Jeffrey Robert MacDonald (born October 12, 1943) is an American medical doctor and former US Army officer who was convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970.
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Jeffrey MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, the second child of three children Robert MacDonald, known as "Mac," and his wife, Dorothy (nÃÆ' Â © e Perry). Raised on Long Island, he studied at Patchogue Secondary School, where he was voted "most popular" and "most likely to succeed," and he is Senior Class President and captain of the football team. His grades were high enough for him to win a scholarship to Princeton University. While there, she continued a romantic relationship with Colette Kathryn Stevenson, her high school girlfriend. On September 14, 1963, after learning that she was pregnant with her child, they married. Their daughter, Kimberly, was born on April 18, 1964.
After attending Princeton for three years, MacDonald and his family moved to Chicago in 1964, where he was admitted to Northwestern University Medical School. Their second child, Christian, was born on May 8, 1967. The following year, after graduating from medical school, he completed an internship at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York. He joined the US Army on July 1, 1969 and the whole family moved to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where he held the rank of Captain. He was assigned to the 6th Special Forces Group as a Group Surgeon in September 1969.
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Murder
At 3:42 am on February 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency phone call from MacDonald, who reported "stabbing." Four military police officers responded to arrive at his home located at 544 Castle Drive, initially believing that they were called to resolve housekeeping. They found the front door closed and locked and the house was dark inside. When no one answered the door, they spun back to the house, where they found the back screen door closed and open and the back door wide open. Upon entering, they find Jeffrey's wife, Colette and his daughter, Kimberly and Kristen, dead in their own bedroom.
The five-year-old Kimberly was found in her bed, beaten on the head and stabbed at the neck with a knife between eight and ten times. A two-year-old Christian is found in his own bed; he was stabbed 33 times with a knife and 15 times with an ice breaker. Colette, who had a third child and her first son, was lying on the floor of her bedroom. He has been repeatedly beaten (both arms broken) and stabbed 21 times with an ice breaker and 16 times with a knife. MacDonald's torn pajamas were wrapped in his chest. At the head of his bed, the word "pig" was written with blood.
MacDonald found next to his wife alive but injured. His injuries were not so bad and not as much as his family suffered. He was immediately taken to the nearest Womack Hospital. MacDonald suffered cuts and bruises on his face and chest, accompanied by a mild concussion. He also had a stab wound on his left body so that a staff surgeon was described as a "clean, small, sharp" incision that caused his left lung to collapse in part. She was released from hospital after one week. MacDonald.27s_account "> MacDonald account
MacDonald told investigators that on the night of February 16, he fell asleep on the living room sofa. He told investigators that he was doing it because Kristen had slept with Colette and had wet his side. He was later awakened by Colette and Kimberly's screams. When he got up from the couch to go help them, he was attacked by three men intruders, one black and two white. A fourth intruder, described as a white woman with long blond hair and wearing high-heeled boots and a white floppy hat covering part of her face, stood nearby with a candle burning and chanting, "The acid is engrossed, kill the pig." The three men attacked him with clubs and ice breakers. During the struggle, he claims that his pajama top is pulled over his head to his wrist and he then uses it to fend off the urges of the ice breaker. Finally, he declares that he is overcome by his assailant and fainted at the end of the living room into the bedroom.
Investigation
The Crime Investigation Division of the Army (CID) did not believe the version of MacDonald's events, and, when Army investigators studied physical evidence, they found that it did not seem to support the story told by MacDonald. The living room, where MacDonald allegedly fought for his life against three armed attackers, showed little signs of a separate struggle from the coffee table that overturned and crashed into a flower plant. Besides the absence of damage to the inside of the house, the fibers from the top of MacDonald's ripped pajamas were not found in the living room, where he claimed it was torn. Instead, the fibers from the tops of pajamas are found under Colette's body and in both Kimberly and Christian bedrooms. One fiber is found under a Christian nail. Murder weapons are found outside the back door. They are a kitchen knife, an ice-breaker, and a 3-foot piece of wood; all three are determined to come from MacDonald's home. The tips of surgical gloves are found under the head where the "pig" is written with blood; their compositions are identical to MacDonald's stored inventory in the kitchen.
