Take a guy like MacDonald. 26-year-old Colette MacDonald had been stabbed nearly forty times with an icepick and a knife while pig was scrawled on the headboard of her bed in her own blood. There was violence. Or maybe theres something else at work: Picture #2 is even more awful to see than Picture #1. Police agree it would be futile to appeal to gun-slingers on the grounds that they could ruin a rival's life. This note says: 'Brian, Im giving you this lab report. Many felt that his acquittal would be a cinch, but much more was to go wrong. 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. Pennsylvania had the highest population of Kassab families in 1920. Earlier, evidence came to light that a FBI forensic examiner mislead the jury about synthetic hair evidence. 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. 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. 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. 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. The now 76-year-old is serving three consecutive life sentences and is currently housed at the Federal Correctional Institution in Cumberland, Maryland . LP: In Joe McGinnis book, Fatal Vision, Freddy Kassab, MacDonalds father-in-law, was presented as the protagonist. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! He had biblical levels of persistence, Bob Keeler, a reporter for Newsday, recalled in A Wilderness of Error.. Other witnesses claimed that Stoeckly had confessed at various times that she thought she might have been present during the murders. He claimed they chanted, Kill the pigs!Acid is groovy! and scrawled the word PIG on the wall in his wifes blood. In the fall of 1963, they decided to get married and in April of the following year, their daughter Kimberly was born. After leaving the factory, he spent several years scrabbling for a living: working on a farm, peddling fancy goods, and the like. "More senior criminal figures are exploiting the vulnerabilities of younger or less sophisticated offenders," he said. or click here to become a subscriber. 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. Harvey Silverglate, a renowned civil liberties advocate, has been an appellate attorney for MacDonald. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Wade Smith rarely grants interviews. In 1920 there were 5 Kassab families living in Pennsylvania. We even came back at night so we would have the same lighting conditions as the night of the murders. His honesty and humility regarding these losses give the story its poignancy. Eventually, he turned on the man he had once so ardently defended. 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. Shes haunting this case. The past year has been the most arduous of our lives. He was given an honorable discharge. His relentless persistence prompted the government to open a second investigation. A finger squeezes a trigger until the chamber empties. Im giving you an extra copy for Bernie Segal [the defense counsel]. His memoir first describes the family history, especially the career of his uncle Salim Kassab. Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords? Wadea left Syria in 1889 with two companions and arrived in the United States that same year. 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. Walk through the house, walk through the rooms and talk about what we know,investigator Mike Pickering said in the docuseries. Bob Riha Jr./Getty ImagesMacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. It has Helena Stoeckley, the dominant person who continues to play a remarkable role. Like Wade Smith, Ive been struck by how many people speak of absolute certainty about what happened that February night over 40 years ago. However, his American dream suddenly became a nightmare in 1970 when his family was found brutally stabbed to death in their home. 6,889 Family Trees. 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. Others relate to significant organised crime figures, and their businesses, such as tattoo parlours. 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. And absolutely nothing fit, Kassab told the, 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, Stevenson told reporters in 2005 that he had promised Freddy Kassab on his death bed that he would continue the familys quest to keep MacDonald behind bars, according to. Furthermore, an FBI lab technician reenacted how MacDonald claimed he defended against the intruders attacks and proved his testimony contradicted the evidence. When we were walking out of the house, I was warned that convicting MacDonald wasnt going to be that simple, Kassab said. 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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. Aelyas kept the practice going while Wadea gave himself to real estate; when Wadea lost everything, he was able to resume his practice seamlessly by rejoining his brother. Most people who go through traumatic things like this, nowhere near as lengthy, almost always end up in divorce, but with us its drawn us closer.. So MacDonald was the logical choice. WebThe Kassab family name was found in the USA in 1920. Smerling is the director of the documentary series A Wilderness of Error, which examines the MacDonald case. 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. A crime scene was left open to bystander traffic. His most significant injury was a puncture wound and deflated lung. As the only survivor, MacDonald claimed that a mysterious blonde hippie oversaw three male intruders who slaughtered his family. Wade Smith: Its a very spooky case. 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. Were sorry, this feature is currently unavailable. MacDonald at Los Angeles Terminal Island prison where Charles Manson had spent much of his youth. I accused the Army of every blunder that they made in the original investigation, he once said, according to the docuseries. Not only were three hairs discovered at the crime scene that didnt match any of the familys DNA, but an affidavit revealed that Blackburn had allegedly threatened Stoeckley not to tell the truth in court. LP: Then why did MacDonald, the emblem of law-and-order, the Green Beret, become a suspect? Four military police (MP) officers arrived at 4 a.m. to find an unspeakable crime scene. The popular story says there was no evidence of intruders. Helena Stoeckley confessed many times that MacDonalds willingness to turn heroin addicts in to the police infuriated local drug dealers. Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kassab surname lived. 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. 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. She was a pretty girl, not beautiful, but pretty, and she was down to earth and she hated to see anybody hurt.. Not only did victims of drug addiction build that fortune, but there are the consequences of maintaining this empire. 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.. For all of us independent news organizations, its no exception. 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. In this case, it carries particular weight: police are trying to break the hold, in some cases, of family ties that go back generations. Every time we pursued a lead it just turned us around and directed us back toward Jeffrey MacDonald. It implicates us all. Stories about the innocent caught in a machine that perverts every possibility of justice. 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. Why did people in the community believe he did it? The new war involves men with names many Victorians could barely pronounce shooting each other in downtrodden suburbs they have almost certainly never visited. 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. They were hardly as connected as the mob in Manhattan, but they had serious clout. 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. When the show was over, I retired to the security of my bed, safe from unpredictable evils. What do you recall of the in-laws in the trial? He tried to take his case to the Supreme Court in 1979, but they declined to review the lower courts decision. 