A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two daughters.
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Title: Fatal Vision (1984)
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In 1970, military doctor Jeffrey MacDonald reports a hideous and confusing story: a gang of hippies akin to the Manson Family broke into his North Carolina home and slaughtered his pregnant wife and two daughters, while somehow only wounding him slightly as he tried to fight them off. As he continues to proclaim his innocence, his skeptical father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, and investigative journalist, Joe McGinniss, probe his story to uncover the truth. Written by Jwelch5742
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Gary Cole would go on to play another military man convicted of murder in An Officer and a Murderer (2012), based on the crimes of Russell Williams. He was a Colonel in the Canadian Air Force, who was convicted of two counts of murder and various other crimes in 2010. See more »Frequently Asked Questions
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One of the better "true crime" dramas (and I think that between a&e, court tv, and lifetime, I have seen almost all of them ...). As another reviewer pointed out, there is another side to this story, so don't go thinking the movie presents the gospel truth, but it's still a very compelling flick. Question to others who have seen it: am I nuts, or is Liam Neeson on the jury? He's not credited, but only the jury foreman got a line ... still, there's a guy in the back row who looks amazingly like Neeson. Anyone else catch this?