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Parental discretion is strongly advised. Jeffrey McDonald has always said that four intruders, three men and one woman attacked the family

in February 1970, while chanting acid is groovy, kill the pigs.

His two daughters were stabbed to death in their bedrooms, while McDonald and his wife

were found in theirs. Pig was written in blood on the headboard. Collette had been stabbed

nearly 40 times with an ice pick and a knife. McDonald had been stabbed just once, which caused his lung to partially collapse.

Despite his injuries, Army investigators didn't buy McDonald's account and charged him for

the murders in May 1970.

After 70 witnesses testified at the six-week-long Article 32 hearing, the presiding

colonel exonerated McDonald and urged civilian authorities to pursue another suspect,

a drug-addicted police informant named Helena Stockling, who matched McDonald's description

of the female intruder and her army vet boyfriend, both

of whom reportedly told witnesses they were involved.

For the next few years, McDonald went on with his life, but in 1974 his once supportive

stepfather-in-law, now convinced of his guilt, filed a citizen's criminal complaint that ultimately

led to McDonald being indicted for murder.

Prosecutors argued that McDonald had got the idea to stage the crime scene and blame

a hippie gang from an article in Esquire about the Tate-Labianca murders perpetrated

by the Manson family. McDonald took the stand in his own defense,

but withered under cross-examination. He was convicted and sentenced to three life terms.

But did he really commit the murder? Or was he telling the truth about intruders invading his home and murdering his family?

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