Fatal Vision or Fatal Justice - The Case of Jeffrey MacDonald

Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan

At 3:42 a.m. on February 17, 1970, Green Beret Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald makes an emergency phone call from his base housing at 544 Castle Drive at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The dispatcher hears the faint message, a call for help, "Stabbing! Hurry!" Inside the residence, MacDonald's wife, Colette, 26, and five months pregnant, lies dead on the floor of the master bedroom, their daughters, Kimberley, 5, and Kristen, 2, are found dead in their respective beds. Jeffrey MacDonald suffered minor injuries, compared to his wife and daughters. MacDonald claims 4 hippies, 3 men and a woman, came into his home, killed his family and knocked him unconscious. MacDonald says the woman with long blond hair was wearing a white floppy hat and holding a candle while chanting "Acid is groovy, kill the pigs." The case has been turned into books, movies, articles, and lawsuits. MacDonald was convicted for the murder of his wife and daughters and sentenced to life in prison. Jeffrey MacDonald claims he was wrongly convicted and has never wavered from his claims that hippies murdered his wife and daughters. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the case and the injuries suffered by Colette, Kimberley, Kristen, and Jeffrey Macdonald, and compare the forensic facts to the story told by the one person who survived.

Transcribe Highlights

00:00:01.45 Introduction

00:00:17.91 Killer on the loose in LA

00:03:06.24 Jeffrey MacDonald story

00:05:26.19 Victim recounting traumatic event

00:09:10.74 MacDonald tells his version of events

00:14:09.09 Four Hippies get on military base housing

00:19:10.31 Tearing down location of homicide

00:24:07.38 Officers explaining crime scene

00:29:36.21 Motive doesn't matter at a crime scene

00:33:55.42 MacDonald was the ONLY threat, he survives

00:38:43.83 Wounds on Colette

00:43:09.00 Comparing injuries suffered by girls and MacDonald

00:48:13.19 Injuries suffered by Kimberly, 5-years-old

00:52:21.98 Conclusion

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