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next on Unsolved Mysteries he was called
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the Green Beret killer and sentenced to
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multiple life terms for killing his wife
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and two children more than three decades
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after the crime Jeffrey McDonald still
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says that he's innocent and he claims to
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have the evidence to prove
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it a 9-year-old girl is abducted from
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her own home one year later she places a
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frantic call to police could she still
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be
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alive and a young mother is devastated
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by the death of her newborn baby girl
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then she uncovers clues that her
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daughter may actually be
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alive five stories they're all strange
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but they are all true I'm Dennis finina
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and this is Unsolved
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Mysteries
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Gallup New Mexico lies within what was
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once the territory of the Navajo Indian
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Nation one April day this quiet
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community of 20,000 was rocked by the
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mysterious disappearance of a 9-year-old
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Navajo
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girl anthonette
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kyodo she's not in the living when her
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mother and two sisters woke up that
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morning they were surprised to find that
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anthonette was not in the
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house we went looking for around the
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house
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nothing I didn't start panicking until
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we checked with all the neighbors went
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to every
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house and nobody had seen her I the
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police and Penny's neighbors searched
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the surrounding Foothills but found no
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trace of the little
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girl authorities feared the worst anthon
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had been
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kidnapped as the days stretched into
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weeks and the weeks into months police
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could offer little hope of ever finding
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anthonette alive but after a year went
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by a surprise phone call seemed to
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indicate that she was alive and being
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held against her
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will the Call came into the Gallup
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police station Gallop Police
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Department Hello
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I'm
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okay where abouts in
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Albuquerque before the girl could answer
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the call was abruptly ended by a man
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said use a
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hello Anette where are you
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an
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hello
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Department I listened to that tape over
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and over and over
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I and just by the way she says her last
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name and the way she screamed s chills
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all over my
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body because a mother knows and I know
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that was
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her she knew that was her daughter's
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voice on that tape and she just couldn't
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figure out who the male's voice was in
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the background and where antonet was at
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okays and aluer antonet had indicated
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that she was in Albuquerque but the call
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was so short that it couldn't even be
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traced as to what line it was coming
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from the phone call renewed hope of
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finding
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anthonette but four more years passed
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without any further
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Clues a possible sighting of athonet was
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reported in Carson City Nevada
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870 mi from Galla a uh waitress at a
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restaurant in Cen City told the cson
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city police about a strange incident
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that she had witnessed that particular
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day okay three
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cheeseburgers she waited on a table at
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which sat a male and a female rather
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unkempt and a small girl about the age
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of 14 or
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15 the little girl would deliberately
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drop a utensil on the floor the waitress
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put the utensil back on the table and a
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little girl grabbed her hand I'll get
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you another fork and the waitress
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thought nothing of it and went about her
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business the threesome left the
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restaurant and the waitress went and
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back to the table and began to bust the
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table she lifted up the plate belonging
