa and Caleb Lynch, in a 2010 fire at their Evansville home, Weisheit is scheduled to be executed on Nov. 5, 2026. The Indiana Supreme Court has refused to delay the execution for new brain scans, and his clemency petition awaits the Parole Board's recommendation and Gov. Mike Braun's decision.

- Case: Weisheit v. State · Evansville, Indiana · 2010
- Case status: Execution scheduled. The Indiana Supreme Court has set his execution for before sunrise on Nov. 5, 2026, at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City. On Oct. 22 the court unanimously denied his lawyers' emergency motions to move the execution to Nov. 19 and to order his transport for brain scans. The Parole Board heard his clemency petition on Oct. 16 and 19; as of Oct. 26 its nonbinding recommendation had not been posted, and Gov. Braun, who makes the final decision, had not announced one.
- Last updated: 2026-10-26
- Editorial review: approved 2026-10-14
- Web page: https://criminalbackstories.com/cases/jeffrey-weisheit/
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## Why he's in the news

On Oct. 22, 2026, the Indiana Supreme Court, with all justices concurring, denied Weisheit's emergency motions to postpone his execution and clemency proceedings by 14 days and to order his transport to an imaging facility for brain scans.[6][22] The court said clemency is an executive power, that he had cited no authority allowing it to control clemency proceedings, and that the executive branch, which has custody of him, can authorize his transport without a court order.[6] It had earlier declined to postpone the clemency hearings while it considered the motions.[17] The Parole Board interviewed Weisheit on Oct. 16 and took public testimony on Oct. 19, where the children's mother urged that the sentence be carried out; their father, in a sworn statement, asked for life without parole.[7][18][20] On Oct. 14, Gov. Mike Braun said of the execution, "At this point, it's scheduled."[16]

## Case at a glance

- Charges: Two counts of murder; Class A felony arson resulting in serious bodily injury[1]
- Victims: Alyssa Lynch, 8, and her brother Caleb Lynch, 5, the children of his girlfriend, who died in a fire at their Evansville home on April 10, 2010[1][2]
- Convicted: June 18, 2013, by a Clark County jury[1][2]
- Sentenced: Death, July 11, 2013, by Clark County Judge Daniel Moore[23]
- Direct appeal: *Weisheit v. State, 26 N.E.3d 3 (Ind. 2015)*, affirmed unanimously[1][3]
- Postconviction: *Weisheit v. State, 109 N.E.3d 978 (Ind. 2018)*, denial of relief affirmed; Chief Justice Rush dissented in part[2][3]
- Federal habeas: *Weisheit v. Neal, No. 23-2906 (7th Cir. Aug. 13, 2025)*, denial affirmed; U.S. Supreme Court denied review June 8, 2026[3][4]
- Execution: Set for before sunrise, Nov. 5, 2026, by lethal injection at Indiana State Prison, Michigan City[4][11]
- Time in custody: Since his arrest in 2010[1]
- Current status: Execution scheduled; delay denied Oct. 22, 2026; clemency recommendation and the governor's decision pending as of Oct. 26[6][8][22]

## The backstory

### Background

In April 2010, Weisheit was living in Evansville with his girlfriend, who was pregnant, and her two children, 8-year-old Alyssa and 5-year-old Caleb Lynch. According to the Indiana Supreme Court, the children had lived with him since 2008.[1] On the night of April 9, he was home with the children while their mother worked.[1]

### The weeks before the fire

The court's account of the trial evidence says Weisheit doubted that the baby his girlfriend was carrying was his. Co-workers testified that he talked about harming her: that if he learned she was having an affair he would kill her, then himself, and "burn everything," and that if he left he would go out "[i]n a blaze of glory."[1] Earlier in 2010 he stopped paying on a layaway plan for an engagement ring, and in late March he told the jewelry store's manager that the couple had broken up and he planned to leave the country.[1] The court found that he brought railroad flares into the house.[1] On April 9 he quit his job and withdrew all the money in his bank account.[1]

