North Carolina Man Continues to Fight his 1979 Murder Conviction
- Nicole Weisensee Egan
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
People Magazine interviewed Jeffrey MacDonald, a North Carolina man who is fighting his 1979 murder conviction, for the cover of their January 30th issue.
MacDonald is currently serving three consecutive life sentences for the 1970 murder of his pregnant wife and two young daughters. He maintains his innocence, saying that four people broke into his home, knocked him unconscious and killed his family. He fought for years to have DNA evidence from the crime scene tested but was repeatedly denied.
In 1999, the Innocence Project joined MacDonald’s attorneys in the effort to secure DNA testing, and eventually a U.S. district judge allowed some of the evidence to be tested.
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