The Associated Press has it now and articles can be seen in Houston and other cities with an MSN news search. What dummy! He's actually going to go into a parole hearing and try to vindicate himself!
MacDonald files parole request
Serving life for highly publicized slaying of wife, children
By Martha Waggoner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:35 p.m. January 17, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. Former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted 25 years ago of the stabbing deaths of his pregnant wife and two daughters, will seek parole but will continue to proclaim his innocence, one of his attorneys said Monday.
MacDonald, eligible for parole since 1991, has declined to seek his freedom because he said he would have to admit guilt for the slayings at the family's Fort Bragg apartment Feb. 17, 1970. But MacDonald remarried a few years ago and has more reasons to want a life outside of prison, said his attorney, Tim Junkin of Potomac, Md.
"He doesn't have any kind of change of heart. He's going to try to vindicate himself," Junkin said in a phone interview. "He knows in his heart he's innocent and will always insist on that."
Junkin said he didn't know when the request was filed with the U.S. Parole Commission and said he wouldn't disclose when or where the hearing would be held.
Newsweek, which first reported the parole request in its issue this week, said the hearing would be held in February. That story quoted Christina Masewicz, a retired nurse who has written a book about the case and obtained a federal document confirming the hearing.
MacDonald, 61, is being held at the federal prison in Cumberland, Md., where he is serving three life terms for the slayings of his wife, Collette, 26, and daughters Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2.
He married a long-time friend, Kathryn Kurichh, in 2002.
"He has a fairly new wife. He has a lot of reasons to live for if he could get out of prison," Junkin said. "We have urged him to consider all his options as long as they're not inconsistent with his quest to prove his innocence."
Junkin said he didn't believe that MacDonald had to admit guilt to be paroled.
MacDonald was assigned to Special Forces at the time his family was slain. He claimed that the killers stabbed and clubbed his family to death while one chanted, "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs." The highly publicized case was recounted in a best-selling book, "Fatal Vision," and television miniseries.
The Army said it didn't have enough evidence to try MacDonald, and he went free for years. A federal court jury in Raleigh convicted MacDonald of the killings in 1979 after the U.S. Justice Department reopened the case.
In 1997, a federal appeals court rejected MacDonald's effort to reopen his case on the basis of his claim that the FBI allegedly misled the courts about fiber evidence.
MacDonald files parole request
Serving life for highly publicized slaying of wife, children
By Martha Waggoner
ASSOCIATED PRESS
12:35 p.m. January 17, 2005
RALEIGH, N.C. Former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald, convicted 25 years ago of the stabbing deaths of his pregnant wife and two daughters, will seek parole but will continue to proclaim his innocence, one of his attorneys said Monday.
MacDonald, eligible for parole since 1991, has declined to seek his freedom because he said he would have to admit guilt for the slayings at the family's Fort Bragg apartment Feb. 17, 1970. But MacDonald remarried a few years ago and has more reasons to want a life outside of prison, said his attorney, Tim Junkin of Potomac, Md.
"He doesn't have any kind of change of heart. He's going to try to vindicate himself," Junkin said in a phone interview. "He knows in his heart he's innocent and will always insist on that."
Junkin said he didn't know when the request was filed with the U.S. Parole Commission and said he wouldn't disclose when or where the hearing would be held.
Newsweek, which first reported the parole request in its issue this week, said the hearing would be held in February. That story quoted Christina Masewicz, a retired nurse who has written a book about the case and obtained a federal document confirming the hearing.
MacDonald, 61, is being held at the federal prison in Cumberland, Md., where he is serving three life terms for the slayings of his wife, Collette, 26, and daughters Kimberly, 5, and Kristen, 2.
He married a long-time friend, Kathryn Kurichh, in 2002.
"He has a fairly new wife. He has a lot of reasons to live for if he could get out of prison," Junkin said. "We have urged him to consider all his options as long as they're not inconsistent with his quest to prove his innocence."
Junkin said he didn't believe that MacDonald had to admit guilt to be paroled.
MacDonald was assigned to Special Forces at the time his family was slain. He claimed that the killers stabbed and clubbed his family to death while one chanted, "Acid is groovy. Kill the pigs." The highly publicized case was recounted in a best-selling book, "Fatal Vision," and television miniseries.
The Army said it didn't have enough evidence to try MacDonald, and he went free for years. A federal court jury in Raleigh convicted MacDonald of the killings in 1979 after the U.S. Justice Department reopened the case.
In 1997, a federal appeals court rejected MacDonald's effort to reopen his case on the basis of his claim that the FBI allegedly misled the courts about fiber evidence.
Oh! and why should the system let ole Jeffrey out? he is teaching in prison and has become a part of game. I read the "list" on the link you provided, wow that is amazing
