Jeffrey MacDonald and Fatal Vision
Once again this has become a blog in which I have started, erased, started again and erased again. The Jeffrey MacDonald case is an extremely long and complicated case. In fact, it has been called one of the “most litigated” and the “longest” criminal/murder case in U.S. History. The murders of MacDonald's pregnant wife and two young daughters occurred in 1970. There was an Article 32 Hearing through the Army in 1970 that ended with a recommendation that charges be dropped against him but no actual trial. Over the next several years both the Army and the Federal Government were investigating the murders and MacDonald remained their prime suspect. He was officially federally indicted on three counts of murder in January of 1975. For the next few years things were in and out of the courts considering whether there were issues involving double jeopardy or MacDonald's right to a speedy trial. MacDonald finally went to trial in July of 1979 and was convicted. However, t...