The lead prosecutor for the case, Jim Blackburn began to analyze every piece of evidence from the trial, including MacDonald's pajama shirt, which was draped over Colette's body, and the bedsheet she was wrapped in. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. WebWadea Kassab was born in Damascus in 1872 to an Orthodox family that had long and deep connections to British and American Protestant missionaries in Damascus and Beirut. But for every Khayre, a case most people have heard of with a clear link to the north-west, there are dozens more that barely make a ripple. But then I felt uneasy. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. WS: Its an enormous problem. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. Colettes sister-in-law Vivian Pep Stevenson told the outlet that Colette knew of the affairs and was growing tired of the infidelities before she died, at one point lamenting, I dont want to do this anymore.. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. Four men walking to a car, a silver four-wheel drive pulling alongside and obscuring them from view, and then Oueida writhing on the ground, before he hobbles for his life, back towards the Coburg Mosque, where he had just finished afternoon prayer. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. This manuscript by Aelyas Kassab is a history of the Kassab family and a biography of Aelyas' own life. When you accept Picture #1, youre deciding that Jeffrey MacDonald is the Person Who Must Pay. Oh, yes. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. 959 Census & Voter Lists. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. At some time before 3.30am someone brutally attacked the MacDonald family in their home at 544 Castle Drive on what was then the open military base of Fort Bragg. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. 959 Census & Voter Lists. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. 741 Immigration & Travel. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. He is outspoken about MacDonalds innocence, and when I called him, I could hear the years of outrage in his voice over the way the case has proceeded. 6,889 Family Trees. He said the so-called Fagin Laws, which were introduced last year and allow police to charge adults who coerce children to offend, would be useful in dismantling these networks. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. He claimed that he had been asleep on the couch when at least four drug-crazed hippies broke into the home and savagely killed the family. These were the families police identified in 2011 as causing most of the trouble in the band, which stretches roughly from Coburg North to Campbellfield, then in an arc around to Altona in MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. They hoped to get a confession, but she stated firmly that she had never been inside MacDonalds home contrary to previous claims she purportedly made to defense attorneys during witness hearings. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. Other witnesses claimed that Stoeckly had confessed at various times that she thought she might have been present during the murders. Kassab filed a citizens criminal complaint in April 1974, petitioning a federal court to convene a grand jury and determine if MacDonald could be charged. McGinniss made the murders sound like the work of a diabolical genius, a man who could transform in a moment from a loving father to a homicidal maniac, and again, in the blink of an eye, to a calculating conman. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. Kassabs unwavering support of his son-in-law also began to crumble as Kassabwho worked in telephone sales for the Quality Egg Co.began to question MacDonalds account of what happened. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. However, critics of the book say that while it paints an emotional picture of a man wrongfully tried by the media, it cherrypicks evidence and largely ignores the physical evidence that led to MacDonalds 1979 conviction. You trust him. The list of misfortunes goes on: exculpatory evidence withheld; possible prosecutorial misconduct; and fallible humans who twisted the MacDonald story to fit their own agendas. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. And the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, just kept mounting against him and contradicting his story for events from that evening.. For his part, MacDonald called Kassab and made a grandiose claim that he and some Green Beret buddies had gone out on the streets to look for the hippies responsible and found and killed one of them. Kassab a one-time Canadian Army intelligence operator who had once lost his own wife and daughter in a bombing of London during World War II initially believed MacDonalds account of the night and became a staunch and vocal supporter of his son-in-law, the Washington Post reported in 1984. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. Who else is going to fight this thing if not me? Kassab said, who had moved to Florida from his Long Island home the year before. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. Waters rubbished that explanation. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. One thing about this case is never in doubt no matter whos talking: If Wade Smith had been able to lead and give his closing remarks, MacDonald would be a free man today. I held out to the last ditch. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. Some people would say that was the wrong thing to do. McGinniss' publisher settled with MacDonald out of court, after the judge called the author a conman. (This story, in its own right, became a famous book about journalistic ethics by Janet Malcolm.). But while Kassab saw MacDonald as an engaged and loving father and husband, Army investigators grew suspicious of MacDonalds account of the killings and ordered him to appear for an Article 32 hearinga military process used to determine whether there was enough evidence to pursue formal charges against MacDonald. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. So MacDonald was the logical choice. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. Whats your sense of this? Mr Oueida has been overseas for most of the time since the attack, predominantly in Lebanon and Dubai a haunt for a string of Australian organised crime figures. I wasnt there that night. