Criminalistics
February 27, 2015
The Jeffrey MacDonald Case Jeffrey MacDonald was born on October 12, 1942. Jeffrey MacDonald was an intelligent and handsome man. He had a very beautiful family, including a wife and two young daughters. He attended Princeton University for 3 years in New Jersey while he was married to Colette MacDonald. While he was still in school at Princeton University his daughter Kim was born. After he was done at Princeton University he went to medical school in Chicago and later on had his other daughter Kristen. The family later on in life moved to North Carolina where Jeffrey would later on receive a job offer as a doctor in the Special Forces. Early in the year of 1970 Jeffery and his wife found out they were having another child. February 17, 1970 was a horrific and heart breaking night. Police were dispatched to the scene at 3:50 A.M. Macdonald had called about a stabbing incident. When officers arrived to the scene they found Colette, Kimberly and Kristen lying on the floor dead in the family apartment in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. MacDonald claims that he was sleeping at the time of the incident and then was woken up by the sound of his wife and daughter screaming. He states that he had woken up to three intruders attacking him with an ice pick, a knife, and a club. Colette and her two daughters were found dead in their beds, and the word “PIG” was written in blood on the headboard of one bed. Jeffery was found lying on the floor next to Colette unconscious. The girls had been stabbed to death. They were all drenched in blood and so was the floor surrounding them. The stabs of Jeffrey Macdonald were very clean and sharp. But the stabs of the girls were done very violently and were very messy. Jeffrey MacDonald was later omitted to the hospital in the morning. He suffered from a collapsed lung. The doctors said he was going to survive, but he had to stay in the hospital for at least a week so he could