This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? 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. Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. 2015 NC State University. Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? 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. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. He did interviews. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. The defendant has no obligation to prove anything whatsoever. 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. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. Another page in another chapter in the new gangland war. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Sadly, the family wouldnt survive the next year. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. 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. The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. She was a pretty girl, not beautiful, but pretty, and she was down to earth and she hated to see anybody hurt.. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. Picture #2. 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. 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. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. Staying on top of the machinations of the underworld can be difficult, Detective Inspector Clark said, but the increased strength of police intelligence meant they were able to increasingly charge gunmen, regardless of whether their victims spoke. 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. He moved to California to become the director of emergency medicine at St. Mary's Medical Center in Long Beach. I wasnt there that night. 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. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called a nice, presentable young man?". Even scarier stories, Ive found, can be true. 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. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. 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. Even before bureaucratic stalling and federal machinery overtook the search for truth, things were working against Jeffrey MacDonald. But then I felt uneasy. 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. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. View all records. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. But he taunted the police. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. 741 Immigration & Travel. 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.. It is also a Manson-like killing. The family claims his body has never been found. Most people who go through traumatic things like this, nowhere near as lengthy, almost always end up in divorce, but with us its drawn us closer.. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. That didnt happen here. 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. 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. 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. "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. So MacDonald was the logical choice. 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 Tibas, Haddaras, Chaouks, Kassabs, and Kheirs are north-west Melbourne's version of the Five Families, the major players in the New York mafia. They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. 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. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Scott Adams and why American capitalism kneels before a bigger God. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. 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. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. No attempt was made to locate the woman that night. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. Two-year-old Kristen had 33 knife- and 15 icepick wounds in her torso, while five-year-old Kimberly was bludgeoned to death. "Memoirs" by Wadea Kassab recounts Wadea's life from his childhood in Damascus and Bloudan, to his immigration to America in 1889, and through his pursuit of education and a career in dentistry. It was almost as scary as Helter Skelter the story of the Charles Manson murders in Californa that are said to have inspired Jeffrey MacDonald in the coverup for his homicidal rampage. 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. Official trailer for FX documentary series. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. Wadea left Syria in 1889 with two companions and arrived in the United States that same year. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. This collection is a part of a larger collection that has been divided into more specific collections. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRep. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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.. Its a disorienting trick. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. They dont know the truth any more than I do. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. In the end, MacDonald himself took the stand. "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. 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. Judge James Fox, a close friend of Dupree's and quite elderly himself, has taken over and has dismissed appeals. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. "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. 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.. 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. Though the U.S. Army formally charged MacDonald with the murders, presiding officer Colonel Warren Rock recommended the charges be dropped. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. However, instead of the firm defense MacDonald expected, the 1983 bestseller A Fatal Vision described him as a narcissistic psychopath.. Why did people in the community believe he did it? The family claims his body has never been found. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. 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. 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. 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. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. 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. 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. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. There is no finality in injustice. 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. The crime scene was so messed up that you couldnt depend on it. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. 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. This manuscript by Aelyas Kassab is a history of the Kassab family and a biography of Aelyas' own life. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. 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. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. That is why, police say, it is important to consider what the shooting represents, rather than the act itself. 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. Both brothers married women in Syria and brought them back to the United States. 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. 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. We need your support in this difficult time. On Sept. 17, 2012, in Wilmington, N.C., a crowd of familiar faces assembled for a new hearing. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? It has witchcraft in it. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. He survived. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. 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 Kassabs unwavering support of his son-in-law also began to crumble as Kassabwho worked in telephone sales for the Quality Egg Co.began to question MacDonalds account of what happened. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. 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. Some people would say that was the wrong thing to do. 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. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. Picture #1. Nothing unique in any way. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. View all records. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Its hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s and early '70s there were spooky, weird people on acidback then it was believable. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. Theres a note attached. 959 Census & Voter Lists. 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. 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. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. We would frequently meet at the crime scene and brainstorm the whole scenario. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. 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. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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. 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. 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. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the, 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, 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. But did hippie intruders make sense? 959 Census & Voter Lists. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. Two possibilities: MacDonald is a monster, or he is a victim of terrible injustice. The Esquire story, for all its salaciousness, touched upon real issues that plagued many communities outside of California. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. 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. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. MacDonald claimed that his daughter Kimberly wet his side of the bed, prompting him to go to sleep on the couch. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. With their encouragement, he graduated from dental school in Philadelphia in 1895 and set up a practice in Chester. 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. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. 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