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MIKE wALLAcE: why did Green_Beret captain or. Jeffçey Macoonald k i l l h i s wifeand children? He say s he d idn ' t . A J u r y say s he did .

You may remember the crime. Back in 1970. while Dr. Macponald was se rv i n g atF o r t aragg. North Carol ina, h i s pre gna nt wife and t he i r two daugh ters, age twoand five. were b ru t a l l y murdered in their Army home. Macoonald claimed theywere sl augh t e red by four drug-crazed in t r uder s, but eventuallš he'was_convictedand hhwent to pr ison for li e. Macoonald says now he wi l l s o r t l y fi l e anappea _when we spoke to him recently in prison, he continued to i n s i s t he is t h ev i c t i m of a monumental m i s c a r r i a g e of J us t ice.DR. JEFFREY MaCDONALD: I loved my wife and my chi ld r en very much. I never

phyšåcally assaulted anyone in my l i f e , and ce r t a i n l y not my wife and my twoC 1 ren.wALLAcE: And y e t the j u ry found you g u i l t y in s i x and a hal f hours.

OR. 1MacD0NALo:Yeah, a f t e r nine year s of changed evidence and an orchest r ated

t r i a .wALLAcE: J e f f r e y Macoonald was the bes t and the b r i g h t e s t . the one thoughtsu re s t to succeed. when he married h i s childhood sweetheart, Colette, e was astudent s t a r at Princeton . And h i s s t a r continued to rise in medical schooland in the Army. Ev er y o n e acknowledged that he was sp e c i a l .His mother, P e r r y MacDonald.

PERRY MacDONALo: Christmas Eve one year at h i s home when we were q u i e t l ycelebratinfi. you know. Just a l i t t l e Christmas Eve t her e ' s a knock on the doorand i t ` s t e neighbor u p s t a i r s . and h i s chi ld is i l l , and Je f f j u s t leaves theproceedings and goes u p s t a i r s and-- and takes care of people. I mean, h i sneighbors love h m and r e s p e c t him.wALLACE: His former co l l eague, surgeon St ephen Shea.

DR. $TEPHEw SHEA: He_is not the knd of person that you would even begin toa s s o c i a t e with something as brutal as a t r i p l e homicide. They were b ru t a l l ybeaten, savagely murdered. Tha t ' s n o t Je ff .wALLACE: Another f r i end, or. Cathy Mitts .DR. _CATHY MITTS: He t r u l y believes in what we base our America on, theAmer ican way of l i f e , t h e Am e r i c a n J u s t i c e , John wayne, Mom, app le p i e . I t ' st ru e . He' s r e a l l y l i k e t h a t .

wALLACE: R e p o r t e r J o e McGinniss spent three years inves tiga ting Je f f MacDonald,who granted him to t a l access to h i s fami l y . is friends. a l l h i s records, sot h a t Mccinniss might write the defi ni t ive book about him. It is called Fatalvi sion. In c i d en t a l l y . MacDonald wi l l receive a qua r t e r of every dol l arMcsinniss earns from the book.Thumbnail sketch of J e f f r e y Macoonald, t h e man you know.JOE McGIHNISS: Charming. engaging and ab so l u t e l y ruthles s and beyond mora l i t y .wALLAcE: And yet he has a l l of thes e f r iends who l ived with him for JOyears,who'd say . fMcGinniss. you don't gnow what y o u ' re t a l k i n g about. This is agen t l e . c a r i n g , decen t , fi n e , g i v i n g man."

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McGINNISS: That ' s a l l t ru e . That's a l l t r u e . I'm not in anyway attempting

todeny that he ' s any of t ho se things. All I'm say ing is t h a t on t_e bas is ofattending the t r i a l every day an spending three year s of full-time researchaftenwar s, t h a t t her e ' s no_question that t h i s g en t l e . c a r i n g , g iv ing man a l s obeat and stabbed to death h i s pre gna nt wife and h i s two young daugh ters.

wALLAC§: It_was one of those sensational crimes that at t r act ed nationwidea t t e n t i o n , includ ing t h i s r e po r t from CBS News Correspondent Bob Schief f er .