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to the
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girl and underneath was a napkin that
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said please help me call the
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police by the time she realized what had
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happened the couple and the girl were
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gone one month after the Carson City
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sighting detectives reinterviewed anet's
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younger sister Wendy who was 5 years old
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when anthonette
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disappeared we went to Wendy's school
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with the intention of just talking to
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her about what her Recollections were of
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that particular night there was a knock
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at the
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door Anthony went to bantra and then I
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followed
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her who's there open up who's there
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Uncle Joe open up she goes who is there
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and they say Uncle Joe so she opened his
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door and they grabbed
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her she started kicking and she goes let
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me go let me go and then they took her
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to a van a brown van Wendy why didn't
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you tell anybody about what you saw that
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night because I thought since my mom was
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crying and everything I thought I'd get
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in
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trouble I don't believe she's making
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this up I I strongly feel that she's
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telling us the truth with that Wendy was
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unable to provide investigators with a
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description of the kidnappers
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authorities interviewed anthon's Uncle
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Joe Who provided a credible Alibi for
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that night he was quickly cleared as a
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suspect I believe that the people that
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took anet are not family members but is
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somebody that is close to the family
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otherwise anet would not have opened
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that door had they not stated that it
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was her Uncle
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Joe finally Penny visited a respected
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Navajo Medicine Woman she performed the
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crystal ritual which is said to make
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contact with the spirit of a missing
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person The Medicine Woman said that
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anthonette was still alive and may have
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a child she was being held against her
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will by threats of violence somewhere in
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the
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southwest going to the medicine lady
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gives me a lot of strength and it helps
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me to just know that she is
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alive no matter who she's with they got
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to have some compassion not to hurt
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another human being as small as she
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is anthonette codito was 9 years old
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when she disappeared today she would be
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in her 30s and may look like this
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computer AED photo she has brown hair
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and brown eyes and her birthday is this
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December
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25th if you have any information please
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log on to our website at
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unsolved.com
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next Jeffrey McDonald says that
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Intruders murdered his family
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authorities say that he's the
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killer Fort Brag North Carolina
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Just Before Dawn MPS rushed to the home
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of Greenbay Captain Jeffrey McDonald and
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response to his call for
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help they find Jeffrey in the bedroom
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bleeding from cuts and stab wounds his
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wife who was 5 months pregnant and their
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two young daughters have been savagely
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murdered you got to tell me what
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happened here who did this to you
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Jeffrey says that he and his family were
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attacked by four intro
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ERS one of whom was a
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female MPS reported seeing a woman that
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fit jeffy's description just two blocks
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from the murder
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scene It is believed that the mystery
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woman was Helena stokeley a known drug
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user and police
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informant in
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1982 she admitted that she had been
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present when her friends killed Jeffrey
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McDonald's wife and
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children if this is true then why is
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Jeffrey McDonald in prison serving three
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life sentences for murders that he says
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he did not
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commit if the FBI or someone would check
