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Island Murder: American Experience

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Season 30

A young Navy wife made a drastic rape allegation against five nonwhite Hawaiians in 1931.

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy wife made a drastic allegation of rape against five nonwhite islanders.

AIR DATE 4/17/18

About Island Murder: American Experience

Discover the truth behind the scandalous 1930s rape and murder case, involving a Navy wife, her society mother, Clarence Darrow and five nonwhite Hawaiians, that shook the island paradise and exposed the racial tensions roiling beneath the surface.

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