BOB SCHIEFFER: The m i l i t a r y po l i ce ar r ived at the Macoonald home e a r l y on themornng of February 17 th . They found the c a p t a i n sprawled onthe bedroom fl oor .His wife. who had been expeçt ing a ch i l d , l a y dead bes ide him. she had beenbeaten and clubbed. The children, Kimberly and K r i s t e n , had a l s o been stabbedto death. MacDonald to ld a b i z a rre s t o r y . Three young men and a woman hadattacked the fami l y f or no a ppa re n t reason. Af ter t he attack. t h ey scrawledthe word "pig" on the headboard of the bed.DR. _MacDONALD: The fi r s t t h i ng that I remember was simu l t aneously s o r t ofo p e n i n g my eyes from the couch. s e e i n g some people at the end of the couchand-- and heari ng Colette .wALLAce: co l e t t e say i n g --DR. MacDONALD: "Jeff, Jeff, why are t h ey doing t h i s to me?" and hearing ascream at t he same t ime . which I ' v e always i n t e rp re t e d to be kimmie's vo ice, myo l d e s t daugh ter.WALLACE: Y e s .

DR. MacDONALD: It wasn ' t r e a l l y c l ear what was happening.wALLAcE: And so you g o t up and went t o - -on. Macoonatoz No. I t r i ed to g e t of f the couch. and t h a t ' s where the i n i t i a lstruågle occurred. Th a t ' s where I was a ssau l t ed , apfiarently received somewoun s, inc lud ing s t ab wounds and several blows to t e head. when I fi r s t g o tto the bedrooms. everyone had been_assaulted. I mean. the fi r s t time t h a t 1saw both Colette. kimmie and K ri s t i e . t h ey had been murdered.WALLACE: That has been or. Mac0onald's s t o r y from the beginning. But J oeMccinniss says i t ' s a smoke screen MacDonald made up the n i gh t of the murders,murders t ri g g e red by a b i t t e r argument with hi s wife. McGinniss summarized f o rus what the pros e c u t o r s t o ld the J u r y . -MCGINNISS: The attack upon h i s pre gna nt wife and on the fi v e -y e a r-o l d g i r l

agparently occurred in the same bur st of rage. He s truck them both unth ac ob, fractured sk u l l s , cheekbones. Then. what ' s most , 1 think. what ' s mostt e r r i fy i n g to contemplate, what ' s - - what's-- what's-- what's worse to think ofis t h a t having already mo rt a l l y wounded h i s wife and ki l l ed hi s fi v e -y e a r-o l ddaughter Kimberly. in or der to make the cover s t o r y s tand up,_he was going

tohave to walk i n t o the bedroom of h i s two-year-o ld daughter

K r i s t e n an ki l hertoo. Go in g into the bedroom of the two-year -old daug ter and st abb ing her 30t i m e s with knife and ice pick in the ches t and back, laying her across hi s l a pand stabbing her. t u r n i n g her over and stabbing her a g a i n . Autops; found. inaddition to the- - the horrendous wounds in her ches t and back, kni e cu t s inher tinš l i t t l e fi nge rs as she had raised her hand in an a t t em p t to ward of fher f a t er who was c om i n g at her with a kn i fe .wALLACE: whose version is accurate? MacDonald's or h i s accuser s? Back_in 1970at Fort_ara99› U,5. _Army i n v e s t i g a t o r s had çoncluded the doctor was guilty .but t h e i r i n v e s t i g a t i o n was sloppy and a mi l i t a ry tr ibunal t h a t heard t he i r

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evidence cleared Hacoonald. Shortfy aftenward, he q u i t the Army.

A year and half after the murders. Jeff Hacoonald. wanting to put the wholet r ag i c e pi sode behind him. moved to Southern Cal i f or n ia. He 1oined the s t a f fof S t . Mary Hosp i ta l in Long Beach, and before long he was d i r ec t o r of theDep a r tmen t of Emergency Medicine here.

