Jeff, why are they doing this to me?

These are supposedly the last words Jeffrey MacDonald heard his wife, Colette, say in this world. I believe that what she really said is, "Jeff, why are you doing this to me?" Not because the prosecution told me to think that, but just common sense. He knows that there is every possibility that someone heard her say whatever it was that she said. If he's lying, he has to make the lie fit to some degree with the truth.

 Let's take his word for it. What he says she said, she said. The only way it makes any kind of sense is if he's in the room watching them do this to her, or she knows that these are people he is familiar with. Think about it. If you are being beaten with a club and stabbed by total strangers and it's only you and maybe your child in the room, what are you going to be screaming? What are you thinking? "Please, don't hurt my babies!" "Why are you doing this?" "Please, stop!" "What do you want from us?" No. She screams out, "Jeff, why are they doing this to me?" It doesn't ring true. Why  wouldn't she ask them. They would presumably know more about their motivations than Jeff who is asleep on the couch and doesn't have a clue as to who these people are.

What makes all the sense in the world is that Jeffrey and Colette are fighting in the bedroom. It is getting way out of control. Colette is screaming, "Jeff, why are you doing this to me?" Kimberly hears the struggle, and pleads with her father, "Daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy!" as in please stop acting crazy. Please stop hitting mommy.