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A Wilderness Of Error

posted 12 years ago by HaroldCarter
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I read Fatal Vision and saw the mini-series back in the early 90's, and I was convinced MacDonald killed his family. Then today I saw an article on Salon that casts doubt on that.

http://www.salon.com/2012/11/30/maybe_jeffrey_macdonald_was_innocent_a fter_all/

Apparently, Errol Morris, the documentarian, has written a book, 'A Wilderness of Error,' which looks at the evidence, and he sees reason for doubt. Errol Morris is somebody that I respect, and I know does his research, so I checked the book out of the library today. I know a lot of people on this board follow this closely, have any of you read his new book? I'm going to read it and come to my own conclusions, I was just curious what others thought.

[–] khudson6 12 years ago

From what I heard Morris contacted Colette's brother wanting to write a book on MacDonald. Morris told him that he was convinced MacDonald was guilty. Colette's brother didn't want anything to do with the book because Fatal Vision was as factual than any other book that can be written, and he thought Morris was shady. I heard he told Morris off at MacDonald's latest hearing. Morris looks at the DNA at the crime scene which he claims MacDonald's DNA should of been there since he lived there, but what Morris doesn't cover is the DNA that shouldn't have been there that got MacDonald convicted.

[–] fallfrost 12 years ago

Reading it now. I chime in when finished.

[–] kurt7825 10 years ago

its been 2 years. still reading?

[–] essf5 9 years ago

Ironic title for such a factually challenged book.

[–] mep1019 8 years ago

Just one year before he died, the original author of 'Fatal Vision' Joe McGinniss, wrote a short e-book titled 'Final Vision' as a rebuttal to the 'Wilderness of Error' book, which he debunks and rebuffs several of Errol Morris' claims in 'Wilderness...'

The link for purchasing that e-file book can be found here:

https://www.amazon.com/Final-Vision-Last-Jeffrey-MacDonald-ebook/dp/B00LI9GPD8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1469376480&sr=8-1&keywords=Final+vision#nav-subnav