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Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

“THE MURDER CONVICTION OF JEFFREY MACDONALD” #WeirdDarkness

Weird Darkness: Paranormal & True Crime Stories

Darren Marlar

History, True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.64.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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PLEASE SHARE THIS EPISODE in your social media so others who love strange and macabre stories can listen too! https://weirddarkness.com/murder-conviction-of-jeffrey-macdonald/
IN THIS EPISODE: Jeffrey MacDonald was an Ivy-League-educated surgeon and a Green Beret. That sounds like an interesting story in and of itself. But he was also either a murderer or the victim of a murderous hippie cult and that’s a story more than fitting for #WeirdDarkness! *** (Originally aired March 02, 2021)

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TRANSCRIPT: https://weirddarkness.com/murder-conviction-of-jeffrey-macdonald/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Step into the extraordinary with auditory anthology, a podcast series where science fiction short stories come alive

0:26.6

narrated by me your voice of weird darkness and curated by Keith Conrad each episode is a journey into imagination.

0:34.0

Explore cosmic wonders and futuristic tales,

0:37.0

and dive into a universe of stories

0:39.0

where the impossible is possible.

0:41.3

Auditory anthology, available at auditory anthology.com and on Apple, Spotify or your podcast player of choice.

0:49.0

Stories and

0:52.8

weird darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and is

0:55.9

intended for mature audiences only.

0:58.0

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

1:17.0

attacked the family in February 1970 while chanting,

1:21.0

Acid is groovy, kill the pigs. His two daughters were stabbed to death in their

1:25.9

bedrooms, while McDonald and his wife were found in theirs. Pig was written in blood

1:31.6

on the headboard.

1:33.0

Collad had been stabbed nearly 40 times with an ice pick and a knife.

1:37.3

McDonald had been stabbed just once, which caused his lung to partially collapse.

1:43.2

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

1:48.7

for the murders in May 1970.

1:51.7

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

1:57.0

colonel exonerated McDonald and urged civilian authorities to pursue another suspect, A drug addicted police informant named

2:05.1

Helena Stockley who matched McDonald's description of the female

2:09.3

intruder and her Army vet boyfriend, both of whom reportedly told witnesses they were involved.

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