Hacoonald was an ex t rao rd i n a ry surgeon. aninnovator in emergency room care.Hewas_on the fa c u l t y of UCLA and USC medical schools. re sp ec t ed by everyone.including the local p o l i ce .Offi cer James For t ier .OFFICER JAMES FORTIER: Any time a policeman g o t shot or injured in the l i ne ofduty and th ey were brought to t h i s hospita l, he was to be no t i fi ed and he wouldbe ere immediately to work on those offi cer s .WALLACE: For over 10 y ea rs . J e f f r e y MacDonald led a s t e re o t y p i c a l SouthernCalifornia bachelor ' s l i f e . This was h i s condo here in Huntington Beach. Thatwas his boat--"The R eco v e r y Room"--tied up ıust outside. A

flrosfierous doctor.he had a succession of a t t r ac t i ve young g i r fr iends who saw im er e. But theyoung woman who say s t hat she was then and remains today h i s bes t f r iend is D r .Cathy Mitts .

One gets the_sense t h a t when he finally_moved to Southern California. t ha t hegeci

ed tol ive a Southern California i f e s t y l e . se l f- i n d u l g en t to a c e r t a i negree. ree.DR. MITTS: I can assure you he was never f r ee f o r one moment. He has neverfo rg o t t e n the ev en t s t h a t changed_his l i f e . He`s agonized over them, w i l lnever understand them, and kept himself busy in between dealing with t h a tg r i e f . He loved t h a t woman with h i s en t i r e being, and h i s chi dren wereevery th ing to him.

wALLAcE: They al s o were every th ing to h i s wife Colet t e ' s mother ands t e p -fa t h e r . Mildred and Freddie Kassab. who proclaimed HacDonald's innocenceand stood by him from t h e fi r s t . They swore wqth him t h a t t h ey would fi nd themurderers. And a f t e r he took off for California, t he y continued to sear ch f o rthe k i l l er s . They began byrev iew in g the unpublished Army tr ibunal records andar r ived at a s t u n n i n g conc u s i o n z t h a t the k i l l e r was t h e i r own son-in-lawJ e f f r e y Macoonald.FREDDIE KASSAB: vou see. you have to remember t h a t I went through t ha tt r a n s c r i p t uñth a fi ne- tooth comb. I must have read t h a t t r a n s c r i p t at l eas t ahundred times. I g o t permission from the government and, with a g e n t s . I wasallowed in the house to recon st ru c t t h e murders--wALLAcE: Mm-hmm.

KASSAB: --from his s t o r y of what happened in t hat house t ha t n i gh t . And

nothing fi t , absolutely noth ing . It couldn` t have happened the way he said itdid. a so l u t e l y impossible.WALLACE: Freddie Kassab hounded congressmen and Justice Dep a r tmen t p r o s e cu t o r sto äile murder charg es. He admits t ha t h i s p u r s u i t of Macoonald amounted to aven e t t a .

KASSAB: The word is bandied_around. I t ' s - - it's-- to me i t ' s not a bad th ing .If somebody murders Your chi ld and your grandchı ldrenand you don' t t r y to do

something about i t . t h a t would be t e t e r r i b l e t h i n g to me.WALLACE: Freddie Kassab's p e rs i s t e n c e pa id o f f . Nine long y e a rs a f t e r t h e

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murders, or. Hacoonald had to leave his booming p ra c t i c e in California tore t u rn to North Carolina and s tand t r i a l in f ederal co u rt t her e. CBS NewsCorrespondent Bruce Hall repo rt ed the re sul t .BRUCE HALL: The jury reached i t s ver d i c t in t he complicated case a f t e r s ix anda half hours of deliberations. The co u rt clerk read it to a packed courtroom.It sa i d , "we the j u ry fi nd the defendant. Jeffrey Macoonald, guilty_in t h esecond degree in the death of h i s pregnant wife. Colet t e. " The verdict was thesame for ive-year-old Kimberly. but the J u r y found Macnonald guiltš in thefi r s t degree

