Episode 21: Pt 1 'Hippies, Hams, Homicides, & Hearsay' - A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris

Part 1: February 16, 1970 Ft. Bragg, NC:  Jerked awake from sleep, Capt. Jeff MacDonald is seized upon by murderous hippies, only to find his wife, Collette and daughters, Kimberly 5, and Kristen 2, viciously murdered.  Or had he? Evidence would convince some that Jeffrey MacDonald murdered his family after a terrible argument went horribly wrong.  Convicted, Jill and Tara revisit the evidence, both presented in court and suppressed, in Errol Morris's book, A Wilderness of Error. In Part 1, we meet the doomed family, Jeff's in-laws, Army investigators, prosecutors and defense attorneys, and the events that triggered 50 years of horror, discontent, debate, and mystery.   Source material for the Wilderness of Error trilogy is on Jill's blog www.murdershelfbookclub.com/ Feb 2021. ANNOUNCEMENT- JAN 2025:  My new Murder Shelf Book Club Podcast MERCH SHOP has launched!  Please go explore! I appreciate you supporting my true crime book club podcast! Share your thoughts with me at  [email protected], on X,  Facebook,  Instagram or YouTube.  OR, join Jill on PATREON for $4 and help pick our next book and talk true crime developments, first Thursday of each month at 8:30 pm EST! Music- The Pewter Elephant by Blue Dot Sessions.