### The fire

Weisheit testified at trial. By his own account, he bound Caleb with duct tape and put a washcloth in his mouth because the boy would not go to bed. He said he then thought, "I got to get out of here," packed his clothes and some of his girlfriend's jewelry, and left around 1 a.m.[1]

Early on April 10, 2010, firefighters found the house engulfed in flames.[1] Alyssa was found in a closet. Caleb was found on his mattress, bound with duct tape and with the washcloth in his mouth; a railroad flare had been placed in his underwear and another was beneath his body. According to the court's summary of the evidence, the flare burned his leg while he was still alive, and he died of smoke and soot inhalation.[1] The state fire marshal concluded that the fire was intentionally set.[1]

### Flight and arrest

Weisheit did not answer repeated calls to his cell phone.[1] OnStar located his car in Boone County, Kentucky. Deputies found him, and he fled at more than 140 miles per hour until spike strips stopped the car.[1] The court wrote that when confronted he pulled a knife, screamed at officers to kill him, and threw the knife at them, narrowly missing one. He was tased, fell and hit his head.[1] In the car were about $4,800 in cash, two rolls of duct tape, and clothing and toiletries.[1]

At the hospital, where doctors diagnosed a mild concussion, he gave detectives a 19-minute interview after being read his rights. According to the court, he feigned sleep when asked about the fire or the children, said he had left "for good," said he did not remember what happened at the house, and ended the interview by asking for a lawyer.[1] The Indiana Supreme Court and later the federal courts held that the statement was voluntary.[1][3]

### The trial

The state charged him with two counts of murder and arson resulting in serious bodily injury, and sought the death penalty.[1] The case was tried before a Clark County jury and Judge Daniel Moore, with Vanderburgh County prosecutors handling it.[2][23] There was no direct evidence that Weisheit lit the fire; the Indiana Supreme Court held that the verdict rested on "a series of independent facts" from which the jury could find that he did.[1] On June 18, 2013, the jury convicted him on all counts.[1]

### Why the jury chose death

The state relied on two statutory aggravating circumstances, listed in full below: that he had committed another murder, and that each victim was under 12.[1][10] The jury found both proven beyond a reasonable doubt.[1]

The defense called 17 witnesses, including family members, friends, neighbors, and a counselor from the Indiana Boys School, where he had been held as a juvenile.[3] The mitigation offered included mental disorders (bipolar disorder, depression, ADHD, brain trauma, delusions and suicide attempts), a minimal criminal history with no history of violence, a dysfunctional home life, and a good relationship with the Lynch family.[1] Two defense experts testified that he had bipolar disorder; a state expert disagreed.[3][2] A former state corrections commissioner was to testify that Weisheit could be safely imprisoned for life, but the trial court excluded the testimony.[1][9]

The jury found that the aggravators outweighed the mitigating circumstances and recommended death.[1] At sentencing on July 11, 2013, the children's mother testified about their lives, and Judge Moore imposed the death sentence. "In this trial, the court learned more about Weisheit's life than the shortened lives of Caleb and Alyssa Lynch," the judge said.[23]

### The direct appeal

Weisheit raised eight issues on appeal, including the exclusion of the corrections expert, the sufficiency of the evidence, the denial of challenges to prospective jurors, and a mistrial request after a juror's wife sent a thank-you note with cookies to court.[1][3] The Indiana Supreme Court rejected each one in February 2015.[1][24] Because Weisheit had withdrawn his request that the court independently review the appropriateness of his sentence, it reviewed only for abuse of discretion and found none, calling the crimes "an act of extreme heinousness."[1]

### Postconviction appeal

In postconviction proceedings, Weisheit argued that his trial lawyers were ineffective. Among other things, he said they failed to pursue his juvenile records from the Indiana Boys School, failed to call a psychiatrist who had evaluated him, and failed to present a neuropsychologist's opinion on brain injuries.[2] A Clark County judge denied relief in 2016, and on Nov. 7, 2018, the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed.[2] The majority found that some of counsel's choices may have been mistakes but that none changed the outcome, and it called the neuropsychologist's brain-injury testimony speculative.[2]