in the death_of two-year-old K r i s t e n . Min u t e s a f t e r t e verdictwas reac ed. Judge firanklin Qupree s aid he was ready to pass sentence._MacDonald to ld t e Judge, "Sir. I amnot g u i l t y . I don ' t bel ieve the J u r yheard a l l the evidence.“ au t Judge oupree then sentenced him to threeconsecutive l i f e sen t en ce s .was there never , never a moment. Mrs. MacDonald. when you said to you rse l f insome tough n i gh t . "Yeah. maybe. maybe something s t r a nge . some aber rat ionhappened and maybe my boy was g u i l t y . "Mas. P e n n y Hacoowato: Hm-hmm. Yes. it did happen. It has to happen, I'msur e, only based upon the f ac t t ha t human beings are-- a re --WALLACEI Htlllâñ .MRS. MacDONALD: Complex and human, absolutely. But you see , Mr . wal l ace ,you-- you would have to examine h i s entire li e to realize t h a t he shows noaberration. The man_is not capable of this_kind of c r i m e . I can understand,say . a c r i m e of po ssi b l e p a s s i o n . but t h i s is beyond t ha t . It is f a r more--the re ' s much more evidence of the work of demented people. you know.WALLACE: J oe McGinniss says the Jeff MacDonald he came to know is a consummateac t o r and t h a t he plays h i s Kart

so well t h a t he can l i e more per suasively thensome other people can t e l l t e t r u t h , and agparently he wasn' t always t h eloving and oyal husband he was thought to e.HRS. MILDREO KASSAB: He takes t h i ng s out of thin a i r and declares them. Hewrote a l e t t e r to me saying t h a t , you know, we d i scu ssed my i n fi d e l t i e s ; t h a t Idiscussed h i s infidelities. Can you imagine? Me d i scu ssi n g him cheat ing on mydaughter? He r e a l l y bel ieves these t h i n g s a f t e r he say s them.WALLACE: But being a l i a r doesn' t n e c e s sa r i l y make you a k i l l e r , and a fami l yargument doesn ' t of ten t u rn i n t o homicide. Even government p r o s e c u t o r scouldn' t come up with a motive or an explanat ion of how a man l i ke MacDonaldcould have committed so brutal a crime.But J o e Hcoinniss thinks he ' s found the key: new evidence he discovered a f t e rthe t r i a l .unrevealedbefore the

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evidence he has never discussed with Macoonald. a hitherto_ _accåunt by the doctor himself of h i s a c t i v i t i e s

in the p eri o d Justmur ers.In his own handwriting. in notes p repared f or h i s attorneñs. he goesdet ai l about h i s c o n sump t i o n of a drug cal l ed Eskatrol. w ich is no

longer on the market. It was v o l u n t a r i l y withdrawn in 1980--WALLACE¦ Mn

MCGINHISS: --because of dangerous s ide effects._ Amongthe s ide e ffec ts of t h i s

drug a re : "when taken to excess by su sc ep t i b l e indivi uals , t empora rypsychosis. of ten manifested as a rage r eact ion. " Here we have somebod underenormous p re ssu re and he`s takin enou h of t h i s Eskatrol. enou h amphetaminesso that by hi s own account h e ' s lost lg pounds in the three weeas l ead i n g up tothe murders.

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waLLAcE: Now. wai t ! According to t he note. which I have seen. three to fi veEskatrol he has taken. we don' t know if he ' s taken if over a Eeriod of severalweeks, or if h e ' s taken thr ee to fi ve Eskatrol a day, or a wee , or a month.McGINNISs: we l l , we do know t h a t if you take thr ee to fi ve Eskatrol over amonth, y o u 're n o t going to lose 15 pounds from doing so.DR. Mac00NALD: I never stated t h a t to anyone. I d id no t in f ac t lose 15pounds. I al s o wasn't t ak i ng eska trol.

w4LLAcE: "we ate dinner together at 5:45 PM. It is_possible I had one_dietp i l l at t h i s t i m e . I do not remember and do not think I had one. but i t _ i spo ssi b l e . 1 had l os t 12 to 15 pounds in the p r i o r thr ee to four weeks. in theprocess. u s i n g three to fi ve cap su l es of Eskatrol Spansule. I was a lso- - "OR. Maco0NALD: Three to fi ve cap su l es f o r the thr ee weeks.WALLACE: According to t h i s .DR. MaCDONALD: R1' g h t .WALLACE: According to t h i s .on. nacoonnto: And t h a t ' s a p o s s i b i l i t y .wALLACE: Then why would you p u t it down here t h a t ther e was even a p o s s i b i l i t y ?

