It is hard not to be shocked by the footage of Oueida's shooting. Kassabs unwavering support of his son-in-law also began to crumble as Kassabwho worked in telephone sales for the Quality Egg Co.began to question MacDonalds account of what happened. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Of all places! Even his in-laws Mildred and Freddie Kassab believed him and testified at his hearing. Friends since grade school, he and Colette Stevens began dating as teenagers, and grew serious during college. View all records. Silverglate predicts that even after examining the new evidence, Judge Fox will not grant Jeffrey MacDonald a new trial. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. It implicates us all. 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.. She allegedly told one person that she recalled holding a candle that dripped with blood. There were fibers from a blonde wig that matched the description of Helena Stoeckley. After completing high school in Chester, he too went to dental school and set up practice in Wadeas office. Weve always understood the importance of calling out corruption, regardless of political affiliation. MacDonald said there had been a stabbing and begged for an ambulance. 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. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? 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 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. That is the way our legal system is set up. Psychiatric professionals on both sides pronounced him incapable of having committed the crimes. 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. When Victor Worheide, who was a federal prosecutor, later became interested in the case at the urging of the parents of Colette MacDonald, the case was gone. 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. MacDonald has had mostly good lawyers, though not always the appropriate ones. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. He also tried to get the case dismissed, claiming double jeopardy and starting an appeals process that would delay his trial for years. WS: In every murder of a spouse, the remaining spouse is the number-one suspect and is almost always charged. The couples youngest daughter, 2-year-old Kristen, had a total of 33 stab wounds. The simple acts of coming and going as I please and caring for my own basic needs have been denied him. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. He worked first in a stove factory, a physically taxing and low-paying job, and later became a molder in a factory making brake shoes for the railroad. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. You think you know what youre seeing, but then you arent so sure. 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. What follows is the transcript of our conversation. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. 959 Census & Voter Lists. 741 Immigration & Travel. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. These were the families police identified in 2011 as causing most of the trouble in the band, which stretches roughly from Coburg North to Campbellfield, then in an arc around to Altona in Or maybe theres something else at work: Picture #2 is even more awful to see than Picture #1. This collection contains an undated photograph of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab and scans of two typed manuscripts. Mundane things that Jeffrey MacDonald has not been able to do for over 30 years. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. 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 a1998 Vanity Fair article. 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. Almost all the of shootings in the north-west, one underworld source said, relate to those at the bottom of the criminal food chain. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. Rep. Allard Lowenstein supporting MacDonalds claim that the Army wrongfully accused him and were trying to cover up their mistake. Which leaves one of the five families the Tibas. 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. MacDonald claimed that his daughter Kimberly wet his side of the bed, prompting him to go to sleep on the couch. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! "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.". 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. 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. or click here to become a subscriber. The man is a fanatic.. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. I even laughed at the idea of hippie murderers in North Carolina. Next, his trial in Raleigh, North Carolina presided over by Judge Franklin Dupree began on July 16, 1979. 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. 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. Kassab filed a citizens criminal complaint in April 1974, petitioning a federal court to convene a grand jury and determine if MacDonald could be charged. The list of misfortunes goes on: exculpatory evidence withheld; possible prosecutorial misconduct; and fallible humans who twisted the MacDonald story to fit their own agendas. MacDonald had only one stab wound, which the hospital surgeon later described as a clean, small, sharp incision that made his left lung partially collapse. MacDonald had been just a teenager at the time and was dating Colette, his high school sweetheart. Is it possible that Jeffrey MacDonald will get justice under these circumstances? Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! 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. Most recently, retired US Marshall Jimmy Britt came forward with information that another suspect in the case, Helena Stoeckley, admitted to the prosecutor that she was in the house on the night of MacDonalds murder and that he threatened to indict her for first-degree murder if she admitted that in court. Why the MacDonald Case Matters to Everyone. 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. It begins with Aelyas' grandfather Elyas Kassab, born in 1814, and traces the family through the nineteenth century; particular attention is paid. Often, the spouse turns out to have committed the murder, so its not surprising that the case turned to McDonald. But of the evidence that Morris presents, perhaps most convincing is the piece cited in MacDonalds 2017 federal appeal. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. Shes haunting this case. Bettmann/Getty ImagesMacDonald in late 1970 after the Army acquitted him of all charges. Donor retains full ownership of any and all copyright currently controlled in agreement with Khayrallah Center. ", 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. So MacDonald was the logical choice. 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. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. MacDonald had no history of violence or temper. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. "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. 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 military hearing found that the charges against MacDonald were not true. Colette MacDonald and her daughters suffered horrific violence as they were killed on February 17, 1970 at their Fort Bragg home. The irony not lost on police, community members and other underworld figures is that while Osman may be a victim of that cycle, his family have survived from perpetuating it. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. 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. I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. The loving husband and father. A military hearing found charges against him untrue, but he was convicted nine years later in a civilian trial. Soldiers corpses arrived at Fort Bragg stuffed with heroin. Oxygen Insider is your all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more. 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. My wife and I can sit for hours and days and not talk to each other, but were both thinking, you know. And yet there are thousands of people in North Carolina who do not believe he did it. 1,169 Birth, Marriage & Death. 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. We decided we needed Freddie and Mildred Kassab on our sides, lead investigator Peter Kearns said in a December 1986 lecture on the case, according to the docuseries. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. 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. I thought the world of Judge Dupree. Since MacDonald was convicted of the murders in 1979, considerable evidence of his innocence has come to light. 