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. He has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. And as is believed to have been the case when a large drug shipment made its way to the region in the past five years, and the Kassab/Kheir family made temporary peace with the Tibas that can sometimes mean forming a truce to distribute the product, and ensure its security. In July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. All rights reserved. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. I wouldnt allow myself to believe it, because it made it so much worse that it was he instead of strangers, she later said in an interview, according to the docuseries. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . They introduced a 1970 issue of Esquire found in MacDonalds house containing a detailed account of the Sharon Tate murders to suggest that he had created a copycat story based on the Manson familys crimes. But an unfortunate thing happened in the following years. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. In July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. Of all places! Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. It has Charles Manson written all over it. His memoir first describes the family history, especially the career of his uncle Salim Kassab. Then, meet Christopher Scarver the man who killed cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. That same year, seven drug-linked executions were reported in 10 months. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. When Jeffrey MacDonald came under suspicion for savagely killing his pregnant wife and the couples two young daughters, one man rushed to publicly support him: his father-in-law Freddie Kassab. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. It has Helena Stoeckley, the dominant person who continues to play a remarkable role. Kassab a one-time Canadian Army intelligence operator who had once lost his own wife and daughter in a bombing of London during World War II initially believed MacDonalds account of the night and became a staunch and vocal supporter of his son-in-law, the Washington Post reported in 1984. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. Soon I was reading Morris A Wilderness of Error, feeling skeptical and wondering why this reputable man would involve himself in a case that everyone and their mother (including mine) knew the truth about. Brighton terrorist Yacqub Khayre allegedly was only a phone call to a north-west contact away from being able to obtain the shotgun he used to kill a man, take a woman hostage and shoot three police last month. At some time before 3.30am someone brutally attacked the MacDonald family in their home at 544 Castle Drive on what was then the open military base of Fort Bragg. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. In Fayetteville, an army town, strong tensions existed between army types like Jeffrey MacDonald on one side of the war, and hippies and protesters on the other. It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. Its a disorienting trick. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. Aside from being the Wall Street of Victoria's firearms and drugs market, and the enormous consequences this trafficking has on the state, and the impact on the medical system of record numbers of people being maimed, there are the people who die completely innocently because the rules of these markets means shooting first has become an unwritten rule. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. "We're concentrating on the actions of the shooter, because what happens to the victim is outside our control the line between a non-fatal shooting and a murder is wafer thin. Its hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s and early '70s there were spooky, weird people on acidback then it was believable. MacDonald was convicted twice, both in the courtroom and in the all-important court of public opinion, which was sealed by McGinniss book and miniseries. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. While none of the hairs found at the scene matched Stoeckleys DNA or that of any of her known associates, MacDonald maintains they prove something more essential to his freedom that someone else was there that night. Even scarier stories, Ive found, can be true. I dont know what the odds are. He explained his lie initially by attributing it to drug addiction-induced paranoia and then said he believed that once he told his family the lies, he had to keep lying.. There were few major drug or weapon importations in the state that police could not, in some way, trace back to these families. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. Inside The Assassination Of Detlev Rohwedder, The Politician Who Tried To Unify East And West German Businesses, Someone Just Paid Over $81,000 For A Blood-Stained Lock Of Abraham Lincoln's Hair, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. Waters rubbished that explanation. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. The nine-year lag between the murders and the trial is extremely unusual; experts consider such a lag to pose a great danger of wrongful conviction. While both Detective Inspectors want to reiterate this is rare, it is also their worst fear, and what they are working to stop. Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. It all was intruders. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. These were the families police identified in 2011 as causing most of the trouble in the band, which stretches roughly from Coburg North to Campbellfield, then in an arc around to Altona in Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. The lead prosecutor for the case, Jim Blackburn began to analyze every piece of evidence from the trial, including MacDonald's pajama shirt, which was draped over Colette's body, and the bedsheet she was wrapped in. But Silverglate points out that those lawyers have been up against an increasingly perverse system in which ancient legal rights like habeas corpus have been tossed aside in the name of preserving convictions at any cost. Kassab filed a citizens criminal complaint in April 1974, petitioning a federal court to convene a grand jury and determine if MacDonald could be charged. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. MacDonald was ultimately convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife Colette MacDonald and their two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. In 1905, Wadea married Sara Hajjar, who had been educated at an English boarding school and was teaching at a mission school for Jewish children in Damascus prior to her marriage. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. Family members of radio personality Casey Kasem have settled a lawsuit against his widow that alleged her neglect and physical abuse led to his death in 2014. It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. He read the papers at a little square table and he sat there and he chain smoked three packs a day, day after day after day going over and over everything, Bob Stevenson recalled in the docuseries. He was a nice, presentable young man. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. If he could have a psychotic episode and destroy his family stab them with an ice pick and a knife 100 times, beat them with a stick, then Billy Graham could. "I wish it was as simple as saying all our non-fatal shootings went back to five families, because if it did, we would target those five families and we'd kick it in the guts, but it's actually not that simple.". In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. A lengthy trial heard Moustafa and Kassab had gone to the Brunswick panel beating shop to confront Moustafa over $50,000 in cash and $10,000 in aftershave they believe he had stolen. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. I thought of devils that lurked in human flesh, like in The Exorcist, another popular based-on-a true-story-book-turned-movie of the period that floated around our house. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. WS: Yes. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. In addition, DNA testing on evidence that was recovered from the fingernails scrapings of one of the victims and a hair found under another victim did not match MacDonald. Enough somethings to fill the long, solitary chapters of a mans life unfolding behind prison walls. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. MacDonald said there had been a stabbing and begged for an ambulance. Official trailer for FX documentary series. After learning about the case of convicted killer and U.S. Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald, read about John List, who killed his family in cold blood and then disappeared for 18 years. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. Ron DeSantis and Florida's Doctor Antivax, 'The maths are hard': Marjorie Taylor Greene mocked for not understanding what 'seized' means, Marjorie Taylor Greene garners few sympathizers after claiming she was 'attacked' in a restaurant, 'Thats weaponization': Dem smacks down Jim Jordan for ignoring Trump DOJ corruption, 'Toxic sludge': Paul Ryan torches Tucker Carlson when questioned about Fox News' election coverage, 'Liar, liar': Joe Biden amuses crowd with quip about Marjorie Taylor Greene, 'Really unacceptable': FBI shredded following new watchdog report, 'Im not gonna yield!' WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. But things got out of hand. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. None of this has set MacDonald free. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. There may be hope that MacDonald will eventually gain his freedom and at least be able to live the last few years of his life outside of a prison cell. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. Colette was relieved to find out her husband would not be stationed in Vietnam and the whole family was overjoyed to learn she was pregnant for a third time. Stevenson told reporters in 2005 that he had promised Freddy Kassab on his death bed that he would continue the familys quest to keep MacDonald behind bars, according to The Raleigh News & Observer. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. The loving husband and father. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. Detective Inspector Wayne Newman, from the North-West Metro region, says there has been an increase in higher ranking organised crime figures in the area insulating themselves from possible harm by using youth networks to do the grunt work. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. The new war involves men with names many Victorians could barely pronounce shooting each other in downtrodden suburbs they have almost certainly never visited. Family members of radio personality Casey Kasem have settled a lawsuit against his widow that alleged her neglect and physical abuse led to his death in 2014. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRep. 6,889 Family Trees. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Scott Adams and why American capitalism kneels before a bigger God. In July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. Evidence the defense never saw. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. The man is a fanatic.. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. Kassab filed a citizens criminal complaint in April 1974, petitioning a federal court to convene a grand jury and determine if MacDonald could be charged. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! On the evening of the murders, Jeffrey MacDonald had taken his kids to ride the pony he had bought them, fed them dinner while their mother took a night class, and put them to bed. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. The Tibas, Haddaras, Chaouks, Kassabs, and Kheirs are north-west Melbourne's version of the Five Families, the major players in the New York mafia. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. That is the way our legal system is set up. 26-year-old Colette MacDonald had been stabbed nearly forty times with an icepick and a knife while pig was scrawled on the headboard of her bed in her own blood. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. WS: In every murder of a spouse, the remaining spouse is the number-one suspect and is almost always charged. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? To dislodge an idea reinforced by a popular book and TV phenomenon would be hard enough, but to add the sickening sense that the wrong man has been paying is nearly unthinkable. 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