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up on this they would find out that
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Jeffrey McDonald is an innocent man the
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evidence looked at by any neutral person
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points uniring one way and that's
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towards Helen stokeley and the group of
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outside as salant evidence suggests
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powerfully that only one person was
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responsible for these horrible deaths
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and that is McDonald the prosecution
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maintains that Helena stokeley was a
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drug addict who made up her story
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Jeffrey McDonald and his defense team
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claimed that important evidence was
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withheld which backed up stokeley's
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account is Jeffrey McDonald innocent or
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guilty Jeffrey and Colette McDonald were
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High School School sweethearts from Long
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Island New York they got married during
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McDonald's junior year at Princeton and
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7 months later they had a baby girl
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Kimberly by the time Jeffrey McDonald
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had worked his way through medical
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school they had a second daughter
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Kristen medical school and Parenthood
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had been tough on both Jeffrey and
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Colette McDonald says that when he chose
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to join the Army it turned out to be
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just the break they needed Jeffrey
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joined the army green beret as a surgeon
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his wife and two daughters followed him
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to Fort Bragg North
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Carolina 2: a.m. the night of the
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murders Colette and the girls had been
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asleep for hours and Jeffrey was getting
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ready to go to bed what you are about to
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see is jeffy's version of the events of
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that
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night my youngest daughter Kristen had
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gotten in the master bedroom bed Chrissy
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come on baby let's wake up and she had
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wet my side of the
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bed sleep on the couch come on so I put
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her back in her own
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bed then got an extra blanket an Afghan
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as it were and went out to sleep on the
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living room
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couch the next thing I remember was I
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was awakened and I heard Colette
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screaming and I heard Kimberly screaming
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and I saw three people I saw a black
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male and I saw two white
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males the blackmail swung something at
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me and I threw my hand up trying to ward
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off a blow and something hit me in the
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forearm and my head and knocked me back
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onto the
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couch the two white males started
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throwing what I thought were punches I
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got a sudden sharp pain in my right
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chest and I I remember very distinctly
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thinking to myself he throws a hell of a
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punch during this time I saw what I took
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to be a woman I saw long stringy blonde
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hair a big floppy hat and I saw a
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wavering light on her face I heard a
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voice that I thought was a woman's voice
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saying acid is groovy kill the
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pigs I was grabbing arms and trying to
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hold on and I couldn't grab because
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somehow my pajama top had been pulled
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over my head and it was wrapped around
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my hands and my wrist and I was trying
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to fend these people
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off
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Colette
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Colette I went down the hallway and
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found her in the master
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bedroom it was an awful sight I started
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to give her mouth to
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mouth and the air was coming out of her
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chest
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Colette could not be revived Jeffrey
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claims he gave up and covered her with
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his pajama
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top oh Kim me Kim me I ran into
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Kimberly's room she was also covered
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with blood she was in her bed and I
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remember doing mouth to mouth on
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Kimberly and I remember air coming out
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of her
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neck and I went across the hall to check
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Kristen and Kristen was the same
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way and the next thing I remember was
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talking on the telephone trying to get
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help Jeffrey remembers telling the
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operator we've been stabbed we need help
