The problem is when people only use their "feelings" to determine guilt or innocence and refuse to look at the facts in the case. They see an interview with MacDonald and he looks like a nice guy to them so that means he must be innocent. Or they read a couple articles and make a determination from that. Snap judgements in one direction or the other, which is very common.
You have to look at the evidence. There is no way to get past the pajama top evidence (which was certainly not withheld from anyone), there is no way to avoid the blood evidence, of which there is a multitude, and it simply does not match what MacDonald said happened.
Watching one interview with Helena Stoeckly is a fraction of the number of interviews she gave and she changes her story a bunch of times.
How realistic is it that 4 drugged out people entered the MacDonald apartment, carrying no weapons, and they somehow found an ice pick, a knife, and a board that matches a slat from underneath one daughter's bed to then attack a family including 2 little girls? Yet no one woke up when they entered and started looking for weapons, not even MacDonald, who said he was asleep on the couch in the living room, which is right near the kitchen and any entrance into the apartment, and he only awoke upon being "attacked/stabbed" while on the couch. JM's blood isn't on the couch...his blood is found in the bathroom at the sink.
His story reminds me of the story told by Darlie Routier, who sits on death row in TX. Strange how all these killers enter homes without any weapons of their own, go hunting for a murder weapon inside the victim's home, leave no fingerprints or DNA, don't steal anything, and then overkill sleeping children and manage to not kill the primary adult who was right there.
I realize this is a very old post, but I just had to quote it because I agree so completely. Yes, MacDonald is a creep a liar and cheater none of which prove he is a murderer. But to me, you can exlude every other fact, the blood evidence proves he did it. It was fortunate, an very unusual, that they all had separate blood types since DNA was but a distant dream when this crime was committed. He did it. I don't have one tiny inkling of a doubt.
Also, I have always found the silmilarities to Darlie's case interesting. In both cases the overkill of two children who could not possibly have posed a threat to an intruder. But two kids could certainly pose a threat if they saw daddy stabbing mommy (the MacDonald case, of course).
Intruders don't bring weapons into the house, but then leave them behind and don't leave one bit of evidence that they were ever in thehouse?
One other thing that has always struck me that I never really see mentioned. So these intruders break in apparently unarmed, because they use weapons already in the house. Yet when they leave, why on earth do they leave said weapons behind? I mean, what crazed intruder couldn't use an extra knife, club or icepick? What if someone is pursuing them - you know like the big strong Green Beret they just attacked - and they need to defend themselves? The only thing the weapon can do is further incriminate them as it could have their fingerprints, fibers from their clothes any number of things and DNA in Darlie's case-that was a couple of years after the OJ trial everyone had heard of DNA. So why not take the weapons with them?
Oh yeah, I know. There were no intruders