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A 3 page research paper that summarizes and discusses the one of the most compelling and gruesome murder cases of the 1970s, which was the murder of the family of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. The writer briefly summarizes the case against MacDonald and then discusses new evidence. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_khmacmc.rtf
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17, 1970, the military police received a phone call from MacDonald, a Green Beret captain and an Army group surgeon, living with his family at Fort Bragg, North Carolina (Shalit).
MacDonald haltingly called for help saying, "Weve been stabbed...People are dying...I may be dying" (Shalit). The police found Colette, MacDonalds young pregnant wife, and his two preschool daughters, all brutally
murdered. There were multiple murder weapons: an ice pick, a Geneva Forge knife and a wooden club (Shalit). MacDonalds version of what happened has always sounded implausible. For one
thing, the crime scene, which allegedly had been the site of life-and-death struggle, was "suspiciously tidy" (Shalit). Investigator William Ivory wondered why, for example, a flowerpot was still standing (Shalit).
MacDonalds story goes that he was sleeping on the couch because his daughter Kristen had crawled into bed with himself and College and wet his side of the bed. He
awoke to the screams of his family and found a group of hippies had invaded his home, chanting "Acid is groovy" and "Kill the pigs" (MacDonalds Story). MacDonald was
tried for the murders and found guilty on the basis of forensic evidence. In his best-selling novel, Joe McGinniss describes the prosecutors summation of the forensic evidence again MacDonald. This
summation is damning for MacDonald. According to McGinniss, the prosecutor asks the jury to consider "How did threads and yarns from the pajama top (belong to MacDonald) get on Kimberly
bed beneath the sheets? Fourteen of them, when the pajama top was already off?" (McGinniss 569). The prosecutions case also hinged on blood evidence, whose blood was where and how
this fit with MacDonalds accounts of his movements. MacDonald has steadfastly maintained his innocence and there have been several appeals and also new evidence that appears to have been
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