A Case Of Bad Parenting: Jeffery MacDonald



Colette, Kimberly, and Kristen



February 17, 1970. Fort Bragg, North Carolina. An army doctor's wife and two children murdered; the doctor was wounded.

Jeffery MacDonald joined the army after he was married and was having his second child. Times were tough but the future looked extremely bright for this young family. MacDonald travelled up through the ranks rather quickly. Soon, he was appointed Group Surgeon to the Special Forces group. Now, he was expecting a new baby boy. Life wads great. Unfortunately, one event could bring that life to a tragic end.

On February 17, 1970, a 911 call was recieved. Dr. Jeffery MacDonald was on the other end begging for help and an ambulance. When the police arrived, they found his wife and two daughters dead. MacDonald was lying beside his wife with his arm stretched over her; he was wounded.

MacDonald's wife's head was battered along with her face, and she was covered in blood. Kim, his daughter, had stab wounds around her neck and her face was battered as well. Kristen had been stabbed multiple times both in the back and the chest.

MacDonald told police that three men and a hippie-type woman attacked them.

In the hospital, MacDonald was treated for cuts and bruises, wounds on his head, and various puncture wounds around his heart. A knife wound had punctured his lung, causing it to collapse.



Jeffery MacDonald



MacDonald was intensively interrogated by the Army police. It was decided that his wounds were superficial and self-inflicted. It was also decided that the story was a lie created to cover up the fact that he was responsible for the murders.



He now sits in prison for the murders he so brutally committed. He remains in a prison in Cumberland, MD.  He has decided, after fourteen years, to apply for parole.



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Grandma? Pt.2

Police began looking for a disabled schizophrenic that had been reported missing by his social worker. The police noticed disrupted soil on the ground, searched it, and found the body of Leona Carpenter. After investigating, seven bodies were recovered. Dorothea was tried for nine murders, convicted of three, and sentenced two life sentences.

Initially, Dorothea was not a suspect. She was allowed to leave the ground and have a coffee nearby. Instead, she fled to Los Angeles where she immediately befriended someone who recognized her and called the police.

The trial lasted a year. The prosecutor, O'Mara, called over 130 witnesses. He argued that the defendent would use sleeping pills to get the tenants to sleep, then she'd suffocate them, and hired convicts to dig holes in the backyard for the bodies. The jury deliberated for over a month.

She died on March 27, 2011 in a prison in Chowcilla, California at the age of 82 due to natural causes.

Grandma? Pt.1

She looks like your average granny: sweet, full of stories, and love. Full of stories she is, but the kind of stories she has to tell aren't exactly enjoyable. The story of this woman will blow your mind.

Dorothea Puente. She ran a boarding school in the 1980's in California. Every one chalked her  up to being the next great hero. After all, she was taking those in who needed her help and caring for them when no one else could or would. What they didn't know is that she was cashing the Social Security checks of her elderly and mentally disabled patients. Those who complained were killed and burried in the back yard.

This woman did not just wake up one day and decided to steal money and kill people. No, she had lived a rough life. She was born an only child. Her parents worked as cotton pickers. Her father died when she was eight from TB and her mother past in a motorcycle accident shortly there after. She was sent to an orphanage until relatives took her in. She began lying about her childhood saying that she was one of three children and that they were both and raised in Mexico. Looking back, it should have been clear that there was going to be a problem with this troubled, little girl.

She was married at the age of sixteen and had two daughters; one she gave up for adoption, the other she gave to her relatives. She began pregnant again shortly thereafter but suffered a miscarriage. Her husband was repulsed so he left her. Due to humiliation, Dorothea began lying about her marriage saying that her husband had died to a heart attack. She attempted to forge checks but was caught, sentenced to a year in prison, and then released on parole at six months. Soon after her parole, she was impregnated again; this time, by a man she barely knew. She gave birth to a baby girl and then gave her up for adoption. Later, she met Johanson who she would remain married to for fourteen years.

She continued in her pattern of divorcing and remarrying until she finally purchased the house that she turned into her boarding house.

When it came to the tenants of her home, there were mixed feelings. Some tenants dispised her while others praised her. Either way, she was killing them off. Without a doubt, her motive was money. The first murder was a close friend of Dorothea's who she poisoned with an overdose of tylenol and codiene. She told the police that her friend was very upset about her husband and they chalked it up to a suicide.

