A Picturesque Life
As cliché as it sounds, the saga began on a cold and rainy night… It was February 16, 1970, and the scene of the crime was a one-story apartment in Fort Bragg, where a 26-year-old Green Beret captain was living with his wife (also 26) and their two daughters, ages two and six.
Jeffrey MacDonald. Photo by Michael Williamson/The Washington Post/Getty Images
It’s a picturesque scene: a handsome army doctor and his beautiful family, living a domestic life. But what went down that very night could be ripped from the pages of a horror story – one you would never want to picture…