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but he could not make her understand he
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dropped the phone I remember a little
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later standing in the bathroom looking
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at my forehead cuz my head was splitting
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it felt like my head was splitting I I
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couldn't think I could I couldn't figure
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out what I was looking
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at then I remember washing my hands I
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don't know why I was washing my hands
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I'm a physician I guess I was trying to
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do something
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surgical 3 minutes later Jeffrey picked
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up the telephone the operator was still
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on the
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line sir come on come on now hold for me
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I don't even remember leaving the
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phone the next thing I remember was a
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military policeman giving me mouth to
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mouth I've got somebody on the way and
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I'm going to take care of you just got
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to hold on for him with McDonald he was
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unconscious when by day bre the crime
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scene was swarming with military police
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and agents of the Army's criminal
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investigation division according to
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Jeffrey the Army investigators did not
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preserve the crime scene and may have
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destroyed critical
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evidence it wasn't a controlled crime
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scene at one point the trol supervisor
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instructed one of the MPS to go through
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and open the front door so that the
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ambulance drivers could bring the
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stretches in through the front of the
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house through the living room where
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McDonald's said he had struggled with
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the three guys on couch there was no
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chaos there at the crime scene former c
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special agent William Ivory does
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undercover work and has asked that his
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features be concealed there were
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military policemen who had never
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encountered a crime scene like that had
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never seen a dead body before but was
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not chaotic as soon as I got there and
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got with the duty officer we established
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control over the crime scene and from
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that point on it was
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orderly the Army investigators say they
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collected evidence from all over the
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house and yard and quickly began to
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suspect that the crime scene had been
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faked in the living room where Jeffrey
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said he fought three men Army
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investigators say only a flower pot and
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a coffee table were
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overturned they were surprised that so
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many weapons had been left behind they
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found a knife in the master bedroom
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where the word Pig had been been written
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in Colette's blood have these been
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photographed no sir they haven't another
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knife an ice pick and a 2x2 board were
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found outside the knife and the ice pick
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had been wiped clean all the weapons had
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come from inside the
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house finally the Army viewed jeffy's
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injuries as relatively minor a punctured
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M at least one bruise on his forehead a
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slash on his stomach and several St
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wounds on his upper body at the
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beginning we just thought well maybe he
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didn't have his story straight that we
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got the story wrong we sent other
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investigators to the hospital to speak
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to him and he told him the same story
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and we just could not reconcile what he
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said what we were finding at the crime
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scene 6 months after the killings the
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Army charged Jeffrey McDonald with the
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murders of his wife and his children
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after 4 months of testimony the military
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Court concluded that the charges were
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not true they suggested the Army
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investigate a woman named Helen stokeley
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who had been seen near the McDonald
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House on the night of the murders all
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charges against Jeffrey McDonald were
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dropped at that time we were thinking
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why did I even have to have been put
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through that didn't the CID do any
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investigation before they charged people
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that was our reaction we were angry but
