In what is sure to be one of the favorite episodes for our MacDonald-defending listeners (we know you're out there), Joe methodically walks readers through the Article 32 hearing and the army's bungling of critical evidence. James and Billy read and unpack--and take a moment to address rumors about Billy leaving the show.

James and Billy are back after a long hiatus. In this chapter they wrap up chapter 1 of part 2, in which Bernie Segal explains why Jeff is a swell guy.

Part 2 of the book begins. Enter Bernie Segal, Jeff's new lawyer and best bud.

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In this Voice of Jeffrey MacDonald chapter -- the final chapter of Part One -- Jeff endures a dark night of the soul.

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In this episode, James and Billy read and analyze the end of Pt. 1, Chapter 10, as the April 6 interrogation of Jeffrey MacDonald comes to a close.

In this episode, MacDonald's April 6 interrogation continues. As the investigators start to confront MacDonald with the evidence his guilt, MacDonald struggles to explain away the evidence mounting against him. Perhaps, he realizes, the investigators are more thorough than he thought.

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James and Billy once again spend time with The Voice of Jeffrey MacDonald, offering analysis and commentary throughout. Topics covered by Jeff:

• Becoming a Green Beret because he wants to jump out of planes
• Moving to Fort Bragg
• His improved relationship with Colette (no affairs for a while)
• His brother Jay's psychotic episode
• And much more

For today's podcast, we welcome one of our journalistic heroes: Gene Weingarten. Weingarten is an acclaimed journalist and humorist, best known for his long tenure at The Washington Post. He is the author of several books and is also the only two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.​

In 2012, Weingarten wrote a stunning feature article about Jeffrey MacDonald's evidentiary hearing in Wilmington, North Carolina. Later, in 2014, he eulogized Joe McGinniss in the Washington Post, declaring Fatal Vision to be "one of the best nonfiction books ever written."

You can check out more of Weingarten's work on his substack, The Gene Pool. We encourage you to do so.

In this conversation, Weingarten shares his experience with the MacDonald Case, as well as his thoughts on Fatal Vision's enduring greatness, Janet Malcolm, Errol Morris, journalism, false equivalencies, and much more. We couldn't be more grateful to him.

James and Billy do a dramatic reading of the end of part 1, chapter 9, in which MacDonald, during his April 6 interrogation, continues to offer explanations -- or non-explanations -- of the evidence collected by the CID. After the reading, James shares some interesting finds in all his readings.

This episode features a complete AI-generated recreation of attorney Dan Kornstein’s closing argument defending author Joe McGinniss in the 1987 lawsuit brought by Jeffrey MacDonald