In our third mini-episode, we discuss a hitherto neglected piece of evidence relating to the MacDonald murders, which a 2018 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision claimed had been tested. We checked with the US Attorneys in North Carolina: it hasn't been. This piece of evidence remains in the possession of the United States government. Testing it could solve the MacDonald murders, once and for all. Welcome back to The Looking Glass.Our SponsorB2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.comMentionedGood Is In The Details podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-is-in-the-details/id1466729675Follow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeScore and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

In Episode 10, we answer the question: Did Jeffrey MacDonald murder his family?Welcome to the season finale of The Looking Glass.Season One episodes drop every TuesdayOur SponsorB2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.comMentionedGood Is In The Details podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-is-in-the-details/id1466729675Follow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 10 CastAndy Rider as Errol Morris – https://www.instagram.com/andyrideragain/Leonard Rittberg as Gene Stoeckley - https://www.instagram.com/ossbark/ Brian Covalt as Joe McGinniss – https://www.instagram.com/covalt/Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

In our second mini-episode, we discuss Errol Morris's book A Wilderness of Error as well as the Marc Smerling documentary series (on Hulu/FX) of the same name. Welcome back to The Looking Glass. Season One episodes drop every TuesdayOur SponsorB2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.comMentionedGood Is In The Details podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-is-in-the-details/id1466729675Subscribe onApple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-looking-glass/id1661874262  Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/show/1050203Pandora – https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-looking-glass/PC:1001050203Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/30KamFriUpJePEkhgbq9WD?si=11a015b9806142b5 Amazon Music and Audible – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/da7a9044-c5ab-49aa-862b-ddc7cd10e920/the-looking-glassPlayer FM – https://player.fm/series/series-3430565Deezer – https://www.deezer.com/us/show/5558397RSS Feed – https://mathew-kelly.podomatic.com/rss2.xmlFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeScore and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

Among the military policemen who arrived at 544 Castle Drive on the morning of the MacDonald murders was Specialist Kenneth Mica. Mica was the MP who first approached a prone Jeffrey MacDonald, who was lying next to his wife, Colette, on the floor of the master bedroom. Mica shook MacDonald awake and then asked him: "What happened here?"MacDonald proceeded to give a description of the intruders who had allegedly broken into the apartment and attacked his family. Among these intruders was a woman in a floppy hat. As it happened, Mica and his partner had, en route to 544 Castle Drive only minutes earlier, driven past a woman in a wide-brimmed hat on the corner of Honeycutt and North Lucas, a half-mile from the MacDonalds' residence. What were the chances? We explore this question and others in Episode 9. Welcome back to The Looking Glass. Season One episodes drop every TuesdayFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 9 CastJoshua Hensley as Col. Warren Rock  – https://www.instagram.com/joshua.hensley.actor/Xano Alexander as Specialist Kenneth Mica – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7446792/Steven Kavner as Bernard Segal – https://improvfortheactor.tumblr.com/Randal Dudley as Captain Clifford Somers – https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Randall-Dudley/1676790974Michael Hensley as Captain Hammond Beale – https://www.instagram.com/michaelv.hensley/David Noel as Wade Smith – https://www.backstage.com/u/david-noel-usa/ Steven Klein as Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr. – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635832/Stephen Bouldin as Detective Prince Beasley – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7522760/Matt Sharp as William Posey – https://www.instagram.com/sharpmb97/Sarah Megan Heller as Helena Stoeckley – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10881013/Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/[email protected]

In this mini-episode, we discuss Janet Malcolm's 1990 book The Journalist and The Murderer, wherein The New Yorker writer aimed her deadly quill at Joe McGinniss's professional reputation by arguing that the Fatal Vision author had, to advance his own career, double-crossed Jeffrey MacDonald. Welcome back to The Looking Glass.Season One episodes drop every TuesdayOur SponsorB2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.comSubscribe onApple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-looking-glass/id1661874262  Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/show/1050203Pandora – https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-looking-glass/PC:1001050203Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/30KamFriUpJePEkhgbq9WD?si=11a015b9806142b5 Amazon Music and Audible – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/da7a9044-c5ab-49aa-862b-ddc7cd10e920/the-looking-glassPlayer FM – https://player.fm/series/series-3430565Deezer – https://www.deezer.com/us/show/5558397RSS Feed – https://mathew-kelly.podomatic.com/rss2.xmlFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeScore and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