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McDonald's troubles were far from
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over coming up the FBI opens a new
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investigation and Jeffrey McDonald goes
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on trial for
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murder in February
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1970 the pregnant wife and two young
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daughters of army surgeon jeffre
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McDonald were brutally murdered in the
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family's Fort Brag North Carolina home
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although Army investigators charged
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McDonald with the murders they weren't
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able to convince a military Court of his
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guilt but the crime scene itself was
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left intact boarded up and preserved in
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its
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entirety with the charges dropped
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McDonald left the service he went to
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work as an emergency room doctor in Long
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Beach
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California 5 years passed during which
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the f F bi made a detailed study of
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McDonald's house they developed a
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scenario which showed how McDonald
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killed his
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family their theory was based on the
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location of each family member's blood
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in the
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house Prosecuting Attorney James
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Blackburn has formed a vivid and
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elaborate hypothesis of the events of
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that night he believes it might have
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begun with a simple argument about
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Kristen's bed wedding I'm not going to
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have that child sleep in this bed one
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more night keep it down the kids are
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sleep I need my sleep too and I'm not
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going to sleep in a wet bed every night
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don't worry I'm already taking care of
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you're such a tough dog I think he flew
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into a rage and he clubbed her with the
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piece of
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Ashwood Jeffy blood from her blood type
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are found sprayed across the ceiling she
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does not die from the injuries to the
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club while he is doing this she screams
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out Kimberly his oldest daughter walks
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to the bedroom screaming daddy as she
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walks to the door she is hit in the face
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with the
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club her blood type is found at the
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entrance to the door he picks her up he
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takes her into her room he clubs her
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again her blood type is found sprayed on
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the wall he stamps her he lays her in
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her bed and he tucks her
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in Colette has gotten up and gone in to
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protect her Littest daughter Kristen no
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chip no Colette is clubbed again and
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again on Kristen's bed the reason we
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know Colette was in Kristen's room is
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because her blood type is found
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massively in there Colette is carried
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back into the master bedroom thrown on
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the floor She is stabbed with an ice
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pick and she is stabbed with a
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knife she dies from bleeding to death
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Kristen the littlest girl is stabbed in
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excess of 30 times
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with an ice pick and a
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knife Blackburn theorizes that Jeffrey
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made it look like Intruders had been in
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the house he then went into the
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bathroom a lot of blood is found in the
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bathroom sink but the blood is not the
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blood of his family the blood is that of
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his own self it's type B
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blood I believe that the blood got there
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when he self-inflicted his own injury to
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his right lung
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at the hearing a grand jury indicted
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Jeffrey McDonald for murder but the case
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didn't go to trial until 9 years after
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the killings during that time McDonald's
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Chief defense attorney repeatedly tried
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to gain access to the prosecution's
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evidence but all of his requests were
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denied the government blocked us at
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every way they sat on the evidence for 9
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years and fought all efforts for the
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defense to see it finally with a few
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weeks to go before trial I implored the
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judge in the name of fairness and
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decency to force the government to let
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us see it the judge granted seagull's
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request 9 years worth of evidence have
