In 1995, a Navy SEAL named Billy Joe Brown got drunk and killed a young woman in a car outside a nightclub in Virginia Beach. He told Richmond attorney Steve Northup that he just snapped.
“He was sitting right behind her — fiddling with her hair, and she reached back and slapped his hand, and he immediately reached over the headrest and put her in a chokehold and broke her neck,” Northup explains.
His swim buddy – Dustin Turner – was at the wheel and felt bound by Seal code not to abandon Brown…