Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. 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. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. Two-year-old Kristen had 33 knife- and 15 icepick wounds in her torso, while five-year-old Kimberly was bludgeoned to death. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. 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. 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. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. 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. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? 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. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. You can give it to him.' 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. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. He made fun of them. 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. There are only two possible pictures, both nightmares. 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. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. 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. Official trailer for FX documentary series. 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. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. 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. 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. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. 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. 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. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. He looked angry on the stand. Wadea left Syria in 1889 with two companions and arrived in the United States that same year. 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. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! The family claims his body has never been found. It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. 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. 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. LP: What has this case revealed about the flaws in our judicial system? Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. 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. To dislodge an idea reinforced by a popular book and TV phenomenon would be hard enough, but to add the sickening sense that the wrong man has been paying is nearly unthinkable. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. Kassab said in that moment, as he stood in the preserved crime scene, he realized the man he had once considered a loving partner to his stepdaughter had slaughtered his family and then staged the attack. In 1982, she sat down with Gunderson and Beasley in a taped interview, claiming that she had been part of a satanic cult that had killed the family because MacDonald was not cooperative in helping heroin addicts during his time at Fort Bragg. The family moved to Chicago after MacDonald was accepted into Northwestern University Medical School. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . View all records. WS: Yes. That is the way our legal system is set up. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. Waters rubbished that explanation. Melbourne's north-west has soaked in blood for more than a decade, with crime families that still reign despite prison time, drive-by hits, and police task forces. 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. MacDonald was ultimately convicted in 1979 for killing his pregnant wife Colette MacDonald and their two young daughters, Kimberley and Kristen. 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. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. The military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. 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. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. 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. 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. 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 a. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. 741 Immigration & Travel. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. 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. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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 solution will not be found in just policing, Detective Inspector Newman said, in a common refrain from the modern police force. 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. WS: They were a very normal-looking mama and daddy. Such is the power of a good story. In 1989after Freddy Kassab had been diagnosed with emphysemahe decided to videotape his arguments against MacDonalds release and arranged for the tape to be played, if necessary, in front of a parole board after he died, according to the Orlando Sentinel. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. Freddy was not going to quit. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. Some of the facts I thought I knew began to look more like ideas conjured by eager prosecutors and a journalist who had dealt so disingenuously with Jeffrey MacDonald in writing Fatal Vision that he was sued after publication. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. None of this has set MacDonald free. 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 went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. 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. Thereafter their lives ran close and parallel courses. He has been imprisoned for three decades for a crime he did not commit. In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. 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. 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.. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. ". Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. 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. 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. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of 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. 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. 2015 NC State University. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. But did hippie intruders make sense? 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.. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. 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. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. After traveling a months-long journey that has led me from certainty to doubt to horror at a grave injustice, Im going to turn in this article and then go run some errands and make myself a bite to eat. 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. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. 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. Whats your sense of this? The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Though the U.S. Army formally charged MacDonald with the murders, presiding officer Colonel Warren Rock recommended the charges be dropped. I began to see that Joe McGinniss creation of Picture #1 might be just that: a creation. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. But then I felt uneasy. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. And she told him she had been there, at the MacDonald home, the night of the murders. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. 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. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. Please try again later. The second is "Kassab Family History by Aelyas Kassab; it is 125 pages and was composed circa 1958. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. Most recently, retired US Marshall Jimmy Britt came forward with information that another suspect in the case, Helena Stoeckley, admitted to the prosecutor that she was in the house on the night of MacDonalds murder and that he threatened to indict her for first-degree murder if she admitted that in court. It sickened me and it enraged me.. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. Oueida amassed a fortune before he was imprisoned in 2011, and had done so through dealing drugs, and doing it more rapaciously than anyone in recent history: hence the $6 million in a Swiss bank account, light plane, Ferrari and $2.8 million mansion he had when he was arrested. That, in turn, drives a burgeoning black market for firearms, and has made the north-west the centre of the gun trade in this state. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. MacDonald claimed that his daughter Kimberly wet his side of the bed, prompting him to go to sleep on the couch. 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. Shes haunting this case. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. 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. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. That kind of story never ends. But many of the major players now are either related to these families, or closely linked within the criminal milieu. The one thing that sticks in my craw above anything else is this: There were lab results. View all records. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. It has witchcraft in it. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. The crimes committed by the families were left to locally-based detectives to investigate, rather than specialist squads, until the Santiago Taskforce was formed in 2008. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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). "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. 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. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. 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. "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. They introduced a 1970 issue of Esquire found in MacDonalds house containing a detailed account of the Sharon Tate murders to suggest that he had created a copycat story based on the Manson familys crimes. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. 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. 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