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been boxed up and stored in a jail cell
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there's no way burn this could take
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months it could take years to do this
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seagull had only two weeks to examine
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thousands of exhibits a task he knew was
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impossible what are you doing now I hear
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Kimmy screaming daddy daddy before the
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trial began seagull had Jeffrey put
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under hypnosis and vide taped the
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session I'll help
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you just let it come out that's fine
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I'll help you Kim
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me Jeffrey described in detail the four
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attackers one of those descriptions
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seemed to match that of a woman seen by
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an MP on the night of the
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murders many believe the woman was drug
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addict and police informant helina
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stokeley the evidence that we had was of
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nine separate people under different
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circumstances different places and
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different times who had heard from her
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own mouth her words admitting
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involvement in the murders of the
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McDonald
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family during the trial the defense
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subpoena doely to testify even though
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the C had dismissed her as a drug
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addicted liar do you remember in the
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understand she did nothing to dispel
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that depiction do you recall talking to
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him about the McDonald murders at Fort
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Brag the subject came up but I don't
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remember what we
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said I was not surprised that Helena
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stokeley claimed that she didn't
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remember where she was on February the
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17th the reason I wasn't surprised is
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that in the one interview I had had with
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her before we put her on the stand she
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kept saying that if she was given
00:24:01
immunity from prosecution she would tell
00:24:04
what happened but she was not offered
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immunity by the government the
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government was not interested in hearing
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the truth and they were certainly not
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interested in having the defense call a
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witness who could tell the whole story
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of how the murders were committed and
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how McDonald had been attacked here we
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have a girl the judge ruled that
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testimony from the other Witnesses who
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had heard stokeley's confession would be
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hearsay and therefore inadmissible as
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evidence call your next witness the
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decision left the defense severely
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damaged the prosecution continued to say
00:24:39
that there was no evidence of intruders
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and overwhelming evidence that Jeffrey
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made up his story the physical evidence
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demonstrates I think quite conclusively
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that McDonald is lying well what what
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they did was they took my memory of that
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night
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and then they searched very hard for any
00:25:01
so-called forensic scientific fact from
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the crime scene that didn't fit my
00:25:06
memory and then if I couldn't explain
00:25:09
their so-called forensic fact they said
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aha if what you're telling us is true
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you should be able to explain it and
00:25:17
since you can't you must be
00:25:19
guilty you can throw the whole shooting
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match away except for two pieces of
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evidence in his summation Blackburn
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emphasized Two Fire
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from Jeff's pajama top that were found
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on the board used to kill Colette and
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Kimberly according to the prosecution
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that proved that Jeffrey was the killer
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the jury agreed Jeffrey McDonald was
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convicted on three counts of murder and
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received three consecutive life
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sentences next evidence the jury never
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heard and the woman who claimed she
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witnessed the murder
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for over three decades Jeffrey McDonald
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has insisted that his family was
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murdered by Intruders but his lawyers
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had no way to prove it the defense
00:26:15
received 10,000 pages of documents
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related to the Jeffrey McDonald case
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they were stunned to discover that the
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prosecution had evidence that Intruders
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did invade the McDonald House evidence
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that the defense never even knew
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existed the key items that authorities
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recovered from the crime scene were
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human hairs and artificial
