On October 17, 2010, two men murdered his son, Zachary. With Daniel’s help, authorities identified and arrested those men a month later, and now both men reside in prison, one for life. On the day his son was murdered, Daniel ceased to be the dynamic and successful criminal defense attorney he had been up to that point and began on a very difficult journey of not only learning how to cope with his son’s death and the crippling grief that came with that loss, but he also had to find his way to a new professional purpose. Still a licensed attorney and a survivor of grief, Daniel has begun a second career as a writer.