frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan. committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation. dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. and by the frontline journalism fund with a grant from scott nathan and laura debonis. narrator: july 1997, the naval station in norfolk, virginia. a sailor, william bosko, had just returned from sea. eager to see his new wife, he rushed home to this apartment complex. what he found inside horrified him. he ran next door to his neighbor, danial williams. william bosko came over, beating on my door, yelling frantically that his wife was dead. and i grabbed my phone,
i ll show you another picture and ask if you can identify this female. dan grabbed her around the mouth so she couldn t scream. one by one, eventually, they all confessed. dan was about to start raping her. dan was the first to have intercourse with her. i was the second. eric was third. i noticed that dan and joe were getting really rough. jeff went, grabbed the knife from the kitchen. do you remember your exact words at that point? just go ahead and stab the bitch. based on these confessions, the jury found them guilty. is this the truth that you re telling us now? yes, it is. but were they telling the truth? tonight on frontline: the confessions. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by rev
brutal crime. you were going to rape michelle bosko. is that true? .over and over. you don t recall what happened to the knife? .hour after hour. i ll show you another picture and ask if you can identify this female. dan grabbed her around the mouth so she couldn t scream. one by one, eventually, they all confessed. dan was about to start raping her. dan was the first to have intercourse with her. i was the second. eric was third. i noticed that dan and joe were getting really rough. jeff went, grabbed the knife from the kitchen. do you remember your exact words at that point? just go ahead and stab the bitch. based on these confessions, the jury found them guilty. is this the truth that you re telling us now? yes, it is. but were they telling the truth? tonight on frontline: the confessions. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting.
relentlessly questioned about a brutal crime. you were going to rape michelle bosko. is that true? .over and over. you don t recall what happened to the knife? .hour after hour. i ll show you another picture and ask if you can identify this female. dan grabbed her around the mouth so she couldn t scream. one by one, eventually, they all confessed. dan was about to start raping her. dan was the first to have intercourse with her. i was the second. eric was third. i noticed that dan and joe were getting really rough. jeff went, grabbed the knife from the kitchen. do you remember your exact words at that point? just go ahead and stab the bitch. based on these confessions, the jury found them guilty. is this the truth that you re telling us now? yes, it is. but were they telling the truth? tonight on frontline: the confessions. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corpo
.four us navy sailors were relentlessly questioned about a brutal crime. you were going to rape michelle bosko. is that true? .over and over. you don t recall what happened to the knife? .hour after hour. i ll show you another picture and ask if you can identify this female. dan grabbed her around the mouth so she couldn t scream. one by one, eventually, they all confessed. dan was about to start raping her. dan was the first to have intercourse with her. i was the second. eric was third. i noticed that dan and joe were getting really rough. jeff went, grabbed the knife from the kitchen. do you remember your exact words at that point? just go ahead and stab the bitch. based on these confessions, the jury found them guilty. is this the truth that you re telling us now? yes, it is. but were they telling the truth? tonight on frontline: the confessions. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you