Dr. Jefferey Macdonald

Debated as one of the most misrepresented cases in American legal history, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald still fights for innocence. Contrary to infallible evidence, prosecution intentionally withheld crucial information aiding MacDonald's alibi. Such ratification included proof of an outside attack that would have played a major role in Jeffrey's case.

Convicted for the murders of his wife and two kids, thirty-four years ago, Dr. MacDonald still endures the agony of being accused of killing his family. Even after twenty-four years of imprisonment and several unlawful court hearings, additional documentation continues to up hold Dr. MacDonald's testimony.

It happened on a rainy night on February 17, 1970 at the base of Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Military police were responding to a call from Green Beret surgeon Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, which they thought was a routine call. When the military police arrived they discovered the slaughtered bodies of MacDonald's wife, Colette, who was twenty six, and his two daughters Kimberley, five, and Kristen, two.

A MP who preformed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation revived Dr. MacDonald. He told the police he and his wife stayed up drinking some orange liquor. She went to bed and he stayed up to finish watching the Johnny Carson show. MacDonald fell asleep on the sofa. He was awakened by screams of his wife and daughters. MacDonald claimed that three men standing over the sofa started to attack him with a bladed weapon and a baseball bat. He identified the person holding the bat as a black man with an army jacket with E-6 stripes and two white men, one carrying the bladed weapon. Before he was knocked unconscious he said that there was a lady in the back with a large floppy hat, holding a candle and was saying "acid is groovy" and "kill the pigs."

When MacDonald woke back up he found his wife lying on the ground, and tried to revive her with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with no success. He then found his daughters and tried to help them. This is when he called for an ambulance.

The Army CID sent a new, inexperienced investigator named William Ivory to investigate the scene. Ivory decided after looking around the house that MacDonald made up the story of the killers. He also persuaded everyone that he was the culprit. This meant that everyone in Ivory's chain of command was trying to prove MacDonald guilty, and not trying to prove that there were other people that committed the crimes.

There was suppressed evidence in the case that showed that Dr. MacDonald did not murder his family. The prosecutor Brian Murtagh told jurors that nothing at the crime scene supported MacDonald's story of the four trespassers. When the defense asked to see the lab results, the prosecutor laid saying the documents had nothing to support MacDonald's claims.

There was evidence on the body of Colette MacDonald. She was holding a brown hair in her hand, and it wasn't Dr. MacDonald's or of their two little girls. It was reported that it was too small to be given to the government. She also had skin under her fingernails, which was lost and not reported. Colette also had some black wool in her mouth and on her shoulder. These fibers were misrepresented in court. It was told to the jury as blue fibers from his pajamas, later used to convict him. This piece of fiber was relevant because Helena Stoeckly, at the time, had a closet full of black clothes. There was a blue fiber found in her left hand, and it could not be traced to any thing in the house. The same kind of blue fiber was found where Dr. MacDonald reported he was knocked unconscious.

The evidence on Kimberly and Kristen was a hair was found under Kimberly's fingernail. It didn't match up with Dr. MacDonald and this piece of evidence was also unreported.

A brown hair was found under Kristen's fingernail. This hair didn't match the one under Kimberly's fingernail nor did it match that of Dr. MacDonald's hair. Once again the piece of evidence went unreported. These hairs should not have been kept out of the case.

There was also some additional evidence that would have helped Dr. MacDonald. Blonde wig hairs were found in a brush where Jeffrey reported seeing the female. This was critical evidence in the case because the investigator William Ivory knew Helena Stoeckly used a blonde wig.

A bloody palm print was found on the bed of Dr. MacDonald's where Colette was murdered. This adult hand print did not match up with Dr. MacDonald or his wife. It was also found that it didn't match up with any one at the crime scene that morning.

If all of this evidence would have been reported or not misrepresented than Dr. MacDonald wouldn't have spent all them years in prison instead of Ivory judging right away that he was guilty. Ivory should have run tests and used the evidence to see if Dr. MacDonald was telling the truth about that night.

Dr. MacDonald's trial was set in the mid 1979s. When the trial began the deck was stacked against him and nobody on his defense team knew about it. Judge Franklin Dupree, had his mind already made up that Dr. MacDonald was guilty before the trial even started. This was because Judge Dupree had a very close friend in the government that wanted to see Dr. MacDonald go down. MacDonald's