I'm Brett and I'm Alice and we are The Prosecutors.

Today, on The Prosecutors, on a rainy night in 1970, Captain Jeffrey McDonald, a surgeon

and a green beret, made a frantic call for help.

His family had been brutally murdered.

It wasn't attacked by craze, dragged out hippies, or did McDonald kill his entire family.

Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of The Prosecutors.

I'm Brett and I'm joined as always with my exacting co-host, Alice.

Exactly.

Am I really that exact?

I don't know.

I don't know.

And the person who suggested that wanted you to know they min it in the good way, not the

like negative way.

Because I guess there's a positive and a negative way to look at exacting.

It's one of those like compliments that is actually put down because I thought exacting

was a compliment until you said it was not a compliment.

It can be a compliment, but it might also be not a compliment.

It's like being earnest.

There you go.

You know, it can be good to be earnest or it can be bad to be earnest if you're too earnest.

So I think it's the same thing.

I think it is a compliment or not a compliment depending on who's saying it.

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