As we concluded in the last episode, legally speaking, Jeffrey MacDonald should not be in prison. One cannot honestly examine the government’s case against MacDonald and maintain that it proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That simply isn’t true. Having acknowledged that, however, we need also to acknowledge the obvious. In many cases where all but one occupant of a home is murdered, the lone survivor is the murderer –– something the murderer will typically deny. It is a disturbing fact about us humans. The threats that haunt our imaginations come from afar. But the ones that actually materialize often do so under our noses. Many victims of violence are attacked by people they know. Many victims of rape are assaulted by people they know. And many murder victims take their last breath staring at the back, or into the spiteful eyes, of someone they know. The serpent that doomed Eden did not have to breach its walls; it arose from within. So if we knew nothing else about the MacDonald murders, the fact that Jeffrey MacDonald survived them would place him near the top of our list of suspects. Well, what else do we know? Welcome back to The Looking Glass.Season One episodes drop every TuesdayFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 8 CastNick Weiller as Dennis Eisman – https://www.instagram.com/brosafari/Lily Heller as Pamela Kalin – https://www.instagram.com/lily_of_the_maple_valley/ Randal Dudley as Captain Clifford Somers – https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Randall-Dudley/1676790974 Nancy La Scala as Winnie Caspar – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0479041/Jay Huguley as Lieutenant Edwin Casper  – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401132/Joshua Hensley as Col. Warren Rock  – https://www.instagram.com/joshua.hensley.actor/Tony Peterson as John Chester – https://www.instagram.com/thenotoriousagp/ Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/[email protected]

In Episode 7, we complete our analysis of the 1979 trial of Jeffrey MacDonald. And we answer the questions: Should Jeffrey MacDonald have been convicted? Should he have been tried? And finally, do our answers to these questions settle the matter of MacDonald's guilt or innocence? Season One episodes drop every TuesdaySubscribe onApple Podcasts – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-looking-glass/id1661874262  Stitcher – https://www.stitcher.com/show/1050203Pandora – https://www.pandora.com/podcast/the-looking-glass/PC:1001050203Spotify – https://open.spotify.com/show/30KamFriUpJePEkhgbq9WD?si=11a015b9806142b5 Amazon Music and Audible – https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/da7a9044-c5ab-49aa-862b-ddc7cd10e920/the-looking-glassPlayer FM – https://player.fm/series/series-3430565Deezer – https://www.deezer.com/us/show/5558397RSS Feed – https://mathew-kelly.podomatic.com/rss2.xmlFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 7 CastBrian Covalt as Joe McGinniss – https://www.instagram.com/covalt/Neal Bledsoe as James Blackburn – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2016364/Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

