Danny isn’t some high-profile killer who landed in a lot of newspapers. In fact, the exclusive clip above shared with Grunge reveals that Danny was never charged with a single murder. He merely confessed to Dr. Carlisle, who listened and documented, and that was that.
According to Danny, everything changed for him when his best friend Philippe died in the Vietnam War. A landmine went off, Philippe screamed, and Danny stayed with him until he died. In Dr. Carlisle’s recorded sessions, Danny says, “I’m sure it took only a few minutes for him to die, but it seemed to take forever. He had risked his life to save my life and now I couldn’t do anything to save him.” This feeling of guilt stayed with Danny for the rest of his life, and transformed his every action into trauma-induced vengeance. As someone who’d been enamored with tales of Japanese samurai and legends of Arthurian knights, Danny also considered himself “bound by honor, justice and loyalty” and thereby exonerated of wrongdoing when killing.
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By his own count, Danny went on to kill about 12 Vietnamese soldiers in combat. He also, however, hunted Vietnamese people hiding amongst the bodies of the dead after battles. In an act of “cleansing,” or “payback,” Danny executed them. “They were wounded,” he said, “so I just walked up to them and then shot them. As they were kneeling, each guy, I shot him with a pistol one time in the back of his head.”
