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MABEN, GEORGE: Countdown to Murder: Murdering the Mother-in-Law TV -
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
He decided to get rid of her. He thought he’d concocted a perfect alibi, and then strangled Maureen in her own home. ibid.
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. ibid.
George Maben’s sentence was revised by the Court of Appeal. He was given an extra five years in prison. ibid.
MACDONALD, JEFFREY: Great Crimes & Trials TV - The Guardian online - The Accused, Jeffrey McDonald: People Magazine Investigates TV - True Crime Recaps 2022 -
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 s1e9: The Green Beret Killings, BBC 1993
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.
The story the blood told was different from his. ibid.
In October the army inquiry dismissed the charges against Captain MacDonald for lack of evidence. ibid.
The Supreme Court disagreed and in July 1979, nine years after the killings, Jeffrey MacDonald stood trial. ibid.
The sentence was the maximum: three consecutive life terms. ibid.
On 31st March 1982 the Supreme Court finally ruled that Jeffrey MacDonald’s constitution rights had not been violated. ibid.
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?’
McDonald has always claimed abandoned drug-crazed hippies killed his family. The Accused, Jeffrey McDonald: People Magazine Investigates, news clip, ID 2017
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
She had been stabbed twenty-one times with an ice-pick and fifteen times with a knife. ibid.
The prosecution had made a big deal out of the fact that they thought the crime scene was staged. ibid.
They withheld key evidence. ibid.
The summer of 1969 was a hot one … Then in August came the news that nine people had been brutally murdered in Los Angeles by members of a cult led by Charles Manson. True Crime Recaps: Did Jeffrey MacDonald Slay His Family? Youtube 19.06, 2022
So when Jeffrey MacDonald, a decorated Army surgeon and green beret, said a group of hippies tripping on acid killed his pregnant wife and two daughters, and left him clinging to life, well anybody with a dollar would bet he was telling the truth. ibid.
Jeffrey’s wounds were almost nothing compared to his wife and children. ibid.
Just like that the good doctor was looking more and more like a savage killer. ibid.
The Supreme Court reversed the reversal and said the charges should stick. ibid.
MACDOWELL, WILLIAM: Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae TV -
The mysterious disappearance of a mother and her three-year-old son is one of Scotland’s longest unsolved murder cases. Today an 80-year-old man is on trial for their murders: MacDowell, William. Murder Trial: The Disappearance of Renee and Andrew MacRae I II, captions, BBC 2023
On 12th November 1976 Renee Macrae’s car was found abandoned and ablaze. ibid.
The investigation into Renee and Andrew’s disappearance reopened five years ago by Police Scotland. ibid.
‘William McDowell was company secretary to her husband’s firm.’ ibid.
‘This is the man in Renee’s life: William MacDowell, a married man, and company secretary to her husband’s firm.’ ibid. original documentary
‘The remains of Renee and Andrew have never been recovered.’ ibid. prosecution brief
‘William MacDowell had embarked on a massive deception on Renee MacRae by pretending he was going to set up a new life with her.’ ibid.
‘The conduct of the accused is highly suspicious.’ ibid.
Five days after Renee and Andrew disappeared, William MacDowell took his Volvo to the garage … ‘the floor was removed.’ ibid.
William MacDowell died in prison five months later. He never revealed where he had left the bodies of Reneee and Andrew. ibid.
MACKAY, PATRICK: David Wilson TV - Fred Dinenage: Murder Casebook TV - Harold Mackay - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
Patrick Mackay displays all of the classic signs of that kind of offender we know as the psychopath. Professor David Wilson
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 s2e7: Patrick Mackay, CI 2012
How does a child grow into a monster? ibid.
He spent time in approved schools and psychiatric wards. ibid.
The fifteen-year-old repeatedly tried to commit suicide. ibid.
He went on to kill at least three people … The system had failed him. ibid.
Mackay told inmates of other murders he had committed. ibid.
I wonder if these murders could have been avoided if the authorities had intervened earlier. ibid.
Remember to be good. Harold Mackay to serial killer son Patrick Mackay
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 aka Patrick McKay: 45 Years Behind Bars, Channel 5 2015
Patrick Mackay would go on to reveal a litany of crimes that would stun the interviewing detectives. ibid.
‘In this atmosphere of domestic violence Mackay grew up.’ ibid. John Penycate, author ‘Psychopath’
‘He seemed to have a split personality.’ ibid. schoolfriend
The police believe Mackay committed up to thirteen murders. ibid.
He is the English series killer you’ve never heard of. In the early 1970s Patrick Mackay went on a Robbery/Murder spree through some of London’s most affluent areas. True Crime Recaps: Inside the Twisted Mind of Patrick Mackay, Youtube 12.23, 2003
He called himself the Devil’s Disciple. ibid.
MACNAMEE, DANNY: Innocent online - Guardian Unlimited online - Trial & Error TV -
Danny Macnamee was convicted in London on 27 October 1987 of conspiracy to cause explosions. An appeal was dismissed in January 1991.
The case was referred by the CCRC to the Court of Appeal in July 1997. The appeal court quashed the conviction on 17 December 1998, ruling that the verdict was unsafe because there had been a failure to disclose relevant evidence. Innocent online article