DR. Mac00NALD: These are_notes given to an a t t o r ne y who has told me to bare mysoul as to any p o s s i b i l i t i e s . so we could always be p repared .

wALLAcE:_But you 've a l re a d y t o l d me t ha t you didn ' t lose 15 pounds in t h e t h re eweeks p r i o r .

on. Maco0NALo: 1 don ' t think t h a t 1 d id .wALLAcE: 1 t ' s in your no tes. "1 had l o s t 12 to 15 pounds in the p r i o r t h r ee tofour weeks, in the process. u sing three to fi v e cap su l e s of EskatrolSpansules." That's_speed†-and Comp az in e , to counteract the excitab ility ofsfieed.

"I was l o si ng weight_because I was working out with the boxing team andt e coach told me to lose we i gh t ."

nk. MacDONALD:_Mike. there's_no quest i o n there's a p o s s i b i l i t y t h a t I took thep i l l . Nowhere in there does it say I took i t .

WALLACE: If you were on the boxing team--on. M a c o o w a μ o : Right .WALLACE: --and

youwere in good sha pe , and we-- we know the kind-- the- - how

you take care o you r se l f .on. nacoouatoz n i gh t .

wALtAcE: One has to say . look, why would he be t ak i n g o f f 12to 15 Pounds in aperiod of three to four weeks, again , in your own handwriting?Dn. MacDONALo: But if I did t ake of f those 12 to 15 pounds over three to fourweeks using three to four ta ble t s of Eskatrol. t h a t ' s not abnormal. † h a t ' s anormal_th1ng. The problem is y o u 're making it sound_like a person who's honestand w r i t e s onest notes to h i s a t t o r ne y f o r any po ss i b i l i t y is gu i l t y of at r i p l e homicide.

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w5LL5CE: μacnonald fi r s t learned of McGinniss's conclusions when I talked withhim in p r i s o n , and he was devastated.

"why has n ' t J o e Mcsinniss asked me." he say s . "about d rug s and l is tened to myanswer?"McGINNIs5: well. if t h e r e ' s one thing t ha t the p a s t 13 years have demonstratedconclusively and repeated ly , it is t at J e f f r e y Macbona d ' s answers to pointedq u e s t i o n s are no t t r uthful . He would have said he was not taking the drug inany q u a n t i t y . He would have said if he had taken one t h a t n ight._ it woul _nothave had any effect_upon his behavior. He would have s aid t ha t s i n c e he d idn ' tcommit the uurders in the fi r s t place any kind of sp ecu l a t i o n as to why hemight have would be of f base and irrelevant.wALLAce: As we said e a r l i e r , Maçoonald intends to fi l e amotion f or a new t r i a lbased on new evidence he says wi l l corroborate h i s s t o r i e s that the murderswere_committed by the four intruders. Meantime. h i s old hospital office_isw a i t i n g for him ex ac t l y as he l e f t i t , wal ls covered with h i s p laques. h i sdegrees.what do you want to happen to him?FREODIE KASSAB: I want him to s t a y where he i s , in j a i l .wALLAcE: And you, Mrs . xassab?

MRS. KASSAB: I feel the same way about i t . To someone of J e f f ' s temperament ,l o si ng face and being in Jail is f a r worse than death.wALLACE: A fi nal i ro n y . So far. Jeff MacDonald has received in excess of375,000 from J oe McGinniss from the book's ea rn i ng s. MacDonald says he isusing the money to pay f o r h i s l eg a l ap p ea l s .

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