Parole for a former Navy SEAL, jailed more than 30 years even when another man confessed

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…

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