Fatal Vision (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (1984)

Mitchell Ryan: Paul Strombaugh

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• Brian Murtagh : Look, we know now that MacDonald had extramarital affairs with at least two women during his marriage that Colette was unaware of.

  Victor Worheide : So what? Extramarital affairs does not prove the man's a killer.

  Brian Murtagh : But he lied about it! Just like he lied to her about going off to Russia with the Army boxing team when all he wanted to do was get the hell away from her.

  Victor Worheide : So, he lied to his wife. So he cheated on his wife. Who doesn't now and then?

  Brian Murtagh : Look, the guy was on a 24 hour shift at the hospital on the day and night before the murders. Then, he put in a full day at the office on the 16th. So, maybe he was taking those Eskatrol diet pills found in his home to keep himself going. Those pills are strong amphetamines. Too many of those and you're just asking for trouble.

  Victor Worheide : He was tested for drugs at the hospital on the morning after the murders. They found nothing. Not even aspirin or alcohol.

  Brian Murtagh : Wait a minute. He was tested for heavy drugs like PCP, LSD, MDNA, cocaine, heroin, marijuana, painkillers... but not amphetamines.

  Victor Worheide : We're not bringing it up because we don't know that he ever took those pills. We don't even know what he and Colette were fighting about. What set him off? His infidelity? His youngest kid wetting his side of his bed?

  Brian Murtagh : It's possible.

  Victor Worheide : It's not a motive that we can prove, Brian. We don't have a motive.

  Paul Strombaugh : Excuse me, gentlemen. If we could put aside the motivation for a moment, I'd like to point out how fortunate we are.

  Victor Worheide : Fortunate?

  Paul Strombaugh : Only one family in a thousand... ten thousand... have different blood types. The father, the mother, the children... all different. And because of this, we are able to determine what happened that night even if we don't have the motive or the reason why he did it.

  Victor Worheide : It's not complete. It will never complete without the "why". Why did a happy married man, with no history of violence, kill his wife and two children? And I can promise you this: Jeff MacDonald will never tell us.