S26 E1: The Murder Video | "The Outlaw Ocean"

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True Crime

4.5 • 10.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Crimes like this don't often happen on land. A 10-minute slow-motion slaughter captured by a cell phone camera shows a group of unarmed men at sea, possibly 15 of them, killed one by one by a semiautomatic weapon, after which the culprits pose for celebratory selfies. The shocking footage is then made public, and yet no government is willing to investigate, much less prosecute the murderers. This episode traces a tireless journalistic investigation of a shocking video that after 8 years, finally resulted in a 26-year conviction of the ship captain who ordered the cold-blooded killing. Looking for answers, this reporting takes us to the bizarre world of floating armories, which are part bunkhouse, part weapons depot, where maritime mercenaries wait for their next ship deployment. For broader context, the story explores the explosion of violence on the high seas, how Somali piracy is often used as a pretext for bloodletting by private security guards and the reasons that offshore crime often happens with impunity. Guest Interviews: Duncan Copeland, Trygg Mat Tracking Kevin Thompson, Private Maritime Security Guard

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0:00.0	I'm Tanya Mosley. In 1987, my sister Anita vanished without a trace. Decades later, thanks to DNA, we found her.
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0:15.0	that explores the search for redemption,
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0:34.0	The episode you're about to hear contains descriptions of violence.
0:38.0	Please take care. The video came to me from a source at Interpol and all it had was the subject line, brace yourself.
0:55.6	I opened it and you know it was hard to make out what was going on at first.
1:07.0	It was obviously shot on someone's phone. The camera is super wobbly. It's at sea and the water is very blue and you see several
1:22.2	large tuna longliners.
1:24.0	These are big steel ships and very early on into the video you start hearing
1:30.0	gunshots and that's when I immediately stopped everything else I was doing and focused.
1:35.0	The guys in the water are clinging to this wooden wreckage of some sort.
1:47.5	It looks like a small boat that's been destroyed with a gunfire is coming at them and missing them.
1:55.7	You see it sort of slice into the water.
1:58.8	How are you? And the guy on the wreckage is now holding up.
2:07.0	And the guy on the wreckage is now holding up...
2:10.0	Jesus Christ. He holds up his hands, palms up, and then he's hit and there's blood all of the water. The shouting you hear more predominantly is coming from the ship itself where the shots are being fired and you can hear the
2:37.4	captain of the ship over a loudspeaker yelling in Chinese which once translated, know I found out was shoot shoot shoot shoot
2:47.2	and over here and over there and
2:49.3	but you also hear all this yelling among those standing on the deck and those folks seem like they're just having a great time.
3:00.0	You know, you hear them say, I got one, I got one I got one
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