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Crimes of the Centuries

S1 Ep26: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Kill His Family?

Crimes of the Centuries

Amber Hunt and Audioboom

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.74K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The sight that greeted arriving medics in February 1970 was so upsetting that at least one had to rush from the scene to vomit. Inside of Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald's home were three dead bodies belonging to his two daughters and pregnant wife. MacDonald, too, was injured. But who really killed the Green Beret's family? Was it a quartet of acid-dropping hippies -- or MacDonald himself?

"Crimes of the Centuries" is a podcast from Grab Bag Collab exploring forgotten crimes from times past that made a mark and helped change history.

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0:33.2

they earn the label crime of the century, but the stories that made headlines and decades

0:39.6

passed aren't necessarily remembered today. I'm Amber Hunt, a journalist and author,

0:48.9

and in each episode of this show, I'll examine a case that's maybe lesser known today,

0:54.5

but it was huge when it happened. This is crimes of the centuries.

1:16.6

The voice on the emergency call was so quiet, the dispatcher could barely make out the words.

1:22.2

I said we need help, we need medics, ambulance, I said we've been stabbed, we're dying.

1:29.1

The voice, little more than a whisper, then gave an address, 544, Castle Drive. When

1:36.0

medics arrived, they found the back door of the apartment open and pushed inside. There,

1:41.6

the scene was like nothing they'd ever witnessed. Two bodies, a man and a woman lay motionless

1:47.1

on the ground, surrounded by a pool of blood. At first it appeared they were both dead,

1:52.5

but then one started to move. The first thing I said was something like, forget me, check

1:57.8

my kids how my kids. The medics went deeper into the house and found two children in separate

2:03.6

bedrooms. Both had been murdered so viciously that at least one responding medic rushed

2:09.2

from the house to vomit. The only person to survive the brutal attack on February

2:14.3

17th, 1970, the man who had called for help and said he'd passed out next to the body

2:20.1

of his wife, told details so shocking it made international headlines. Was the subject

2:26.0

of books in a TV movie and sparked a criminal case that reached the US Supreme Court twice?

2:53.7

Jeffery Mcdonald was the second of three children born to parents Robert and Dorothy

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