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...party guest, the quintessential victim of military bureaucracy. Moving to Huntington Beach, Calif., he became a respected community do-gooder and an authority on emergency-room procedures. He lived in a mirror-lined condominium and sailed a yacht, The Recovery Room. Meanwhile, Colette's salesman stepfather, Freddy Kassab, a former Canadian army intelligence operative, and her mother Mildred were obsessed with grief and vengeance...
They petitioned Congress to find the killers. In 1971, when he finally obtained a transcript of the Army hearing, Kassab became convinced of his stepson-in-law's guilt. "If the courts won't administer justice," he said grim ly, "I will...
...strongest reaction to last week's ruling came from the father-in-law Alfred Kassab, retired vice president of a New Jersey egg retailing company. "It's ludicrous," he said. "Are we to let a triple murderer go loose just because he wasn't tried fast enough?" Kassab implied that he might have to "take justice into my own hands." Of his tenacity there can be little doubt: after initially rejecting the theory that his "all-American" son-in-law had committed the murders, Kassab soon changed his mind and financed an investigation that brought a reopening...
...verdict was a triumph for Colette's mother, Mildred Kassab, and her stepfather Alfred, both 58. Originally they believed MacDonald's story; Alfred Kassab had even testified as a character witness at 1970 Army hearings that cleared the captain. But the Kassabs quickly developed doubts and began what the husband openly called a "legal vendetta," importuning federal authorities to reopen the case. MacDonald was finally indicted in early 1975, but the trial was further delayed by a flock of appeals, including three to the Supreme Court...
...testified that the pattern and type of slashes in a pajama top did not fit MacDonald's account of the struggle. Defense Attorney Bernard Segal intends to appeal, partly on the ground that the long delay violated Mac-Donald's constitutional right to a speedy trial. The Kassabs professed not to be worried. Said Mildred Kassab...