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Convicted murderer and former Fort Bragg Army Capt. Jeffrey MacDonald cannot get out of prison under a federal compassionate release law, U.S. District Judge Terrence Boyle said in a ruling issued on Friday. MacDonald is serving three life sentences at a federal prison in Maryland for the murders in 1970 of his pregnant wife and two children at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He has claimed factual innocence. The compassionate release law allows some federal prisoners over age 70 to get out of pr...

LUMBERTON — A Lumber Bridge man is being sought in a 2008 home invasion slaying, Robeson County officials said Tuesday evening. James Roscoe McAllister, 30, is wanted on charges of first-degree murder, first-degree burglary, robbery with a dangerous weapon, felony conspiracy and second-degree kidnapping in the June 25, 2008, killing of Daniel Bullard, according to a news release from the Robeson County Sheriffs Office. Bullard, 23, was shot and killed during a home invasion and robbery at his...

Ex-officer MacDonald in Fort Bragg murders seeks release GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press March 12, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FILE - In this March 1, 1995 file photo Jeffrey MacDonald gestures at the federal correctional institution in Sheridan, Ore. MacDonald, a former Army captain serving three life sentences for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young children, has a hearing scheduled Thursday, March 11, 2021 on his request to a federal judge to free him due to his age and fa...

A former Army captain serving life prison sentences for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young children at a North Carolina base wants to leave federal prison due to his deteriorating health during the coronavirus pandemic.

The government says MacDonald is not eligible to use the compassionate release law. MacDonald is serving three consecutive life sentences -- could the judge reduce his punishment? A federal judge in Raleigh heard arguments on Thursday afternoon as to whether Jeffrey MacDonald, a former Army captain, should be released from the triple-life sentence he is serving for the murders of his wife and children at Fort Bragg in 1970. After listening to arguments for about an hour at the federal courthou...

He was convicted in 1979. Jeffrey MacDonald, the former Army captain who is serving three life sentences for the murders of his wife and two young children their home at Fort Bragg in 1970, is asking a federal judge free him due to his age and failing health.  A hearing on MacDonald’s request for what’s known as compassionate release is set for 3 p.m. Thursday at the federal courthouse in Raleigh. This is the same courthouse where MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979.  MacD...

Ex-Army captain who killed family seeks release due to virus March 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — A former Army captain serving three life sentences for the 1970 murders of his pregnant wife and two young children has asked a federal judge to free him due to his age and failing health. A hearing on Jeffrey MacDonald’s request for compassionate release is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Thursday at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, The Fayetteville Observer reported. Thats the...

His story was made famous in the book called "fatal vision." now hes saying there is new evidence supporting his claim that intruders were in the house the night of his familys murders. here is mcdonalds current wife, katherine, who he married in 2002. >> in light of the evidence as a whole, if the jury had heard that, would any reasonable juror have found jeffrey mcdonald guilty? thats whats being decided. so i have faith in the truth. >> the jury made the correct decision in 1979. its been uph...

Ambushed at this second location and that may mean they were killed by attackers who were tipped by libyan insiders. heather? >> heather: national security correspondent jennifer griffin, thank you. >> gregg: the case that sparked the book "fatal vision" over four decades ago issues beautiful family murdered. the father convicted. the next chapter in this tragedy have a different ending because of new evidence? judge jeanine takes the case next? >> did you murder your family? >> i did not murder...

Murder. hes accused of killing his entire family. jonathan serrie is on that story. wilmington, north carolina, who will testify today jonathan? >> reporter: well, speaking of that book and movie, joe mcginnis is already here inside the federal courthouse. he is the author who wrote about the jeffery mcdonald case in the 19783 book "faith tal vision" that led to a miniseries the next year. he is expected to be the prosecutions final witness and he says after all these years he hasnt changed his ...