Madeleine74
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This case fascinated me. There was a magazine opened to an article in which the Manson murders were the feature in the LR of the macDonald apt. There is speculation that's where MacDonald got the idea for the things he said and did after the murder.
What's really interesting and unique about this particular case is that each of the victims and MacDonald himself had different blood types. Four different blood types at the scene. So even though DNA testing wasn't available back then, the pattern of where the blood was found, along with whose blood was where and in which rooms, told a very different tale than MacDonald claimed. That's how they got him. Also the LR where MacDonald claimed a struggle took place looked staged, and not very well staged.
The physical evidence nailed him, including the pattern and placement of the holes in pajama top MacDonald claimed he wore, and the fact that there was no tearing or ripping with those marks, as there would be in a struggle. Folded up a certain way, the stab marks on his pajama top matched the wound pattern exactly on his wife's body...meaning...MacDonald's story about that pajama top and fighting with the intruder cannot be true, and he had placed his own pajama top on his wife's body as he continued to stab her.
Yes, read the Joe McGinnis book. It's riveting! And I'll never forget actor Gary Cole playing MacDonald in the TV movie of the same name "Fatal Vision." He was chilling and masterful.
I have zero doubt that MacDonald is guilty after looking at the evidence presented at trial.
What's really interesting and unique about this particular case is that each of the victims and MacDonald himself had different blood types. Four different blood types at the scene. So even though DNA testing wasn't available back then, the pattern of where the blood was found, along with whose blood was where and in which rooms, told a very different tale than MacDonald claimed. That's how they got him. Also the LR where MacDonald claimed a struggle took place looked staged, and not very well staged.
The physical evidence nailed him, including the pattern and placement of the holes in pajama top MacDonald claimed he wore, and the fact that there was no tearing or ripping with those marks, as there would be in a struggle. Folded up a certain way, the stab marks on his pajama top matched the wound pattern exactly on his wife's body...meaning...MacDonald's story about that pajama top and fighting with the intruder cannot be true, and he had placed his own pajama top on his wife's body as he continued to stab her.
Yes, read the Joe McGinnis book. It's riveting! And I'll never forget actor Gary Cole playing MacDonald in the TV movie of the same name "Fatal Vision." He was chilling and masterful.
I have zero doubt that MacDonald is guilty after looking at the evidence presented at trial.