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The True Facts of the Murders of Colette, Kimberley and Kristen

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Welcome. This website is provided by the family of Colette, Kimberley and
Kristen MacDonald. It is not affiliated with nor does it endorse any other
website(s) claiming to represent the Jeffrey MacDonald case.

This is about the murders of our family members murdered by Jeffrey MacDonald
that we have had to relive over and over again for 50 years.

Psychiatric and psychological evaluations and more are here in the pages
available to you

I believe all things happen for a reason. In this case, I believe the blood
types served as a tool to aid the investigators in finding the truth. You see,
all the family had different blood types. Because of the different blood types,
this would clearly show the trail where each person was and where they injuries
occurred.

Colette had Type A blood, MacDonald had type B, Kimberley had type AB, and
Kristen had type O. I wonder if he was aware of the blood types? Had he known
and just forgotten? In the end the evidence led to no one other than Jeffrey
MacDonald. He was the only person who could have committed the unthinkable
brutal murders of his family including his unborn son.

MacDonald's fatal flaw was that he thought, as usual; that he was smarter than
everyone else and that he could concoct a story that would exonerate him.....He
told his story before he knew what the evidence showed, but the facts and
evidence had him trapped and he will remain in prison without an admission of
guilt and sincere verbal contrition for what he has done to wreck two
families.....his own and ours.


Bob and Pep Stevenson
Christina Masewicz
 



Colette Kimberley and Kristen

Colette was a gentle soul who loved her husband and children more
than anything in the world.

They were each different and very special in their way, each unique creations,
each thread of personality tenderly entwined.

Each was very special and very loved by thousands who never knew
them, but will never forget them.

Sadly, their lives were taken by the husband and father, Jeffrey MacDonald on
February 17, 1970.

We love them so very much and will never forget them. They are
angels among us.












 

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The Jeffrey MacDonald case has riveted and baffled people from the beginning.
But it is more than just murder, it is the devotion and courage of our family,
in the face of tragedy, to fight for justice for the loss of our loved ones.

This case has been sensationalized and more than once been distorted by the
press often reporting only the defendant's side, and the TV talk shows that do
not give equal time to the family and investigators to express their thoughts
and feelings.

The case brings out much passion and emotions in people and continues to do so
even after all these many years. Some people believe he is guilty, some believe
him innocent, and then there are some "on the fence," so to speak, who are not
sure one way or the other.

Colette was a beautiful, blond, twenty-six-year-old woman, who wanted only to be
the wife of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald and the mother of his children and live
happily forever. Their two children, Kimberley and Kristen, were both full of
life. Colette was pregnant with
their first son at the time of her murder.

This case starts on February 17, 1970, when the Military Police responded to a
call for help in what was thought to be a domestic dispute. What they were to
find would be a bloody murder scene that left them in shock and disbelief.
Jeffrey MacDonald, the husband and father was found alive and transported to the
hospital for treatment. Colette, Kimberley and Kristen were transferred to the
morgue.

The fact that MacDonald was left alive and with no serious injuries only adds
more mystery to an already complicated case.

And so the mystery begins and has been going for years. Did a group of hippies
break in and commit this vicious crime and leave him alive, or did he "lose it"
for just a fraction of second and commit this crime only to invent the theory of
having been attacked?

Freddy Kassab, Jeffrey MacDonald's father-in-law, was the biggest supporter of
his innocence in the beginning, but over time he too became convinced that no
one but his son-in-law was responsible for the murders. He was a patient man and
was not going to just sit back and let MacDonald get away with it. He fought
long and hard, and finally his fight came to fruition when he and attorney, Mr.
Cohen, (Kassab’s attorney) and Peter Kearns went to Clinton, North Carolina for
a meeting with Judge Algernon Butler. It was this meeting that was to lead to
the grand jury investigation that brought the indictment against MacDonald,
followed by the 1979 trial and his conviction of the murders of his family.

From the beginning, MacDonald's comments have always been strong and positive
about himself. He sees himself as a victim, someone  who had not only lost his
family that night, but also someone who had been unfairly accused by the
military and the federal  government and his father-in-law, whom he referred to
as an "alcoholic fanatic."

Initially accused by the United States Army of killing his family at the April
6, 1970 interview, he was charged with their murders  on May 1, 1970. He faced
formal charges of murder in an Army 32 hearing in July, 1970, at Fort Bragg.
Colonel Warren V. Rock  was the appointed Investigating Officer. The Army did
not say the charges were not true. Colonel Rock said that. Colonel Rock's  only
duty was to ascertain - was a crime committed; was it possible that MacDonald
was involved and then Rock was  was to  give a recommendation to MacDonald's
Commanding General whether courts-martial charges should be preferred. Note the
operative words: could have been involved, recommendation for charges. He did
neither, and said in effect, go look for Helena Stoeckley. That was not his job.

