He claimed there was insufficient evidence, while civilian defense attorney Bernard Segal argued the CID had improperly handled the scene and that alternative suspects like local drug addict Helena Stoeckley, believed to be the blonde woman at the scene, continued to roam free. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. 959 Census & Voter Lists. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Despite a lack of motive and no history of violence, MacDonald was convicted of the second-degree murders of Colette and Kimberly, and the first-degree murder of Kristen. To do so, they are increasingly trying to appeal to the maternal side of these families, and helping mothers and their children escape the criminal elements in their home, before another brood is infected. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. 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. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. 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 he is hopeful that the Fourth Court of Appeals, located in Richmond, Virginia, will take a careful look at the case and as a whole be more favorable to MacDonald. Waters rubbished that explanation. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. ", Bob Stevenson, Colettes brother, described his stepfathers reaction to the television appearance as visceral and said it had wrenched his guts., Things werent being said right, inflections of the voice, he said. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? Police agree it would be futile to appeal to gun-slingers on the grounds that they could ruin a rival's life. That, in turn, drives a burgeoning black market for firearms, and has made the north-west the centre of the gun trade in this state. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. Wadea died in February, 1972; Aelyas in October, 1987. Bob Riha Jr./Getty ImagesMacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. You trust him. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. Who else is going to fight this thing if not me? Freddy Kassab said of his years-long quest to put his son-in-law Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars for killing his stepdaughter and two young granddaughters. Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. After traveling a months-long journey that has led me from certainty to doubt to horror at a grave injustice, Im going to turn in this article and then go run some errands and make myself a bite to eat. Since adapted into a documentary series of the same name directed by Marc Smirling, the project aims to detail how much evidence Morris believes was lost, mismanaged or glaringly unreliable from the start. She was the type of girlthe best way I can explain it, I never met a girl that did not like Colette, he once told the Washington Post. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. That didnt happen here. MacDonald, bloody but alive, was next to his wife, who had been pregnant with their third child when she was stabbed 16 times with a kitchen knife and 21 times with an icepick. 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. He worked first in a stove factory, a physically taxing and low-paying job, and later became a molder in a factory making brake shoes for the railroad. Not only did the U.S. Army surgeon marry his high school sweetheart, but he had a flourishing career, two beautiful young daughters, and a son on the way. 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. Investigating Officer Warren Rock ultimately recommended the charges be dismissed at the conclusion of the hearing and MacDonald began to move forward with his life, leaving the Army, selling most of the familys possessions in a yard sale, and moving to California. You can give it to him.' Since 1979, the MacDonald case has continued to trouble those who delve beneath the surface of the media narrative. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. WebIn July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. 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. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. MacDonald had only one stab wound, which the hospital surgeon later described as a clean, small, sharp incision that made his left lung partially collapse. It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. 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. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. The man is a fanatic.. 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. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. The persistence paid off and in 1974, a grand jury indicted Jeffrey MacDonald on three counts of murder after seven months of testimony and evidence, according to Vanity Fair. Which leaves one of the five families the Tibas. Judge Fox is also a good man. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. The strength of the families now almost a decade after the launch of Santiago are largely determined by how many of them have been killed or locked up. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. 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. Every reader contribution, no matter the amount, makes a difference in allowing our newsroom to bring you the stories that matter, at a time when being informed is more important than ever. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. Some of the facts I thought I knew began to look more like ideas conjured by eager prosecutors and a journalist who had dealt so disingenuously with Jeffrey MacDonald in writing Fatal Vision that he was sued after publication. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. It sickened me and it enraged me.. At least six have faced significant criminal charges. He looked angry on the stand. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. But then I felt uneasy. These victims include Rachad Adra, who was killed and his four-year-old son injured, when a gunman with a high-powered weapon shot the wrong house in Thomastown in October 2015, and Khaled Abouhasna, who was killed in a shooting ambush six months earlier when he was mistaken for a ruthless standover man. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. I used to joke with him when I saw him around Hey Jerry, isnt there something you want to tell us? But he couldnt, and he likely would have gone to his grave carrying the secret of what Helena told him had it not been for that hearing. Segal took up nearly all the time in the critical period for closing remarks and left only a few minutes for co-counsel Wade Smith, an eloquent native North Carolinian who understood the jury. 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 the west. 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. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. "The message is, if you get shot, even if you don't tell us who did it, we are still going to investigate it, and we're still highly likely to get a result," Detective Inspector Clark said. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Colette had been stabbed 16 times and punctured 21 times with an ice pick, while 5-year-old Kimberley was killed by six blows to the head and eightto 10 stab wounds, according to a1998 Vanity Fair article. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. These shootings rarely involve significant figures, such as Oueida, or Nabil Maghnie, who was shot in the head last September but survived, or George Marrogi, who was charged with a shooting murder that same month. A judge later awarded MacDonald $50,000 of the proceeds but gave the remainder of his $325,000 share to attorneys, MacDonalds mother and the Kassabs. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? 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. That was my closing argument. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . 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. