Illness
In 1963, he graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in psychology and travelled to Amsterdam, Netherlands, to attend graduate school. By this time, however, he had apparently developed a mental illness, possibly schizophrenia. He was reportedly arrested for assault; Dutch chess author Tim Krabbe has identified the victim as the Dutch psychology professor and International Master Johan Barendregt. Soon after this incident, he was deported to the United States. There, he was detained in a half-way house, where he killed his 83-year-old roommate with a razor after an argument. Weinstein was deemed incapable to stand trial, and remanded to a psychiatric hospital, the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Center on Manhattan's Wards Island, where he remains to this day.
Weinstein had been described as having a "ruthless killer instinct" for chess in a February 1964 British Chess Magazine article, before the incident took place.
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