Watch: Former Green Beret Surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald Talks About Murders of His Family Under Hypnosis
In 1979, before his murder trial, Jeffrey MacDonald agreed to be hypnotized, hoping it would enable him to come up with more detailed descriptions of the intruders he has always said killed his family.
The defense had hoped to use the four hours of tapes of him under hypnosis at trial, but U.S. District Judge Franklin Dupree ruled against the admission of any psychiatric testimony in the case.
In the hypnosis session, Richard Doucet, a former FBI agent and expert hypnotist, “regressed” MacDonald, according to Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost’s book Fatal Justice.
• For more on the Jeffrey MacDonald case,...
The defense had hoped to use the four hours of tapes of him under hypnosis at trial, but U.S. District Judge Franklin Dupree ruled against the admission of any psychiatric testimony in the case.
In the hypnosis session, Richard Doucet, a former FBI agent and expert hypnotist, “regressed” MacDonald, according to Jerry Allen Potter and Fred Bost’s book Fatal Justice.
• For more on the Jeffrey MacDonald case,...
- 1/18/2017
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan
- PEOPLE.com
Former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald got his last chance to convince an appellate court to overturn his 1979 murder convictions in the deaths of his wife and two daughters, filing a 59-page brief Tuesday evening detailing evidence he says proves his innocence. "After more than 30 years of exculpatory evidence steadily coming to light, our hope is that the court will agree Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald deserves the relief he has sought for so long: exoneration," Hart Miles, one of his attorneys, tells People. "The confessions of two individuals who admitted involvement in the murders of the MacDonald family, DNA that indicates...
- 9/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
Former Green Beret surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald got his last chance to convince an appellate court to overturn his 1979 murder convictions in the deaths of his wife and two daughters, filing a 59-page brief Tuesday evening detailing evidence he says proves his innocence. "After more than 30 years of exculpatory evidence steadily coming to light, our hope is that the court will agree Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald deserves the relief he has sought for so long: exoneration," Hart Miles, one of his attorneys, tells People. "The confessions of two individuals who admitted involvement in the murders of the MacDonald family, DNA that indicates...
- 9/7/2016
- by Nicole Weisensee Egan, @nweisenseeegan
- PEOPLE.com
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