Doctor Jeffrey MacDonald's case is the most litigated in American history. It has been going on now for 54 years. When the murders of MacDonald's wife and two children happened at Fort Bragg, the Vietnam War was still going on, Richard Nixon was President and J. Edgar Hoover was FBI director. The case spawned a best selling book and miniseries called Fatal Vision that convinced many people of Jeffrey MacDonald's guilt in this horrific crime. Was Jeffrey MacDonald an innocent victim who saw his family murdered before his eyes or was he an evil cold blooded killer with a psychopath's charm. I saw this special in 1989 and it convinced me of MacDonald's innocence at the time but I now think he was guilty. He pulled the wool over a lot of people's eyes including me but now I know better. I'm glad that justice was served and he will die in prison.
2 Reviews
Another Look At A High Profile Case
gavin694220 May 2013
This documentary goes into all sorts of side stories about the military, drug abuse and the occult. The point is to show another person who might have committed the crime, and who may have been trying to do a Charles Manson copycat killing. Whether this works or not, I do not know.
It seems to me that the point is not to find another possible killer and then profile them, but simply look at the evidence and see whether or not it was Dr. MacDonald, or if there is a reasonable doubt. If MacDonald is not the real killer, at this stage I doubt the real killer could be found -- but the focus should be on MacDonald's guilt or innocence.
Sadly, the Netflix version has a cheesy made-for-TV feel that could have been cleaned up. While the film as a whole leaves much to be desired, it is even less enjoyable when it still has the commercial breaks included.
It seems to me that the point is not to find another possible killer and then profile them, but simply look at the evidence and see whether or not it was Dr. MacDonald, or if there is a reasonable doubt. If MacDonald is not the real killer, at this stage I doubt the real killer could be found -- but the focus should be on MacDonald's guilt or innocence.
Sadly, the Netflix version has a cheesy made-for-TV feel that could have been cleaned up. While the film as a whole leaves much to be desired, it is even less enjoyable when it still has the commercial breaks included.
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