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Jeremy Morlock, Army Killer From Wasilla, Pleads Guilty to Afghan Murders

Jeremy Morlock, the Army specialist made notorious in a grisly photograph showing off a dead Afghan civilian like a hunting trophy, pleaded guilty to three murders and faces up to 24 years in prison. Morlock's friends from Alaska tell Shushannah Walshe about his Army experience, his father's death—and his temper.

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Cpl. Jeremy Morlock with his Afghan victim. (Via Der Spiegel)

Spc. Jeremy Morlock looks into the camera and smiles, lifting the hair of a dead Afghan man, in a gruesome photograph. The image, along with others published this week by Der Spiegel, sparked an international outcry and triggered an apology

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