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Academy Award–winning filmmaker Errol Morris examines probably the most notorious and mysterious murder trials of the 20 th century
In this profoundly original meditation on truth and the justice system, Errol Morris—a former private detective and director of The Thin Blue Line—delves deeply into the infamous Jeffrey MacDonald murder case. MacDonald, whose pregnant wife and two young daughters were brutally murdered in 1970, used to be convicted of the killings in 1979 and remains in prison nowadays. The culmination of an investigation spanning over 20 years and a masterly reinvention of the actual-crime thriller, A Wilderness of Error is a shocking book because it shows that the whole lot we have now been told concerning the case is deeply unreliable and that an important elements of case against MacDonald are simply not true.