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be catastrophic not only to our health - mental and physical - but also to the stability of millions of people. To realize he had done it, and Colette loved him, and when you sit back and picture in your minds eye what happened that night, with him attacking, and I know from the autopsy reports what was done to the two children, you cant help but visualize in your mind, though we dont talk about it, Freddy Kassab told The Washington Post in 1984, just as the popular mini-series Fatal Vision, which depicted the crimes, was airing across the country. I think that one of the problems MacDonald had was that they expected him to undertake to find these killers, to go on a mission to find them. And the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, just kept mounting against him and contradicting his story for events from that evening.. 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. The stakes are too high for it not to work, Detective Inspector Clark said. Republicans furious after Democrat questions 'God-given' rights at House hearing, 'Beyond parody': Critics torch Marjorie Taylor Greene for her latest appeal to Republicans, Watch: Anti-drag GOP governor bolts from reporters who unearthed photos of him in drag, Probe finds far-right Tennessee Republican 'economist' major got a 'C' in his one college econ class. Waters rubbished that explanation. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. But MacDonalds legal teamled by Bernie Segalpersuaded the Fourth Circuit Court to throw out the charges, claiming that MacDonald had been denied a speedy trial. Ive had many cases in court. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. Psychiatric professionals on both sides pronounced him incapable of having committed the crimes. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Next, the defense decided to call the suspected blonde woman Helena Stoeckley as a witness. 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. I have read transcripts, articles, books, opinions, blogs, and bizarre rantings about psychopaths on Joe McGinniss Web site to help me more clearly see the picture of the MacDonald case. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. He theorized that diet pills caused MacDonald to fly into a fit of rage. The loving husband and father. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. It implicates us all. It would take six more months before Mildred Kassab reached the same conclusion. MacDonald was ultimately convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife Colette MacDonald and their two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen. In 1989after Freddy Kassab had been diagnosed with emphysemahe decided to videotape his arguments against MacDonalds release and arranged for the tape to be played, if necessary, in front of a parole board after he died, according to the Orlando Sentinel. 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. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. 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. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. Lynn Parramore: In all your years as a lawyer, what makes this case stand out? Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. Its a disorienting trick. Freddy Kassab had inserted himself into the 1970 military hearing and made himself the center of a media circus, holding news conferences and firing off letters to members of Congress. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. 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. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. The families have been involved in drug trafficking since at least the turn of the century, or, in the case of Macchour Chaouk, the patriarch of that family, since 1983. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Most people who go through traumatic things like this, nowhere near as lengthy, almost always end up in divorce, but with us its drawn us closer.. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. Together, the manuscripts provide a detailed look into nearly a century of one familys history in Syria and the United States, as well as a rich insight into the social fabric and workplace challenges faced by early immigrants. It has witchcraft in it. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. The surgical gloves used to scrawl pig on the headboard were identical to the supply MacDonald kept in his kitchen. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. The ONeills befriended him and altered the course of his life. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. I dont know what the odds are. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. In a video published online in December, he spoke about how he had overcome drug addiction, and detailed the cycle of using, getting hooked, needing money, and then committing crime. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. Freddy Kassab had inserted himself into the 1970 military hearing and made himself the center of a media circus, holding news conferences and firing off letters to members of Congress. I began to see that Joe McGinniss creation of Picture #1 might be just that: a creation. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. 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. But things got out of hand. When the initial military hearing was conducted in 1970, no one in his life could be found who had a bad thing to say about him. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. He could get an answer by the end of this year. According to exclusive statistics from the armed crime squad, there has been a five-fold increase in non-fatal shootings in the north-west in four years and the region now sees almost two thirds of Victoria's non-fatal shootings. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. 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. WS: Its an enormous problem. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! His memoir reads as a classic Syrian rags-to-riches story, except for the fact that he lost everything when he speculated in real estate just before the Great Depression. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. 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. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. But it is also hard to feel any empathy, or concern as Victorians do about other crimes against more innocent victims that it could happen to them. The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. 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. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. 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. When you accept Picture #1, youre deciding that Jeffrey MacDonald is the Person Who Must Pay. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. Anybody could. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. He is, of course, one of many ensnared in that cycle, particularly in the north-west, which consistently ranks among the worst in the state for employment, education and substance dependence. 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. 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. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. So did I. I grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, about an hour from the Fort Bragg army base in Fayetteville where the murders occurred on Feb. 17, 1970, in the middle of the night. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. He claimed that he had been asleep on the couch when at least, 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, We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. 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). They are the dealers who, as Osman Tiba alluded to, were probably driven to the job because of their own addictions who cannot afford to forgive a middling debt, even if it is only for a few hundred dollars. 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. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. 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. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. It didnt make sense. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. 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