The Runaway Princesses, Episode 4: Hostage

A crime committed. A crime forgotten. A crime unpunished.

Season 3 of In the Dark, coming July 30th. Listen early and ad-free at newyorker.com/dark. 

A man in Haditha, Iraq, has a request for the In the Dark team: Can you investigate how my family was killed? 

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