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. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. 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. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? MacDonald claimed the hairs were from the wig of one of the murders, but the forensic examiner incorrectly claimed they were from one of the childrens dolls. 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. It implicates us all. 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. 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. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. 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. 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. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. 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. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. It is also a Manson-like killing. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. 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. 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. Investigating Officer Warren Rock ultimately recommended the charges be dismissed at the conclusion of the hearing and MacDonald began to move forward with his life, leaving the Army, selling most of the familys possessions in a yard sale, and moving to California. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. The strength of the families now almost a decade after the launch of Santiago are largely determined by how many of them have been killed or locked up. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. The couple sued MacDonald in 1987 to try to prevent him from profiting from Joe McGinniss book Fatal Vision, which served as the inspiration for the mini-series. 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. Take a guy like MacDonald. 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. Released and honorably discharged by the Army, MacDonald seemed to be in the clear. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. Worse still, Judge Franklin Dupree seemed to have his mind made up before the trial began. 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. 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.. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. 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. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. 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. Wadea died in February, 1972; Aelyas in October, 1987. 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. This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. 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. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. 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. Soon I was reading Morris A Wilderness of Error, feeling skeptical and wondering why this reputable man would involve himself in a case that everyone and their mother (including mine) knew the truth about. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. Were working to restore it. There was violence. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. None of this has set MacDonald free. Ive got the patience of Job.. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. MacDonald was tried in a civilian court in 1979. We need your support in this difficult time. He moved to California to become the director of emergency medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. 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. 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. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Then, in 2012 Jeffrey MacDonalds most famous defender, filmmaker Errol Morris, was so intrigued by the case that he wrote the 500-page book A Wilderness of Error. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. 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 veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. 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 Judge Fox is also a good man. 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 held out to the last ditch. He could get an answer by the end of this year. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. The list of misfortunes goes on: exculpatory evidence withheld; possible prosecutorial misconduct; and fallible humans who twisted the MacDonald story to fit their own agendas. Whats your sense of this? Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. In the end, MacDonald himself took the stand. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. 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. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. The persistence paid off and in 1974, a grand jury indicted Jeffrey MacDonald on three counts of murder after seven months of testimony and evidence, according to Vanity Fair. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. His memoir first describes the family history, especially the career of his uncle Salim Kassab. The ONeills befriended him and altered the course of his life. And she told him she had been there, at the MacDonald home, the night of the murders. When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. Others would say that that was a healthy thing to do. With their encouragement, he graduated from dental school in Philadelphia in 1895 and set up a practice in Chester. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. You can give it to him.' WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. or click here to become a subscriber. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. 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. 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. Most notably, the holes in the shirt MacDonald had been wearing appeared too smooth and clear cut to indicate self-defense. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. Or maybe theres something else at work: Picture #2 is even more awful to see than Picture #1. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords? Though the U.S. Army formally charged MacDonald with the murders, presiding officer Colonel Warren Rock recommended the charges be dropped. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . Jeffrey MacDonald, a bright young man with everything in life to look forward to, lost his wife and children to senseless, horrific violence. When a terrible crime is committed, society comes together to find someone to blame and to pay for the collective sense of violation. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. He worries that we are moving into a period in which the finality of verdicts is so zealously protected (a legacy, in part, of 9/11) that new evidence offers little hope of challenging them. 2015 NC State University. 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. That was my closing argument. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. 741 Immigration & Travel. 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. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. 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 remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. 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 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. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. View all records. Like Wade Smith, Ive been struck by how many people speak of absolute certainty about what happened that February night over 40 years ago. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. 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 The Washington Post in 1984, just as the popular mini-series Fatal Vision, which depicted the crimes, was airing across the country. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. Bettmann/Getty ImagesA neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. 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. Psychiatric professionals on both sides pronounced him incapable of having committed the crimes. Shes haunting this case. 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. Enough somethings to fill the long, solitary chapters of a mans life unfolding behind prison walls. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. Investigators identified at least 240 leads in the casebut the evidence continued to point back to the MacDonald. 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. He made fun of them. 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. 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. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. 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. 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. 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. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. View all records. 741 Immigration & Travel. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. 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 an unfortunate thing happened in the following years. Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. 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. He was the lawyer she was talking to one-on-one who had been appointed to advise her of her rights. Thinking that he could never reveal it? Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. ". 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. 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. 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. Colette was relieved to find out her husband would not be stationed in Vietnam and the whole family was overjoyed to learn she was pregnant for a third time. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. He did interviews. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 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. I wasnt there that night. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? 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. Evidence the defense never saw. 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. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. 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. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. 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. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. 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. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! 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.. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. A neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. 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. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. 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. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). 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. 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. 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. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. 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