UMass Amherst ‘Chef of the Year’ Jeffrey MacDonald accused of murdering wife inside campus hotel room

Source: New York Post

An award-winning “Chef of the Year” at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is accused of murdering his wife inside an on-campus hotel on Wednesday. Jeffrey MacDonald admitted to police that he intentionally beat his wife, Emma MacDonald, “to death using his hands, feet, as well as a variety of other objects,” according to a police report obtained by the Boston Globe. Jeffrey MacDonald, a 36-year-old executive sous chef of UMass Amherst dining, said it was “his intent to kill his wife in doing so” inside their room at the UMass Campus Center hotel.