When murder happens offshore does anyone care?

“Brace yourself.” This was the subject line of an email that initiated a 7-year investigation of a gruesome slow-motion slaughter at sea.

That subject line also fits with today’s launch of The Outlaw Ocean Podcast series in collaboration with CBC and The LA Times. 

The first episode reveals a 10-minute video captured by a cell phone camera that was left in the backseat of a taxi in Fiji. The footage shows a group of unarmed men at sea, possibly 15 of them, shot and killed by a semiautomati…