Two conflicting stories about what happened that day emerge—one from the Marines involved in the killings, and another from a very different perspective. To get episodes early and ad-free, visit newyorker.com/dark.
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Previously on in the Dark.
In the morning of the 19th of November 2005, American soldiers had executed three families.
And they come back.
Yeah, there was about 24 bodies in the back of the vehicles.
And I'm like, holy man.
Maybe a lot of this is imagination.
None of this was near as bad as it seemed.
I'm talking about what actually happened to the civilians.
What he noticed was gunshots.
Most of them are gunshot in the head or in the chest.
Shoot.
Yes.
They died this way.
To me, they were enemy combatants.
Were they 100% enemy combatants?
I don't know.
They lost one of the most loved guys in the company.