This is the true story of a man who ruined his life and destroyed the lives of his family. I read until my eyes couldn’t stay open every night and cried for the wife and the children who were murdered. There must be many more murderers like Jeffrey MacDonald, and their lies are so convincing.

This is an incredible, well-written book. However, I wish Apple would also carry the movie.

I loved this book when it first came out and I was an impressionable and idealistic teen, barely able to understand many of the complex legal and evidence presented. With recent hoopla over possible "new" evidence and with a little education and training in scientific evidence, I read it again. I still think this is an outstanding book that takes a grisly and horrifying crime and examines the difficult and long path to get to the realization of the first investigators on the scene, that Jeffrey MacDonald killed his wife and girls. As a mother now, I'm still nagged by question of why? I believe the evidence, especially the recent DNA results that bolster prosecution case (even those 3 unidentified hairs) and know right man is in prison, but it doesn't make me feel better, just sad that so much evil can exist.

This a well written book that fairly chronicles the gruesome green beret murders. Other than the last epilogue in which the author defends himself against a New Yorker article written about him and the book (really? Who cares? Did you have to immortalize her article by including it in your own book?), which seemed petty and unnecessary, the book flowed nicely and confidently backed up its assertions.