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. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. That kind of story never ends. 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. None of this has set MacDonald free. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. MacDonald had no history of violence or temper. They dont know the truth any more than I do. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. I thought of devils that lurked in human flesh, like in The Exorcist, another popular based-on-a true-story-book-turned-movie of the period that floated around our house. Segal took up nearly all the time in the critical period for closing remarks and left only a few minutes for co-counsel Wade Smith, an eloquent native North Carolinian who understood the jury. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. Some criminal networks were recently identified as having more than 1000 members, of various ages and ethnic backgrounds; unlike the five families, they were not simply the first generation of children born in Australia to parents hailing from northern Lebanon. 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. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. 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. 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.. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. He was a nice, presentable young man. She was the type of girlthe best way I can explain it, I never met a girl that did not like Colette, he once told the Washington Post. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. 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 the west. 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. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. When you accept Picture #1, youre deciding that Jeffrey MacDonald is the Person Who Must Pay. I dont know what the odds are. 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. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. 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. Bernie Segal, a long-haired Jewish lawyer from Philadelphia, took the lead in the case and managed to alienate the entire courtroom. View all records. 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. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. The family claims his body has never been found. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. 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. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. Official trailer for FX documentary series. Almost all the of shootings in the north-west, one underworld source said, relate to those at the bottom of the criminal food chain. Jeffrey MacDonald, a Princeton-educated Green Beret doctor with no history of violence and a sterling record, butchered his pregnant wife and two young daughters using a knife, ice pick and club. Even before bureaucratic stalling and federal machinery overtook the search for truth, things were working against Jeffrey MacDonald. And she told him she had been there, at the MacDonald home, the night of the murders. 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. This manuscript by Aelyas Kassab is a history of the Kassab family and a biography of Aelyas' own 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. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. As I read Morris meticulous examination the evidence, the picture in my mind became less clear. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. There is no finality in injustice. And were very fortunate. MacDonald was tried in a civilian court in 1979. One thing about this case is never in doubt no matter whos talking: If Wade Smith had been able to lead and give his closing remarks, MacDonald would be a free man today. Bob Riha Jr./Getty ImagesMacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. 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 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 went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. He didnt do that. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. "I wish it was as simple as saying all our non-fatal shootings went back to five families, because if it did, we would target those five families and we'd kick it in the guts, but it's actually not that simple.". Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. 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.. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. 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. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called a nice, presentable young man?". 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. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. Young woman; old woman. LP: What has this case revealed about the flaws in our judicial system? Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. Not only did the U.S. Army surgeon marry his high school sweetheart, but he had a flourishing career, two beautiful young daughters, and a son on the way. Years after he was blasted with a shotgun by a crime figure who continues to wield influence in the north-west, one victim is still dealing with his injuries. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. Similar to the Chaouks and Haddaras, the Kassabs and the Kheirs who are related clans remain a factor, although their involvement is more peripheral than before. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. 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. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. 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. The idea that people that were so certain who dont know any more than I do -- I dont believe Ill ever understand how they could be so sure. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. Wadea and Aelyas Kassab are both buried in Pennsylvania. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. 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. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Why did people in the community believe he did it? Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Mr Oueida has been overseas for most of the time since the attack, predominantly in Lebanon and Dubai a haunt for a string of Australian organised crime figures. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. Wadea left Syria in 1889 with two companions and arrived in the United States that same year. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. 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. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Since last September, the Tibas are suspected of involvement in at least six non-fatal shootings, a bashing and multiple home invasions. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. "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. 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. Inexperienced military police failed to pick up a woman near the house who fit MacDonalds description. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. 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. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. Shes haunting this case. Many think this woman could have been Helena Stoeckley, a drug abuser and professed member of a witchcraft cult who repeatedly confessed to having been at the MacDonald house the night of the murders, but recanted her story whenever she seemed to fear prosecution. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. 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. Sadly, the family wouldnt survive the next year. Were working to restore it. or click here to become a subscriber. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. It implicates us all. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. 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. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. 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. That was my closing argument. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Its a disorienting trick. With their encouragement, he graduated from dental school in Philadelphia in 1895 and set up a practice in Chester. 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. He remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. But then I felt uneasy. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. He looked angry on the stand. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. ", 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. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. Colettes grieving parents grew suspicious after a November 1970 phone call in which MacDonald claimed he found and killed one of the intruders. They are the dealers who, as Osman Tiba alluded to, were probably driven to the job because of their own addictions who cannot afford to forgive a middling debt, even if it is only for a few hundred dollars. 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. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. Picture #2. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. 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. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. Please try again later. Carl Williams was a boy from Broady, whose fat fingers spread across the state, but we know little about the boys from Broady who are ordering murders and peddling drugs now. The strength of the families now almost a decade after the launch of Santiago are largely determined by how many of them have been killed or locked up. 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. Such is the power of a good story. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. Since 1979, the MacDonald case has continued to trouble those who delve beneath the surface of the media narrative. The one thing that sticks in my craw above anything else is this: There were lab results. At least six have faced significant criminal charges. 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. 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. 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. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. As revealed in footage obtained by The Saturday Age, the latest chapter involves the shooting of the mercurial Mohammed Oueida, a man once described as the new Tony Mokbel, who was only two metres away when a gunman shot at him four times from a car, blasting him in the stomach on April 17. 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. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. 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. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. 741 Immigration & Travel. I wasnt there that night. When Victor Worheide, who was a federal prosecutor, later became interested in the case at the urging of the parents of Colette MacDonald, the case was gone. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. 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. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. 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. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Others would say that that was a healthy thing to do. But for every Khayre, a case most people have heard of with a clear link to the north-west, there are dozens more that barely make a ripple. The Jeffrey MacDonald murder case is one of the most disturbing in living memory. On Sept. 17, 2012, in Wilmington, N.C., a crowd of familiar faces assembled for a new hearing. There was a re-examination of the fibers found on the bodies of Collette and the children. It is also a Manson-like killing. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. He was the lawyer she was talking to one-on-one who had been appointed to advise her of her rights. Jeffrey MacDonald had it all. 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. It sickened me and it enraged me.. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. 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. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. Whats your sense of this? So MacDonald was the logical choice. 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 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. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. 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. They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. 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. 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. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. Their hold on the region no longer remains absolute. It has Helena Stoeckley, the dominant person who continues to play a remarkable role. Hes the guy that lives next door. 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I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. When police showed their hand regarding the organised crime threat, back in 2011, the Tibas were at war with the Kassabs and Kheirs. 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. 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. Nothing unique in any way. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. He claimed that he had been asleep on the couch when at least, 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, We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. Mr Oueida has been overseas for most of the time since the attack, predominantly in Lebanon and Dubai a haunt for a string of Australian organised crime figures. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. 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. The family claims his body has never been found. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. 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. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. LP: One of the things that struck me in reading Errol Morris book was the use of the psychopath diagnosis in court and how problematic that is. I held out to the last ditch. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. In the end, MacDonald himself took the stand. The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. As if they had seen it with their own eyes. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. But things got out of hand. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. Psychiatric professionals on both sides pronounced him incapable of having committed the crimes. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. You can give it to him.' 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 Involvement in at least six non-fatal shootings, a crowd of familiar faces assembled for new! 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