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. Then, in 2012 Jeffrey MacDonalds most famous defender, filmmaker Errol Morris, was so intrigued by the case that he wrote the 500-page book A Wilderness of Error. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. The stakes are too high for it not to work, Detective Inspector Clark said. 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 more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. The ONeills befriended him and altered the course of his life. Other witnesses claimed that Stoeckly had confessed at various times that she thought she might have been present during the murders. 959 Census & Voter Lists. 2015 NC State University. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. That was my closing argument. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. He told authorities that hetried to fight off the attackers but was wounded and eventually collapsed in the hallwaylater regaining consciousness and discovering his family had been killed, according to the new FX docuseries A Wilderness of Error.. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. 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. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. In 1982, she sat down with Gunderson and Beasley in a taped interview, claiming that she had been part of a satanic cult that had killed the family because MacDonald was not cooperative in helping heroin addicts during his time at Fort Bragg. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. Waters rubbished that explanation. 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. 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. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. View all records. We decided we needed Freddie and Mildred Kassab on our sides, lead investigator Peter Kearns said in a December 1986 lecture on the case, according to the docuseries. I was born in May of that year, and would thus be the same age as the child Colette MacDonald was carrying when her life was snuffed out. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. 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. Released and honorably discharged by the Army, MacDonald seemed to be in the clear. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? You can give it to him.' 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. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. MacDonald claimed the hairs were from the wig of one of the murders, but the forensic examiner incorrectly claimed they were from one of the childrens dolls. WS: Yes. But did hippie intruders make sense? The couple sued MacDonald in 1987 to try to prevent him from profiting from Joe McGinniss book Fatal Vision, which served as the inspiration for the mini-series. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. Were working to restore it. It was almost as scary as Helter Skelter the story of the Charles Manson murders in Californa that are said to have inspired Jeffrey MacDonald in the coverup for his homicidal rampage. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. Its hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s and early '70s there were spooky, weird people on acidback then it was believable. 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. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. It implicates us all. Of those in prison, one was jailed for having guns that so troubled a judge she described them as "the sort of weapons that were used down in Tasmania", a reference to the Port Arthur massacre. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. 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.. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. Most notably, the holes in the shirt MacDonald had been wearing appeared too smooth and clear cut to indicate self-defense. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. I began to see that Joe McGinniss creation of Picture #1 might be just that: a creation. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. Their hold on the region no longer remains absolute. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. And she told him she had been there, at the MacDonald home, the night of the murders. It didnt make sense. All rights reserved. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! He looked angry on the stand. 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. But he had multiple bruises and puncture wounds, and two stab wounds, including one that collapsed his lung -- a serious injury that left him falling in and out of consciouness. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. 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. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. Brian Murtaugh says, Sure, Ill give it to him. View all records. Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. 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. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. 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.). There is no finality in injustice. In the early '80s, I whipped through a dog-eared copy of Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss sensational true-crime novel about the killings. Worse still, Judge Franklin Dupree seemed to have his mind made up before the trial began. {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Why did people in the community believe he did it? 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. In 1982, she sat down with Gunderson and Beasley in a taped interview, claiming that she had been part of a satanic cult that had killed the family because MacDonald was not cooperative in helping heroin addicts during his time at Fort Bragg. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. 6,889 Family Trees. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. The loving husband and father. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. The surgical gloves used to scrawl pig on the headboard were identical to the supply MacDonald kept in his kitchen. But in the years that followed the gruesome murders, Kassab drastically changed his opinion of his surgeon son-in-law and became one of MacDonalds fiercest adversariesleading the charge to have MacDonald tried for three counts of murder in the case. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Hes the guy that lives next door. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. As I read Morris meticulous examination the evidence, the picture in my mind became less clear. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. 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. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. He has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. Anybody could. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. MacDonald was ultimately convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife Colette MacDonald and their two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 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. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. 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. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Ive had many cases in court. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. 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. Carl Williams was a boy from Broady, whose fat fingers spread across the state, but we know little about the boys from Broady who are ordering murders and peddling drugs now. 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. Oh, yes. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. LP: One of the things that struck me in reading Errol Morris book was the use of the psychopath diagnosis in court and how problematic that is. 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. 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. 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. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. "There's a lot of luck good and bad in a non-fatal shooting, You can be shot once and die, or you can be shot five times and live. Waters rubbished that explanation. "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. Jeffrey MacDonald, a Princeton-educated Green Beret doctor with no history of violence and a sterling record, butchered his pregnant wife and two young daughters using a knife, ice pick and club. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. But things got out of hand. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. 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. 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. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. But there was, including wax drippings (MacDonald insisted that one of the intruders carried a candle), fibers, and hairs that did not belong to the household or family members. Whats your sense of this? He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. It has witchcraft in it. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. 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. He was given an honorable discharge. Enough somethings to fill the long, solitary chapters of a mans life unfolding behind prison walls. 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.. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. "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.". Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. 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. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. There was violence. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. 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. 6,889 Family Trees. And a victim falls on the concrete. He worries that we are moving into a period in which the finality of verdicts is so zealously protected (a legacy, in part, of 9/11) that new evidence offers little hope of challenging them. Thinking that he could never reveal it? Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. Kassab wanted to find justice and began writing letters to the Army and congressmen slamming the investigators for their errors and urging authorities to continue the investigation. That didnt happen here. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. Investigators identified at least 240 leads in the casebut the evidence continued to point back to the MacDonald. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate, has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. ", 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. 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. 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. Out of all the evidentiary and procedural twists and turns, I asked Silverglate to name the one that bothered him the most about the MacDonald case. Tonight when I retire to my bed, I will not feel as safe from unpredictable evils as I did when I was a teenager reading scary stories. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. There were fibers from a blonde wig that matched the description of Helena Stoeckley. 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. 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. 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. Official trailer for FX documentary series. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. The one thing that sticks in my craw above anything else is this: There were lab results. The idea that people that were so certain who dont know any more than I do -- I dont believe Ill ever understand how they could be so sure. 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. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. 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. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. I contacted his office, and to my surprise, he was willing to talk to me. 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. 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. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? Aelyas kept the practice going while Wadea gave himself to real estate; when Wadea lost everything, he was able to resume his practice seamlessly by rejoining his brother. Some criminal networks were recently identified as having more than 1000 members, of various ages and ethnic backgrounds; unlike the five families, they were not simply the first generation of children born in Australia to parents hailing from northern Lebanon. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. 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. Mica remembered seeing a woman who fit this description while en route to the scene but said the Armys Criminal Investigation Division (CID) omitted this during their subsequent inquest. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. 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. He could get an answer by the end of this year. 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. And, in media appearances like his interview on The Dick Cavett Show, meanwhile, MacDonald appeared suspiciously at ease. 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. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. A grandson, also called Abdul, was considered such a threat he was subject to a National Anti-Gang Squad investigation last year the Australian Federal Police led team that represents an even greater escalation in the police response than the formation of Santiago. The CIDs five-month-long interrogation (referred to as an Article 32 hearing) began in April, with officials intent on using only physical evidence and MacDonalds own statements to form their view. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. 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. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. 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. 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. 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. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. Since 1979, the MacDonald case has continued to trouble those who delve beneath the surface of the media narrative. Please try again later. 6,889 Family Trees. That kind of story never ends. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? He did interviews. Though the U.S. Army formally charged MacDonald with the murders, presiding officer Colonel Warren Rock recommended the charges be dropped. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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