Of the three people murdered at 544 Castle Drive on February 17, 1970, Kristen is the only one to be stabbed in the back. Why? I believe the evidence shows that Jeffrey MacDonald wasn't raging any longer. He couldn't face his little baby to kill her.
I've often wondered what Kristen's fate might have been if Colette hadn't went to her room to protect her. I so wish that if Colette did have a moment to move about, that she would have tried to make it out the back door. If she could have gotten help, there would be no doubt that Jeffrey MacDonald was the attacker, and maybe she and Kristen might have been able to live out their lives.
I am in no way criticizing Colette. She did what any good mother would have felt compelled to do, and who knows how already damaged she was before went to protect her baby. She's the only adult in that house that ended up looking like she fought for her and her children's lives.
The problem for Jeffrey though is that he's just beat his wife to death in front of Kristen. Kristen can tell what she's seen. It's her or him. We all know which he chooses. But he's not that pumped any more. He is obviously pissed at Colette. He's not angry with Kristen. She just has to die. I believe he starts to attack her from the front, but she's holding up her hands and looking at him. He can't take this, so he flips her over and stabs her in the back.
The ice pick wounds were just shallow punctures on Kristen. He's tired and committing his first premeditated murder. The staging has to be done but he's losing the stomach for it.
I want to believe that at least the thought of what he did to Kristen haunts him. He seems like the kind of guy who did and still does somehow blame his wife for making him do what he did to her and Kimberly. If she hadn't provoked him, his life wouldn't have been ruined for having killed her. Kristen though, he did that in cold blood.
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