The March issue of the Smithsonian contains an article on Errol Morris and it states that he is releasing a book on the MacDonald case entitled: A WILDERNESS OF ERROR. That title rang a bell and I quickly found that he used that same phrase on the back jacket of Fatal Justice. The following is my e-mail response to this article.
The article clearly demonstrates that Morris is a brilliant filmmaker, but a lousy private eye. Despite his assertions to the contrary, Morris is an advocate for convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald and his book is simply a means to regurgitate the same debunked claims leveled by the MacDonald camp for the past 42 years. The facts are that MacDonald was convicted in less than 7 hours of murdering his wife and two daughters. At trial, the prosecution presented over 1,100 evidentiary items and the lone source of key evidentiary items was Jeffrey MacDonald.
This includes blood, fiber, bloody fabric impression, and bloody footprint evidence. Morris fails to mention the fact that there is documented proof that Jimmy Britt lied in his affidavit and that a limb hair found clutched in his wife's hand matched the DNA profile of Jeffrey MacDonald. Morris also fails to mention the fact that no unsourced hairs were found under his youngest child's fingernail at autopsy. What was found under his youngest child's fingernail was a fiber from her father's torn pajama top. This is not a case, but a cause for Morris. I just wish he had the guts to admit it.
http://www.macdonaldcasefacts.com
The article clearly demonstrates that Morris is a brilliant filmmaker, but a lousy private eye. Despite his assertions to the contrary, Morris is an advocate for convicted murderer Jeffrey MacDonald and his book is simply a means to regurgitate the same debunked claims leveled by the MacDonald camp for the past 42 years. The facts are that MacDonald was convicted in less than 7 hours of murdering his wife and two daughters. At trial, the prosecution presented over 1,100 evidentiary items and the lone source of key evidentiary items was Jeffrey MacDonald.
This includes blood, fiber, bloody fabric impression, and bloody footprint evidence. Morris fails to mention the fact that there is documented proof that Jimmy Britt lied in his affidavit and that a limb hair found clutched in his wife's hand matched the DNA profile of Jeffrey MacDonald. Morris also fails to mention the fact that no unsourced hairs were found under his youngest child's fingernail at autopsy. What was found under his youngest child's fingernail was a fiber from her father's torn pajama top. This is not a case, but a cause for Morris. I just wish he had the guts to admit it.
http://www.macdonaldcasefacts.com
