Hey there, it's Brian Stelter.

You may have seen that not too long ago, the Peabody Award-winning investigative podcast

In The Dark joined our friends at the New Yorker.

Now this week, after four years of reporting in the dark is releasing

its third season. It is the most ambitious story they've done yet. It looks at a

shocking crime that was committed during the war in Iraq,

the killing of 24 civilians by U.S. Marines.

Over the course of nine episodes, the podcast reconstructs what happened that day in

Haditha and sheds light on the failure of the US military to bring the men

responsible to justice. Whether you're a fan of true crime or not, this is an amazing story and some of the best

investigative reporting you'll encounter anywhere this year. So now here's the beginning of the first episode of season

three.

Two years ago, I went to Iraq to talk to a man about what sounded like a

murder. It had happened almost 17 years earlier. The killing of the man's sister, his nephew,

so many others. Twenty-four people in all. It was a killing that had gone unpunished, where not a single person had ever gone to prison,

a killing committed by US Marines. The man whose family was killed is named Kalad Salmane Receipt. He met me in the lobby of a hotel in the city of Erbil, Iraq.

Should we go up?

We headed up to a room with our producer, Samara Fremark, and our interpreter,

a woman named Ayamuthana.

We all sat down.

Mr. Kallard, why don't you sit here?

Can I get you a water or a coffee or anything like that?

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