Hey, Byn and JTF -- all this reminds me of Cyril Wecht's book, Cause of Death.  In it, he devotes a chapter to the MacDonald case, but oh, what a crazy chapter it was.  Did you ever read it?

Wecht was so ridiculously wrong about many things that it's almost as though he hadn't studied the case at all. Of course, one reason for this might be that according to him, the only information he had came from the defense (he also wrote that the medical information given to him was "slim to none).

A few (not all) of the false statements in his book are:

That the first call came in at 3:45 a.m. (wrong; it was 3:42 a.m.). He writes that when MPs arrived, they broke down the front door.  He says that there were bloodstains throughout the living room, and that magazines were scattered all over the room.  He wrote that Mac had lost a significant amount of blood (that really made me laugh!), and that investigators said that Mac had hit himself in the head several times.  He says that the female intruder was identified (!) as Helena Stoeckley, that MacDonald gave the children orange juice that night before putting them to bed, and that Colette arrived home at 10:00 p.m.

As if all that weren't enough, he also says that detectives never found the club and never identified what type of club it was.

Ever since I read that chapter, I lost all respect for Wecht, and now I feel the same way about Morris.  A segue to this is that Wecht had an 84-count indictment against him in 2006, but I don't remember the details or know what the outcome was.  One of these days when I get bored enough, I may go look that up.  :)