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Jeffrey MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the second of three children born to Robert and Dorothy (née Perry) MacDonald. He was raised in a poor household on Long Island, [4] with a disciplinarian father who, although nonviolent towards his wife and children, demanded obedience and achievement from his family.
Fatal Vision focuses on Captain Jeffrey R. MacDonald, M.D. and the February 17, 1970 murders of his wife and their two children at their home on Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 1979, MacDonald was convicted of all three murders and sentenced to life in prison.
Morris's original intention was to direct a film based on the MacDonald case that would challenge the story presented by government prosecutors at the 1979 trial, and by Joe McGinniss in his 1983 book on the case, Fatal Vision, which proposed that MacDonald was a psychopath who had overdosed on the diet pill Eskatrol and tried to cover up the ...
A Fort Bragg soldier has been accused of fatally shooting another outside a North Carolina home.
Sep. 8—In the 45 years since 16-year-old Krisann Baxter was found strangled near Whitworth University, her case had stumped investigators. "Do cases get any tougher than this one?" Spokane ...
A former Fort Bragg soldier was emotional Wednesday in a Cumberland County courtroom as she apologized for shooting and killing another female soldier she found sitting outside her ex-boyfriend's ...
February 17 – MacDonald family massacre: Jeffrey R. MacDonald kills his wife and children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, claiming that drugged-out "hippies" did it. February 18 – A jury finds the Chicago Seven defendants not guilty of conspiring to incite a riot, in charges stemming from the violence at the 1968 Democratic National ...
He was assigned to the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, which is headquartered Fort Bragg — now Fort Liberty — in 2013, according to a Facebook post by the division’s 1st Brigade Combat team ...