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. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. 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. To do so, they are increasingly trying to appeal to the maternal side of these families, and helping mothers and their children escape the criminal elements in their home, before another brood is infected. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. He is, of course, one of many ensnared in that cycle, particularly in the north-west, which consistently ranks among the worst in the state for employment, education and substance dependence. Please try again later. But he taunted the police. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Mica remembered seeing a woman who fit this description while en route to the scene but said the Armys Criminal Investigation Division (CID) omitted this during their subsequent inquest. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. So MacDonald was the logical choice. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. Hes the guy that lives next door. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. The Tibas, Haddaras, Chaouks, Kassabs, and Kheirs are north-west Melbourne's version of the Five Families, the major players in the New York mafia. He theorized that diet pills caused MacDonald to fly into a fit of rage. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. But there is a reasonable doubt, and because there is a reasonable doubt it is absolutely clear that he should be set free. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. 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. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. The Tibas, Haddaras, Chaouks, Kassabs, and Kheirs are north-west Melbourne's version of the Five Families, the major players in the New York mafia. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. Lynn Parramore: In all your years as a lawyer, what makes this case stand out? 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. 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. 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. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. 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. WebIn July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. 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 couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . 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. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. 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. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. The second is "Kassab Family History by Aelyas Kassab; it is 125 pages and was composed circa 1958. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. WS: Yes. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. WebIn July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. 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. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. 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. That is the way our legal system is set up. 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. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. 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. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. Inexperienced military police failed to pick up a woman near the house who fit MacDonalds description. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. 6,889 Family Trees. He drew on his previous knowledge of MacDonald, who he had met years earlier while courting Colettes mother, Mildred. 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. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. 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. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. After learning about the case of convicted killer and U.S. Army surgeon Jeffrey MacDonald, read about John List, who killed his family in cold blood and then disappeared for 18 years. 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. Family members of radio personality Casey Kasem have settled a lawsuit against his widow that alleged her neglect and physical abuse led to his death in 2014. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. 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. Young woman; old woman. Enough somethings to fill the long, solitary chapters of a mans life unfolding behind prison walls. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. Even scarier stories, Ive found, can be true. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. 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. Brighton terrorist Yacqub Khayre allegedly was only a phone call to a north-west contact away from being able to obtain the shotgun he used to kill a man, take a woman hostage and shoot three police last month. 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. View all records. 6,889 Family Trees. 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. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. ", Bob Stevenson, Colettes brother, described his stepfathers reaction to the television appearance as visceral and said it had wrenched his guts., Things werent being said right, inflections of the voice, he said. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. 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. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. 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. Almost all the of shootings in the north-west, one underworld source said, relate to those at the bottom of the criminal food chain. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. 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. Official trailer for FX documentary series. {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. 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 was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. He didnt do that. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. I held out to the last ditch. "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 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. 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. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. 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. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. 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. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Picture #1. 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.. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. There were few major drug or weapon importations in the state that police could not, in some way, trace back to these families. 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. And, in media appearances like his interview on The Dick Cavett Show, meanwhile, MacDonald appeared suspiciously at ease. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. It has Charles Manson written all over it. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Kill the pigs.. 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). I dont have that magic. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. 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. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. Wadea and Aelyas Kassab are both buried in Pennsylvania. Thereafter their lives ran close and parallel courses. 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. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. MacDonald has had mostly good lawyers, though not always the appropriate ones. None of this has set MacDonald free. Ive got the patience of Job.. Or maybe theres something else at work: Picture #2 is even more awful to see than Picture #1. Some people would say that was the wrong thing to do. The family claims his body has never been found. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. 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. Next, the defense decided to call the suspected blonde woman Helena Stoeckley as a witness. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Oh, yes. 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.. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. He worked first in a stove factory, a physically taxing and low-paying job, and later became a molder in a factory making brake shoes for the railroad. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. 959 Census & Voter Lists. 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. It is also a Manson-like killing. Tonight when I retire to my bed, I will not feel as safe from unpredictable evils as I did when I was a teenager reading scary stories. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. 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. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. 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. Inside The Assassination Of Detlev Rohwedder, The Politician Who Tried To Unify East And West German Businesses, Someone Just Paid Over $81,000 For A Blood-Stained Lock Of Abraham Lincoln's Hair, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. MacDonald claimed he'd broke his arm in the fatal scuffle, but Kearns would later say in an interview that authorities had MacDonald under surveillance at the time and did not observe any broken arm. 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It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. I wouldnt allow myself to believe it, because it made it so much worse that it was he instead of strangers, she later said in an interview, according to the docuseries. MacDonald was tried in a civilian court in 1979. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. 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. Courting Colettes mother, Mildred managed to alienate the entire courtroom moise A. Center! 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