The Real Murder Behind a Few Good Men — True Crime
This is a true story that was made into a fictionalized movie, but the real story is stranger than fiction. And has a murder you don’t expect.
“You Can’t Handle the Truth.”
That’s the line everyone remembers from the movie A Few Good Men. It’s also the scene where Tom Cruise gets Jack Nicholson to lose his cool and admit he ordered the “Code Red.”
The problem is, the movie wasn’t accurate, and Hollywood was making big bucks over the suffering of others at the hands of the US Military.
The Real Story
David Cox was a twenty-eight-year-old Marine stationed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 1986. At which time, his platoon commander gave David, and the others an order to commit hazing “Code Red” against PFC William Alvarado.
The Code Red resulted in David with nine other Marines going into Alvarado’s room where they blindfolded and gagged him. They carried him into the bathroom and started shaving his head, after a few minutes they realized Alvarez wasn’t moving.
David forced the others to stop the Code Red, and they took the unconscious Alvarez to the hospital, where he eventually recovered.