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fibers authorities learned that a hair
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they recovered from Colette's hand did
00:26:45
not come from any member of the McDonald
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family they found two blonde synthetic
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hairs of the type commonly used in wigs
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these didn't match anything in the
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McDonald House most important to the
00:26:59
defense were five black wool fibers some
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were found on Colette's body the others
00:27:05
were found on the club that killed her
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blue fibers from Jeffrey McDonald's
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pajama top were also recovered from the
00:27:16
club McDonald's story from the beginning
00:27:19
was that he was attacked by the club
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naturally his pajama fibers are found on
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the club was attacked by it also on the
00:27:27
club Club was black wool that matched
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the black wool in Colette's mouth and on
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her bicep McDonald didn't own black wool
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clothing there was none found in the
00:27:39
McDonald household who was wearing black
00:27:42
wool that also had that club in his hand
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that's the
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murderer from the start jeffy's defense
00:27:50
team was convinced that helina stokeley
00:27:52
knew who the murderer was at the time of
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the killings in
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1970 stokeley was heavily involved in
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the fville drug
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scene catch you later man Helena stoley
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was the main informant for former
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narcotics investigator Prince Beasley
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through her he made hundreds of drug
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rated
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arrests Helena trusted me with
00:28:18
everything she never let me wrong she
00:28:21
was always truthful very truthful
00:28:24
stokeley once told Beasley that she
00:28:26
belonged to a cult that practiced
00:28:28
Witchcraft and animal sacrifice she her
00:28:32
boyfriend Greg Mitchell and other
00:28:34
members of the group used opium and
00:28:36
heroin I met Dr
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McDonald several weeks before the
00:28:42
McDonald murders at Fort Brag North
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Carolina what we got we got
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an according to stokeley one member of
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the group had overdosed on heroin and
00:28:53
was taken to the emergency room at Cape
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Fair Valley Hospital those people
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Jeffrey was the doctor on duty helina
00:29:02
said that her group suspected McDonald
00:29:04
was turning in drug users to the
00:29:08
police we simply discussed the fact that
00:29:11
he was giving us a hard time and that
00:29:14
someone did have to have a talk with him
00:29:18
and they were just going to rough him up
00:29:20
a little or something like
00:29:22
that that evening I was wearing a blonde
00:29:25
wig as a joke that belonged to my
00:29:28
roommate and a floppy hat I had on a
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black skirt and
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boots at midnight I took I hit a
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mesculin
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and some people came by to pick me up
00:29:40
and we went out to Fort Brag to talk to
00:29:44
him we got out to the house and um went
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walking around the back got in after
00:29:51
jimming the lock we went walking inside
00:29:54
and Dr McDonald was laying down on the
00:29:56
couch the TV was on but it was off the
00:29:59
air I just screamed acid as groovy kill
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the pigs hit him
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again then someone went into the bedroom
00:30:08
KET was laying there with one baby next
00:30:11
to
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her Greg Mitchell was in the bedroom
00:30:14
then then I went back there and he was
00:30:17
beating her up and I just started
00:30:19
screaming it's getting out of hand from
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the start the Army investigators
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discounted stokeley's story as
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unreliable
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however one person backs up her account
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he says that he spoke to a woman Inside
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the McDonald house around the time the
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killings took
00:30:41
place stokeley said she was that
00:30:47
woman
00:30:48
hello sometime after 2: a.m. Jimmy frier
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an outpatient at a hospital clinic was
00:30:55
trying to reach a do Richard
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the hospital gave him Jeffrey McDonald's
00:31:01
number by
00:31:03
mistake yes Dr McDonald and I just
00:31:07
started laughing and they said hang up
00:31:09
the phone like know if she was drunk or
00:31:12
could have been high or whatever I don't
00:31:14
know there was definitely people in the
00:31:16
background then a voice a male voice
00:31:18
behind hang up damn phone the phone went
00:31:21
dead I don't know if it was stashed out
00:31:22
the wall or hung up or that's that's all
00:31:26
I
00:31:26
know
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approximately 2 hours later Sergeant
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Kenneth Micah was responding to jeffy's
00:31:34
call for help he remembers seeing a
00:31:36
woman with long hair and a floppy hat
00:31:39
standing alone on a street corner two
00:31:41
blocks from the McDonald House moments
00:31:44
later Jeffrey would describe a similar
00:31:48
woman the description also rang a bell
00:31:50
with Prince Beasley the day after the
00:31:53
murders he questioned stokeley you guys
00:31:56
match the description of the people
00:31:58
McDonald says were in his
00:32:00
house and she said it seemed like that I
00:32:02
was there and uh she said all that blood
00:32:05
I just couldn't stand it she told me
00:32:07
that she saw Greg Mitchell sitting on
00:32:10
top of Colette McDonald stabbing her
00:32:13
with a KN Helena stoley died in
00:32:17
1983 but not before she told at least
00:32:20
nine other people of her involvement in
00:32:22
the McDonald killings Helena's boyfriend
00:32:26
Greg Mitchell also confessed to several
00:32:28
people before his death including his
00:32:31
closest friend Bryant
00:32:34
Lane he said we came down there to teach
00:32:38
him a lesson and to whip his family but
00:32:41
man he said things went
00:32:43
bad he said Bryant he said we killed the
00:32:46
McDonald
00:32:47
family he said we didn't mean to and
00:32:52
Jeffrey McDonald is sitting in jail
00:32:54
right now for a crime that he did not
00:32:56
commit jeffy's defense team appealed his
00:33:00
conviction based on a new fiber and hair
00:33:02
evidence but the court said it was too
00:33:05
