All Along the Watchtower: Murder at Fort Devens

The controversy around the case of a former Green Beret's murder of his wife shows the lengths the government will go to to keep its secrets hidden.

It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type which is romanticized in Robert Frost's poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman's scream was heard piercing the northeast tempest wind.

In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier,...