Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders - Softcover

Potter, Jerry Allen; Bost, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393315444 ISBN 13: 9780393315448

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Synopsis

For every reader of Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision, here at last is the complete story.

This "devastating rebuttal to Fatal Vision" (Boston Phoenix) demonstrates that the jury was not privy to crucial evidence in the case of Jeffrey MacDonald, the Green Beret Captain convicted of the murders of his wife and two young daughters. Black-and-white photographs

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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.

Fred Bost is a retired magazine and newspaper writer who lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393315444
• ISBN 13: 9780393315448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496