A fight occured between Jeff and Colette in the master bedroom the night of the murders. The fight got out of hand and as a result, Jeff murdered his whole family. Motive? Could be any number of things. Could be the result of an unhappy marriage, or perhaps continuous financial problems that put a burden on the marriage. Perhaps it was Jeff's need to get away from his family (case in point is his lie to Colette that he was going away to Russia with the Ft. Bragg Army boxing team and would not be around during the summer of 1970 for the birth of their 3rd child).If you choose to believe Joe McGuinness'(author of Fatal Vision) theory, then the murders were the result of Jeff taking too many amphetamine's. He and Colette got into an argument, it got out of hand, he was on amphetamine's and the combination of the fight and pills sent him into an uncontrollable rage. However, I recently discovered a new theory via a website that honors the memory of Colette, Kimberley, and Kristen Stevenson (www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com) The Stevenson family believes that Jeff was sexually molesting Kimberly, the eldest daughter. The urine stain on the master bedroom bedsheet was identified as coming from Kimberly, not Kristen. Thus, Jeff and Colette went to bed that night. Kim crawled into bed with her parents. Colette got up and slept on the couch (a request that was made by Jeff and this was on more than one occasion). A little while later Colette got up because she heard Kim saying "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy". She walks into the master bedroom to see Jeff molesting Kim. She grabs a wood club from the utility room adjoining the master bedroom and hits Jeff on the forehead. Kim sees the fight between her parents, panics and wets the bed. Kim gets out of bed and stands in the master bedroom doorway. Jeff grabbed the wood club from Colette at this point and starts hitting Colette.He also in the process accidentally hits Kim, who is standing behind him in the doorway. Kim dies instantly. This is just a theory and it is one that the Stevenson family strongly beleives. The evidence certainly supports this theory. The family also has reason to beleive it is true because of Colette's change in behavior in the few months leading up to the murders.
I learned of the Jeffrey MacDonald case after seeing the Fatal Vision movie telecast in 1984. I was only 14 years old at the time and because I lived in the town next to where Jeffrey and Collete were born and raised, I became obsessed in learning more about the case and who Jeffrey and Colette MacDonald were. I have researched this case for over 20 years and I can tell you that I have left no stone unturned. This man is guilty and for those that possibly believe he is innocent, he has you all fooled!
A former teacher of mine graduated with Jeff and Colette from Patchogue-Medford H.S. and he told me point blank that Jeff used to slap Colette around when they were dating in high school. Well, spousal abuse has a history and when Jeff and Colette fought in their bedroom in the early morning of Feb. 17, 1970, believe me it was not the first time!
As for the "hippies", Jeff conducted drug counseling with local hippies at a hospital in the Fort Bragg area from 1969-1970 to earn extra income. He knew who these "hippies" were and he knew they would present themselves as the perfect suspects for the murders. If you are going to accidentally kill your wife and kids (and I believe it was an accident with the exception of baby Kristen) you better come up with a believable story and that is exactly what Jeffrey MacDonald did! He handed these people over to the Army on a silver platter. He gave perfect descriptions of them because he knew who they were. He had encounters with them and could give perfect descriptions. The Army made a mess of this case and that is why it took 9 years to convict MacDonald. However, despite all the mistakes, there was still plenty of crucial evidence to convict Jeffrey MacDonald. It is much easier for a defense team to create a suspicion of doubt than it is for prosecutors to prove guilt. I could go on, but read the book, Fatal Vision. Jeff is in jail where he belongs and where he will rot to the day he dies! God Bless the justice system!
I have some websites that you may want to check out. Please know that I believe Jeffrey MacDonald to be 100% guilty. However, many of the websites that provide information on the case provide one point of view (Jeff's guilt) or another (Jeff's innocence). I have listed both types of websites. Perhaps you would like to review them all and come to your own conclusion. I have placed an asterick next to one website that I recommend, as it is relatively new and gives the testimonials of Bob Stevenson and the prosecuting attorneys, at the recent parole hearing of Jeffrey MacDonald that took place on May 10, 2005. I hope you find the websites useful. If you could share your opinion of them with me it would be appreciated. Thanks so much!
Websites to check out:
* www.thejeffreymacdonaldcase.com
www.themacdonaldcase.com
www.crimelibrary.com/macdonald.mac/macmain.htm
www.themacdonaldcase.org (This website is operated by the Jeffrey MacDonald Defense Team)
By the way, Jeff was only in ICU for approximately a few short hours after he was admitted to Womack Hospital. He was in ICU for observation for a punctured lung. The murders occured in the early morning hours (somewhere between 1:00 A.M. and 3:44 A.M) of Tuesday, February 17, 1970. By Tuesday night (from 7:00 P.M. on) Jeff was sitting up in his hospital bed talking with Ron Harrison, a close Army buddy. Seems to me that if he were in ICU for 9 days, as his incredibly naive new wife would be led to believe by her new narcissistic, pathologically lying husband, then he couldn't very well be sitting up in bed and his visitors would be limited to immediate family members only if he were in ICU. Read the book! Read the book! Read the book! He is guilty " are just a futile effort on his part to fool the general public into believing he is truly innocent. He is a sociopath, one who will lie at will to save his own hide. How sad that he has a new, very unintelligent new wife to join in his effort.
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