We spent the last few episodes delving into the Grand Jury proceedings of 1974-75, which terminated in the indictment of Jeffrey MacDonald for the murders of his wife and two daughters five years earlier. More than any other, Joe McGinniss’s account of the Grand Jury, in his 1983 book Fatal Vision, shaped the popular perception of it. But in re-examining MacDonald’s testimony before the Grand Jury, we found reasons to doubt McGinniss’s version of events.  Setting aside, for the moment, the evidence against MacDonald, the Grand Jury documents show us a man at the mercy of a motley parade of dubious psychiatric and forensic experts, all marching to the erratic beat of an unscrupulous government prosecutor named Victor Woerheide. In McGinniss’s telling, MacDonald’s angry declaration that the entire proceeding was “bullshit” was just one more sign of his overweening arrogance and sense of entitlement. In the real world, that one-word description was apt.  But it didn’t matter. In January 1975, the Grand Jury indicted MacDonald. He spent the next few years pursuing his flourishing medical career back in Southern California while his lawyers advanced his appeals in the courts. MacDonald thus breathed a sigh of relief when, in January 1976, while vacationing in Maui with his girlfriend, he learned from his lawyer, Bernie Segal, that the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals had vacated the Grand Jury’s indictment. The indictment had, the court found, violated MacDonald’s right to a speedy trial.  The Justice Department appealed this decision, and the case ultimately landed in the lap of the Supreme Court, which, in May 1978, unanimously overturned the speedy trial finding. Two months earlier, the Court had refused to review MacDonald’s contention that, since a military court had already cleared him back in 1970, putting him before a civilian court would amount to double jeopardy.  His appeals having run out of road, MacDonald was back on the hook. His case was going to trial. Welcome back to The Looking Glass. Season One episodes drop every TuesdayFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 6 CastBrian Covalt as Joe McGinniss – https://www.instagram.com/covalt/Steven Klein as Judge Franklin T. Dupree, Jr. – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635832/Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/[email protected]

In Episode 5, we complete our survey of the Grand Jury proceedings of 1974-75. This entails a careful analysis not only of Jeffrey MacDonald's testimony before the Grand Jury but also of Joe McGinniss's framing of that testimony in Fatal Vision. McGinniss tells his readers that government prosecutors masterfully cut through MacDonald's charismatic facade and thereby revealed to the grand jurors "the real Jeffrey MacDonald": a "chronic liar," repressed homosexual, and “homicidal maniac with psychopathic tendencies." Was McGinniss's portrayal of the Grand Jury proceedings accurate? We answer that question and others. Season One episodes drop every TuesdayFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 5 CastChad Donella as Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232414/Brian Covalt as Joe McGinniss – https://www.instagram.com/covalt/Angela Featherstone as Juror #1 – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004911/Jeffrey David Harvey as the Former Chief of Psychiatry at Walter Reed Army Hospital – https://www.instagram.com/jeffreydavidharveyJosh T. Pearson as Victor Woerheide – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4471189/Steven Heller as the Second Army Psychiatrist – https://www.instagram.com/steveluckyCharity May as Juror #2 – https://www.instagram.com/charitymay77Yeshaia Blakeney as the Third Psychiatric Witness – https://www.instagram.com/yeshaiablakeneyScore and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]

In Episode 4, we delve further into Jeffrey MacDonald’s testimony before the grand jury (1974-75), Fatal Vision author Joe McGinniss’s use of that testimony to seal MacDonald into the role of the hopeless liar, and the need for a fresh look at the hearing and its aftermath in order to answer the question: did Jeffrey MacDonald murder his family? Did he?Season One episodes drop every TuesdayFollow onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/thelookingglass_podcast/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/thelookingglasstruecrimepodcastTikTok – https://www.tiktok.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeYouTube – https://www.youtube.com/@thelookingglasstruecrimeEpisode 4 CastChad Donella as Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232414/Josh T. Pearson as Victor Woerheide – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4471189/Randal Dudley as Captain Clifford Somers – https://www.zoominfo.com/p/Randall-Dudley/1676790974Steven Klein as Franz Grebner – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1635832/Steven Kavner as Bernard Segal – https://improvfortheactor.tumblr.com/Michael Hensley as Captain Hammond Beale – https://www.instagram.com/michaelv.hensley/Brian Covalt as Joe McGinniss – https://www.instagram.com/covalt/Xano Alexander as Specialist Kenneth Mica – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7446792/Shashana Pearson as Barbara Daw – https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9187449/Score and Sound Design – Dustin Morgan - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4082792/Follow Dustin onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/dustinmorganofficial/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/dustin.morgan.5815Artwork – Jason 71Follow Jason onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/jason71Host – Matthew Kraig KellyFollow Matthew onInstagram – https://www.instagram.com/matthewkraigkelly/Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/matthewkraig.kelly.9LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-kraig-kelly-0b9b75127/[email protected]