In 1992, young sailor Allen Schindler, after a series of events that outed him to his entire ship, was found beaten so severely that he was unrecognizable while returning to the USS Belleau Wood while docked in Japan. What followed was a series of blatant omissions from the US Navy regarding the details of his brutal murder. SOURCES https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/12/magazine/what-the-navy-taught-allen-schindler-s-mother.html https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A80479/datastream/OCR/viewhttps://www.out.com/news-opinion/2015/11/11/new-details-emerge-brutal-1992-murder-gay-sailor-allen-schindlerhttps://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-25-mn-755-story.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20240221212012/https://www.windycitytimes.com/m/APPredirect.php?AID=53394 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/autumn-s-oddities--5307439/support.