Aelyas kept the practice going while Wadea gave himself to real estate; when Wadea lost everything, he was able to resume his practice seamlessly by rejoining his brother. And a victim falls on the concrete. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. 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. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. His relentless persistence prompted the government to open a second investigation. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. 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. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. 2015 NC State University. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. Wadea and Aelyas Kassab are both buried in Pennsylvania. Kill the pigs.. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. 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. 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. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. He could get an answer by the end of this year. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. 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. 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. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, The solution will not be found in just policing, Detective Inspector Newman said, in a common refrain from the modern police force. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. 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. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. "I wish it was as simple as saying all our non-fatal shootings went back to five families, because if it did, we would target those five families and we'd kick it in the guts, but it's actually not that simple.". 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. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. But then I felt uneasy. 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. 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. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? 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. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. 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 couples youngest daughter, 2-year-old Kristen, had a total of 33 stab wounds. The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. I dont have that magic. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate, has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. 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. "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. In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. 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. 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 family claims his body has never been found. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. Nonexclusive right to authorize all uses of these materials for non-commercial research, scholarly, or other educational purposes are granted to Khayrallah Center pursuant to Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA). "The message is, if you get shot, even if you don't tell us who did it, we are still going to investigate it, and we're still highly likely to get a result," Detective Inspector Clark said. At least six have faced significant criminal charges. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Worse still, Judge Franklin Dupree seemed to have his mind made up before the trial began. 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"There was a young kid that was shot, and he's paralysed from the chest down for the rest of his life. ". Thinking that he could never reveal it? I contacted his office, and to my surprise, he was willing to talk to me. 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. Who else is going to fight this thing if not me? Freddy Kassab said of his years-long quest to put his son-in-law Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars for killing his stepdaughter and two young granddaughters. Freddy was not going to quit. 26-year-old Colette MacDonald had been stabbed nearly forty times with an icepick and a knife while pig was scrawled on the headboard of her bed in her own blood. 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. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. There is no finality in injustice. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. 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. 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. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. MacDonald was ultimately convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife Colette MacDonald and their two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen. Their hold on the region no longer remains absolute. Were working to restore it. Even scarier stories, Ive found, can be true. 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. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? WS: In every murder of a spouse, the remaining spouse is the number-one suspect and is almost always charged. 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. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 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. 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. McGinniss' publisher settled with MacDonald out of court, after the judge called the author a conman. (This story, in its own right, became a famous book about journalistic ethics by Janet Malcolm.). Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. But many of the major players now are either related to these families, or closely linked within the criminal milieu. Colettes grieving parents grew suspicious after a November 1970 phone call in which MacDonald claimed he found and killed one of the intruders. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. The ONeills befriended him and altered the course of his life. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . 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. In the end, MacDonald himself took the stand. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. 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. 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. There may be hope that MacDonald will eventually gain his freedom and at least be able to live the last few years of his life outside of a prison cell. The family moved to Chicago after MacDonald was accepted into Northwestern University Medical School. The one thing that sticks in my craw above anything else is this: There were lab results. 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. There was violence. 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 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. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. Waters rubbished that explanation. 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. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. Of all places! He has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. We need your support in this difficult time. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. It sickened me and it enraged me.. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 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And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did 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. 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. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. Not only had the word pig been scrawled on the bedroom headboard in his wifes blood but she and her unborn baby were dead. 959 Census & Voter Lists. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. Sometimes that doesnt happen. But things got out of hand. 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.. "There's a lot of luck good and bad in a non-fatal shooting, You can be shot once and die, or you can be shot five times and live. 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. 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. 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. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. He did interviews. 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. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. 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 a1998 Vanity Fair article. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. 741 Immigration & Travel. 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. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Anybody could. 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. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. Since 1979, the MacDonald case has continued to trouble those who delve beneath the surface of the media narrative. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. 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.. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. The family claims his body has never been found. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. 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 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.. LP: What has this case revealed about the flaws in our judicial system? Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 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. They dont know the truth any more than I do. 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. Which leaves one of the five families the Tibas. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be catastrophic not only to our health - mental and physical - but also to the stability of millions of people. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 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. His wife Colette and his children have also been forever denied these things -- but not, I have come to believe, by the man who is currently serving three consecutive life sentences. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. All rights reserved. Other witnesses claimed that Stoeckly had confessed at various times that she thought she might have been present during the murders. The family claims his body has never been found. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. It is also a Manson-like killing. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. "We're concentrating on the actions of the shooter, because what happens to the victim is outside our control the line between a non-fatal shooting and a murder is wafer thin. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. 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. 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. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. 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.. Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. When you accept Picture #1, youre deciding that Jeffrey MacDonald is the Person Who Must Pay. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. 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