WS: Yes. Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. 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. But there is a reasonable doubt, and because there is a reasonable doubt it is absolutely clear that he should be set free. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. 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. 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. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. 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. 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. But did hippie intruders make sense? He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. 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. It would take six more months before Mildred Kassab reached the same conclusion. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. It has witchcraft in it. 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. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Almost all the of shootings in the north-west, one underworld source said, relate to those at the bottom of the criminal food chain. 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. 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. 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. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . It implicates us all. 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. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. 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. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. Four men walking to a car, a silver four-wheel drive pulling alongside and obscuring them from view, and then Oueida writhing on the ground, before he hobbles for his life, back towards the Coburg Mosque, where he had just finished afternoon prayer. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. The families have been involved in drug trafficking since at least the turn of the century, or, in the case of Macchour Chaouk, the patriarch of that family, since 1983. Kassab 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. So MacDonald was the logical choice. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. Bob Riha Jr./Getty ImagesMacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. 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. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. He theorized that diet pills caused MacDonald to fly into a fit of rage. 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. 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. Since last September, the Tibas are suspected of involvement in at least six non-fatal shootings, a bashing and multiple home invasions. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. 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.. 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. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. 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. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. Most notably, the holes in the shirt MacDonald had been wearing appeared too smooth and clear cut to indicate self-defense. Of all places! 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. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Thinking that he could never reveal it? The man is a fanatic.. The irony not lost on police, community members and other underworld figures is that while Osman may be a victim of that cycle, his family have survived from perpetuating it. 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. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Many think this woman could have been Helena Stoeckley, a drug abuser and professed member of a witchcraft cult who repeatedly confessed to having been at the MacDonald house the night of the murders, but recanted her story whenever she seemed to fear prosecution. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Lynn Parramore: In all your years as a lawyer, what makes this case stand out? There was violence. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. That kind of story never ends. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). Its a disorienting trick. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. 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. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. 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 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. Investigators identified at least 240 leads in the casebut the evidence continued to point back to the MacDonald. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. In a 2011 press release, the Innocence Project stated:. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. 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 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. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. Young woman; old woman. 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. He was given an honorable discharge. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. 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. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. That was my closing argument. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Two-year-old Kristen had 33 knife- and 15 icepick wounds in her torso, while five-year-old Kimberly was bludgeoned to death. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. 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 absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. I held out to the last ditch. 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. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. 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. 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. The loving husband and father. 741 Immigration & Travel. The family moved to Chicago after MacDonald was accepted into Northwestern University Medical School. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. They are the dealers who, as Osman Tiba alluded to, were probably driven to the job because of their own addictions who cannot afford to forgive a middling debt, even if it is only for a few hundred dollars. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. He remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. 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. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. They dont know the truth any more than I do. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. 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. 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. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. He did interviews. Waters rubbished that explanation. Take a guy like MacDonald. We need your support in this difficult time. 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. He made fun of them. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. The family claims his body has never been found. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. 2015 NC State University. 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 The Raleigh News & Observer. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. 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 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. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. It has Helena Stoeckley, the dominant person who continues to play a remarkable role. 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.. Years after he was blasted with a shotgun by a crime figure who continues to wield influence in the north-west, one victim is still dealing with his injuries. None of this has set MacDonald free. Whats your sense of this? The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. These shootings rarely involve significant figures, such as Oueida, or Nabil Maghnie, who was shot in the head last September but survived, or George Marrogi, who was charged with a shooting murder that same month. 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. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. 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. Ive had many cases in court. 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. 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. He could get an answer by the end of this year. Brian Murtaugh says, Sure, Ill give it to him. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. 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. 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 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. 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. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. Theres a note attached. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? As if they had seen it with their own eyes. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. Why did people in the community believe he did it? It didnt make sense. It all was intruders. But it wasnt until Kassab revisited the crime scene himself in 1972 that he finally believed that his son-in-law had been the killer. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. or click here to become a subscriber. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. There were few major drug or weapon importations in the state that police could not, in some way, trace back to these families. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. That is the way our legal system is set up. Picture #2. 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. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? 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. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. 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