General Flanagan's report clearly stated that there were insufficient evidence
to warrant charges at that time. That left the government free to continue to
investigate and investigate they did. MacDonald was not exonerated. One cannot
be exonerated when they have never been tried. MacDonald applied for and was
granted a hardship discharge due to the loss of his family, which is still an
honorable discharge. He was free then to continue his life as he saw fit.

During the Army Article 32 hearings in the summer of 1970 Freddy said about
MacDonald, "If I had another daughter, I'd still want the same son-in-law."
After receiving a copy of the Article 32 transcripts, however, he declared that
he would devote the remainder of his life to pursuing all avenues to bring him
to justice. That meant a trial, conviction and imprisonment for the rest of his
life for the murder of his beloved daughter Colette and two grandchildren,
Kimberley and Kristen.

At the trial in 1979, the defense wanted to make this solely the story of
Jeffrey MacDonald, his losses, what the government had done to him, and the
story of the disruptions in his life because of it. There was no doubt that the
opinion of the United States Government was that MacDonald had gotten away with
murder for almost ten years and that justice was long overdue. Blackburn and
Murtagh carefully presented the evidence in a way that helped the jury to think
emotionally about the victims who had been so brutally murdered. For Segal to
have even suggested that what had happened to MacDonald was more serious than
the horrendous deaths of his family was a disgrace. It was a dishonor to the
victims and a slap in the face to their family.

James Blackburn, one of the prosecutors, told me "MacDonald sat stone-faced
during the entire trial. He showed not the slightest emotion, even when autopsy
pictures of his children were being shown, and then he gets up there, puts his
head down and pretends to cry. And what I couldn't really believe was that
people on the jury actually cried with him."

But justice did prevail and the jurors cried not with MacDonald, but for the
victims and what they had suffered because of what MacDonald did to them.

This tragedy has ruined the lives of many people and deprived two families of
their children and grandchildren. It prevented Colette, Kimberley and Kristen
from living their lives to the fullest and prevented the son that Colette was
pregnant with from being born. It has haunted the people who went to that crime
scene that morning and who have carried with them the horrors of what they
witnessed there that fateful morning. And in the end it cost Jeffrey MacDonald
his freedom and he was demoted from a doctor to a federal inmate. There were no
winners here; everyone lost something that can never be replaced.

Throughout this investigation and trial, I feel there were mistakes made by both
sides. Because of this I think it has left many lingering questions that have
never been answered and may never be answered at this late date. I have lived
this case from the beginning, doing my own research looking for answers to many
things. I have been able to contact and talk to many of the people who were
involved in this case. I have been able to get copies of the documents through
the Freedom of Information Act. I attended the trial and was able to observe
MacDonald, his body language and his actions in the courtroom. Since the time of
the trial I have come to believe that Judge Dupree was a man who did indeed
brandish his gavel with a no-nonsense wisdom, practicality and fairness.

It is not my intent to try and change anyone's mind or beliefs. My intent is to
present here some of the inside things pertaining to the investigation and trial
proceedings. Documents presented here are the complete documents, and they speak
for themselves, be it good or bad, for or against the Government or Jeffrey
MacDonald. The information is placed here for people to read and judge for
themselves.

The records here are taken from documents obtained from the FOIA, some records
that were passed on to me from people in the government and others who had them
as well as court records. Some of the documents here have never been touched on
before or mentioned in any books or articles written.

There can be no doubt in anyone's mind that a senseless crime occurred on the
late evening of February 16 and early morning of February 17, 1970. There is an
overwhelming amount of evidence that suggests and points to the fact that no one
but Jeffrey MacDonald was responsible for these murders.

In order to get away with a perfect murder, a person has to be incredibly lucky.
For almost nine and one-half years, Jeffrey MacDonald was indeed lucky. Bernard
Segal had successfully kept him from facing the justice of conviction, and
thereby remaining free, but that came to an end in the late afternoon of August
29, 1979, when the jury brought back a verdict of two counts of second degree
murder and one count of first degree murder.

The investigators worked hard gathering the evidence. The prosecutors who showed
the people why and how the system works are to be commended for their hard work
that still stands strong today. Jeffrey MacDonald may be able to aggrandize his
injuries as life-threatening and cajole his supporters, but he has never been
able to do so with the courts.

In the end, it was Freddy, the loving stepfather of Colette and grandfather to
Kimberley and Kristen who describe it best and in words that brings tears to my
eyes each time I read what he wrote about the intruders in the house the night
of the murders-

"When I read the case the first few times, I was skeptical about the existence
of the 4 intruders--as skeptical & unbelieving as have been almost all who have
familiarized themselves [with] this material. But on rereading portions of the
transcripts again last nite, I have now come over to the belief that, as
MacDonald has kept insisting, there were indeed '4 intruders.'

