This was Hennis' third murder trial. He was originally convicted in 1986 in civilian court and sentenced to death but the North Carolina Supreme Court granted him a new trial at which he was acquitted in 1989.
The 1993 book on the Eastburn case Innocent Victims by Scott Whisnant spawned a cable television miniseries. Interestingly, author Whisnant does not believe Hennis to be guilty of the murders, feeling instead that the person responsible has a much deeper and darker psychosis than Hennis.
See my earlier posts on this case HERE and HERE.
Jeffrey and Colette MacDonald in 1969 (top) and MacDonald in 2007
The Fourth Circuit Court is going to hear an appeal on the triple murder case involving former Army physician and surgeon Jefffrey MacDonald. Lawyers for MacDonald argued that new DNA evidence and a witness statement by a former federal marshal claiming that a prosecutor threatened a witness show MacDonald is innocent of the brutal crimes that spawned the bestseller Fatal Vision, as well as a miniseries by the same name.
The panel is expected to decide within a few weeks whether or not MacDonald will be granted a new trial.
MacDonald is serving three life terms for the 1970 murders of his wife Colettte and daughters Kimberley and Kristen at their Fort Bragg, North Carolina home, just six months after the shocking Tate-LaBianca murders by the Manson Family. MacDonald has always claimed a drug-induced quartet of hippies slayed his family and attacked him.
See my earlier posts on this case HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE,

3 comments:
Hi Lori,
The second picture you have labeled as Tim Hennis 2010 is not him. It might be one of his lawyers, but definitely not Tim. Just thought I'd pass it on.
D
Lori,
Apologies about my previous comment. That is Tim...what a difference 4 years makes! I honestly didn't recognize him from that photo. I was surfing and saw some from the court martial with him in uniform and I was stunned. Please disregard previous comment.
D
Moving Simplified We found out this morning that we may be headed to
Fort Bragg this summer(surprising as we weren't due to PCS for another year)
fort bragg pcs
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