A slain soldier’s widow details her husband’s murder by a fellow
soldier . . . and exposes how the US military courts allowed the
killer to escape justice. June 7, 2005. A sandstorm obscured what
light lingered in Iraq’s nighttime sky as Staff Sergeant Alberto
Martinez tied a claymore mine to a window grate. On the other side of
the window was Lieutenant Louis Allen, a husband and father of four
young boys, and his good friend and Commanding Officer Captain Phillip
Esposito, a West Point graduate and father of a baby girl. The men
were engaged in a board game, unwinding after a hard day, when without
warning the window exploded. More than seven hundred steel ball
bearings erupted from the mine and hurtled inward with lethal force,
obliterating everything in their kill zone. Martinez was arrested
and tried for the murders. But the military judicial system failed,
and the killer was set free. How can American soldiers be at risk on
their own base, among their fellow soldiers? Could these murders have
been prevented? Will it happen again? How can the military’s
judicial system have failed so drastically? What was the government
hiding from the slain soldiers’ families? This book is a personal
and factual behind-the-scenes account of a case that is to the
military judicial system what the O. J. Simpson case is to the
civilian judicial system.
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A Slain Soldier's Widow Details Her Husband's Murder and How Military Courts Allowed the Killer to Escape Justice
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781600378904
Publisert
2016
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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