A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
In 1970, military doctor Jeffrey MacDonald reports a hideous and confusing story: a gang of hippies akin to the Manson Family broke into his North Carolina home and slaughtered his pregnant wife and two daughters, while somehow only wounding him slightly as he tried to fight them off. As he continues to proclaim his innocence, his skeptical father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, and investigative journalist, Joe McGinniss, probe his story to uncover the truth.—Jwelch5742
Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, a renowned and an ambitious surgeon at Fort Bragg army base, appears to be a happily married father of two daughters. When the MP enter his house in response to his desperate emergency call they find him injured and his pregnant wife and daughters murdered. He reports a gang of drugged "hippies" raided the house and attacked his family. As a massive search for the suspects yields no leads, investigators focus on some inconsistencies in MacDonald's account and he becomes their prime suspect.—Armin Ortmann <[email protected]>
In 1970, Green Beret Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald is accused of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters at their army base home in North Carolina. After initially believing his innocence, his father-in-law begins to doubt his story and relentlessly seeks, spending over nine years, to bring him to trial for the triple murder.—matt-282