A wilderness of error
Subtitle: the trials of Jeffrey MacDonald
By: Errol Morris ; illustrations by Niko Skourti
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781594203435
Subjects: Case studies; Murder; Murderers
Description: Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and former private detective Errol Morris examines the nature of evidence and proof in the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. In 1979 MacDonald was convicted of the brutal 1970 murder of his wife and two children, and remains in prison today. Since then a number of bestselling books, including Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision, and a blockbuster television miniseries have attempted to solve and explain the MacDonald case. Here, Morris, who has been investigating the case for nearly two decades, reveals that almost everything we know about it is ultimately flawed, and an innocent man may be behind bars. In a reinvention of the true-crime thriller, Morris looks behind the haze of myth. Drawing on court transcripts, lab reports, and original interviews, he brings a complete forty-year history back to life and allows the reader to explore the case as a detective might by confronting the evidence as if for the first time.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.