Mac didn't fight because, according to him, he just couldn't seem to manage to get his arms free of that old, thin, worn-out pajama top, and couldn't manage to kick that lightweight afghan off his feet. And of course he claims he was just waking from sleep, so the "intruders" had the advantage of surprise. I suppose he just forgot about the fact that Colette also would have been woken from sleep, and that she'd also taken medication which would have made her even more sleepy, but still managed to fight to the death for her own life and her children's lives. Even little 2½-year-old Kristen fought harder for her life than he did.
There was no female chanting in the living room of 544 Castle Drive on the night of February 16-17, 1970. No struggle with three male oven-mitt-wearing attackers took place in the living room or hallway or anywhere else that night, and no blood-dripping candles were ever found. No floppy hats except the one on the closet shelf which, it can be assumed, belonged to Colette. No Stoeckley, no Mazerolle (who was in jail during the murders); no Cathy Perry or Greg Mitchell or Dwight Smith. No prints on any piece of evidence which are unidentified; no fibers matched to any assailant except Mac himself. Mac's pajama thread found entwined around a bloody hair of Colette's, the bedding evidence, his bloody footprint exiting but not entering Kristen's room, the holes in his pajama top, the DNA results showing that no "intruder's" DNA matched that in any of those "crucial" exhibits chosen by the defense; the repeated demonstrations of Mac's consciousness of guilt...and a hair "clutched" in Colette's hand which Mac always insisted could only have come from her murderer and which was found to be his own.
Add it up and it's a recipe for lifetime incarceration.