She kept killing using drug overdoses until finally something was discovered. Find out her fate in the nest post, Grandma? Pt.2

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Black Dahlia Pt.2

The police have no identified a killer. They believe the killer to be long dead. Unfortunately, this means that he or she will never be brought to justice. Still, people who are interested in the Black Dahlia murder case never quit investigating. Here are some of the top suspects in the case and some information on them.

• Robert Manley - He was the last known person to see Elizabeth Short alive. He was booked as a suspect right away but released right after passing a polygraph test. His wife commited him to a mental hospital in 1954 due to psychiatric problems; he said he was hearing voices. He was also given the "truth serum" the same year but he spoke nothing of Elizabeth Short's dead. He died 39 years to the day he last saw Ms. Short. He death was said to be caused by an accidental fall.
• Mark Hansen - This man was the head of some sleazy night club. Many of the girls who worked for him lived in his home. Elizabeth Short lived there for a little while. It was reported that he repeatedly attempted to get her in bed, but his attempts were in vain.

There are more suspects but the their ties in the murder are quite confusing. You can read more on them at this website: http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/famous/dahlia/new_11.html

It was tragic what happened to Ms. Short. It is sickening that we have people in this world who would do such a thing and be able to live with themselves. Hopefully, nothing like this will ever happen again. We a corrupt people living in a corrupt world.

There is now a movie based on this woman's unfathomable fate. It is entitled The Black Dahlia. Here is a preview:

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Black Dahlia Pt.1



Elizabeth Short



Ever wonder about the Black Dahlia? Who is she? What happened to her? If you're like me, you've heard of her but don't know the whole story. If you're like me, you want to know everything there is to know about her.. and then some!

Her name was Elizabeth Short. She was only 22 years young - a beautiful waitress. The hopes of solving her gruesome murder have been all but given up on. The Los Angeles police believe whole-heartedly that her killer has been dead for years.

It's January 15, 1947. You're walking down the street with your three year-old daughter when something catches your eye. At first glance, you believe it to be a broken store mannequin. When you look closer, however, you discover the truth. It is, in fact, a woman who has been cut in two, lying face up. Quickly, you sheild your daughter's eyes and run to a home within close proximity to call the police. This happened to Betty Bersinger.



Crime scene view of Elizabeth Short



Harry Hansen and Finis Brown were assigned the case. Because there was no blood on the body or the grass, they determined that the victim, Elizabeth Short, had been murdered elsewhere and dragged into the grass one piece at a time. The victim's face terribly disfigured. There had been 3-inch gashes into the corners of her mouth giving her the smile of a deranged clown. Ligature marks around her wrists and ankles revealed that she had been restrained and, possibly, tortured as well. Their next task was to figure out just who this woman was.

The police ran her fingerprints and she was quickly identified, due to a mail room job she had taken and an underage drinking in Satan Barbra. The police called mother of the victim, Phobe Short and told her that her daughter had won a beauty contest. After prying as much information from her as they could, they informed her that her daughter was actually dead.

Short was extremely fond of men and an unstable lifestyle. In the last six months of her life, she was going form hotel to apartment to anywhere she could crash - always short on cash.

Short's father told police that he hadn't seen his daughter in three years. He was apparently still angry at her for choosing the lifestyle of a gypsy, rather than the one he'd offered her. He refused to identify the body.

Her story continues in the next post...


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Murder in Mio Pt.2



Junior Duvall



Barbra had every reason to be scared and want to keep the secrets. The other witnesses that the police had spoken with ended up dead. Barbra didn't want to end up the same. The investigating police officer began to gain Barbra's trust, gardening with her and spending time together. Finally, after more than a decade, Barbra is ready to tell everything.

She tells the story and her details are questioned because of the alcohol she consumed. She verifies that she was an alcohol and knew how to hold her liquor. She accused the Duvall brothers in her statement and they were immediately arrested.



Coco Duvall

The trial was shaky. The Duvall brothers were sure that they were going to get off free because there was no hard evidence. No bodies, no blood, no cause of death. However, when the jury went behind the scenes for deliberation, it took only two hours. They returned guilty verdicts for both of the brothers. They are now serving life without parole.

Hunters still flock to Mio, Michigan every year for hunting, but the story of David Tyll and Brian Ognjen is never far from their minds. Although the town was extrememly relieved to have the Duvall brothers gone, the story lives on. David Tyll and Brian Ognjen will never be forgotten.

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