EPISODE 12: OVERKILL PART 2

In part two of the Jeff MacDonald case, Paul and Kate return to 1970 Fort Bragg to analyze the investigation and court cases that came from the death of McDonald's wife and two children. With the inclusion of over a thousand pieces of evidence and multiple trials, this saga has a truly harrowing conclusion.

Sources:

“Officer's wife, children found slain at Fort Bragg” by Kara Evenson (The Fayetteville Observer)  

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2020/09/16/jeffrey-macdonald-murder-case-first-article/3474643001/ 

  

“FORT BRAGG MURDER CASE INTRIGUES 50 YEARS LATE” by Paul Woolverton (The Fayetteville Observer)   

https://stories.usatodaynetwork.com/jeffreymacdonald/themacdonaldmurders/ 

  

UNITED STATES, Petitioner v. Jeffrey R. MacDONALD. 

https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/456/1 

  

“The Jeffrey MacDonald case: a timline” by Paul Woolverton (Fayetteville Observer) 

https://www.starnewsonline.com/story/news/2020/02/17/jeffrey-macdonald-case-timeline/1692040007/ 

  

“FATAL VISION REVISITED: THE MACDONALD MURDER CASE” by B M Murtagh, MP Malone (Department of Justice) 

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/fatal-vision-revisited-macdonald-murder-case 

  

“Jeffrey MacDonald case intrigues 50 years later” by Paul Woolverton (Fayetteville Observer)  

https://www.fayobserver.com/story/news/crime/2020/02/19/jeffrey-macdonald-case-intrigues-50-years-later/41821233/ 

  

“Innocence Project Applauds Federal Appeals Court Ruling in Jeffrey MacDonald Case Saying Court Must Consider All Evidence of Innocence When Considering Innocence Claims” (The Innocence Project) 

https://innocenceproject.org/innocence-project-applauds-federal-appeals-court-ruling-in-jeffrey-macdonald-case-saying-court-must-consider-all-evidence-of-innocence-when-considering-innocence-claims/ 

  

“The Devil and Jeffrey MacDonald” by Robert Sam Anson (Vanity Fair) https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1998/07/macdonald199807  

  

United States v. MacDonald (Oyez)  

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1981/80-1582 

  

“The Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case” by Joan Barthel (New York Times) 

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/25/books/the-jeffrey-macdonald-murder-case.html 

  

“‘A Wilderness of Error’ Points the Lens Back at Errol Morris” by Scott Tobias (New York Times)  

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/arts/television/wilderness-of-error-errol-morris-jeffrey-macdonald.html 

  

“5 Convicted Murderers Who Might Actually Be Innocent” by Amelia McDonnell-Parry (Rolling Stone) 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-lists/5-convicted-murderers-who-might-actually-be-innocent-126697/ 

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