The decision was split. Justice Slaughter agreed that counsel's penalty-phase work was deficient in three respects but found no prejudice.[2] Chief Justice Loretta Rush dissented in part. She concluded that, taken together, counsel's errors deprived the jury of essential information about Weisheit's background and mental health, and she would have ordered a new penalty phase. "An execution tainted by constitutional error corrodes the integrity of the justice system and of the state that imposed it," she wrote.[2] The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review the case in June 2019.[25]

### Federal habeas

In September 2023, U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker denied his federal habeas petition and found that Weisheit "has engaged in intentional delay," according to news coverage of the ruling.[26] On Aug. 13, 2025, the Seventh Circuit affirmed. It held that most of his claims were procedurally defaulted and that the state courts reasonably rejected the rest.[3] The U.S. Supreme Court denied review on June 8, 2026.[4]

### Competency

A psychologist the trial court first appointed to evaluate his competency testified that he was competent to stand trial.[2] In federal court, his lawyers argued that he was not competent to assist them in the habeas case and asked for a stay to restore his competency. The district court denied the request, and the Seventh Circuit upheld that decision, reasoning that his claims had either been decided by the state courts or were barred, so his help would not have changed the outcome.[3] In October 2026, Judge Barker noted that he had not suggested the new brain scans would support a claim that he lacks the mental capacity to be executed.[15] *The sources reviewed, through Oct. 26, 2026, show no pending claim that he is incompetent to be executed.*

### The execution date

On June 17, 2026, Attorney General Rokita asked the Indiana Supreme Court to set a date.[4][12] Weisheit's lawyers asked for more time and argued, citing public records, that the Department of Correction had no execution drugs and no lawful source for them.[4] On Aug. 28, the court, with all justices concurring, set the execution for before sunrise on Nov. 5, 2026. It called setting the date an administrative task, and said the drug arguments belonged in other proceedings, such as a successive postconviction petition, a civil challenge to the execution protocol, or clemency.[4][11] Indiana uses the drug pentobarbital for lethal injections.[16]

### Clemency and the brain scans

Weisheit applied for clemency on Sept. 15. His petition argues that his "lifelong mental impairments including congenital dysfunctions," brain injuries beginning in early childhood, and childhood trauma "were never adequately presented to the courts."[13] On Sept. 16, Judge Barker approved federal funding for brain imaging and expert analysis, but on Oct. 7 she ruled that she lacked authority to order state officials to take him to an imaging center for a state clemency case.[15][22] The attorney general's office had argued that the court had "no authority to order transportation in this closed case."[15]

On Oct. 12, his lawyers asked the Indiana Supreme Court to delay the execution and the clemency proceedings by two weeks and to order his transport for MRI and PET scans.[5][15] According to the motion, both sides agree that his existing imaging shows significant brain damage, but the state's position is that the damage came from the head injury during his arrest. His lawyers argue that new quantitative analysis could show injury that predates the crime.[5] Ruben Gur, the University of Pennsylvania neuropsychologist whose earlier testimony the courts found speculative, has said in a declaration that there is "a substantial likelihood" the new data will show the abnormalities predated the arrest.[15][2]

The court declined to postpone the clemency hearings while it considered the motions, and they went ahead as scheduled.[17][18] On Oct. 16, the Parole Board questioned Weisheit for 64 minutes at Indiana State Prison. According to the Indiana Capital Chronicle, he apologized for killing the children, said, "There is no excuse or explanation for what I did," and described financial strain and anger at the children's mother; he also spoke of his religious conversion and said, "I want to live now." Board members asked him about the railroad flares, his prison disciplinary record, and whether he could safely serve life without parole.[18] At the public hearing in Indianapolis on Oct. 19, his sister, his father and other relatives described his childhood behavioral problems, suicide attempts and head injuries, and a deacon who has ministered to him for about 13 years described his remorse. His lawyer told the board that the defense does not endorse Weisheit's claim that someone else placed the flares.[20] Testifying against clemency, the children's mother, firefighters and retired investigators described the case and its effect on them. The attorney general's office said the evidence showed Weisheit bound and gagged Caleb and left both children in the burning house, and argued that the brain-scan request had already been litigated.[20][19] The children's father, in a sworn statement submitted to the Indiana Supreme Court, asked for life without parole and wrote, "Jeffrey, I forgive you."[21][20]

