Due to the graphic nature of this killer's crimes, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of child abuse, murder, sexual assault, body mutilation

and assault that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

Burnt by napalm, clouded by ash, riddled with landmines.

The jungles of Vietnam became a breeding ground for the darkest parts of human nature.

The chaos and bloodshed was created by evil, and it mastered still more evil in the hearts

of many involved.

At least one American soldier, a man sent to fight for freedom, saw his psyche wounded

at his inner beast unleashed by the depravity beneath the trees, forced into the turmoil

by his country, living on the edge of death.

This man allowed his resentment, fear and hatred to fester.

He took this anger and corded it out onto anyone who looked like an enemy soldier, armed

or not.

With the women, he would do far worse.

He stole them from their homes, bound them to trees and tortured and raped them for hours

on end.

This soldier reveled in his cruelty, taking polaroids of his vile acts.

When he finished with his victims, he decapitated them and posed with their bodies.

He shrunk some of the severed heads and packed them in with his belongings.

When the war ended, this man was brought home.

He was decorated with medals and called a hero, even though many of his superiors knew

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