48. The MacDonald Family Murders Pt. 1
At the height of the hippie culture and "Satanic Panic" in the early 1970s, a gruesome murder is committed at Fort Bragg, NC. A pregnant mother and her two small daughters are repeatedly stabbed to death. Her husband, Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, is also injured but survives the attack. He is able to describe the four assailants who had killed his family; drugged-out hippies chanting, "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs." In the coming days, the tale becomes even harder to believe and authorities question Captain MacDonald's version of events.
Narrator: Curtis Hildreth
Intro and Outro Music: Isaiah Hildreth
Sources:
McGinniss, Joe. Fatal Vision. Putnam, 1983.
Potter, Jerry Allen, and Fred Bost. Fatal Justice: Reinvestigating the MacDonald Murders. W.W. Norton, 1995.
Charlie Manson’s Home on the Range. Esquire, March 1970
California Evil. Esquire, March 1970
https://macdonaldcasefacts.com/html/guilt.html
https://macdonaldcasefacts.com/html/timeline.html
https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/the-dr-jeffrey-macdonald-habeas-case-and-actual-innocence/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%E2%80%93LaBianca_murders
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