The MacDonalds all have different blood types - statistical anomalies used to theorize about what's happening in their homes. Starting with the assumption that they are four bloody people there, the researchers theorized that the fight started in the master bedroom between MacDonald and Colette, who might argue about Christian soaking his bedside while sleeping there. Researchers speculate that the argument was physically changed because he might hit him on the forehead with a hair brush, which resulted in his concussion. When he retaliated by hitting him, first with his fist and then beating him with a piece of wood, Kimberly, whose blood and serum brain was found at the door, may have run after hearing the commotion and struck at least once on the head, possibly by accident. Believing that Colette was dead, MacDonald brought a badly wounded Kimberly back to his bedroom. After stabbing him (whose blood was found on a pajamas he said he did not wear while in his room), he went to the Christian room, intending to throw off the remaining witnesses. Before he could do it, Colette, whose blood was found on the quilt of a Christian bed and on one of the walls, seemed to regain consciousness, tripping, and throwing himself on Christianity. After killing the two, he wrapped Colette's body in a sheet of paper and brought it back to the master bedroom, leaving a trail of blood escaping as it came out of the Christian chamber.
The CID researcher then theorized that MacDonald was trying to cover up the murder, using an article about the Manson Family murder he found in the Esquire problem in the living room. Wearing surgical gloves from medical supplies in the hall cabinets, she goes to the master bedroom, where she uses Colette's blood to write "pig" at the head of the bed. He put the pajama top torn over his corpse and repeatedly stabbed him in the chest with an ice-breaker. He then takes the knife knife from the supply closet, goes to the adjacent bathroom, and stabs himself once. Finally, he used the phone to call an ambulance, throw his weapon out of the back door, throw off his gloves and scalpel knife, and lie on Colette's body while waiting for the military police to arrive.
On April 6, 1970, Army investigators interrogated MacDonald. Less than a month later, on May 1, the Army officially charged him for the killing of his family.
Article 32 heard
Army's initial article 32 listening to MacDonald's possible error, supervised by Colonel Warren Rock, held on 5 July 1970 and lasting until September. He is represented by Bernard L. Segal, a civil defense lawyer from Philadelphia. Segal's defense centered on the poor quality of CID's investigations and the presence of other suspects, especially a woman named Helena Stoeckley.
Segal provided evidence that the CID did not manage the crime scene well and lost some important evidence, including four ripped ends of rubber surgical gloves found in the master bedroom, and a single layer of leather found beneath one of Colette's nails. In addition, he claims to have found Stoeckley, the woman who claimed by MacDonald in his apartment during the murder. Stoeckley is a well-known drug user in a city known for socializing with other heavy drug users, including Army veteran Greg Mitchell, his lover. Witnesses claim that Stoeckley has acknowledged his involvement in the crime, and some people remember him wearing clothes similar to what MacDonald describes.
On October 13, 1970, Colonel Rock issued a report recommending that the allegations be dismissed against MacDonald because they were "incorrect," and he recommended that civil authorities investigate Stoeckley. In December, MacDonald received an honorable repatriation from the Army and returned to New York City.
Department of Justice
After hearing Article 32, MacDonald returned to work as a doctor, briefly in New York City and then in Long Beach, California in July 1971, where he was an emergency room physician at St. Medical Center. Mary. He also made a media appearance, especially on the December 15, 1970 episode of The Dick Cavett Show, where he made a joke and complained about the investigation and his focus on him as a suspect.
During this time Freddie Kassab, MacDonald's step-mother-in-law, turned against him. Initially, he was one of his supporters and testified in favor of the innocence during the hearing of Article 32; However, his support was diminished after MacDonald's appearance on The Dick Cavett Show . Kassab's support continued to erode after MacDonald refused to give him a transcript of Article 32 hearing. MacDonald also made contradictory and sometimes bizarre claims; on one occasion in November 1970, MacDonald told Kassab that he and some Army friends had actually tracked down, tortured, and eventually killed one of the alleged killers of his family, but refused to give details about who that person was or what was possible he has. said MacDonald. He then claims that it is a lie to try to put Kassab's perseverance about finding his step killer.
