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Death bed confession made in 'Fatal Vision' murders
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Jonathon Serrie reports from North Carolina
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- Date Sep 19, 2012
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All right well an evidence hearing -- is set -- -- them in the fatal vision murder case a day after a voice was heard from the grave in this story the brother.
Of -- deceased witness.
Says his sister said that she was in Jeffrey -- home the morning of those 1970 murders.
McDonald a former green -- doctor has always insisted on his innocence.
Claiming for years that it was a group of drug crazed hippies who brutally murdered his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
Jonathan Serrie live from the federal courthouses.
China has not been what we expect in there was on the stand today.
This morning Gerry Leonard is scheduled to testify he was the court appointed lawyer to that now deceased woman that you were.
Talking about admitted drug user Helena Stokley who reportedly claimed that she and three men were inside Jeffrey MacDonald home.
At the time of those brutal murders yesterday still -- brother Eugene described an argument.
In which he said Helene had told him to be careful because she -- certain friends and told them she had.
And -- holiness Coakley and her newborn baby in 1980 to testify quote.
-- had told me that the men that -- did the murdering.
They told her they were going to rough Jeffrey up and that she was going to become a wizard in and -- cult group.
Stokley was called to testify and Jeffrey MacDonald's 1979 murder trial but said she had no memory of the hours during the crime.
In this week's hearing McDonald's lawyers are trying to prove the prosecution use the threat of murder charges to dissuade -- from testifying that she and others were -- the scene of the crime -- Very interesting developments -- that -- will see what happens thank you so much.
Did it.