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.. Waters rubbished that explanation. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. As if they had seen it with their own eyes. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. 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. ", 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. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. Or maybe theres something else at work: Picture #2 is even more awful to see than Picture #1. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Some people would say that was the wrong thing to do. 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. 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. He was a nice, presentable young man. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. There are only two possible pictures, both nightmares. 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 741 Immigration & Travel. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. Almost all the of shootings in the north-west, one underworld source said, relate to those at the bottom of the criminal food chain. "There was a young kid that was shot, and he's paralysed from the chest down for the rest of his life. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. MacDonald was tried in a civilian court in 1979. 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. 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. 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. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Kill the pigs.. Lynn Parramore: In all your years as a lawyer, what makes this case stand out? This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. He was a true gentleman, even though there were things in the trial and there were decisions he made that I disagree with. I remember saying, It doesnt matter. 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. 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. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. It would take six more months before Mildred Kassab reached the same conclusion. Friends since grade school, he and Colette Stevens began dating as teenagers, and grew serious during college. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. Create your free profile and get access to exclusive content. 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. But he is hopeful that the Fourth Court of Appeals, located in Richmond, Virginia, will take a careful look at the case and as a whole be more favorable to MacDonald. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. 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. But an unfortunate thing happened in the following years. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. Worse still, Judge Franklin Dupree seemed to have his mind made up before the trial began. There were few major drug or weapon importations in the state that police could not, in some way, trace back to these families. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Mildred and Freddy Kassab both died, months apart, in 1994. 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. 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 was more interested in working with people on hallucinogenic and things like that. 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. But things got out of hand. "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. But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. 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. I wasnt there that night. WS: Yes. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. In July 1974, a Federal judge acted on a citizen's criminal complaint by Kassab and others, by putting the case before a grand jury. The stakes are too high for it not to work, Detective Inspector Clark said. He went directly to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where a teacher of his had settled. Then, if someone draws your attention to certain details, suddenly the picture transforms into the profile of an old woman. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. Prosecutors appealed the decision to the Supreme Court and in 1978 the countrys highest court decided to reinstate the indictment. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. Though the U.S. Army formally charged MacDonald with the murders, presiding officer Colonel Warren Rock recommended the charges be dropped. According to exclusive statistics from the armed crime squad, there has been a five-fold increase in non-fatal shootings in the north-west in four years and the region now sees almost two thirds of Victoria's non-fatal shootings. 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. Jeffrey MacDonald was arraigned in May 1975 and pleaded not guilty. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. By now, many members of the original hearing and 1979 trial are dead, including Judge Dupree. I dont know what the odds are. 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. Vietnam-era Fayetteville was not sleepy Raleigh in the 1980s. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. The couples youngest daughter, 2-year-old Kristen, had a total of 33 stab wounds. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. MacDonald claimed he'd broke his arm in the fatal scuffle, but Kearns would later say in an interview that authorities had MacDonald under surveillance at the time and did not observe any broken arm. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. They hoped to get a confession, but she stated firmly that she had never been inside MacDonalds home contrary to previous claims she purportedly made to defense attorneys during witness hearings. She was a pretty girl, not beautiful, but pretty, and she was down to earth and she hated to see anybody hurt.. It is a misconception that the battles are over territory. 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. You can give it to him.' Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. No one ever knew what it was Helena told him because of attorney-client privilege. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies, Collection description written by Linda Jacobs. 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. MacDonald said there had been a stabbing and begged for an ambulance. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. Bettmann/Getty ImagesThe bedroom of Kristen and Kimberly MacDonald, mere hours after they were murdered. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. But his mother and father-in-law did not want him to do that. 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. 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 settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. Tragically, the comparisons to the Sharon Tate killing were striking. The shootings can be over particularly petty reasons, not just the drug trade: women, a perceived slight, or, increasingly, a prison feud. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. 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.. The family claims his body has never been found. Kassab wanted to find justice and began writing letters to the Army and congressmen slamming the investigators for their errors and urging authorities to continue the investigation. Thereafter their lives ran close and parallel courses. 2015 NC State University. