The Fight for Justice: Freeing Navy SEAL Dusty Turner | Ep. 44
The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 11.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
In 1995, Navy SEAL trainee Dusty Turner’s life changed forever. What started as a night out ended in tragedy, a murder charge, and a conviction that many believe is one of the greatest injustices in modern military history.
David Rutherford sits down with Martin Jenns and Erin Lottman, two tireless advocates for Dusty, to uncover the truth behind the crime, the broken legal process, and the decades-long fight for justice.
From SEAL training brotherhood to courtroom battles, this episode exposes the full story—and asks you to join the movement to help free Dusty Turner.
Watch the documentary: Navy SEAL: Murderer? Framed? Target of Opportunity?
on Amazon Prime.
Learn more & sign the petition: https://www.freedusty.com
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 - Intro
02:32 - Why Erin and Martin are fighting for Dusty's freedom
09:40 - The Story Behind The Case
24:19 - Dusty's Case Breakdown
29:40 - The Obvious Flaws In Dusty's Case
33:03 - Dusty's State Of Mind During Trial
39:27 - Who Is Brown, The Man Who Confessed?
50:58 - Why Is Dusty Still In Jail After Being Found Innocent?
5752 - The Documentary, and Who Dusty Is As A Man
01:07:12 - How You Can Help
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:04.2 | In 1995, I entered basic underwater demolition seal training. |
| 0:09.5 | And in the midst of going through training, there was a case that came out of Little Creek, Virginia. |
| 0:16.4 | It was a case of two young seal recruits that had made it over to the teams who had gotten arrested for the murder of a young girl, |
| 0:29.3 | young college student vacationing. |
| 0:31.5 | And I remember the impact that this had on our experience. |
| 0:36.9 | I remember sitting in second phase and having |
| 0:40.1 | our senior chief came in and began to give us an ethics class. And it was one of the most |
| 0:48.8 | impactful things I'd ever heard. And it was perplexing at the time that how two young boys who had just |
| 0:56.6 | gone through the most difficult, arduous thing that you could go through would have a lapse of |
| 1:03.0 | reasoning where they would kill somebody out of a fit of rage or some sexual desire. |
| 1:14.1 | And I just couldn't wrap my mind around it. |
| 1:22.9 | Well, since that time, this case has gotten a lot of attention back then, but it's died off. |
| 1:37.2 | And as a result, so too has the hopes of Dusty Turner, a young man that has been incarcerated for this crime for over 20 plus years. |
| 1:50.9 | And just the other day, I was on my Instagram feed and I saw this Free Dusty campaign that came across. And after the second time I saw it, I clicked on it and I began to read the free dusty.com website. And the fact that this young man is still, |
| 2:00.1 | or this grown man is still incarcerated to this |
| 2:03.2 | date. So what I wanted to do today is I wanted to bring the people who are responsible for this |
| 2:08.9 | movement, to bring awareness to it, to bring awareness to you so that hopefully in some way, shape, |
| 2:15.4 | or form, you can participate in bringing some justice to a young man that's already served his time. |
| 2:23.1 | So without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to Martin Jens and Aaron Lottman. |
| 2:28.4 | So thank you both so much for coming on the show. |
| 2:31.6 | Thank you. |
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