On Oct. 22, the Indiana Supreme Court, with all justices concurring, denied both motions. It said clemency is an executive power and that he had cited no authority allowing it to control clemency proceedings. It added that the executive branch has custody of him and can authorize his transport without a court order, and that no stay request or other proceeding giving the court authority over his transport had been filed.[6] "If the Board or the Governor finds the medical evidence relevant," the justices wrote, "the executive branch maintains its own authority to transport him without a court order."[22][6] The Department of Correction has released, in response to records requests, a $275,000 invoice dated Sept. 25 for execution drugs; the invoice does not identify the drug or the number of doses.[20] As of Oct. 26, the Parole Board had not posted its recommendation, and Gov. Braun had not announced a decision.[8][22]

## Personal backstory

### Early life and family

*The sources reviewed give little detail about Weisheit's childhood home.* A defense expert testified at trial about a history of mental illness in his family and about his history of head injuries.[2] According to Chief Justice Rush's dissent, the postconviction court found that his family did not follow through on his mental-health treatment.[2] At his 2013 sentencing, local news reported that his father was a retired city police officer, and a prosecutor said of his parents, "They're victims in this too."[23]

### The Boys School

Weisheit spent about six months at the Indiana Boys School between 1992 and 1993.[3] His Boys School counselor testified at trial that he attempted suicide there and was admitted to Methodist Hospital.[2] The school's records, which his trial lawyers were told had been destroyed and which his postconviction lawyers later found in the state archives, describe "suicide attempts, depression, medication" and childhood mental illness that was not adequately treated, according to the Seventh Circuit.[3][2] According to the Indiana Supreme Court, the same records show juvenile adjudications for burglary, auto theft, running away, fighting, threats and stealing weapons, and refer to a lack of remorse and cruelty to animals.[2]

### Mental health and brain injury

The diagnoses below are as experts testified. A defense expert who evaluated him four times testified that he had bipolar disorder, ADHD and a cognitive disorder.[2] The court-appointed psychologist diagnosed bipolar disorder, a cognitive disorder and a personality disorder with Cluster B characteristics.[2] The state's expert concluded that he did not meet the criteria for bipolar disorder.[2] An expert who evaluated him in 2010 but was not called at trial testified in postconviction proceedings that he had seen signs of a manic episode.[2]

At the postconviction hearing, Gur testified that Weisheit likely suffered traumatic brain injuries in childhood with long-term effects. Gur did not interview Weisheit and relied largely on his own reports, and a state expert found no medical evidence of brain injury apart from the injury during his arrest. The courts found Gur's opinion speculative.[2][3] His current lawyers describe lifelong impairments, including speech and motor problems, and repeated head injuries, and argue that his trial lawyers mistook those impairments for "difficult client" behavior.[5]

### Life before the crime

He had lived with his girlfriend and her children for about two years, and he was employed until April 9, 2010, when he quit his job.[1] *The sources reviewed contain no other detail about his schooling or work history.*

### Life in custody

The Indiana Supreme Court noted that 35 incident reports were filed against him in jail between April 2010 and May 2011, for conduct including threatening an EMT, other inmates and officers, and destroying property.[2] A former corrections commissioner testified at the postconviction hearing that he "stabilized very well" after moving to a different jail.[2] His lawyers' October 2026 motion describes manic episodes, a hunger strike, and a suicide attempt tied to paranoid delusions during his time in jail.[5] He has been held on death row at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City since 2013.[23][4]

## Aggravating circumstances found

- Ind. Code § 35-50-2-9(b)(8): "The defendant has committed another murder, at any time, regardless of whether the defendant has been convicted of that other murder."
- Ind. Code § 35-50-2-9(b)(12): "The victim of the murder was less than twelve (12) years of age."

