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'American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps'

NPR | By Steve Inskeep

Published June 17, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

The new book American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps tells the true story of a Peace Corps volunteer who was murdered in 1976 in the Pacific Island nation of Tonga. Another Peace Corps volunteer was accused of the murder but judged not guilty by reason of insanity by a Tongan court. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks with author Philip Weiss.

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