Lawyers cited the confessions of two women...
Lawyers cited the confessions of two women drug addicts in pleading in Raleigh, N.C., for a new trial for Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters 15 years ago. But prosecutors said at least six persons have confessed to the murders that inspired the television movie “Fatal Vision” and discounted the confessions as “mental aberrations.” MacDonald, now 41, was a Green Beret captain stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., in 1970 when his wife Collette, 26, and their two daughters, Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2, were bludgeoned and stabbed to death.
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