Scandal in Fort Brag
Captain of the football team, voted most popular and most likely to succeed in his graduating class, graduate of Princeton, Green Berets Doctor. These are the tings that characterize Jeffrey Macdonald accused and convicted of killing his Wife Collete who was with child and his two daughters Kimberly, five, and Kristen, two. They lived in Fort Brag, North Carolina where he was serving as a doctor. In the years following the death of his family more and more evidence has been collected and revealed linking him and others to the case. This to the best of my understanding is what happened on the night of February 16th, 1970 when everything came crashing down. It was a rainy and cold night on the base and the streets were quite in the neighborhood in which the family resided. Collete had returned home from a night class she was taking at the University of North Carolina extension on the base. When she got home she found her husband watching TV alone having put the girls to bed 40 minutes earlier after they had watched Laugh-In. Jeffrey and Collete drank some liqueurs in front of the television and as Johnny Carson came on Collete went to bed. Jeffrey how ever was not ready to turn in for the night so he watched the entire
show and then continued to read a book he had started a couple weeks earlier. He was interrupted by his daughter Kristen to whom he gave a bottle of chocolate milk and put back to bed. Around 2 o'clock he finished the novel and did the dishes before heading towards the master bedroom to go to sleep. He found his daughter Kristen sleeping next to her mother, he also saw that she had wet the bed. He carried Kristen to her own room and not wanting to disturb his wife, took a blanket from the closet and went to sleep on the couch instead of changing the sheets. There were many pieces of evidence that were strange and didn't seem to fit together. The living room in which MacDonald was sleeping was still put together pretty well for the struggle that occurred there. A pot was tipped over and the coffee table was on its side. Other than that the room looked untouched. There was one fiber from the fabric of his pajamas in the living room, but many in the master bedroom and the girls rooms. The interesting thing in this is that Jeffrey claims he did not have the pajama top with him when he went in to his daughters rooms. There was also a speck of blood on his glasses they matched with Kristen's but he said he wasn't wearing glasses in the girls rooms. The word pig was found written in blood on the headboard of the master bedroom, and all the weapons were found in the back yard coming originally from the MacDonald house. Things that the MP's (military police) were not able to know when they searched the crime scene were that four people were seen coming and going from the MacDonald house that night. Jeffrey Macdonald, was not liked among the drug users on base because he was so h
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Approximate Word count = 1144
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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