"MacDonald's goals from the beginning to this day have been to impress, to prove
his manhood, to con, to screw--whomever he wanted, whenever he wanted, wherever
he wanted. Many men want a little bit of that kind of freedom, but the normal
man, the normal man [with] a wife & a family, derives enough genuine & deep &
lasting satisfaction from family life, that the balance between irresponsible
'freedom' & commitment to his wife & his children--whom he truly loves more than
he resents--allows him to forego that kind of self centered freedom, without too
much 'burden' or sense of entrapment. For MacDonald the balance tilted far to
the other side--to the point where the resentment was volcanic, the love only
paper thin. So there came to be specifically 4 people--not 7, not 2--who
intruded most especially upon his 'space,' 4 people who got in the way of his
being the macho celeb & playboy he needed to be in order to feel alive. 4
intruders-three white, one black--just like MacDonald told us. Who were they? I
can name 3 of them: Colette, Kimberly (sic), Kristy. The 4th intruder--black not
in skin but figuratively black: as yet unseen, dark, invisible--the half-grown
baby that Colette was carrying, MacDonald's as yet unborn son, as it turned out
to be--the 4th intruder.

"In MacDonald's fatal blindness--blindness to the deep & genuine feeling that
animate ordinary people & unite them to their loved ones--in his fatal
blindness, he murdered the intruders, all 4, & making himself free at last! Free
at last--to live out his image of the big shot, the glamor boy, the stud. This
is the unbridled egomania, the wanton disregard for the feelings, even for the
lives, of those who intruded most heavily upon his dreams--that Joe McGinniss
quite correctly labeled 'pathological narcissism' in his book, [Fatal Vision].
And I am being flown out here 2500 miles to be asked is Joe McGinniss'
interpretation/assumption a fair one! Well, my answer is that how MacDonald
dealt [with] his family shows me that in one detail at least MacDonald was an
honest man--for though he lied as usual [with] his mouth, [with] his brain he
told the truth. Yes, there were 4 intruders in his life. And out of his
pathological narcissism, he killed them. I do not know of a narcissism more
pathological than this."

The family welcomes any comments that anyone might have and will be happy to
answer any of your questions.


Bob and Pep Stevenson
Christina Masewicz
 

A NOTE FROM CHRISTINA MASEWICZ

In 2004 I started my website with the help of the an individual who I thought
was a friend. Without this individual this website may never have been started.
However, it may well have been better if it had never been started. (The
individual will now be referred to as the ever-ready bunny)

For the first year and a half things ran fairly smooth until the ever-ready
bunny wanted to tell me what and when to put up documents and it ended with the
every-ready bunny trying to take over. Problem for her, I was the one with the
records. In the beginning, I would scan the documents, and send them to her and
she would prepare them and put them on the website. It was then that she started
making copies of the documents and stacking them so she could start another
site. Again she started going to Pacer and getting copies of documents and what
she could get from there, which is quite a bit. But the old records, things not
available on pacer I had and our family had the pictures. Things sent to Freddy
and Mildred Kassab addressed to their home.

Can you imagine the every-ready bunny even copied and put up on her site the
note Joe McGinniss sent to Freddy when he was dying? Even the grandfather of the
year award Freddy won. What kind of a person is this? She copied some of our
pictures as well.

There was a time and I still have copies of posts when she would tell me, "you
need to take your medicine." Mean and nasty things that has hurt our family very
much. And Bob is just heart broken over what has transpired. Bob wants so much
to have his sister and two children remembered. This is our family, please be
respectful and let us manage our family's business.

Why does she want so bad to be a part of this by starting her own websites,
lifting things from our website and claiming them as hers. If she only knew the
hurt and pain this tragedy has caused our family. And then have the audacity to
tell me, "you don't own the records." I never said I did, but I paid for them
and she just took copies without permission. Like plagiarism, and to me that is
stealing. She took material from our family's website to accomplish it.

The every-ready bunny did her last website to show me that she can do what she
wants to do. Well now it's time for me to show her what our family can do.

After she got her last site up, several people asked her about the site and she
denied owning it. Then very quietly some months back, a duplicate of her website
showed up on the Just the Facts website. Now that he allowed this to occur, he
becomes a part of this mess.

Anyone is free to have a website, but this is about our family and we would
rather they did not have a website on our family especially when we have one
already. And, how many sites does she need? She has 5 difference websites about
MacDonald. It's like she is obsessed with him.

The Crime Archives website was for sale for quite sometime before she bought it.
Obviously the other cases on the site were done. While she has followed the
style with the 2 sites she put up, The Jeffrey MacDonald case and the OJ Simpson
case, none can compare with the Jeffrey MacDonald case. It looks totally out of
place.

I sent the every-ready bunny and her husband a letter, hoping she would reach
out and we could talk about it like civilized people and come to some sort of
solution. No reply.

Bob's condition is not good, and I want to guard him as much as I can and also
to show him that I am fighting to get our website back. This is our family, not
hers.

So, in the meantime our website will remain, but the website will be under
construction until we decide how to go forth.

Thank you for listening, and please remember our family in your prayers.

Any comments can be sent to  cmasewicz1@aol.com
       

 

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