After Kassab finally received a copy of the Article 32 transcripts hearing (after a long aversion by MacDonald), he noted many inconsistencies in MacDonald's testimony. One example is his assertion that he had suffered life-threatening injuries during the alleged attack on him; Kassab saw him in the hospital less than 18 hours after the attack and found him sitting in bed, eating, and with very little in the way of dressing or dressing.
In March 1971, along with Army investigators, Kassab visited the scene for several hours to test the physical evidence against MacDonald's testimony. His work convinced him that MacDonald himself had committed a crime. Since the Army investigation has been completed, the only way Kassab can take him to court is through citizen complaints through the Department of Justice. He filed a citizen complaint in early 1972, but it was crippled because the three murders occurred while MacDonald served in the Army, and since he was no longer with the Army, the citizens' complaints were disputed.
Between 1972 and 1974, the case remained trapped in the archives of the Department of Justice as they struggled to prosecute or not. On April 30, 1974, after much perseverance in pursuit of MacDonald's prosecution, Freddie and Mildred Kassab, assisted by Peter Kearns, and Kassabs lawyer Richard C. Cahn of Huntington, New York, presented a citizen complaint against MacDonald to the US Chief. Algernon Butler District Court Judge, requested the holding of a grand jury to indict him for the murder. As a result of the complaint, the grand jury was held on August 12, 1974. Justice Department attorney Victor Worheide presented the case to the jury, and US District Judge Franklin Dupree was assigned to oversee the trial.
Trial and confidence
The grand jury in North Carolina sued MacDonald on January 24, 1975, and within an hour he was arrested in California. On January 31, 1975, he was released on bail of $ 100,000 pending disposition of the allegations. On May 23, 1975, he was indicted and pleaded not guilty to the murder. On July 29, 1975, Judge Dupree rejected the dangerous and immediate double charge and allowed the trial date of 18 August 1975 to stand. On August 15, 1975, the Court of Appeal of the Fourth Circuit stayed at the hearing and on 23 January 1976, a panel of the court, in a 2-1 split, ordered the indictment to be dismissed in court quickly. An appeal on behalf of the Government led to 8-0 recovering indictments by the US Supreme Court on 1 May 1978. On October 22, 1978, the Fourth Circuit rejected MacDonald's dual proposition and, on March 19, 1979, the Supreme Court refused to review the decision.
The murder trial began on July 16, 1979 at the Federal courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina. Although MacDonald's lawyers, Bernard Segal and Wade Smith, are confident of being released from day one, one by one fails in defense. It began when Dupree refused a defense request to admit to being a psychiatric evaluation proof from MacDonald, which showed that a person of his personality type could not kill his family. Dupree explains that since there is no frenzied petition submitted to MacDonald, he does not want the trial to be stopped by the contradictory psychiatric testimony of prosecutors and defense witnesses.
Prosecution
During the first day of the trial, Dupree allowed the prosecution to admit to be a copy of the 1970s copy of Esquire magazine, found at MacDonald's home, part of which contained a long article of Manson Family murders in August 1969. Prosecutors James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh wanted to introduce the magazine and suggested that it was here that MacDonald got the idea of ​​blaming the hippie gang for the killing.
The prosecutor called FBI lab technician and analyst Paul Stombaugh who testified that MacDonald's pajamas had 48 small, smooth, cylindrical ice breaks. In order for this to happen, it must remain silent, an unlikely event if he wraps it around his hand to defend himself from a blow from an attacker who uses an ice breaker. Also, by folding it in a certain way, Stombaugh shows how 48 holes can be made by 21 impulses from an ice breaker, the same amount as Colette stabbed with it and in an identical pattern, implying that he had repeatedly stabbed the top of the pajama while it lay to him. Attorney Murtagh and Blackburn launched an immediate protest over alleged attacks on MacDonald. Murtagh wrapped the pajama around his hand and tried to deflect a series of blows that Blackburn had imposed on him with the same ice breaker. The prosecutor made two points with a demonstration. First, the ice-breaking hole at the top of the pajama is jagged and torn, not a smooth cylinder like the one on MacDonald. Also, Murtagh received a small wound in his left hand. When MacDonald was examined at Womack Hospital, he did not have a defensive wound in his arm or hand consistent with the struggle. The implications are clear and very damaging to defense.
