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. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. 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. Aside from being the Wall Street of Victoria's firearms and drugs market, and the enormous consequences this trafficking has on the state, and the impact on the medical system of record numbers of people being maimed, there are the people who die completely innocently because the rules of these markets means shooting first has become an unwritten rule. But an unfortunate thing happened in the following years. 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. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. 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. 6,889 Family Trees. 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 shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. Take a guy like MacDonald. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. 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. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. "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. 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. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. 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. Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate, has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. He moved to California to become the director of emergency medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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 could have gone on with his life, and he should have. 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. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. 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. 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. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. "There was a young kid that was shot, and he's paralysed from the chest down for the rest of his life. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. Bob Riha Jr./Getty ImagesMacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. 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. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. And were very fortunate. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. 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. Nothing unique in any way. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords? After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. 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. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. Every time we pursued a lead it just turned us around and directed us back toward Jeffrey MacDonald. For his part, MacDonald called Kassab and made a grandiose claim that he and some Green Beret buddies had gone out on the streets to look for the hippies responsible and found and killed one of them. 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. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. 6,889 Family Trees. I began to see that Joe McGinniss creation of Picture #1 might be just that: a creation. 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). Like Wade Smith, Ive been struck by how many people speak of absolute certainty about what happened that February night over 40 years ago. Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. Evidence the defense never saw. But then I felt uneasy. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. It sickened me and it enraged me.. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. They dont know the truth any more than I do. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. 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. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. 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. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. 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. 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. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. This can drive a surge in shootings, and then be forgotten again just as quickly, said Detective Inspector Stephen Clark of the armed crime squad. The loving husband and father. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Brian Murtaugh says, Sure, Ill give it to him. 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. 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. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. 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. 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. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. 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 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 Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. 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. It didnt make sense. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. 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. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. McGinniss stark rendering of Picture #1 stuck in my mind until recently when a friend from North Carolina told me that Errol Morris had published a book suggesting MacDonald was innocent. 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. Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. Other witnesses claimed that Stoeckly had confessed at various times that she thought she might have been present during the murders. Kill the pigs.. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. 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. 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. 2015 NC State University. He remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called a nice, presentable young man?". Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. 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. Not only had the word pig been scrawled on the bedroom headboard in his wifes blood but she and her unborn baby were dead. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? The couples youngest daughter, 2-year-old Kristen, had a total of 33 stab wounds. Waters rubbished that explanation. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. 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. 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. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 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. 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. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. It is also a Manson-like killing. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. First responder Kenneth Mica discovered the bodies, with MacDonald laying wounded but alive next to his battered and lifeless wife. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. 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.). WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. We need your support in this difficult time. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. It has Helena Stoeckley, the dominant person who continues to play a remarkable role. 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. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. 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. 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. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. 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. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. It implicates us all. Thank you. 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. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. 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. 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. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. That is the way our legal system is set up. 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. Freddy was not going to quit. 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.. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. The nine-year lag between the murders and the trial is extremely unusual; experts consider such a lag to pose a great danger of wrongful conviction. Thinking that he could never reveal it? Psychiatric professionals on both sides pronounced him incapable of having committed the crimes. This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. I dont know what the odds are. 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. Waters rubbished that explanation. The family claims his body has never been found. Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. 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. View all records. 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. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. Judge Fox is also a good man. 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 adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. 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. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. Colettes grieving parents grew suspicious after a November 1970 phone call in which MacDonald claimed he found and killed one of the intruders. 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. 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. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. 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