"All my life, I just hoped for the average American dream," Pfc. Jesse Spielman wrote from Christian County Jail in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, in 2006, eight months before he was sentenced to 110 years in prison. "Get a nice house, good job, loving wife and settle down and start a family. I thought I started out good. I graduated when I was 17, got married right out of Basic. I joined [the Army] mainly to get a jumpstart on life. It has great benefits and we were planning on starting our family soon. I did it for me and for her, but now it has ruined our life, well at least mine anyways."
Spielman was convicted for his involvement in the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim al-Janabi, a 14-year-old Iraqi civilian girl, and the murder of Abeer's sister Hadeel, her father Qassim Hamzeh Rasheed, and her mother Fakhariya Taja Muhassain, in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, on March 12, 2006.
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