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In The Dark

Episode 8: On Trial

In The Dark

The New Yorker

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.728.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The case against the squad leader, Frank Wuterich, finally goes to trial.

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0:00.0

Previously on In the In the Dark.

0:07.0

Based on the findings of the investigations, various charges have been preferred against four Marines relating to the deaths of the Iraqi

0:14.1

civilians on 19 November 2005. These charges include murder, dereliction of

0:20.3

duty. We've read some of your statements to investigators and it sounds like you

0:24.3

really regret the way things turned out that day. Who wouldn't? We got the letter

0:29.1

and looked at each other and said, that I said holy shit this is amazing.

0:37.0

What was Woodrich like?

0:40.0

Like he was quiet but a good dude.

0:43.0

I'd be a little bit to jaf

0:45.0

shif not all of the Frank.

0:47.0

But I didn't have Frank.

0:48.0

So the first one that they saw was Frank.

0:51.0

What the car can't... And he can remember that there was blood on Frank's uniform. The charges against the first Marine for what happened that day in Haditha had been dropped.

1:14.8

Justin Sherrit was a free man. But there were three other Marines who also faced charges of murder.

1:21.6

There was a squad leader, Frank Wuterich, charged with the murder of the men by the white

1:26.1

car and the murder of women and children inside the houses.

1:30.7

There was Sonic Delacruz, also charged with murdering the men by the white car.

1:35.0

And there was Stephen Tatum, who according to NCIS records, had confessed to shooting women and children,

1:42.0

knowing that they were women and

1:43.7

children. Tatum was initially charged with two counts of murder for

1:48.1

killing five-year-old Zainib and her sister, 15-year-old Nor, in the back bedroom of Safa's house, and four counts of negligent homicide

1:56.5

for killings in the house nearby, including the killing of the mother, Asma, and her

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