You are listening to the Roberta Glass True Crime Report, putting the true back in true crime.

From New York City, Roberta Glass is now on the record.

In the early morning hours of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina,

Captain Dr. Jeffrey McDonald awoke to the screams of his wife and children.

Before him stood four intruders. One, a woman with blonde hair and a floppy hat, holding a candle

chanting, acid is groovy, kill the pigs, and three men, two white, one black.

McDonald said they fought in the living room where he was knocked unconscious. When he came to,

he found his five-year-old daughter, Kimberly,

two-year-old daughter, Kristen, and pregnant wife Colette, all brutally murdered. The Army investigated

McDonald's story, and in Article 32 hearing was held July 5, 1970, to determine whether McDonald himself was the

murderer of his own family. Colonel Rock issued a report dismissing the charges against McDonald's

in October of 1970. However, Colette's stepfather, Freddie Kasab, in the years following the murder,

turned for McDonald's biggest supporter to greatest enemy, convinced that McDonald himself

had murdered his own family. Kasab filed a citizen's complaint with the Justice Department,

which resulted in a grand jury indictment of McDonald in January of 1975. And on August 29, 1979, McDonald was convicted in a jury

trial of one count of first degree murder in the death of his daughter Kristen

and two counts of murder in the second degree for the murder of his wife Colette and five-year-old

daughter Kimberly. FX has just released a five-part documentary series on the case entitled

Wilderness of Error. It's the same title of Earl

Morris's 2012 book that argued exhaustively for McDonald's innocence. The FX series has demoted

Earl Morris this time to just another of their talking heads and presents both

the guilt and innocence narrative in this case. To speak with me about this series is Marin,

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