Name the American medical doctor who was convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters and whose story is ruminated over in a study by Janet Malcolm titled 'The Journalist and the Murderer'?
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The Journalist and the Murderer The Journalist and the Murderer is a study by Janet Malcolm about the ethics of journalism, published by Alfred A. Knopf/Random House in 1990. It is an examination of the professional choices that shape a work of non-fiction, as well as a rumination on the morality that underpins the journalistic enterprise. The journalist in question is Joe McGinniss; the murderer is the former Special Forces captain Dr. Jeffrey R. MacDonald, who became the subject of McGinniss' 1983 book "Fatal Vision".
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Jeffrey R. MacDonald Jeffrey Robert MacDonald (born October 12, 1943) is an American medical doctor who was convicted in 1979 of murdering his pregnant wife and two daughters in February 1970.
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John Deering (murderer) John W. Deering (September 1898 – October 31, 1938) was the subject of an experiment to observe what would happen to the human heart during death by gunshot. Deering, an American facing execution by the state of Utah for the May 1938 murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr., volunteered to have himself hooked up to an electrocardiogram while he was shot by a firing squad. The test indicated that his heart stopped in about 15 seconds of being hit, although other bodily functions, such as breathing, continued for a longer period of time.
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Murder of Michele MacNeill Michele Marie MacNeill, née Somers, (January 15, 1957 - April 11, 2007 ) was an American murder victim, fashion model, and homemaker. Michele was married for nearly 30 years to physician Martin MacNeill and was the mother of eight children. She died in Pleasant Grove, Utah on April 11, 2007 following recovery from cosmetic surgery performed eight days earlier. At her husband's request, the operating surgeon prescribed four medicines for Michele's recovery; two of the drugs, Diazepam and Oxycodone, would not normally be prescribed to his patients.
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Stephen Richards (murderer) Stephen D. Richards (March 18, 1856 – April 28, 1879) was a 19th-century American serial killer who confessed to committing nine murders in Nebraska and Iowa between 1876 and 1878. He was hanged in 1879 for the axe murder of the Harlson family, a woman and her three children, and for the murder of Peter Anderson, a neighbor of his.
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George Lotrell Timanus George Lotrell Timanus (January 31, 1892 – June 1981) was a physician who performed illegal abortions in the Baltimore/Washington, D.C. area from 1920 to 1951.
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John de Saulles John Gerard Longer de Saulles (May 25, 1878 – August 3, 1917) was an American football player and coach, real estate broker, and businessman whose murder by his millionaire wife (accused, but acquitted) led to a widely reported trial.
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Martha Wise Martha Wise (1884 – June 28, 1971), born Martha Hasel, was an American poisoner and serial killer. After her husband died and her family forced her to end a relationship with a new lover, Wise retaliated by poisoning seventeen family members, of whom three died, in 1924. She was convicted of one of the murders, despite defense claims that she was mentally ill and that her lover had ordered her to poison her family. The case is considered one of the most sensational of the era in Ohio, where it occurred.
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Edward Cowart Edward D. Cowart (February 17, 1925 – August 3, 1987) was an American Judge (Dade County Circuit Court Judge). He is best known as presiding judge at the trial of serial killer Ted Bundy in 1979 (considered sometimes as the first "official" serial killer trial) , where he imposed a death sentence. Cowart is remembered for his glowing tribute to Bundy at his sentencing:
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Howard Unruh Howard Barton Unruh (January 21, 1921 – October 19, 2009) was an American mass murderer (sometimes classified as a spree killer) who killed 13 people (including three children) during a 12-minute walk through his neighborhood on September 6, 1949, in Camden, New Jersey, when he was 28 years old. The incident became known as the "Walk of Death". Unruh was found to be criminally insane, and died in 2009 after a lengthy illness at the age of 88, following 60 years of confinement.
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Dean Edell Dean Edell (born 26 March 1941) is an American physician and broadcaster who hosted the "Dr. Dean Edell" radio program, a syndicated radio talk show which aired live from 1979 until December 10, 2010. He was also nationally syndicated in television as a medical news reporter and host of his own television shows including NBC's "Dr. Dean"
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Leonard Arthur Dr Leonard John Henry Arthur MB, BChir, MRCP, D Obst RCOG (20 April 1926 – 25 December 1983) was a British doctor tried in the 1981 case of R v Arthur, for the attempted murder of John Pearson, a newborn child with Down Syndrome. He was acquitted.
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David Martin Long David Martin Long (July 15, 1953 – December 8, 1999) was an American murderer. He was arrested after the 1986 hatchet killings of three women in Lancaster, Texas, and was convicted of murder and sentenced to the death penalty. Long was never tried for any other murders, but he also confessed to killing a gas station attendant in a 1978 beating in San Bernardino, California, and killing a former boss, Bob Rogers, in a 1983 fire in Bay City, Texas.
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Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession is a nonfiction work by Janet Malcolm. It was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1981.
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Priscilla Ford Priscilla Joyce Ford (February 10, 1929 – January 29, 2005) was a mass murderer who was sentenced to death after driving her Lincoln Continental down a sidewalk in Reno, Nevada on Thanksgiving Day in 1980. The attack killed six people and injured 23 more. She had schizophrenia. Ford launched numerous appeals against her death sentence, all of which failed. A heavy smoker, she died at the age of 75 after suffering from emphysema.
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Herb Green George Herbert "Herb" Green (16 November 1916–4 March 2001), B.A., B.Sc., M.B., Ch.B., (D.Obs. R.C.O.G.), M.R.C.O.G.(Lond.), was a New Zealand Obstetrician and Gynaecologist who led the National Women's Hospital Cervical Cancer Unit as Professor through the 1960s and 1970s and became notorious for conducting an alleged unethical experiment that was the subject of the Cartwright Inquiry.
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George H. Hitchings George Herbert Hitchings (April 18, 1905 – February 27, 1998) was an American doctor who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment," Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy.
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Alexander McLeod-Lindsay Alexander McLeod-Lindsay, (24 December 1934 – 17 September 2009) was a Scots-born Australian who is noted for having served nine years in jail for attempting to murder his wife, but who was later exonerated.
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Kimberly Clark Saenz Kimberly Clark Saenz (born November 11, 1973) also known as Kimberly Clark Fowler, is a convicted serial killer. She was implicated in the deaths of several patients at a Texas dialysis center. The patients (Clara Strange, Thelma Metcalf, Garlin Kelley, Cora Bryant and Opal Few) are thought to have been injected with bleach which Saenz is alleged to have drawn up into syringes and injected into the patients' dialysis lines.
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Malcolm Caldwell James Alexander Malcolm Caldwell (27 September 1931 – 23 December 1978) was a British academic and a prolific Marxist writer. He was a consistent critic of American foreign policy, a campaigner for Asian communist and socialist movements, and a supporter of the Khmer Rouge. Malcolm Caldwell was murdered, under mysterious circumstances, a few hours after meeting Pol Pot in Cambodia.
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Jim Swire Herbert Swire (born 1936), best known as Jim Swire, is an English doctor best known for his involvement in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103, in which his daughter Flora was killed. Swire lobbied toward a solution for the difficulties in bringing suspects in the original bombing to trial, and later advocated for the retrial and release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the originally convicted suspect in the case. Swire also carried a fake bomb onto an aircraft as a demonstration of lax security.
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John Darsee John Roland Darsee (born  1948 in Huntington, West Virginia) is an American physician and former medical researcher. After compiling an impressive list of publications in reputable scientific journals, he was found to have fabricated data for his publications.