Dr. Jefferey MacDonald...a life unplanned...

In February of 1970, things seemed wonderful for Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, as well as for his family, his beautiful wife Colette and their two young daughters. Dr. MacDonald was in the Army as a Green Beret, and his wife seemed so sure that he would never be sent off to war.
The plan was that someday they would live on a farm with five children and horses and rabbits and all kinds of pets.  First came the delicate and feminine little Kimberly who was five years old.  Then came independent-minded Kristen who was two. Then finally a little boy was on the way.
Jeffrey was known as one of the most successful people around. Even in high school he was one of the most popular and successful people. Everybody just loved him. He had married the attractive and smart Colette Stevenson, his high school sweetheart.

Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald

This was a true fairy tail for his wife. She always dreamed of all this to happen. However, the fairy tail ended on the day of February 17, 1970. Around 3:30 that morning, an operator in NC, got a call from someone who identified himself as Captain MacDonald. He gave them an address and asked her to get the military police because there had been a stabbing. She got off the phone and called the military police at once and told them what the man had said.
No one was sure yet one what was happening or what had already happened. His wife was found on the bed with her head bashed in and was dead, the one cop had ran to the other rooms in the house where he had found both of the little girls dead from stabbing to the throat/neck area and were hit very hard in the head. The man stated that he had been sick in his stomach from the site. There was also Jeffry as well. however, he was still alive. He was wounded and unconscious beside his wife. He was revived by mouth to mouth. MacDonald was taken to a hospital and there he was told that he was a top prime suspect for the murder of his family. In 1979 MacDonald was sentenced to prison. Jeffrey, now 62 years old, still to this day says that he is innocent of killing his family.
"My gut told me that what he told the investigators and what he told the military police, could not possibly have happened in that house," says Bill Ivory, who was a criminal investigator for the Army and in charge of the crime scene. Ivory says MacDonald told his agents at the hospital that he had been attacked by some hippies. It is a story that MacDonald has told again and again, for the past 35 years.
MacDonald says he remembers seeing four people, including two white men, a black man and what he thinks was a blond woman wearing a floppy hat.


Collete MacDonald with her two children

 MacDonald had been stabbed in the chest by an ice pick and his wife had suffered two broken arms, a fractured skull and she was stabbed more than thirty times. One of their daughters, had a bashed in skull, the jaw and nose was badly broken and her throat was badly cut. Their other daughter was stabbed several times in the chest in back.
That wasn't all that had been found out, after the murder's had occurred, an autopsy report revealed that Colette was five months pregnant with a son. MacDonald, has never done anything but say he was innocent, however, the crime labs say that the evidence in the apartment from that night say differently.
The word "PIG" was written in blood on the headboard right above MacDonald's wife.
The evidence showed no sign of a struggle to match of with MacDonald's story.
To this day the cops believe that MacDonald is guilty of the murdering of his wife and two children. Did he do it or did he not? Evidence says one thing when the convicted murderer says another.
I feel that this is a very compelling, very sad, and sickening story. I can not say one way or another that he had killed his family, however, i feel sad enough that  they had to lose their lives for no reason at all. These types of stories grab me and pull me in. I feel some of their pain and just cant help but wonder what was going threw that little girl's mind when all that was happening.


http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18559_162-1002954.html?pageNum=2&tag=contentMain;contentBody
http://www.themacdonaldcase.org/