When Green Beret Logan Melgar was found dead at the U.S. Embassy in Mali, two Navy SEALs were immediately flown back to the United States and placed on administrative leave as an extensive investigation began.
Initially, the SEALs claimed that Melgar had been intoxicated on the day of his death, but an autopsy contradicted this, revealing evidence of a failed tracheotomy on his throat. They stated they had found him unconscious and not breathing, claiming they tried to save him.
Eventually, one of the SEALs confessed that Melgar had been choked during a hazing ritual gone wrong, where they had planned to tie him up and assault him while filming. However, other accounts suggest that Melgar had uncovered the SEALs were stealing funds meant for local informants and had threatened to report them.
This case remains one of the darkest and most controversial in the history of U.S. special forces.
