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Lamont Jones is shattered when his cousin dies just weeks after entering prison.

The official reports as natural causes, but bruises and missing teeth tell a different story.

Wondry presents Death County PA, a chilling true story of corruption and cover-ups.

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Music on the Wondry app or wherever you get your podcasts. There was a point early in my Marine Corps career

where I was assigned to a recon team

and we were being put through a pre-deployment training program that lasted

about 12 weeks. If you're radio recon listening, it was the rip. Long story short, after multiple

field exercises, pieces of gear going missing, long patrols, sleepless nights, and all the BS

that we had to put up with, we got the sense that our platoon leadership were complete idiots,

particularly one staff NCO, our lieutenant,

and the sergeant they had put in charge of our team.

Like when one of the expensive antennas for our radios went missing,

and the lieutenant was screaming at all of us about it and come to find

out, he eventually found it in his bag and then planted it in one of our bags, someone told

us that they saw him do it, and blamed us for not finding it.

We got punished for that.

We did what he said.

We ran all the way to the other side of the training area

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