Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. 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. Not only had the word pig been scrawled on the bedroom headboard in his wifes blood but she and her unborn baby were dead. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . He looked angry on the stand. 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. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. And were very fortunate. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. They dont know the truth any more than I do. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. 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. 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. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. 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. Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. 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. 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. It all was intruders. 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. Invest with us. 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. 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. Wadea and Aelyas Kassab are both buried in Pennsylvania. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. 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. In the end, MacDonald himself took the stand. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. 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. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. The defendant has no obligation to prove anything whatsoever. 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.. 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. 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. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. 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. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. Freddy was not going to quit. The family moved to Chicago after MacDonald was accepted into Northwestern University Medical School. 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. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. 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. But he taunted the police. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRep. MacDonald had no history of violence or temper. MacDonald has had mostly good lawyers, though not always the appropriate ones. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. On Sept. 17, 2012, in Wilmington, N.C., a crowd of familiar faces assembled for a new hearing. Official trailer for FX documentary series. We need your support in this difficult time. In a 2011 press release, the Innocence Project stated:. 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 a. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? 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. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. He made fun of them. 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. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. 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. {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}. He remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. 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. The couples youngest daughter, 2-year-old Kristen, had a total of 33 stab wounds. 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. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. 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. 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. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. But then I felt uneasy. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. And the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, just kept mounting against him and contradicting his story for events from that evening.. The popular story says there was no evidence of intruders. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. 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. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. 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. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. 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. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. Thereafter their lives ran close and parallel courses. But there is a reasonable doubt, and because there is a reasonable doubt it is absolutely clear that he should be set free. McGinniss made the murders sound like the work of a diabolical genius, a man who could transform in a moment from a loving father to a homicidal maniac, and again, in the blink of an eye, to a calculating conman. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. You trust him. Worse still, Judge Franklin Dupree seemed to have his mind made up before the trial began. 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. 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. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. 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. You can give it to him.' Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. Two possibilities: MacDonald is a monster, or he is a victim of terrible injustice. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. 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. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. Kill the pigs.. It implicates us all. 741 Immigration & Travel. Aside from being the Wall Street of Victoria's firearms and drugs market, and the enormous consequences this trafficking has on the state, and the impact on the medical system of record numbers of people being maimed, there are the people who die completely innocently because the rules of these markets means shooting first has become an unwritten rule. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. 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. But an unfortunate thing happened in the following years. There is no finality in injustice. 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. 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 ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. 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. 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. Others would say that that was a healthy thing to do. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. Released and honorably discharged by the Army, MacDonald seemed to be in the clear. 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. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. No attempt was made to locate the woman that night. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. 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. In addition, DNA testing on evidence that was recovered from the fingernails scrapings of one of the victims and a hair found under another victim did not match MacDonald. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. 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. 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. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. Sometimes that doesnt happen. 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. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. I accused the Army of every blunder that they made in the original investigation, he once said, according to the docuseries. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. I wasnt there that night. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords? A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. When a terrible crime is committed, society comes together to find someone to blame and to pay for the collective sense of violation. 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. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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.. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. 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. Anybody could. 741 Immigration & Travel. 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. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. WS: Its an enormous problem. Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. At the time, Kassab still believed the real perpetrators of the crime had been the four hippies that MacDonald said had broken into the home. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. 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. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. And a victim falls on the concrete. Sadly, the family wouldnt survive the next year. 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. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. View all records. He survived. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. 6,889 Family Trees. He could get an answer by the end of this year. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on 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. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. At least six have faced significant criminal charges. He has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. 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. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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. While both Detective Inspectors want to reiterate this is rare, it is also their worst fear, and what they are working to stop. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. But did hippie intruders make sense? Ive had many cases in court. The family claims his body has never been found. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. As I read Morris meticulous examination the evidence, the picture in my mind became less clear. 959 Census & Voter Lists. 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. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. It sickened me and it enraged me.. Judge James Fox, a close friend of Dupree's and quite elderly himself, has taken over and has dismissed appeals. 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. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. 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. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. 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. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. 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