Read Fatal Justice
Read the book Fatal Justice by Potter and Bost. Many of you will be surprised.
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Go to the website www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com all the evidence is shown do some research you will find out he is not an innocent man.
shareI don't think that we'll ever know for sure what actually happened, but if you look at the forensic evidence, MacDonald's story absolutely does not add up. At all. And as much as I can understand how angry and betrayed MacDonald must have felt when McGinniss wrote Fatal Vision, that doesn't negate the evidence.
shareI gave him the benefit of the doubt, and read Fatal Justice.I found lots of flaws in his story. I compared them to the website with all the evidence, and found the truth for each example he stated he was almost dead when arriving to the emergency room, being a nurse I knew the wound he had was impossible to die from, but if you look at his blood pressure when arriving at the emergency room it was normal creepy for someone whom just when through so much (trauma) of losing his wife and kids.
shareJoe McGinnis did NOT betray McDonald when he wrote the book. McDonald, being the arrogant, narcissistic murderer he is, wanted Joe to show him in a favorable light, and he wanted a cut of the profits. That was the real reason he hired him. All mcGinnis did was write the truth about what he saw. He believed mcDonald at first, but the more time he spent with him, the more the real monster showed himself.So please stop thinking NcDonald was betrayed. He is where he should be for the rest of his miserable life.
shareI'm reading that book now. I don't know how the man is still in prison based on what I'm reading. That crime scene was completely botched. It went unsecure for 15 minutes after the MPs arrived. Neighbors and strangers were going in and out of the apartment, where they later discovered no evidence of intruders. Really? REALLY? Because all the lookie loos and the overabundance of personnel walked through it and screwed it up. His wallet and her jewelry went missing. People moved things. The investigators moved things before photographing them, they even moved Collette's body before doing an outline! They used the coffee pots and the furniture like the crime scene was their breakroom.
There were people there in the house that weren't even interviewed.
There was Helena confessing over and over and just being called a crackpot. Who just HAPPENED to know details? Who just HAPPENED to completely match his description of the girl and who HAPPENED to have associates that matched his descriptions of the males? Other people around town saw and described these people to police and said they had blood on them. Let's not forget that an MP SAW a woman matching her description on his way to the crime scene. She just happened to be out for a stroll on a rainy morning in the middle of an army base? Nope, not buying it. Even as unsecure as that base was, that's a little weird (I grew up in Fayetteville and until 9/11, anyone could drive on base, the roads were open and there was no MP checkpoints. You could even drive through the area where they did field exercises WHILE they were doing them - all that stopped when 9/11 happened, but before then, it was wide open).
And then there were his injuries documented in his medical records that were completely downplayed at trial.
That crime scene and any evidence that came from it was tainted.
And he was railroaded.
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There were no neighbors or strangers in the house, Macdonald's defense claims a strange hippy was sitting on a couch in the living room and that the MP's did'nt do anything to stop him.Well the hippy turned out to be the ambulance driver who was dressed in jeans on that day.Only the flower pot was sat upright. The table was photographed as it was found so was the rest of the livingroom. Helena was not in that house. She can confess until the cows come home there is no physical evidence that she was in that home. A clerk at a store said 4 people came in the store with blood on their hands. Kimberly, and Colette had blood splatter from their heads Helena and the other hippies would of been cover in blood, not just their hands. The ambulance driver never mentioned Helena as being the woman on that corner. He said it was a woman with nice legs.Why would Helena stand on the street corner near the crime scene anyway? Macdonald's injuries where not serious there are pictures of him on www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com also the emergency room document on him from that day is shown his blood pressure is normal. I advise you visit that website before jumping on Macdonald's bandwagon. Evidence is shown that discredit's his lies in his fictional book.
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Macdonald was not even close to being railroaded he was very well liked and respected by his peers in the Army.If he was so innocent he should of been helping Freddie Kassab find the suppose killers instead of running off to California. He's trying for another appeal, which he will never get, and at a time when the ecomony is bad typical Macdonald only out for himself! I love watching him in interviews after 40 years he still can't squeeze one tear for his family, and always changes the subject back to himself when questioned about his family, but at least he is'nt joking about them this time! His lawyers even lie about facts that never happened. I don't even think any of them where even born when the crime happened! but they think they are going to be the dreamteam if they get their chance in the courtroom. The new hair they want to test is probably from the neighbor's dog that Kristin was fond of and petted that day. He knows he did it and needs to shut up he's looking for that little flaw that will get him out of prison that is the only reason why he would'nt admit to doing the crime so he can get out and practice medicine again!
He wasn't railroaded. In fact, he damn near got away with it.
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They would of eventually got him.It would of been reopened as a cold case, and being only his Dna was on the victims, and crime scene he would have been nailed, but thankfully he had Freddie Kassab as a father in law! Now his rotten soul can rot in that jail cell.
He was not railroaded. Forensics showed his wife's blood was on his pajama top before it was torn. End of story, and may those little girls rest in peace.
shareIm so glad this killer is rotting in jail ,people who support a man who savagely killed his pregnant wife and little daughters should be thrown in there with him.
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There are 2 kind of people who think he's innocent flag those who did not study the case and people who are just plain naive like his wife.
i feel sorry for anyone who believes anything other than what the evidence proves as the PLAIN TRUTH...he murdered his innocent wife,daughters and unborn son. he deserved the death penalty IMO
"Oh Penny, it's as if the Cheesecake Factory is run by witches"
I met and married my wife in Wilmington, NC in the early 70's. We went shopping in Fayetteville routinely and were very familiar with Fort Bragg. We followed the case over the years but not really closely. I read the book when it came out; just before the mini-series. In my opinion the book did not do a good job at all of "proving" his guilt. In fact after I read the book I was convinced he was not guilty; not necessarily innocent but not guilty in a legal sense. The mini-series didn't follow the book very well and went way over the top in "proving" his guilt. I'm convinced the Father-In-Law made sure during the filming that any "questions" that were evident in the book would not show up in the film.
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