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. Thinking that he could never reveal it? Did Jeffrey MacDonald Brutally Slay His Pregnant Wife And Daughters Or Did The Cops Get The Wrong Guy? Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. But just what changed Kassabs mind about the man he once called a nice, presentable young man?". 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. 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. 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. 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. He did interviews. 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. 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. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. 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. Freddie Kassab and CID investigators returned to the crime scene in 1971 to contrast MacDonalds claims with the evidence and found his narrative implausible. Then, meet Christopher Scarver the man who killed cannibal Jeffrey Dahmer. 741 Immigration & Travel. There were fibers from a blonde wig that matched the description of Helena Stoeckley. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. After Mica performed mouth-to-mouth, MacDonald came to. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. 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. Morris researched the MacDonald case for 20 years and knows each labyrinthine turn of its progress through the criminal justice system. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? On Sept. 17, 2012, in Wilmington, N.C., a crowd of familiar faces assembled for a new hearing. 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. Nothing unique in any way. 6,889 Family Trees. He was found guilty and given three life sentences on Aug. 26, 1979. Weve covered everything thrown at us this past year and will continue to do so with your support. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. Bettmann Archive/Getty ImagesRep. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? I accused the Army of every blunder that they made in the original investigation, he once said, according to the docuseries. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. 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. Theyre the ones that wrote the Congress and said the Army screwed up this crime scene. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. 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. The veneer of the MacDonalds perfect marriage had also began to crack. Despite the young familys financial burdens, the important things seemed secure. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. By the end of 1969, everything seemed in order. Of those in prison, one was jailed for having guns that so troubled a judge she described them as "the sort of weapons that were used down in Tasmania", a reference to the Port Arthur massacre. Also last year, Osman, 32, one of the middle brothers, was released from prison. And, in media appearances like his interview on The Dick Cavett Show, meanwhile, MacDonald appeared suspiciously at ease. 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. 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. After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. At the moment, the five Haddaras are similarly constrained, with only one of them free, two dead and two in prison. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Sometimes that doesnt happen. 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. Some of the shootings are retribution for the severe prison bashing of Bassam Tiba, underworld sources say. 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. And so there are going to be cases where there is a reasonable doubt as to what actually happened. Freddy was not going to quit. To do so, they are increasingly trying to appeal to the maternal side of these families, and helping mothers and their children escape the criminal elements in their home, before another brood is infected. MacDonald claimed the mysterious blonde woman who oversaw the murders was wearing a floppy hat and high-heeled boots and was holding a candle while chanting, Acid is groovy. Evidence the defense never saw. Who else is going to fight this thing if not me? Kassab said, who had moved to Florida from his Long Island home the year before. Ive had many cases in court. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. Tonight when I retire to my bed, I will not feel as safe from unpredictable evils as I did when I was a teenager reading scary stories. Colette had been stabbed 16 times and punctured 21 times with an ice pick, while 5-year-old Kimberley was killed by six blows to the head and eightto 10 stab wounds, according to a. Jeffrey MacDonald had also been at the home at the time, but he suffered only minor injuries compared to what his family endured. Every time we pursued a lead it just turned us around and directed us back toward Jeffrey MacDonald. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. The defendant has no obligation to prove anything whatsoever. These fibers on the bodies didnt match any fibers found in the MacDonald house. 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. 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. He made fun of them. 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. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. WS: Its an enormous problem. Kassab said in that moment, as he stood in the preserved crime scene, he realized the man he had once considered a loving partner to his stepdaughter had slaughtered his family and then staged the attack. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. Please try again later. The loving husband and father. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. With their encouragement, he graduated from dental school in Philadelphia in 1895 and set up a practice in Chester. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. Inexperienced military police failed to pick up a woman near the house who fit MacDonalds description. Were working to restore it. Young woman; old woman. The CIDs five-month-long interrogation (referred to as an Article 32 hearing) began in April, with officials intent on using only physical evidence and MacDonalds own statements to form their view. Picture #2. It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. LP: What has this case revealed about the flaws in our judicial system? Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. 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. The FBI lab guy turned over two copies to Brian Murtaugh, the prosecutor. It is also a Manson-like killing. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. 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. 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. 959 Census & Voter Lists. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. It doesnt make sense that this man, with no history of violence, went crazy like that. View all records. 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. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. MacDonald, it appeared, had been endlessly, unfaithful having at least 15 girlfriends, Vanity Fair reports. 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. Official trailer for FX documentary series. 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