Another damaging proof against MacDonald is the audio recording made from the April 6, 1970, interview by military investigators. Listening to this tape, the jury heard the proof, an indifferent reading of murder. They heard him become angry, defensive, and emotional in response to the investigators' advice that he had committed the murder. He asks the investigators why they think that he, who has a beautiful family and everything running for him, can kill his family with cold blood for no reason. The jury also heard the researchers confronting him with their knowledge of his affair, which MacDonald calmly replied, "Oh... you're more meticulous than I thought."
Despite the evidence, prosecution is hampered by a lack of motive for MacDonald to commit murder, as he has no history of violence or domestic violence with his wife or children. Because Dupree rejected pleading and prosecution requests for any psychiatric evaluation to be performed for him, he also rejected the claimant's request to permit evidence of any part of Article 32 of the transcript of his 1970 Army hearing. Dupree decides that since the current trial is a civil proceeding and Article 32 military hearing has several reports from military investigators, who claim that he may have killed his family in drug induced rage, it is considered biased and hearsay.
Defense
During the trial defense phase, Segal calls Helena Stoeckley to the witness stand, with the intention of issuing a confession from him that he is one of the infiltrators that MacDonald claims to have entered his home, killed him, and assaulted him. For nine years after the assassination, he made several contradictory statements about them, sometimes saying he was present when the murder took place, at other times stating he did not remember where they were at night. Just before his testimony, separate interviews had been conducted by defense and prosecution, in which he refused to have been at MacDonald's home or had seen him before that day in court. After that, Segal argues for the introduction of testimony from other witnesses to whom Stoeckley has confessed. Dupree refused, as there was no evidence to connect Stoeckley to the scene, citing a history of long-term drug abuse.
MacDonald's defense summoned forensic expert James Thornton to stand up. He failed to try to deny the government's assumption that the pajamas were stationary on Colette's chest, rather than wrapped around MacDonald's wrists as he warded off the punches, by experimenting where similar ones were placed over the ham, moving back and forth on the sled, and stabbed with an ice breaker. The defense also called several witnesses of the characters. MacDonald took the witness as the last defense witness. Under the direct examination of Segal, MacDonald denied committing murder. When Blackburn crossed his cross, however, MacDonald could not provide any explanation of the evidence.
Results
On August 29, 1979, MacDonald was convicted for one count of first-degree murder in Christian death and two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of Colette and Kimberly after the jury deliberated for more than six hours. Dupree immediately gave him a life sentence for each murder, to be served in order. He also revoked his guarantee. Immediately after the verdict, MacDonald appealed Dupree's decision to revoke the bail, requiring the guarantee to be given pending his appeal. On September 7, 1979, the application was rejected, and appeals with reassurances rejected by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on November 20, 1979.
Fatal Vision
In June 1979, MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book on the case. McGinniss was given full access to him and defense during the trial. He wished the book was about his innocence in the killing of his family. However, the book McGinniss, Fatal Vision, was first published in the spring of 1983, describing it as a "narcissistic sociopath" who is indeed guilty of killing his family. It contains excerpts from court transcripts and a section entitled "The Voice of Jeffrey MacDonald," which is based on the tape recording he made after his conviction.
MacDonald later sued McGinniss in 1987 for fraud, claiming that McGinniss pretended to trust her innocence after she came to the conclusion that she was guilty, so she continued to work with him. After the trial, which resulted in the cancellation of the trial on August 21, 1987, they quit the court for $ 325,000 on November 23, 1987.
