Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. Eventually, after pressure from Colettes family, MacDonald was indicted and found guilty of the three murders on August 29, 1979. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. While both Detective Inspectors want to reiterate this is rare, it is also their worst fear, and what they are working to stop. Their hold on the region no longer remains absolute. 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. Since adapted into a documentary series of the same name directed by Marc Smirling, the project aims to detail how much evidence Morris believes was lost, mismanaged or glaringly unreliable from the start. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. 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. MacDonald claimed the hairs were from the wig of one of the murders, but the forensic examiner incorrectly claimed they were from one of the childrens dolls. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. 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. On Sept. 17, 2012, in Wilmington, N.C., a crowd of familiar faces assembled for a new hearing. This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. He could have gone on with his life, and he should have. I held out to the last ditch. And she told him she had been there, at the MacDonald home, the night of the murders. In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. But things got out of hand. It didnt make sense. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. WS: In every murder of a spouse, the remaining spouse is the number-one suspect and is almost always charged. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. No attempt was made to locate the woman that night. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. Released and honorably discharged by the Army, MacDonald seemed to be in the clear. 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. Picture #1. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. Lynn Parramore: In all your years as a lawyer, what makes this case stand out? They grew to become serious forces, in part, because of failures by police to respond to the problem. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. I wouldnt allow myself to believe it, because it made it so much worse that it was he instead of strangers, she later said in an interview, according to the docuseries. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. But he taunted the police. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. 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. 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. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. I used to joke with him when I saw him around Hey Jerry, isnt there something you want to tell us? But he couldnt, and he likely would have gone to his grave carrying the secret of what Helena told him had it not been for that hearing. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. 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. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. You can give it to him.' 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. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, Scott Adams and why American capitalism kneels before a bigger God. Until recently, most people saw Picture #1. He looked angry on the stand. The Kassab brothers both raised their families in Chester, where they also practiced dentistry. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRep. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. The man is a fanatic.. Wadea left Syria in 1889 with two companions and arrived in the United States that same year. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. Waters rubbished that explanation. WS: Its an enormous problem. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. 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 Esquire story, for all its salaciousness, touched upon real issues that plagued many communities outside of California. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. 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. A portrait photograph of Wadea (left) and Aelyas (right) Kassab. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. WS: Yes. 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. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. That huge standard protects us from miscarriages of justice. 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. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. 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. 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. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. 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. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. 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.. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. Jeffrey MacDonald, a bright young man with everything in life to look forward to, lost his wife and children to senseless, horrific violence. I dont know what the odds are. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure 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. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. Friends since grade school, he and Colette Stevens began dating as teenagers, and grew serious during college. You trust him. Dupree would not admit overwhelming psychiatric testimony in MacDonalds favor, nor the testminony of witnesses to whom Helena Stoeckley had confessed her involvement. 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. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. 6,889 Family Trees. Why did people in the community believe he did it? Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. 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. MacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. 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. Inexperienced military police failed to pick up a woman near the house who fit MacDonalds description. The surgical gloves used to scrawl pig on the headboard were identical to the supply MacDonald kept in his kitchen. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. 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. 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. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. 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. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. 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. A neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. 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. Wadea died in February, 1972; Aelyas in October, 1987. 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.. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. 959 Census & Voter Lists. Colettes grieving parents grew suspicious after a November 1970 phone call in which MacDonald claimed he found and killed one of the intruders. Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. The family lost its large house in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and was forced to live in small quarters in a building they still owned. 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. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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 Ive had many cases in court. 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. "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.". MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. 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. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Get all your true crime news from Oxygen. That is the way our legal system is set up. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. 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. A lengthy trial heard Moustafa and Kassab had gone to the Brunswick panel beating shop to confront Moustafa over $50,000 in cash and $10,000 in aftershave they believe he had stolen. Freddy Kassab had inserted himself into the 1970 military hearing and made himself the center of a media circus, holding news conferences and firing off letters to members of Congress. On the evening of the murders, Jeffrey MacDonald had taken his kids to ride the pony he had bought them, fed them dinner while their mother took a night class, and put them to bed. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. In 1970 America was gripped by the horror of the Manson murders a fact used against MacDonald because he subscribed to Esquire magazine, which had run a story about the dark side of hippie culture. 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. 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. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. His memoir reads as a classic Syrian rags-to-riches story, except for the fact that he lost everything when he speculated in real estate just before the Great Depression. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. But there was, including wax drippings (MacDonald insisted that one of the intruders carried a candle), fibers, and hairs that did not belong to the household or family members. Evidence the defense never saw. The popular story says there was no evidence of intruders. 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. After reading the full transcript of his Article 32 hearing, the Kassabs were convinced that MacDonalds story didnt add up. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Even after the conviction, the Kassabs remained haunted by the heinous crime. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. 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. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. Some said he should never have taken the case because his former son-in-law was the prosecutor in the original army hearing. There was violence. Through his aggressive pursuit of the case, MacDonald was indicted. View all records. 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.. Investigators identified at least 240 leads in the casebut the evidence continued to point back to the MacDonald. 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. Together, Mildred who Stevenson said came to mortally hate her former son-in-law and Freddy Kassab pushed for MacDonalds arrest. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He theorized that diet pills caused MacDonald to fly into a fit of rage. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. When Jeffrey MacDonald came under suspicion for savagely killing his pregnant wife and the couples two young daughters, one man rushed to publicly support him: his father-in-law Freddie Kassab. 2015 NC State University. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. 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. The persistence paid off and in 1974, a grand jury indicted Jeffrey MacDonald on three counts of murder after seven months of testimony and evidence, according to Vanity Fair. I dont have that magic. Kill the pigs.. Most notably, the holes in the shirt MacDonald had been wearing appeared too smooth and clear cut to indicate self-defense. 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.. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. 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. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. 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. 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. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. That was my closing argument. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. Every time we pursued a lead it just turned us around and directed us back toward Jeffrey MacDonald. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. 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. That same year, seven drug-linked executions were reported in 10 months. Two-year-old Kristen had 33 knife- and 15 icepick wounds in her torso, while five-year-old Kimberly was bludgeoned to death. 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. In 1905, Wadea married Sara Hajjar, who had been educated at an English boarding school and was teaching at a mission school for Jewish children in Damascus prior to her marriage. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called a nice, presentable young man?". This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Coverage of the latest true crime stories and famous cases explained, as well as the best TV shows, movies and podcasts in the genre. He adamantly denied all charges but was at a loss for words during cross-examination by the prosecution. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 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. Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. 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. Police agree it would be futile to appeal to gun-slingers on the grounds that they could ruin a rival's life. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. Waters rubbished that explanation. I wasnt there that night. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. Because that's what crime figures do in the north-west, most of the time. 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. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. 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. 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