Jeffrey Robert MacDonald, M.D., (born October 12, 1943), is an American convicted in 1979 for the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970. At the time of the murders, MacDonald was an Army officer, medical doctor and practicing physician.
Jeffrey Robert MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York. At Patchogue High School, he was voted both "most popular" and "most likely to succeed", and won a scholarsh...
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Jeffrey Robert MacDonald, M.D., (born October 12, 1943), is an American convicted in 1979 for the murders of his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970. At the time of the murders, MacDonald was an Army officer, medical doctor and practicing physician.
Jeffrey Robert MacDonald was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York. At Patchogue High School, he was voted both "most popular" and "most likely to succeed", and won a scholarship to Princeton University. While at Princeton, MacDonald resumed a romantic relationship with Colette Stevenson, whom he had dated while in high school. In the fall of 1963, upon learning Colette was pregnant with his child, the couple married. Their daughter Kimberley MacDonald was born in April 1964.
After attending Princeton for three years, he and his family moved to Chicago, where he had been accepted to Northwestern University Medical School. Their second child, Kristen, was born in May 1967. The following year, upon his graduation from...
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