The Journalist and the Murderer, written by Janet Malcolm and published in 1990, is about the relationship between journalists and their subjects and explores the relationship between McGinniss and MacDonald as the subject of Malcolm's thesis that, "Any journalist who does not too stupid or too full to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally untenable. "Malcolm maintains that McGinniss cheated MacDonald - a claim that McGinniss later responded to in the last edition of Fatal Vision. In the 2012 book, A Wilderness of Error: The Trials of Jeffrey MacDonald , filmmaker and writer Errol Morris argues that McGonnis's many claims about MacDonald are untrue and irresponsible.
McGinniss' book was adapted into a made-to-TV movie with the same title starring Karl Malden, Eva Marie Saint, Andy Griffith, and Gary Cole as MacDonald. It aired on NBC in 1984.
An adaptation of McGinniss' advanced book, Final Vision , aired in 2017 at Investigation Discovery, starring Scott Foley as Jeffrey MacDonald and Dave Annable as McGinniss.
Other media
Jodi Picoult, an American writer, discusses the murder of MacDonald in his novel House Rules.
Addison, a Country music artist, released a song about the crime titled "Dr. Jeffrey" on his CD "Time B4 Time".
Post-conviction
Appeal
On July 29, 1980, a Fourth Court Appeals Court panel overturned MacDonald's conviction in a 2-1 solution on the grounds that a nine-year delay in bringing him to court violated his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial. On August 22, 1980, he was released on bail of $ 100,000. He then returned to work at St. Medical Center. Mary in Long Beach, California, as Director of Emergency Medicine.
On December 18, 1980, the Fourth Circuit Court divided 5-5 to hear the case of and thus the previous decision stood up. On May 26, 1981, the United States Supreme Court accepted the case for consideration and on 7 December 1981 heard the oral argument. On March 31, 1982, they decided 6-3 that MacDonald's rights for a quick trial were not violated. He was arrested again and returned to the Federal prison and his original sentence of three consecutive lifetimes was restored to the time he had been running since his conviction in 1979. Defense lawyers filed a new motion for MacDonald to be released on bail pending an appeal, but the Fourth Circuit refused. The remaining appeal points were heard on 9 June 1982 and his conviction was unanimously approved on 16 August 1982. Further appeals to the US Supreme Court were rejected on 10 January 1983. Not long after this that MacDonald's license to practice medicine in North Carolina and California were lifted.
On January 14, 1983, Helena Stoeckley, 32, was found dead in her small apartment. She apparently was dead for several days, and the autopsy revealed that she died of pneumonia and cirrhosis.
On March 1, 1985, Dupree rejected all plea for a new trial. The lawyer for MacDonald appealed to the Court of Appeal of the Fourth Circuit, which upheld Dupree's decision on December 17, 1985 and refused to reopen the case. On October 6, 1986, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's decision.
On March 27, 1991, MacDonald became eligible for parole, but it did not apply, continuously vigorously retaining its incapacity.
On July 8, 1991, Dupree, upon hearing the argument that MacDonald should be given a new assassination attempt on grounds of the prosecution's prosecution, refused the request. On 3 October 1991, his defendants appealed against Dupree's decision on grounds of judicial bias due to his decision in favor of prosecution during the trial, and the harshness of Dupree's imprisonment. Appeal rejected.
On June 2, 1992, the Court of Appeal of the Fourth Circuit decided not to attend a new trial for MacDonald. They claimed that the material introduced now should have been presented by MacDonald's then-current lawyer, Brian O'Neill, in an appeal from 1984-85. Therefore, all rights for further appeals are canceled. The ruling was upheld by the US Supreme Court on November 30 of the same year.
Dupree died after a short illness on December 17, 1995. Former MacDonald's in-laws, Colette's mother, Mildred, and stepfather Freddie Kassab, who brought her case to the Justice Department, both died in 1994; he was on January 19 and he was on October 24th.
