Episode 1: The First Cover-Up

Murder in House Two

georges@crowdnetwork.co.uk

Politics, True Crime, News

4.7 • 701 Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This is the start of a 15-year journey into what turned out to be the longest and most expensive criminal investigation in Marine Corps history. With unprecedented access, you’ll hear from NCIS agents searching for the truth after a single question from a private citizen leads to the first horrible details of a cover-up of a massacre. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is a crowd podcast.
0:07.7	Most of the things you're about to hear in this podcast were never intended to be made public.
0:14.5	I come to order. This investigation is convened by Lieutenant General James T. Mattis, commanding officer.
0:20.6	They are part of a crime that shocked the world and a cover-up that reached into the highest levels of the U.S. military,
0:27.5	the murder of 24 innocent civilians in the Iraqi town of Heditha.
0:33.1	By the appointing order dated 23 May of 2007, in the case of staff sergeant, Frank D. Woodridge,
0:38.6	the United States Marine Corps.
0:40.0	Can they call your first witness?
0:41.0	Yes, sir.
0:41.9	There are also recordings in this podcast.
0:44.8	The U.S. government doesn't know exist.
0:47.4	Recordings I secretly made during the decade I followed the Marine at the center of this scandal.
0:53.3	A staff sergeant, the government knew was innocent,
0:56.3	but who they charged anyway with 18 counts of premeditated murder.
1:01.1	Frank Wuderich.
1:03.0	I remember coming into this room.
1:08.7	Ever?
1:09.3	49.
1:11.2	Not until later that day.
1:13.2	Right.
1:13.9	The end of that.
1:14.6	Yeah.
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