959 Census & Voter Lists. 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. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? It implicates us all. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. But he had multiple bruises and puncture wounds, and two stab wounds, including one that collapsed his lung -- a serious injury that left him falling in and out of consciouness. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. "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. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. In the early '80s, I whipped through a dog-eared copy of Fatal Vision, Joe McGinniss sensational true-crime novel about the killings. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. 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. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. The man is a fanatic.. 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. They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? The one thing that sticks in my craw above anything else is this: There were lab results. 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. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. Kassab testified on MacDonalds behalf, declaring, If I had another daughter, Id still want the same son-in-law.. Inside The Assassination Of Detlev Rohwedder, The Politician Who Tried To Unify East And West German Businesses, Someone Just Paid Over $81,000 For A Blood-Stained Lock Of Abraham Lincoln's Hair, What Stephen Hawking Thinks Threatens Humankind The Most, 27 Raw Images Of When Punk Ruled New York, Join The All That's Interesting Weekly Dispatch, Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. 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. He was given an honorable discharge. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. 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. MacDonald invited author Joe McGinniss to write a book about the case before it had reached a verdict. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. 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. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. 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. They dont know the truth any more than I do. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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. So MacDonald was the logical choice. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. 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. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. Ive had many cases in court. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. Whats your sense of this? His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. 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.). After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. Ive got the patience of Job.. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. 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. 2015 NC State University. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Nothing unique in any way. 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 looked angry on the stand. Picture #2. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. 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. 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. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. 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. It all was intruders. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. MacDonald has had mostly good lawyers, though not always the appropriate ones. The new war involves men with names many Victorians could barely pronounce shooting each other in downtrodden suburbs they have almost certainly never visited. In a 2011 press release, the Innocence Project stated:. 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. The couple got married when Colette was just 20 years old after discovering that she was pregnant. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. 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. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. He made fun of them. Kill the pigs.. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 6,889 Family Trees. 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. 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. WS: Yes. 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. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. 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. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. "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. Friends since grade school, he and Colette Stevens began dating as teenagers, and grew serious during college. 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. That kind of story never ends. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. 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. In Fayetteville, an army town, strong tensions existed between army types like Jeffrey MacDonald on one side of the war, and hippies and protesters on the other. Not only were three hairs discovered at the crime scene that didnt match any of the familys DNA, but an affidavit revealed that Blackburn had allegedly threatened Stoeckley not to tell the truth in court. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. He remained haunted by the horrific way his stepdaughter and grandchildren had lost their lives. Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. Some people would say that was the wrong thing to do. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. 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 LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. There is no finality in injustice. I think that one of the problems MacDonald had was that they expected him to undertake to find these killers, to go on a mission to find 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. But things got out of hand. Its hard to imagine now, but in the late 1960s and early '70s there were spooky, weird people on acidback then it was believable. And a victim falls on the concrete. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. 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. 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. 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. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. MacDonald had no history of violence or temper. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. 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. 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.. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. 959 Census & Voter Lists. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. 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. A grandson, also called Abdul, was considered such a threat he was subject to a National Anti-Gang Squad investigation last year the Australian Federal Police led team that represents an even greater escalation in the police response than the formation of Santiago. WS: In every murder of a spouse, the remaining spouse is the number-one suspect and is almost always charged. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. You trust him. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. 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. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. "There was a young kid that was shot, and he's paralysed from the chest down for the rest of his life. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. Even scarier stories, Ive found, can be true. I wasnt there that night. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. The bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. 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. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. 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. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. 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. However, critics of the book say that while it paints an emotional picture of a man wrongfully tried by the media, it cherrypicks evidence and largely ignores the physical evidence that led to MacDonalds 1979 conviction. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. 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. 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. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. 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 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. 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 We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. 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. "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. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. Colette was relieved to find out her husband would not be stationed in Vietnam and the whole family was overjoyed to learn she was pregnant for a third time. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. 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. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. 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