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Are you interested in mysteries? Puzzles? Crimes that remain unsolved or unresolved? So are we. The Looking Glass is an unusual podcast – a hybrid of true crime and history. While there are many journalists, amateur historians, and true crime enthusiasts producing excellent podcasts these days, this one is different. Host Matthew Kraig Kelly is a historian by training and a criminal investigator by profession. He aims to bring this expertise and experience to bear on the crimes we will be in ...
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Mini-Episode #3 - The Key to the MacDonald Murders is Sitting in a Government Evidence Locker, Untested
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In our third mini-episode, we discuss a hitherto neglected piece of evidence relating to the MacDonald murders, which a 2018 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision claimed had been tested. We checked with the US Attorneys in North Carolina: it hasn't been. This piece of evidence remains in the possession of the United States government. Testing it c…
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In Episode 10, we answer the question: Did Jeffrey MacDonald murder his family? Welcome to the season finale of The Looking Glass. Season One episodes drop every Tuesday Our Sponsor B2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.com Mentioned Good Is In The Details podcast – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-is-in-the-details/id1466729675 F…
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Mini-Episode #2 - On 'A Wilderness of Error'
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In our second mini-episode, we discuss Errol Morris's book A Wilderness of Error as well as the Marc Smerling documentary series (on Hulu/FX) of the same name. Welcome back to The Looking Glass. Season One episodes drop every Tuesday Our Sponsor B2G Global Strategies – https://b2gstrategies.com Mentioned Good Is In The Details podcast – https://pod…
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Among the military policemen who arrived at 544 Castle Drive on the morning of the MacDonald murders was Specialist Kenneth Mica. Mica was the MP who first approached a prone Jeffrey MacDonald, who was lying next to his wife, Colette, on the floor of the master bedroom. Mica shook MacDonald awake and then asked him: "What happened here?" MacDonald …
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Mini-Episode #1 - On 'The Journalist and The Murderer'
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In this mini-episode, we discuss Janet Malcolm's 1990 book The Journalist and The Murderer, wherein The New Yorker writer aimed her deadly quill at Joe McGinniss's professional reputation by arguing that the Fatal Vision author had, to advance his own career, double-crossed Jeffrey MacDonald. Welcome back to The Looking Glass. Season One episodes d…
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As we concluded in the last episode, legally speaking, Jeffrey MacDonald should not be in prison. One cannot honestly examine the government’s case against MacDonald and maintain that it proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. That simply isn’t true. Having acknowledged that, however, we need also to acknowledge the obvious. In many cases where…
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In Episode 7, we complete our analysis of the 1979 trial of Jeffrey MacDonald. And we answer the questions: Should Jeffrey MacDonald have been convicted? Should he have been tried? And finally, do our answers to these questions settle the matter of MacDonald's guilt or innocence? Season One episodes drop every Tuesday Subscribe on Apple Podcasts – …
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We spent the last few episodes delving into the Grand Jury proceedings of 1974-75, which terminated in the indictment of Jeffrey MacDonald for the murders of his wife and two daughters five years earlier. More than any other, Joe McGinniss’s account of the Grand Jury, in his 1983 book Fatal Vision, shaped the popular perception of it. But in re-exa…
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In Episode 5, we complete our survey of the Grand Jury proceedings of 1974-75. This entails a careful analysis not only of Jeffrey MacDonald's testimony before the Grand Jury but also of Joe McGinniss's framing of that testimony in Fatal Vision. McGinniss tells his readers that government prosecutors masterfully cut through MacDonald's charismatic …
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In Episode 4, we delve further into Jeffrey MacDonald’s testimony before the grand jury (1974-75), Fatal Vision author Joe McGinniss’s use of that testimony to seal MacDonald into the role of the hopeless liar, and the need for a fresh look at the hearing and its aftermath in order to answer the question: did Jeffrey MacDonald murder his family? Di…
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In our first episode, we surveyed the basic facts surrounding the murder of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald’s family on the Fort Bragg military base in North Carolina. And we heard Jeffrey MacDonald’s own recollection of that terrifying and tragic evening in February 1970. In Episode 2, we considered, and rejected, the claim that MacDonald’s account was too …
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In Episode 1, we noted a widely held view about the MacDonald murders: namely, that MacDonald’s story is too implausible to be taken seriously. In Episode 2, we ask why. Why does Jeffrey MacDonald’s account of the murders strike so many people as simply not believable? One answer is that these people have a background understanding of another set o…
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In the pre-dawn hours of February 17, 1970, military police on the Fort Bragg army base, in North Carolina, received a panicked phone call from a man identifying himself as Cpt. Jeffrey MacDonald. Struggling to get the words out, MacDonald haltingly and breathlessly repeated his address –– 544 Castle Drive –– along with the word “stabbed.” When the…
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