In late 2014, a source at Interpol emailed a cell phone video of the incident to me with the subject line “Brace yourself.” When I opened the email and watched the shaky footage, I sat back in my chair, stunned at what I was seeing. In my reporting on sea slaves, like the captive Cambodian man Lang Long, I had seen the worst types of violence inflicted on fishermen, and I had certainly heard many times of cold-blooded killings at sea. But the scene playing on my laptop was a naked abomination, the killers exhibiting the glee of big-game hunters bagging their prey.
