“Care to detail what some of those things are?” I asked. “We are aligned on certain things, and we’re not aligned on other things.” “We’re not fully aligned,” Smerling had said in an interview two days earlier. “I believe Marc thinks Jeffrey is guilty,” Morris told me in a phone interview earlier this month. The other is a docu-series that doesn’t seem to arrive at the same place. He said the former federal marshal who claimed to have heard him intimidate Stoeckley couldn’t have heard such a remark because the prosecutor never allowed marshals to sit in on conferences with witnesses.įBI Special Agent Raymond Madden Jr., who interviewed Stoeckley on two days in September 1981 after the trial, testified on Friday that she never mentioned any threats by Blackburn.So now there are two versions of “Wilderness”: One is a book that questions MacDonald’s conviction for having killed his pregnant wife and two young daughters. James Blackburn, the former prosecutor, earlier this week denied making any threats. The defense claims that the woman, Helena Stoeckley, would have testified to that at MacDonald’s trial had she not been threatened by the lead prosecutor. The evidence also includes testimony from several witnesses who said a now-dead woman with a history of drug abuse told them she was at the MacDonald home on the night of the murders. He said the group included a blonde woman who carried a candle and chanted “acid is groovy, kill the pigs” while three men attacked him and killed his wife, Colette, and daughters Kristen and Kimberley, ages 2 and 5.įor the past week, MacDonald’s lawyers have worked to persuade a federal judge in Wilmington to grant him a new trial based on an evaluation of both new and old evidence in the case, including DNA results from unidentified hair found at the crime scene. MacDonald, 68, was found guilty of killing his pregnant wife and two young daughters in their Fort Bragg, North Carolina, apartment in February 1970 and is serving three life sentences.īut he has always maintained that the murders were committed by a band of drug-crazed intruders. This was their dream, but it just didn’t happen.” “There would’ve been champagne corks popping.
“If she had ever said anything like that there would’ve been jubilation and high fives all around,” McGinniss said at a hearing on Friday.
FSP/JP/JDPĪuthor Joe McGinniss, who penned “Fatal Vision” after getting unlimited access to former Green Beret Jeffrey MacDonald and his attorneys during the doctor’s 1979 trial, said he also doubted a former defense lawyer’s claim that the witness had privately admitted to involvement in the crime. Author Joe McGinnis is pictured in this undated publicity photograph.
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