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. How I Changed My Mind About the Jeffrey MacDonald Murder Case. Steve Liss/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty ImagesJeffrey MacDonald behind bars in Terminal Island federal penitentiary. Even before bureaucratic stalling and federal machinery overtook the search for truth, things were working against Jeffrey MacDonald. 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. 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. But his story crumbled under scrutiny and he was charged with killing his family. Wadea Kassab was born in Damascus in 1872 to an Orthodox family that had long and deep connections to British and American Protestant missionaries in Damascus and Beirut. His uncle, Salim Kassab, was a long-time assistant to, first, Lady Hester Stanhope and later to Elizabeth Bowen Thompson, who helped found British mission schools in Greater Syria. It all was intruders. I would have said to the jury: they were not there, and neither was I. LP: Did anything new come out in the Wilmington hearing in September? Hes the guy that lives next door. "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. In 1984 I was glued to the TV, like millions of other Americans, watching the popular miniseries based on McGinniss book. But did hippie intruders make sense? But even though Jeffrey MacDonald has spent decades behind bars, his case doesnt seem to be closed just yet. 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. 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. 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. 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. Aelyas followed Wadea to the United States in 1899. At one stage last year, there was only one of the six Chaouks, father and sons, that were alive and free. 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. 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. But, soon after MacDonald moved to Long Beach, California to continue his career at St. Mary Medical Center, and the tide turned once more. One is titled Memoirs by Wadea Kassab; it is 210 pages and was written in 1954. LP: Judge Fox is a close friend of Judge Dupree, who presided over the 1979 trial. Additionally, much of what Morris introduces as new evidence was already including in the trial that convicted MacDonald. He holds dual bachelor's degrees from Pace University and a master's degree from New York University. But, they believe, the deterrent effect of jailing them, even if their victim remains tight-lipped, will have an impact. Sometimes that doesnt happen. They were successful, and a grand jury indicted MacDonald for murder the following year. Theres a note attached. To dislodge an idea reinforced by a popular book and TV phenomenon would be hard enough, but to add the sickening sense that the wrong man has been paying is nearly unthinkable. 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. Waters rubbished that explanation. Now deceased, she remains a pivotal figure in the case. 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. He could get an answer by the end of this year. WebIn 1971, his father-in-law, Freddy Kassab, became progressively suspicious of MacDonald and sought formal reopening of the case. 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. Currently serving three life sentences for their murders, MacDonald continues to maintain his innocence even as a new documentary series digs into his case. A neighbors dog and MP guards securing the MacDonald property. MacDonald said there had been a stabbing and begged for an ambulance. Wadea died in February, 1972; Aelyas in October, 1987. The solution will not be found in just policing, Detective Inspector Newman said, in a common refrain from the modern police force. And the physical evidence, the circumstantial evidence, just kept mounting against him and contradicting his story for events from that evening.. WS: For me to say that he is innocent would require magic. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. Unfortunately for MacDonald, she would never admit any memory of her involvement in the killings in court. He wanted his son-in-law to stay on the east coast and pursue the killers. 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. Freddy was not going to quit. 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. That same year, seven drug-linked executions were reported in 10 months. Official trailer for FX documentary series. "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. None of this has set MacDonald free. WS: We all depend on excellent, honest detective work. Its a scary, spooky story that sounds made up. This was about 31% of all the recorded Kassab's in USA. Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! It appeared to investigators that MacDonald had staged the scene, inspired by the recent Manson Family murders to blame hippies for his crime. We needed the Kassabs to shut up, just calm down, let us do the investigation and well find out who did it.. Picture #2. He awoke to the sound of screaming and found three male intruders being overseen by a blonde woman. Not only had the word pig been scrawled on the bedroom headboard in his wifes blood but she and her unborn baby were dead. 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. A staff writer for All Thats Interesting, Marco Margaritoff has also published work at outlets including People, VICE, and Complex, covering everything from film to finance to technology. 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. 741 Immigration & Travel. Recently, the Fourth District Court of Appeals ordered Fox to consider new evidence, and to examine all the evidence as a whole. Shortly after relocating to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, he was made Group Surgeon to the Green Berets. But things got out of hand. In the hearing we just had in Wilmington she played an important role, decades after her death. 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. MacDonald had been just a teenager at the time and was dating Colette, his high school sweetheart. 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 chanting blonde, meanwhile, had not been found. 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. Two members of the Tiba family have been charged in relation to the shooting. The family claims his body has never been found. He is both a careful researcher and a profound investigator of the human condition. Jeffrey MacDonald, a bright young man with everything in life to look forward to, lost his wife and children to senseless, horrific violence. But Im an optimist generally about our system of justice, and I hope that MacDonald gets a break. McGinniss had to be creative, because the mans character never fit the crime. Who else is going to fight this thing if not me? Freddy Kassab said of his years-long quest to put his son-in-law Jeffrey MacDonald behind bars for killing his stepdaughter and two young granddaughters. 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. Two years into MacDonalds undergraduate studies at Princeton, Stevens became pregnant. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. 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. @2022 - AlterNet Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. In 1978, MacDonalds case went to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who rejected it. 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. While none of the hairs found at the scene matched Stoeckleys DNA or that of any of her known associates, MacDonald maintains they prove something more essential to his freedom that someone else was there that night. I would have told the jury that it doesnt make sense. In other words, an FBI lab technician trusted exculpatory evidence to a member of the prosecution team. 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. 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. 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. After 3 a.m. on Feb. 17, 1970, dispatchers at Fort Bragg received an emergency call from the MacDonalds 544 Castle Drive address. 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