The court ruled that Dupree had acted correctly when he refused to let the jury see a transcript of the 1970 Article military hearing, and, since this was not a crazy experiment, he also acted correctly in not letting the jurors hear any of the psychiatric testimonies. If he did, the jury would know that no doctor hired by the defense, or who worked for the Army or the government at Walter Reed Hospital, had concluded that MacDonald was psychologically incapable of murder. The court also ruled that Helena Stoeckley's confession of murder was unreliable and contrary to the facts in this case, and that her treatment of the 1979 trial was correct. During the trial, he was arrested under a material witness warrant and testified before the jury that he could not recall his activities on the night of the murder because of the great drug use; the witness to whom he claimed was not permitted to testify.
MacDonald was granted permission to file his fourth appeal on 12 January 2006. This last request was based on a 2005 statement by Jimmy Britt, a retired American Marshal who worked as such during the trial. Britt stated that he heard the material witness in this case, Helena Stoeckley, acknowledge the prosecutor of the case, James Blackburn, that he was present at MacDonald's house at the time of the murder and that Blackburn threatened him with prosecution if he testified. However, Stoeckley, met with advisers for a defense before the alleged encounter with Blackburn, and he tells them that he does not remember his whereabouts on the night of the murder. Defense counsel Wade Smith advised Dupree that Stoeckley had testified in the same basic stand as he stated in a defense interview. Also, he contacted Dupree during retention as a material witness to claim he was frightened, not from prosecutors, but from Bernie Segal, the defense attorney general. Britt died on October 19, 2008.
On April 16, 2007, MacDonald's lawyer filed a written statement from Stoeckley's mother, where he stated that his daughter confessed to him twice that he was at MacDonald's house on the night of the murder and that he was afraid of the prosecutor. His past statements about his daughter contradicted the details contained in his statement. MacDonald has requested to extend the appeal to include all the evidence gathered in the proceedings, evidence he claims to be found after the trial (eg, individual statements to whom Stoeckely has made the confession) and the DNA result completed in 2006. The Four Circuit Court of Appeals allow MacDonald's motion for successive habeas petitions and return the matter to the Eastern District Court of Justice for a decision. In November 2008, Judge Fox denied MacDonald's motion regarding Britt's remarks. This denial is based on the merits of the claim, generally that Stoeckley is unreliable, for he has made many different statements about the murder. Also, MacDonald claims that he is expected to testify in ways that benefit him until threatened by Blackburn contrary to the record of the trial. MacDonald's movement of DNA results and Stoeckley's mother's statement were also rejected. The rejection of these two movements is based on the issue of jurisdiction, in particular that MacDonald has not obtained the necessary pre-archiving authorization from the Circuit Court for this movement to the District Court.
Following a November 2008 decision, a government movement to change its decision to reflect that Britt's claim was not factually rejected. Included in the motion is a prison documentation stating that Stoeckley was originally confined to a prison in Pickens, South Carolina, not Greenville, South Carolina, as claimed by Britt. Also included are custody commitments and release forms indicating that an agent other than Britt transports Stoeckley to the hearing. MacDonald appealed the district court's rejection of his claim to the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2011, the Court of Appeal reversed the decision of the District Court, and returned MacDonald's claim back to the District Court with instructions to consider. A trial of evidence on Britt's claim and unknown hair was held in September, 2012. In July 2014, Judge Fox ruled against MacDonald's appeal and upheld the conviction.
Accusations of bullying suppression
In the years since the trial, defense attorneys have used the Freedom of Information Act to find evidence that the government was not present at the hearing. However, all of his claims about the suppressed evidence have been rejected by the court, citing evidence that many items are indeed available for defense and, even if they are not, they do not establish him innocent and will not change. jury verdict.
MacDonald claims that unidentified fingerprints and fibers found at home have never been matched with anyone known to be there before or after the assassination and that this fingerprint is evidence of an intruder. However, the prints did not match anyone he called an intruder, and the children's fingerprints were not collected and Colette's fingerprints were poor quality, as they were taken after embalming.
