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. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. 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. 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. 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. Not only did the living room show few signs of a struggle, but the murder weapons were found outside the back door. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesGrieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. Grieving mother Mildred Kassab weeps for her daughter while being escorted into JFK Memorial Chapel to see her buried. The man is a fanatic.. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. And police officers knowing how to take care of a crime scene and preserve it. I was keeping Freddy happy, he said, according to Vanity Fair. The family claims his body has never been found. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. I held out to the last ditch. 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. In 1921, Aelyas married Soumaya Khoury of Beirut, Lebanon; by all accounts the two were deeply in love, and they died within 48 hours of one another. Melbourne's north-west has become a hotbed for armed crime. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. The chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. 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. Which leaves one of the five families the Tibas. The ONeills befriended him and altered the course of his life. 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. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. 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. Desperate to save his family, he said he fought back until they stabbed him and beat him unconscious. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. It ultimately concluded that MacDonalds wounds were self-inflicted, and his story entirely fabricated. 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. 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. 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. 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. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. (See Silverglate's article on the case in Forbes.). I was born in May of that year, and would thus be the same age as the child Colette MacDonald was carrying when her life was snuffed out. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. Judge James Fox, a close friend of Dupree's and quite elderly himself, has taken over and has dismissed appeals. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. 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. Investigators identified at least 240 leads in the casebut the evidence continued to point back to the MacDonald. 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. Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. His memoir first describes the family history, especially the career of his uncle Salim Kassab. 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. 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. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. Even back then, if you polled Fayetteville folks, you might have found that a lot of people did not believe that he did it. They dont know the truth any more than I do. 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. Silverglate believes that Jeffrey MacDonald has been railroaded, and that this railroading exposes disturbing trends in our federal criminal justice system. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called . MacDonald has had mostly good lawyers, though not always the appropriate ones. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. He was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. These victims include Rachad Adra, who was killed and his four-year-old son injured, when a gunman with a high-powered weapon shot the wrong house in Thomastown in October 2015, and Khaled Abouhasna, who was killed in a shooting ambush six months earlier when he was mistaken for a ruthless standover man. 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. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. Born Jeffrey Robert MacDonald on Oct. 12, 1943, in New York City, the fledgling doctor grew up in Patchogue, Long Island. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. The Esquire story, for all its salaciousness, touched upon real issues that plagued many communities outside of California. But then I felt uneasy. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. 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. 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. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. LP: She said that to her lawyer at the time of the 1979 trial? Picture #1. No attempt was made to locate the woman that night. 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. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. We reconstructed the murders using what McDonald said. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. The loving husband and father. 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. 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. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. 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. Now, it appears the Tibas are at war with everybody. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. Ive got the patience of Job.. 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. 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Finally, in Wilmington, Jerry Leonard was ordered to tell what she had said to him 30 years ago. Additionally, MacDonalds medical records showed that he had no defensive wounds on his arms or hands consistent with the alleged attack. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. Anybody could. And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the Orlando Sentinel in 1989. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. MacDonald was convicted of the three murders in 1979, nine years after Colette and her children were slain. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. In a video published online in December, he spoke about how he had overcome drug addiction, and detailed the cycle of using, getting hooked, needing money, and then committing crime. And a victim falls on the concrete. 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. But things got out of hand. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 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. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. 959 Census & Voter Lists. He made fun of them. Hes the guy that lives next door. Maybe more than I would have thought as a teen. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? I dont know what the odds are. 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 did interviews. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. It would take six more months before Mildred Kassab reached the same conclusion. 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. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. But Silverglate points out that those lawyers have been up against an increasingly perverse system in which ancient legal rights like habeas corpus have been tossed aside in the name of preserving convictions at any cost. 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. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. The families have been involved in drug trafficking since at least the turn of the century, or, in the case of Macchour Chaouk, the patriarch of that family, since 1983. 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. 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. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. Then he injured himself and set up the scene to make the crimes appear to be the work of intruders. Take a guy like MacDonald. According to her, they wanted to teach MacDonald a lesson and rough up his family the night of the killings. After traveling a months-long journey that has led me from certainty to doubt to horror at a grave injustice, Im going to turn in this article and then go run some errands and make myself a bite to eat. It dawned on MacDonald after graduating in 1968 that the U.S. Army could help him advance his career, and he wasnt wrong. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. 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. Such is the power of a good story. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. The writer had full access to the trial, and appeared sympathetic. 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. 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. Brian Murtaugh says, Sure, Ill give it to him. 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. Others would say that that was a healthy thing to do. MacDonald later admitted the claim had been a lie. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? And the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, just kept mounting against him and contradicting his story for events from that evening.. I personally delivered a copy by hand to every congressman and every senator in the country.. 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. Whats your sense of this? 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. After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. View all records. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. 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. 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. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. 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In October 1970, following an investigation and hearing, the military dropped its case against MacDonald, and he was honorably discharged from the army. 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. There were few major drug or weapon importations in the state that police could not, in some way, trace back to these families. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. Evidence the defense never saw. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! 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. 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. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Ill be seeing him. Well, Bernie Segal told me that he never saw it.. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. 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. WS: Yes. 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