Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. 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. Wadea 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. His uncle, Salim Kassab, was a long-time assistant to, first, Lady Hester Stanhope and later to Elizabeth Bowen Thompson, who helped found British mission schools in Greater Syria. 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. 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. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 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. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. Why did people in the community believe he did it? 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. 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.. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. or click here to become a subscriber. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? 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. The family claims his body has never been found. 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. He was given an honorable discharge. 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. It implicates us all. Ive got the patience of Job.. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. Shes haunting this case. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. 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. 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. Police agree it would be futile to appeal to gun-slingers on the grounds that they could ruin a rival's life. Official trailer for FX documentary series. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. It would take six more months before Mildred Kassab reached the same conclusion. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. 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. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. 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. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. That was my closing argument. ", 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. 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. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. The solution will not be found in just policing, Detective Inspector Newman said, in a common refrain from the modern police force. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. 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. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. 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.. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. Of all places! In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. "There was a young kid that was shot, and he's paralysed from the chest down for the rest of his life. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. 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. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. 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. Sadly, the family wouldnt survive the next year. Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate, has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. 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. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. In the early '80s, I whipped through a dog-eared copy of Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss sensational true-crime novel about the killings. 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. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. Nothing unique in any way. As revealed in footage obtained by The Saturday Age, the latest chapter involves the shooting of the mercurial Mohammed Oueida, a man once described as the new Tony Mokbel, who was only two metres away when a gunman shot at him four times from a car, blasting him in the stomach on April 17. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. Similar to the Chaouks and Haddaras, the Kassabs and the Kheirs who are related clans remain a factor, although their involvement is more peripheral than before. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. 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. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. 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 has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. 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. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. At least six have faced significant criminal charges. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. The defendant has no obligation to prove anything whatsoever. When a terrible crime is committed, society comes together to find someone to blame and to pay for the collective sense of violation. The Esquire story, for all its salaciousness, touched upon real issues that plagued many communities outside of California. 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. A neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. Judge James Fox, a close friend of Dupree's and quite elderly himself, has taken over and has dismissed appeals. It has witchcraft in it. 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. It didnt make sense. His memoir first describes the family history, especially the career of his uncle Salim Kassab. 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. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? Prosecutors appealed the decision to the Supreme Court and in 1978 the countrys highest court decided to reinstate the indictment. 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. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. Two possibilities: MacDonald is a monster, or he is a victim of terrible injustice. The family claims his body has never been found. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. 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.. 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. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. 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. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. The family moved to Chicago after MacDonald was accepted into Northwestern University Medical School. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. 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. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. 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. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 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. 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. Hes the guy that lives next door. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. You can give it to him.' 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. Wadea and Aelyas Kassab are both buried in Pennsylvania. It sickened me and it enraged me.. 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. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). It has Charles Manson written all over it. It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. I wasnt there that night. 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. McGinniss drew on pop-sociology to render an image of a psychopathic killer in the guise of the friendly doctor-next-door; the kind we know from endless horror movies. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. Then, meet Christopher Scarver the man who killed cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. 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. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. 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. The crimes committed by the families were left to locally-based detectives to investigate, rather than specialist squads, until the Santiago Taskforce was formed in 2008. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. Bettmann/Getty ImagesA neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. That didnt happen here. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Good potential for the future, so therefore we saw nothing wrong with them getting married, Kassab once said of his son-in-law, according to the docuseries. 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. 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 His relentless persistence prompted the government to open a second investigation. 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. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. 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. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. The man is a fanatic.. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. 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. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. McGinniss stark rendering of Picture #1 stuck in my mind until recently when a friend from North Carolina told me that Errol Morris had published a book suggesting MacDonald was innocent. MacDonald claimed the mysterious blonde woman who oversaw the murders was wearing a floppy hat and high-heeled boots and was holding a candle while chanting, Acid is groovy. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. 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. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. 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. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. 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. Not only were three hairs discovered at the crime scene that didnt match any of the familys DNA, but an affidavit revealed that Blackburn had allegedly threatened Stoeckley not to tell the truth in court. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. 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.. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . 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. 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. The new war involves men with names many Victorians could barely pronounce shooting each other in downtrodden suburbs they have almost certainly never visited. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . 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. Colettes grieving parents grew suspicious after a November 1970 phone call in which MacDonald claimed he found and killed one of the intruders. Staying on top of the machinations of the underworld can be difficult, Detective Inspector Clark said, but the increased strength of police intelligence meant they were able to increasingly charge gunmen, regardless of whether their victims spoke. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. 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. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. View all records. When Victor Worheide, who was a federal prosecutor, later became interested in the case at the urging of the parents of Colette MacDonald, the case was gone. Oh, yes. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. Wherever you see the label psychopath," you could almost substitute monster or vampire youre talking about an unnatural person who does not behave according to normal human rules, and with that label, you can believe anything of them. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. 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 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. 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