Final Vision Page #6

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and Jeff caught.

I'm not saying that

Jeff MacDonald

isn't a competent physician.

I'm saying He's a liar

and that He murdered

my daughter.

Why'd He do it?

I don't know.

Hey.

You look okay.

Yeah, I'm okay.

It's until I start remembering

that I lost my family,

and somehow I ended up in here.

This is an insult, you know.

It's an insult to the memory

of my two little girls.

It's an insult to Colette.

Which is why our book

is so important now.

I need to be able to change

people's minds.

Listen.

I have an idea.

I want to give you some

cassette tapes and recorder.

I want to send you

some questions,

and you record your answers,

and you mail 'em back.

That way, you can talk

all you want.

That's fantastic, yes,

and I've been thinking.

Everything in court was so...

It was so one-sided,

and I had all these records,

these personal documents

that if you take a look

at everything, read everything,

it'll prove that what

I've been saying is the truth.

All that stuff's at my condo.

I can get Bernie

to give you the keys.

That's perfect.

I want to see

everything you got.

Dr. Sadoff,

this is Joe McGinniss.

I'm calling regarding

your sessions

with Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald.

Yeah, Jeff through his

lawyers said He would like it

if I spoke with you.

But I won't be able

to say anything

that breaches doctor/patient

confidentiality, unfortunately.

You're can only get specifics

about our sessions from Jeff.

I mean, I understand that.

I was hoping that I could ask

you a few other questions.

Let me stop you there.

What I would like

to say to you is that

if you want

a better understanding

of Jeffrey MacDonald,

there's a book that I

strongly recommend you read.

It's by the last name Cleckley.

The name is

"the mask of sanity."

I think you'll find that very,

very informative.

This says that someone with

a psychopathic personality

first seems totally normal,

but the more time you spend with

them, there's nothing in there.

It's like learned responses.

There's not a real

human being inside.

Does that describe

Jeffrey MacDonald?

Eskatrol.

An amphetamine.

I have to call you right back.

All right, we will, thanks.

What is this?

That is the why.

That is my angle.

That is my bestseller.

What are you talking about?

What am I talking about?

I'm talking about the

prosecution found him guilty

because they were able

to prove how He did it.

Right?

Not why.

They've been trying

to figure out the why.

And this, I believe, is the why.

And you figured out the why.

Mm-hmm.

Even though an entire team

of prosecutors

wasn't able to do that.

How?

Because Jeffrey MacDonald

granted me access to his condo,

and I read every

single document He had,

and there was a ton

of information in there

that never made it to trial.

Like what?

Like what?

Some of my favorites.

I read all the psych

evaluations.

Okay?

Here's some highlights.

He had a lack of conscience.

He had no sense of guilt.

He was susceptible

to violent outbursts

when He thought

his authority was challenged,

particularly by someone who is

not his superior, like Colette.

One shrink even called him

a psychopath in his evaluation.

And so why were

these evaluations

not introduced at his trial?

Because judge Dupree

wouldn't allow any of it in.

He didn't want a war of shrinks.

And I think our good doctor

was taking a massive

amount of speed.

When Jeff MacDonald finds out

that He is the chief suspect,

He is advised to write

a detailed account

of the events

of the night of the murder.

And the first thing He mentions

is a drug called Eskatrol.

The diet pill.

Yep, speed.

He said He was taking three

to five pills to cut weight

for some boxing match in Russia

which, by the way,

was a complete lie.

Now, let me ask you a question.

Why do you think He wrote

"Eskatrol" on his first account?

He is a doctor, and He knew

they'd do a tox screen on him

when He was in the hospital.

And they did.

And guess what?

Nothing showed up

because in 1970,

it wasn't considered

a dangerous drug.

But Eskatrol's especially bad.

In large doses,

carries side effects known as

marked insomnia,

tenseness, irritability,

hyperactivity, panic states,

and the most severe...

Psychosis.

Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald,

green beret,

Ivy league, family man,

pillar of his community,

and potential psychopath

I think had a psychotic break.

You gotta back up a little bit

and take me step by step.

Just start at the beginning.

Okay.

On the night of the murders,

Jeffrey MacDonald

had just worked a 24-hour shift

at the E.R.

Hopped up on amphetamines.

Colette was away at night class,

and He was left with the girls.

When she got home,

they got into a fight

for reasons we don't know.

Maybe it's because

Kimberly wet to bed.

She's five.

That's perfectly normal!

Don't ever tell me what's normal

and what's not normal.

I'm a doctor.

Colette, do you understand?

Do you understand?

Do you understand?

I am in charge!

You don't tell me anything!

Please, Jeffrey!

You're pathetic!

Daddy!

Daddy!

Get out of this house, Jeffrey!

Daddy, daddy!

Daddy, stop it!

No!

Ahh!

Jeff had lost control,

and now He had to regain it.

Mama?

Dada?

Maybe Colette tried

to save her youngest child.

But all of them met

with the same fate.

Jeff, don't!

Jeff had to come up with a story

for what had happened.

He had read in

the "esquire" magazine

about the Manson murders.

That would be his story.

That would explain

what happened.

To cover up what He had done.

But there had to be

something else.

To sell his story, the murders

had to be barbaric.

Beyond anything imaginable.

The one final piece

in the puzzle

was that He had to look

like a victim, too.

Aah!

I need an ambulance

to 544 castle drive.

Woman;

Is that on or off coast?

If Kristen was asleep

and hadn't seen anything,

why did He kill her, too?

Murtagh had a theory about that.

He thought that Jeff MacDonald

decided to kill Kristen

because He had no reason to.

She hadn't seen anything,

so He went all-in.

It was the one thing no jury

would believe a father could do.

Does MacDonald know

you're going to write that?

He doesn't need to.

Reporter Joe

McGinniss spent three years

investigating Jeffrey MacDonald,

who granted him total

access to his family,

his friends, all his records,

so that McGinniss might write

the definitive book about him.

It is called "fatal vision."

All I'm saying that on the basis

of attending the trial every day

and spending three years of

full-time research afterwards,

that there's no question

that this gentle, caring,

giving man also beat and stabbed

to death his pregnant wife

and his two young daughters.

I love my wife

and my children very much.

I never physically assaulted

anyone in my life,

and certainly not my wife

and my two children.

Mm, mm

Mm, mm, mm, mm

Mm mm

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