![]() McGinniss is invisible as a character, almost invisible as a writer-with little or no description of physical appearances, the surroundings, personalities. ![]() The bulk of the 700-page text consists of interrogation/hearing/trial transcripts (180 solid pages of Grand Jury testimony alone). Here, then, is McGinniss' documentary-like chronicle of the case-alternating with the suspect's chatty, spookily banal reminiscences of his life up through the 1970s. And he asked McGinniss (The Selling of the President 1968, Going to Extremes) to write the full story, with first-hand coverage of the trial and first-person testimony from MacDonald himself. But, though MacDonald seemed an All-American model of the young husband/father/doctor/soldier, the Army investigators (epically clumsy in the case's first stages) believed he was guilty: hearings followed the charges were dismissed grand-jury proceedings began in the mid-1970s, largely because of the vengeance-crusade of MacDonald's father-in-law finally, in 1979, MacDonald (now a successful California M.D.) was brought to actual trial. and Green Beret volunteer-were found beaten and stabbed to death MacDonald, who was himself slightly wounded, claimed that a quartet of Manson-like cultists had overpowered him, killed his family. ![]() Carolina, the wife and two daughters of Jeffrey MacDonald-a young M.D. ![]()
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