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Early on the morning hours of February 17, 1970, in Fort Bragg, NEW YORK, a Green Beret doctor known as Jeffrey MacDonald called the police for help. When the officers arrived at his home they found the bloody and battered physiques of MacDonald's pregnant partner and two young daughters. The term "pig" was written in bloodstream on the headboard in the master bedroom. As MacDonald had been loaded in to the ambulance, he accused a band of drug-crazed hippies of the offense. So started one of the very most notorious and mysterious murder conditions of the 20th hundred years. Jeffrey MacDonald was finally convicted in 1979 and remains in prison today. Since then a number of best-selling catalogs - including Joe McGinniss's Fatal Eyesight and Janet Malcolm's The Journalist and the Murderer, plus a blockbuster television miniseries - have attempted to solve the MacDonald case and describe what it all means. In A Wilderness of Problem, Errol Morris, that has been investigating the truth for nearly 2 decades, reveals that almost anything we know about this case is in the end flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In the masterful reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth that still surrounds these murders. Drawing on courtroom transcripts, lab reviews, and original interviews, Morris brings an entire 40-year history back to life and shows how our often needy attempts to comprehend and describe an ambiguous fact can overwhelm the facts. A Wilderness of Problem allows the listener to explore the case as a detective might, by confronting the evidence as if for the very first time. On the way Morris poses bracing questions about the nature of proof, legal justice, and the media, and argues that MacDonald has been condemned not and then prison, but also to the tales that have been created around him. In this profoundly original deep breathing on truth and justice, Errol Morris reopens a famous closed case and reveals that, 40 years following the murder of MacDonald's family, we still have no proof of his guilt.
