Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast
True Crime
Episode 21 A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris Pt 1 -Hippies, Hams, Homicides, & Hearsay
February 16, 1970 Ft. Bragg, NC: Jerked awake from sleep, Capt. Jeff MacDonald is seized upon by murderous hippies, only to find his wife, Collette and daughters, Kimberly 5, and Kristen 2, viciously murdered.
Or had he?
Evidence would convince some that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his family after a terrible argument went horribly wrong. Convicted, Jill and Tara revisit the evidence, both presented in court and suppressed, in Errol Morris’s book, A Wilderness of Error. In Part 1, we meet the doomed family, Jeff’s in-laws, Army investigators, prosecutors and defense attorneys, and the events that triggered 50 years of horror, discontent, debate, and mystery.
Warning: This episode contains graphic content of violent crime.
Source material for the Wilderness of Error trilogy is on Jill’s blog www.murdershelfbookclub.com.
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