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. Despite a lack of motive and no history of violence, MacDonald was convicted of the second-degree murders of Colette and Kimberly, and the first-degree murder of Kristen. The walls will tell you what happened if you keep it pristine. Official trailer for FX documentary series. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. All rights reserved. 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. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. He claimed that he had been asleep on the couch when at least four drug-crazed hippies broke into the home and savagely killed the family. During this time, he met and became friendly with a number of Americans, including the ONeill family of Chester, Pennsylvania. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. 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. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. He continued to work as a doctor and moved to California. Abdul Tiba has eight sons, aged from their 50s to their 20s. We need your support in this difficult time. MacDonald settled into bachelor life, buying a yacht and marina-front condominium in Long Beach, California, Vanity Fair reports. 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. MacDonalds relationship with his father-in-law, who had been a staunch supporter, became strained. 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. 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. 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. Thinking that he could never reveal it? A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. But it is also hard to feel any empathy, or concern as Victorians do about other crimes against more innocent victims that it could happen to them. - "Poynter" fonts provided by fontsempire.com. Make a one-time contribution to Alternet All Access, But did hippie intruders make sense? 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. 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. Their second child Kristen was born in May 1967. Remember the perceptual illusion where you look at a picture and youre certain that you see the bust of a young woman? You sure Errol Morris wrote the book? She was sure. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. Interview: The Spookiest Case Wade Smith Ever Encountered. Brian Murtaugh says, Sure, Ill give it to him. He worries that we are moving into a period in which the finality of verdicts is so zealously protected (a legacy, in part, of 9/11) that new evidence offers little hope of challenging them. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. Judge James Fox, a close friend of Dupree's and quite elderly himself, has taken over and has dismissed appeals. Then, in 2012 Jeffrey MacDonalds most famous defender, filmmaker Errol Morris, was so intrigued by the case that he wrote the 500-page book A Wilderness of Error. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. They dont know the truth any more than I do. 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. That, in turn, drives a burgeoning black market for firearms, and has made the north-west the centre of the gun trade in this state. 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. MacDonald now waits to see if the federal judge will vacate his 33-year-old conviction. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. Ive got the patience of Job.. Yet, the new gangland war fails to capture the imagination. Although Kassab didnt join the family until Colette was a teenager, he had always been close with his stepdaughter. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. Out of all the evidentiary and procedural twists and turns, I asked Silverglate to name the one that bothered him the most about the MacDonald case. Marc Smerling thinks he has some idea. 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. Appearances didnt help MacDonald, either. 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. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. WebIt is reported Ms Kassab entered Syria last year and that her husband, known as Sam, died on the border of Turkey in 2013. Its a case that if you were telling scary stories around the dining room table and you had all your family gathered, people could hardly believe it. She knew this world, and was herself a police informant. 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. She was a pretty girl, not beautiful, but pretty, and she was down to earth and she hated to see anybody hurt.. 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. View all records. 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. Hes the guy that lives next door. Back in the 1979 trial, a lawyer named Jerry Leonard represented Helena Stoeckley. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. Not only had the word pig been scrawled on the bedroom headboard in his wifes blood but she and her unborn baby were dead. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. An arm extends out of the passenger side window of a car. He claimed there was insufficient evidence, while civilian defense attorney Bernard Segal argued the CID had improperly handled the scene and that alternative suspects like local drug addict Helena Stoeckley, believed to be the blonde woman at the scene, continued to roam free. 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. Materials provided by the families of Wadea and Aelyas Kassab. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. It has Charles Manson written all over it. The prosecution, led by James Blackburn and Brian Murtagh, argued that MacDonald staged the crime scene to blame hippies. Although the family started out as his benefactors, he ultimately became their caregivers as their positions reversed. 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 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. Young woman; old woman. My friend and I sat around in her backyard, tossing up what facts about the case we could recall. 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. He was troubled by MacDonalds apparently cavalier attitude about the brutal murders on an appearance of "The Dick Cavett Show. Aelyas (Elias) Kassab, Wadeas younger brother, was born in the Kassabs' summer residence in Bloudan, Syria in 1883. He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. MacDonald sued McGinniss for fraud in 1987, with a mistrial leading them to settle out of court for $325,000. Picture #2. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 6,889 Family Trees. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. The cost to Melbourne's north-west is huge. Waters rubbished that explanation. The Tibas are the only clan in the five families that can boast three generations of serious offenders from murderers to drug traffickers. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. 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. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. But there was no evidence that had ever taken place. 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. 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.. 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. WebWe found 33,440 records for Kassab last name. 959 Census & Voter Lists. But it didnt take long to realize that something was wrong. His wife Colette and his children have also been forever denied these things -- but not, I have come to believe, by the man who is currently serving three consecutive life sentences. The family claims his body has never been found. The family claims his body has never been found. Such is the power of a good story. The popular story says there was no evidence of intruders. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. 6,889 Family Trees. Bettmann/Getty ImagesA neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. 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. 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. No particular families run any particular suburbs; they are all dealing, all the time, to whoever buys. 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. The one hardly anyone sees, but that rages, nonetheless. 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. The story many of us think we know tells that MacDonald's wounds were superficial. Kassabs suspicions deepened after he received a copy of a transcript of the Article 32 hearing and began to pore through the evidence himself. He looked angry on the stand. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. But then I felt uneasy. 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