Pt. 5/5. The Murder of Richard T. Davis. With Cilla McCain, Author of Murder in Baker Company.

http://non-combat-death.org/SurnamesCE.htm Richard Thomas Davis was murdered on July 15 2003 upon return from Iraq. He had witnessed His Battalion Commander murder two Iraq prisoners that he was watching. They had my son murdered to keep him quiet. After all they didn't want Bush, Chaney and Rumsfield to get embarrassed about a war crime. (Lanny Davis). In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 Academy Award-nominated film written and directed by Paul Haggis, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Charlize Theron, and Susan Sarandon. The films title refers to the Biblical valley where the battle between David and Goliath is said to have taken place. Although the story has been fictionalized and the names and location have been changed, the plot hews very closely to the story of Richard T. Davis, an Iraq War veteran murdered upon his return home in 2003. Richard Davis's father Lanny Davis, a former military police officer who mounted his own investigation into the crime like the Jones character, commented, "It's a strong movie and a good movie. And it's going to make a lot of people think." A non-fiction book about the actual murder case, by author Cilla McCain, titled Murder in Baker Company: How Four American Soldiers Killed One Of Their Own is slated for publication in Fall 2009 by Chicago Review Press.[2] A 2004 report by Mark Boal in Playboy on Richard Davis' murder, entitled "Death and Dishonor", inspired Haggis.[3][4] Davis's story was also told in an episode of the CBS News program 48 Hours Mystery.[5] The Richard Davis Foundation for Peace works on issues related to Davis's murder, such as improved screening of military recruits. It is compiling a list of suicides and murders connected to the Iraq War, for a memorial.