'Fatal Vision' doctor again denied new trial in '70 slayings
RICHMOND, Va. — A former Army surgeon convicted of slaughtering his pregnant wife and two young daughters at Fort Bragg nearly half a century ago will not get a new trial, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in the latest legal defeat for the former Green Beret.Jeffrey MacDonald, now 75, has adamantly maintained his innocence in the 1970 slayings and insisted that his family was killed by drugged-up hippies, including a woman who chanted “acid is groovy; kill the pigs. […]
