Episode 119: The MacDonald Family Murders
Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast
Inhuman Podcast
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🗓️ 11 July 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's up you guys, I'm Haley and I'm Andrea and this is Inhuman, a true crime podcast. |
| 0:26.6 | Okay, welcome back everybody. |
| 0:28.9 | Hi, this is another week, another episode and I promised that we won't be saying this every |
| 0:36.8 | episode, but I just wanted to let you guys know that we have a Patreon. If you haven't heard, |
| 0:41.5 | we just launched it and the first content, extra content, we'll be dropping this Friday, July 15th. |
| 0:48.4 | So if you want to check it out, listen to our bonus episodes, depending on what tier you |
| 0:54.7 | subscribed to, you could get a bonus video episodes, the RBI and our bases. Beautiful faces. |
| 1:03.3 | But yeah, so we'll have that linked in our show notes. The content is dropping this week and we're |
| 1:07.0 | really excited for it. So I just wanted to mention that. Yeah, but today's case was suggested by |
| 1:13.0 | one of our listeners. So thank you for the suggestion. There was not a name attached to it, but this is, |
| 1:19.6 | this is a wild case. If you guys follow me on Instagram or follow our Inhuman Instagram, |
| 1:23.9 | I've been posting about how I started researching this case, thinking it was going to be open and |
| 1:29.3 | shut. Like, you know, there's a lot of details on it, but I thought that it was going to kind of be |
| 1:33.3 | like, okay, like get this research done in a couple of days. No, it has taken me weeks and I've |
| 1:40.1 | been working on this for a long time. So I'm excited to share it with you guys and I hadn't heard |
| 1:44.4 | of it. So thank you to the listener that suggested this. Jeffrey McDonald was born in Jamaica, |
| 1:49.8 | Queens, New York on October 12th, 1943, to Robert and Dorothy McDonald. He had two siblings |
| 1:57.3 | and their father, Robert was very strict. He was never violent, but he demanded obedience |
| 2:03.3 | and achievement from his kids. Jeffrey grew up on Long Island and the family was actually pretty poor, |
| 2:09.2 | they did not have much and they definitely were struggling a bit. In the eighth grade, |
| 2:14.4 | McDonald met Colette Stevenson and he later recalled that he had first seen Colette walking down |
| 2:20.3 | the hallway with her best friend and while he was attracted to both girls, he found Colette more |
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