In this episode, we dive into one of America’s most controversial and confounding true crime cases: the murder of Colette MacDonald and her two young daughters in 1970, and the decades-long legal saga of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald. Was he a grieving husband wrongly accused—or a cold-blooded killer who staged a brutal crime scene?
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