MABEN, GEORGE: Countdown to Murder: Murdering the Mother in Law TV -
87,151. Sixty-five-year-old Maureen Cosgrove was a pillar of her community. George Maben was a stranger who had fallen in love with her daughter. He moved into the family home. Countdown to Murder: Murdering the Mother in Law s2e8: Countdown to Murder, Channel 5 2015
87,152. He decided to get rid of her. He thought he’d concocted a perfect alibi, and then strangled Maureen in her own home. ibid.
87,153. George Maben was sentenced to thirteen years in prison – two less than the standard tariff for premeditated murder. The judge described Maben as a kind and caring person and unlikely to kill again. The family were horrified. (Murder & Law & Judge & Court) ibid.
87,154. George Maben’s sentence was revised by the Court of Appeal. He was given an extra five years in prison. (Murder & Law & Judge & Court) ibid.
MacDONALD, JEFFREY: Great Crimes & Trials TV - The Guardian online - The Accused, Jeffrey McDonald: People Magazine Investigates TV -
15,221. Early in the morning of 7th February 1970 the military police hurried to the house of Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, a green beret doctor. Great Crimes & Trials: The Green Beret Killings
15,222. He told of waking up to find that four hippies had broken into the house. There were three men and a blonde woman in a floppy hat. ibid.
15,223. The story the blood told was different from his. ibid.
15,224. In October the army inquiry dismissed the charges against Captain MacDonald for lack of evidence. ibid.
15,225. The Supreme Court disagreed and in July 1979, nine years after the killings, Jeffrey MacDonald stood trial. ibid.
15,226. The sentence was the maximum: three consecutive life terms. ibid.
15,227. On 31st March 1982 the Supreme Court finally ruled that Jeffrey MacDonald’s constitution rights had not been violated. ibid.
15,228. At some time before 3.30 a.m. someone brutally attacked the MacDonald family in their home at 544 Castle Drive on what was then the open military base of Fort Bragg. MacDonald’s 26-year-old pregnant wife, Colette, had both her arms broken and was stabbed repeatedly in the chest and neck with a paring knife and an ice-pick. The couple’s five-year-old daughter Kimberley was beaten across the head with a club and stabbed multiple times in the neck. Two-year-old Kristen was stabbed over 30 times in the back, chest and neck with a knife and an ice-pick. MacDonald himself received relatively minor injuries except for a single stab wound that punctured his lung.
At around 3.30 a.m. MacDonald called the emergency services, while apparently drifting in and out of consciousness. He told the first military police to arrive that his family had been attacked by four intruders – two white men, a black man and a white woman. He said the woman held a candle and chanted ‘Acid is groovy’ and ‘Kill the pigs’. On the headboard in the marital bedroom the word ‘PIG’ was written in blood. The Guardian online article 14th April 2013 Andrew Anthony ‘The Fort Bragg murders: Is Jeffrey Macdonald innocent?’
103,185. McDonald has always claimed abandoned drug-crazed hippies killed his family. The Accused, Jeffrey McDonald: People Magazine Investigates, news clip, ID 2017
103,186. At the time this happened these were the most shocking murders there had been in the United States. This was an all American family at home on a military base getting slaughtered. ibid. Nicole
103,187. She had been stabbed twenty-one times with an ice-pick and fifteen times with a knife. ibid.
103,188. The prosecution had made a big deal out of the fact that they thought the crime scene was staged. ibid.
103,189. They withheld key evidence. ibid.
MACKAY, PATRICK: David Wilson TV - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Harold Mackay -
15,229. Patrick Mackay displays all of the classic signs of that kind of offender we know as the psychopath. Professor David Wilson
15,230. In 1975 the quiet village of Shorne in Kent hit the headlines because of a gruesome murder … the last in a string of murders committed by twenty-two-year-old Patrick Mackay. Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook: Patrick Mackay
15,231. How does a child grow into a monster? ibid.
15,232. He spent time in approved schools and psychiatric wards. ibid.
15,233. The fifteen-year-old repeatedly tried to commit suicide. ibid.
15,234. He went on to kill at least three people … The system had failed him. ibid.
15,235. Mackay told inmates of other murders he had committed. ibid.
15,236. I wonder if these murders could have been avoided if the authorities had intervened earlier. ibid.
15,237. Remember to be good. (Murder & Good) Harold Mackay to serial killer son Patrick Mackay
110,958. In the 1970s London’s police were baffled by a series of bizarre murders. The perpetrator was a disturbed young man called Patrick Mackay. And the last of his crime was to be the most horrific of all. Even as a child the warning signs were there. But was Patrick Mackay born to kill? Born to Kill? s5e3: Patrick Mackay, Channel 5 2015
110,959. Patrick Mackay would go on to reveal a litany of crimes that would stun the interviewing detectives. ibid.
110,960. ‘In this atmosphere of domestic violence Mackay grew up.’ ibid. John Penycate, author ‘Psychopath’
110,961. ‘He seemed to have a split personality.’ ibid. schoolfriend
110,962. The police believe Mackay committed up to thirteen murders. ibid.
MAGILL, PAUL EDWARD: Killer Kids TV -
114,530. Danny knows the teen with the gun; he can tell what’s going on, and as he watches from not far away he sees the gunman leaving the store [Jiffy Food], pushing the scared cashier Karen Sue Young, forcing her at gunpoint into his Mustang … The driver in question is Paul Edward Magill. Killer Kids s3e20: Out of Control
114,531. 1977: first degree murder, sexual aggression and armed robbery. ibid.