The murderer in The Journalist and the Murderer was convicted in what year?
The Journalist and the Murderer:  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". 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.
1979