Jeffrey fucking Macdonald!!!

[Scairp]

He is so guilty it boggles the mind how he is getting this hearing. And I swear if anyone comes here all mealy-mouthed about how 'hard it is to believe this really great doctor and Green Beret would do that' I will go outside and scream myself horse. It's appalling the slack cut this prick each time his name is brought up. I will say to anyone here what I said to my husband years ago, when we discussed it briefly one night. I think the case must have been on t.v. or something. He expressed doubt so I put it to him this way: you are a former soldier (special forces), & though it's been some years, could people come in here tonight, slaughter me and the girls and you are left alive with non-life threatening injuries? Of course the answer was NO and I could tell by the look on his face he knew I was right, and he hates to admit I'm right. Macdonald did it, he actually got away with it for a time but now he's in prison where he belongs. And fuck him eternally.

[raccoon]

1. ITA...he's a worthless POS and guilty as Cain. nt

[shenmue]

2. Somebody wrote a hack book...

I cringed the other day when I saw it in the store.

[Scairp]

3. I heard about it

And also the film Errol Morris made proclaiming Macdonald's innocence. Errol Morris!! How could he? I thought he was an intelligent man. I guess I was wrong.

[matt819]

5. Sigh

I read the Joe McGinnis book and was convinced that MacDonald did it. After all, the black junkies, or whatever it was, was pretty much along the lines of the proverbial one-armed man from The Fugitive.

I haven't read the books arguing that MacDonald was the victim of a botched investigation, etc. But Errol Morris is not a hack or a lightweight. I haven't seen the film (is there also a book?), but a botched investigation in 1970 isn't all that hard to believe from the perspective of 40 years later, when reports of such awful police work and wrongful prosecutions are legion.

[Scairp]

6. A bad investigation does not equal innocence

At least in this case. I think there was plenty of evidence to convict him, then or now.

Errol Morris. This is point I was trying to make, and it is very puzzling, and infuriating for me personally, to see him make a film arguing for Macdonald's innocence. I have not seen the film either but nothing would ever change my mind that he did it.

[livetohike]

4. Guilty, Guilty, Guilty! This is ridiculous......I think one of the first

True Crime books I read was about this case.

[frogmarch]

7. I've been reading Joe McGinniss's blog

lately, in hopes of getting some news about the hearing. I don't have a Twitter account, but I follow him there too.

His blog: www.joemcginniss.net/rogue-blog

After I read his blog entry for today, November 1st, I had to read Jeffrey fucking MacDonald supporter Margo Howard’s story ”Scenes from a Southern Gothic Murder Trial.”

www.tnr.com/article/politics/109148/scenes-southern-gothic-murder-trial

(Before posting the Margo Howard story link, I checked to make sure it wasn't to a republican site. According to Wiki: The New Republic magazine's outlook is associated with the Democratic Leadership Council and "New Democrats" such as former US President Bill Clinton and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, who received the magazine's endorsement in the 2004 Democratic primary; so did Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in 2008.)

[Scairp]

8. McGinniss had to testify at the latest hearing

I understand there were no fond looks of longing between he and Macdonald. I just wish Macdonald would die in prison already and this would finally be over. A massive heart attack would work. This has nothing at all to do with me but I couldn't hate him more if it did.