Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the Macdonald Murders - Hardcover

Potter, Jerry Allen; Bost, Fred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393030008 ISBN 13: 9780393030006

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1995

Synopsis

Demonstrating that the MacDonald jury did not hear the whole truth about the evidence in the sensational 1970 murder case, a shocking book reveals why physical evidence and witness testimony that could have freed MacDonald were withheld from the jury.

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Review:

Finally, many years after Joe McGinniss's famous Fatal Vision, we have a well-documented argument for the other side of the Jeffrey MacDonald case--an argument that the prosecution mishandled key crime-scene evidence, withheld potentially exculpatory material, and even discounted confessions from other suspects. Whether you change your mind about MacDonald's role in the murder of his family, you will learn much about the case that puts it in a new light. For example, the army narrowed in on MacDonald as their prime suspect very early in the investigation, and discouraged the FBI from developing alternate theories. And the judge in the case, Franklin Dupree Jr. appeared to have been biased in favor of the prosecution. Janet Malcolm, the New Yorker writer who wrote The Journalist and the Murderer (about MacDonald's relationship with McGinniss), called this book "quietly convincing."

About the Author:

Jerry Allen Potter was a novelist. He lived in Pacific Grove, California, until his death in 2004.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0393030008
• ISBN 13: 9780393030006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 463