## Where the parties stand

- State: Asking the court to set the date in June, Attorney General Todd Rokita said, "For more than 15 years, the family of these two innocent children has waited for justice," and "It is long past time to carry out the sentence."[12] The Department of Correction says it is "confident in its ability to carry out executions as ordered by the court."[14] The attorney general's office opposed the request to transport Weisheit for brain scans and the request for a delay.[15][22] At the Oct. 19 clemency hearing, Tyler Banks of the attorney general's office argued that the sentence has survived extensive court review and that the governor should not overturn it, and Vanderburgh County Prosecutor Diana Moers urged officials to uphold the jury's sentence.[20]
- Defense: His lawyers argue that his brain damage, mental illness and childhood trauma were never adequately developed or presented in court, and they are seeking clemency on that basis.[13][15] One of them, Joseph Perkovich, faulted "the repeated refusal of state and federal courts even to consider the effects of his complex and severe brain damage" and said that "killing Jeff will achieve nothing but the infliction of harm upon new victims."[11] They have also raised concerns about the secrecy of Indiana's execution drugs.[14] At the Oct. 19 hearing, Perkovich argued that Weisheit's moral culpability is limited and that his mental-health history was never fully considered; his sister, his father and other relatives spoke in support of clemency.[20]
- Victims' family: The children's family is divided. Their mother, testifying remotely at the Oct. 19 clemency hearing, urged officials to carry out the sentence and said, "Every single day without them is a struggle."[20][19] Their father did not attend; in a sworn statement he asked that Weisheit receive life without parole, wrote that an execution would not honor his children's memory, and said he forgave him.[20][21] Their mother also testified at the 2013 sentencing hearing about her children's lives.[23]

## Timeline

- April 9, 2010: Weisheit quits his job and withdraws all the money in his bank account.[1]
- April 10, 2010: Firefighters find the family's Evansville home engulfed in flames; Alyssa and Caleb Lynch are found dead inside. Weisheit is later arrested in Kentucky after a high-speed chase.[1]
- June 18, 2013: A Clark County jury convicts him and recommends death.[1][2]
- July 11, 2013: Judge Daniel Moore sentences him to death.[23]
- February 2015: The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously affirms.[24][1]
- Nov. 7, 2018: The Indiana Supreme Court affirms the denial of postconviction relief; Chief Justice Rush would have ordered a new penalty phase.[2]
- June 24, 2019: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to review the postconviction decision.[25]
- September 2023: A federal judge in Indianapolis denies habeas relief.[26]
- Aug. 13, 2025: The Seventh Circuit affirms.[3]
- June 8, 2026: The U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear his federal case.[4]
- June 17, 2026: The attorney general asks the Indiana Supreme Court to set an execution date.[4][12]
- Aug. 28, 2026: The Indiana Supreme Court sets the execution for Nov. 5, 2026.[4]
- Sept. 15, 2026: He applies for clemency, and the Parole Board schedules hearings.[13]
- Oct. 12, 2026: His lawyers ask the Indiana Supreme Court to delay the execution two weeks for brain scans.[5][15]
- Oct. 16 and 19, 2026: The Parole Board interviews him at Indiana State Prison and takes public testimony in Indianapolis.[7][18][20]
- Oct. 22, 2026: The Indiana Supreme Court unanimously denies the motions to delay the execution and to order brain scans.[6][22]

## What happens next

The Parole Board will make a nonbinding recommendation to Gov. Braun, who makes the final decision; board members said no recommendation was expected before Oct. 23, and as of Oct. 26 none had been posted.[22][8] If Braun grants clemency, Weisheit would serve life without parole.[19] His lawyers have said they may seek stays tied to a challenge to the execution method and to a request to reopen postconviction proceedings, and a reprieve to examine the state's execution procedures and drug procurement; as of the Oct. 22 order, no such stay request had been filed.[6][22][20] The execution is set for before sunrise on Nov. 5 at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.[4][22]

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