late to present it since the evidence
00:33:07
had been available all along the case
00:33:11
has been appealed to the Supreme Court
00:33:13
more than any other in US history but
00:33:17
Jeffrey McDonald's conviction has always
00:33:20
been
00:33:21
upheld he was denied Parole in 2005 his
00:33:25
next parole hearing isn't until
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2020 I believe that Jeffrey McDonald
00:33:33
alone is the one who's responsible for
00:33:35
these murders and I think Jeffrey
00:33:37
McDonald alone is the one person who
00:33:39
ought to be in prison for as long as
00:33:41
possible for having committed these
00:33:44
murders I know that I'm
00:33:47
innocent I never injured my family I
00:33:50
didn't participate in it and I certainly
00:33:52
didn't kill him I will win this case
00:33:55
someday somehow the truth cannot be kept
00:33:58
hidden forever it just simply can't
00:34:01
be somehow my Vindication will
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happen next a woman tries to visit her
00:34:11
baby's grave but discovers it doesn't
00:34:14
exist could her baby be
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alive Worthington
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Minnesota marles gross is 20 years old
00:34:33
soon to be divorced and about to give
00:34:35
birth she has moved to Minnesota to be
00:34:37
near her mother when the baby is
00:34:40
born not it marles is heavily sedated
00:34:44
during her difficult
00:34:49
labor the next thing she remembers is
00:34:52
seeing her daughter Mary Agnes gross for
00:34:55
the first time I could Take My Eyes Off
00:34:58
of her little feet they were moving and
00:35:00
I felt so happy and I just kept watching
00:35:03
her little feet and then I drifted back
00:35:05
to sleep when I woke up I looked to see
00:35:08
where my baby was and I didn't see her
00:35:11
and I asked the nurse where's my baby
00:35:13
and she said the doctor will be in to
00:35:15
talk to
00:35:17
you can I see my baby now I'm sorry
00:35:21
marus but your baby
00:35:26
died how long did my baby live just 1
00:35:30
hour I could hardly believe that you
00:35:33
know cuz I seen her little feet
00:35:35
move when marles left the delivery room
00:35:39
she passed a bassinet that was on its
00:35:41
way to the morg she insisted on seeing
00:35:45
her baby and I must have only seen my
00:35:48
daughter maybe 10 seconds 15 at the most
00:35:51
and my baby didn't look dead my baby
00:35:53
looked like she was just sleeping she
00:35:56
wasn't purple she had had dark hair she
00:35:58
had lots of hair she also noticed that
00:36:01
Mary Agnes had marks on her forehead
00:36:04
left by the doctor's forceps during the
00:36:07
delivery she asked for an autopsy but
00:36:10
was told that it was too
00:36:12
late when marus was still in the
00:36:15
hospital a friend visited the funeral
00:36:17
home along with Mars's mother she
00:36:20
claimed that the baby she saw looked
00:36:23
different from the infant that marus had
00:36:26
described
00:36:28
I didn't see any marks on her forehead
00:36:31
her hair was light brown not dark brown
00:36:34
and not a whole lot of it it was it
00:36:37
looked you know kind of dowy like I
00:36:39
suppose when Marlo's mother tried to
00:36:42
take a picture of the baby the funeral
00:36:44
director would not allow it this is for
00:36:47
my daughter I know you can take one at
00:36:50
the cemetery after the after the caskets
00:36:52
been
00:36:53
closed later Mars's mother took these
00:36:57
pictures silver casket at the
00:37:00
cemetery the funeral took place while
00:37:02
marus was still in the hospital
00:37:04
afterwards her mother said that
00:37:06
something strange had happened there had
00:37:09
been another family at the grave site
00:37:12
another family that was mourning for
00:37:14
Mary Agnes and they took it so hard and
00:37:17
they prayed and prayed and they had
00:37:19
tears I could never figure out who those
00:37:22
people were and my mother never could
00:37:23
figure out who those people
00:37:26
were a week after the funeral marles was
00:37:29
well enough to visit her daughter's
00:37:32
grave I took it so hard just so bad and
00:37:37
from that day on I was out to that
00:37:40
Cemetery like three four times a
00:37:43
week 3 months later marus received a
00:37:47
mysterious photograph in the mail there
00:37:49
was no letter no return to dress just a
00:37:52
picture of a husband a wife and three
00:37:55
children one of them a baby
00:37:59
girl the baby look like my husband and
00:38:03
I've never seen these people in my life
00:38:05
and I showed it to my family and my
00:38:08
family didn't know who those people were
00:38:10
either but they also thought the baby
00:38:12
looked a lot like my
00:38:15
husband a year passed before Marlo saved
00:38:18
enough money to buy a headstone but
00:38:21
Cemetery workers did not place the stone
00:38:24
on top of Mary Agnes's
00:38:26
grave
00:38:28
instead it was positioned a few feet off
00:38:31
to the side though she moved away marus
00:38:35
would still make trips to her daughter's
00:38:37
grave on one visit she got the shock of
00:38:40
her
00:38:41
life a headstone for a different baby
00:38:45
had been placed on Mary Agnes's burial
00:38:48
plot the baby's name was Pamela Ray
00:38:51
Dicky marus immediately questioned the
00:38:55
funeral director I says this can't be I
00:38:58
even bought a stone and laid it out
00:39:00
there and then right away he said I
00:39:02
often wondered what that stone was doing
00:39:04
out there cuz there never was a grave
00:39:05
and I says well I know they laid it on
00:39:08
the wrong spot at that time well he says
00:39:10
no he says your daughter's not buried
00:39:12
out
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here marus discovered that Pamela dicki
00:39:19
had died only a few hours before Mary
00:39:21
Agnes on the same day in the same
00:39:24
Hospital both were buried on the same
00:39:29
day there was not two funerals out there
00:39:32
that day there was only one funeral one
00:39:35
grave marus also found Mary Agnes's last
00:39:39
name gross written in the upper corner
00:39:42
of one of Pamela Dicky funeral
00:39:45
papers even more puzzling hospital
00:39:48
records say Mary Agnes was healthy at
00:39:51
Birth but the death certificate said she
00:39:54
was still
00:39:55
born the birth certificate said that she
00:39:58
was born at 6:23 p.m. the death
00:40:02
certificate said that she died 3 minutes
00:40:05
before she was born at
00:40:08
620 every place that I go and check this
00:40:12
out the papers
00:40:16
just just like my daughter had never
00:40:20
died marus asked that her daughter's
00:40:23
body be exed DNA testing revealed that
00:40:26
the child buried there was not Mary
00:40:33
Agnes marus then showed Pamela's mother
00:40:36
the photos taken of Mary Agnes's casket
00:40:39
she looks at the picture she says that's
00:40:41
my baby my husband bought that casket
00:40:44
and then I asked her I said did anyone
00:40:46
go to your baby's funeral she said yes
00:40:49
my in-laws and my
00:40:51
husband I believe that my mother now
00:40:55
went to the Pamela Ray
00:40:57
funeral if marles is Right Pamela Dicky
00:41:01
is buried where she thought her own
00:41:03
daughter was laid to rest so what
00:41:06
happened to marry Agnes marus is
00:41:09
convinced that she's still alive and
00:41:12
that the baby into the picture she
00:41:14
received more than 30 years
00:41:16
ago was her firstborn daughter what I
00:41:20
think today that picture was was a
00:41:22
family that adopted my baby and they
00:41:25
wanted to show me that my baby baby was
00:41:27
in a family and that's why they sent me
00:41:30
that
00:41:32
picture I was 20 years old I lived by
00:41:35
myself and maybe they thought that I
00:41:37
couldn't take care of the baby so they
00:41:40
had another family rais my
00:41:44
baby Mara still hopes to find out what
00:41:47
happened to her daughter Mary Agnes was
00:41:49
born on June 12th
00:41:51
1962 at Worthington Regional hospital in
00:41:55
Worthington Minnesota
00:41:58
I'll never give up never give up until I
00:42:02
find where she's
00:42:04
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