Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. 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. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? And, in media appearances like his interview on The Dick Cavett Show, meanwhile, MacDonald appeared suspiciously at ease. 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 this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. View all records. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. 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. 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.. Picture #2. That got my attention: the Oscar-winning Morris, whose film The Thin Blue Line exonerated a Texas man wrongfully convicted for murder, is one of the worlds great documentary filmmakers. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. The family claims his body has never been found. 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. 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. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). "Memoirs" by Wadea Kassab recounts Wadea's life from his childhood in Damascus and Bloudan, to his immigration to America in 1889, and through his pursuit of education and a career in dentistry. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. 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. 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. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. 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 Oh, yes. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said 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. 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. View all records. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. Jeffrey MacDonald, a bright young man with everything in life to look forward to, lost his wife and children to senseless, horrific violence. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. 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.. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. 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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. It is also a Manson-like killing. 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 He awoke to the sound of screaming and found three male intruders being overseen by a blonde woman. 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. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. MacDonald said there had been a stabbing and begged for an ambulance. 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. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Anybody could. 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. The social justice movement is now involved; the Innocence Project, a prestigious nationwide network dedicated to exonerating the wrongfully convicted, has worked strenuously to overturn MacDonalds conviction. 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. 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 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. There are only two possible pictures, both nightmares. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. ". LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. 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. The defendant has no obligation to prove anything whatsoever. 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. 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. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. 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. That was my closing argument. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. 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. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. 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.. 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 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. 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. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. Waters rubbished that explanation. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. Most recently, retired US Marshall Jimmy Britt came forward with information that another suspect in the case, Helena Stoeckley, admitted to the prosecutor that she was in the house on the night of MacDonalds murder and that he threatened to indict her for first-degree murder if she admitted that in court. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. 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. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. 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. In the early '80s, I whipped through a dog-eared copy of Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss sensational true-crime novel about the killings. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. 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. 6,889 Family Trees. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. 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 Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. 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. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. Hes the guy that lives next door. Picture #1. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. Freddy was not going to quit. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. But he taunted the police. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. 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. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 741 Immigration & Travel. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Kassab said in that moment, as he stood in the preserved crime scene, he realized the man he had once considered a loving partner to his stepdaughter had slaughtered his family and then staged the attack. 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. MacDonald claimed he'd broke his arm in the fatal scuffle, but Kearns would later say in an interview that authorities had MacDonald under surveillance at the time and did not observe any broken arm. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. He was a nice, presentable young man. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. Its a case that if you were telling scary stories around the dining room table and you had all your family gathered, people could hardly believe it. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the, 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, 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. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. There is no finality in injustice. 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. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. 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/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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. 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. LP: What has this case revealed about the flaws in our judicial system? WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? 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.. Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. No attempt was made to locate the woman that night. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. As I read Morris meticulous examination the evidence, the picture in my mind became less clear. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald, Joe McGinnis, prosecutor James Blackburn (who went to prison himself for defrauding his clients), Wade Smith and others newer to the case gathered once again to testify. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. I dont know what the odds are. I contacted his office, and to my surprise, he was willing to talk to me. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. 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. 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. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. 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. Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords? He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. Kill the pigs.. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. 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. 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. I held out to the last ditch. Almost as notable as the endurance of these figures has been the relative indifference of society to the violence, particularly when compared with Melbourne's gangland war. 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. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Scott Adams and why American capitalism kneels before a bigger God. 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. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Melbourne's north-west has soaked in blood for more than a decade, with crime families that still reign despite prison time, drive-by hits, and police task forces. 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. 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. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. Next, the defense decided to call the suspected blonde woman Helena Stoeckley as a witness. Were working to restore it. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. 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. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. It frustrates police that low-level gangsters without a shred of integrity jut their chins out and shake their heads in a misplaced attempt at honour when asked who shot them, despite, in many instances, being maimed for life. Every time we pursued a lead it just turned us around and directed us back toward Jeffrey MacDonald. 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 remember saying, It doesnt matter. 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. Like Wade Smith, Ive been struck by how many people speak of absolute certainty about what happened that February night over 40 years ago. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. Such is the power of a good story. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. He did interviews. 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. The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. In 1921, Aelyas married Soumaya Khoury of Beirut, Lebanon; by all accounts the two were deeply in love, and they died within 48 hours of one another. 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. It sickened me and it enraged me.. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. 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 now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. He didnt do that. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. 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. 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. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. 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