In tthe early morning hours of February 17, 1970, Colette MacDonald and her two small children were murdered by husband and father Jeffrey MacDonald. Colette MacDonald had been brutally beaten with a club and stabbed with both a knife and an icepick. Kimberley, five years old, was also clubbed and stabbed with a knife, and two-year-old Kristen had been repeatedly stabbed with a knife and icepick.
Dans un livre Joe McGinniss intitulé "Fatal vision" raconte l'histoire du crime et du procès- Jeffrey MacDolnad attente un procès au journaliste.
Cette histoire est racontée dans le livre "le Journaliste et l’assassin» par la journaliste américaine Janet Malcolm : Le jeu entre l'auteur et son sujet, chacun recherche quelque chose de différent d'où ici particulièrement un très profond malentendu..