Other claims of detained evidence involve two unknown synthetic hair (length 56 cm) found in a hairbrush, but not specifically indicated for defense, and one minute of blood spotting which is type O or type B (MacDonald's blood type) found in the hallway. His supporters continue to insist that this is not disclosed to the defense, despite the fact that a clear transcript of the trial indicates this place is disclosed and discussed. They also showed black wool fibers found on the mouth and Colette MacDonald's shoulders as evidence of intruders that the government deliberately did not report to the defense.
In 1995, two MacDonald supporters, Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost, wrote Fatal Justice , a book intended to refute McGinniss' Fatal Vision and present evidence they claim to have hidden by the government prosecutor.
DNA testing
On September 2, 1997, the district court granted MacDonald's motion to file additional supplementary statements to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. The lawyer representing him was given the right to take DNA tests on hair and limited blood proof on October 17, 1997 by the Court of Appeal of the Fourth Circuit. Testing began in December 2000. Defense lawyers hope that the result will tie Stoeckley and his colleague Greg Mitchell to the scene.
DNA tests released by the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory on March 10, 2006, show that neither Stoeckley nor Mitchell's DNA matches any of the exhibits tested. The leg hair attached to Colette's left hand matched MacDonald's DNA profile. It also matches the hairs found on the sheets from the main bed and on the Christian bedspread. The hair found in Colette's right palm was sourced just like hers. Three strands of hair, one of the sheets, found on his body line in the area of ​​his foot, and found beneath the Christian nails do not match the DNA profiles of MacDonald family members or known suspects.
MacDonald was unsuccessful in incorporating the movement of DNA results into his movement on Britt's claims, with the court declaring that he had to get pre-authorized for what should be a separate movement on DNA results. On April 19, 2011, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit gave prefiling authorizations for its DNA claims. The court overturned the district court and submitted for further proceedings.
In September 2012, the District Court held a verdict of proof, including MacDonald's claim of "evidence" of new DNA, taken from the April District Court ruling. On July 24, 2014, the District Court dismissed his overall claim and reaffirmed MacDonald's conviction in all matters. He moved the district court to change or amend the verdict on July 24, 2014, and the District Court rejected his motion in November 2014. He has appealed his refusal to amend or amend the July 2014 ruling to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Parole
At the urging of MacDonald's second wife, Kathryn MacDonald (nÃÆ' Â © e Kurichh, married in 2002), and her lawyer, she applied for a parole, which was held on May 10, 2005. Her parole request was quickly rejected. The next scheduled parole hearing will take place in May 2020.
In 2015, MacDonald served his sentence at a federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland. He continues to maintain his innocence. In January 2017, the 4th US District Court of Appeal heard a plea from MacDonald's lawyer who challenged 2014's refusal to give him a new trial based on "new evidence", including hair found on the scene that did not match the DNA of the family, and a statement from Jimmy Britt.
Second marriage
In August 2002, MacDonald married Kathryn Kurichh, a teacher who operates a drama school for children in Howard County, Maryland. The two had met briefly in Baltimore several decades earlier, but reconnected in 1997 when Kurichh wrote a letter to MacDonald asking him how he could help with his legal case. They develop friendships, which become romantic relationships. Their marriage occurred when MacDonald was imprisoned in a federal prison in California. After their marriage, MacDonald was transferred to the Federal Penitentiary in Cumberland, Maryland, which was closer to the law of residence and his new wife.
References
- McGinniss, Joe. Fatal Vision . Signet, 1984. ISBNÃ, 0-451-16566-7
- Bost, Fred and Potter, Jerry. Fatal Justice: Investigating MacDonald's Killing . W.W. Norton, 1995. ISBNÃ, 0-393-03000-8
- Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer . Vintage, 1990. ISBNÃ, 0-679-73183-0
External links
- The Jeffrey MacDonald Case This website is managed by friends and family Jeffrey MacDonald
- Jeffrey MacDonald's case This full website contains 3D views, exhibits, and Findings, and more.
- Jeffrey MacDonald Information Site This website presents trial transcripts, grand jury testimony, deposition, declarations, CID reports, FBI reports, psychological and psychiatric evaluations and other documents relating to the case.
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