[4] In 1954, just days before Christmas, a heavily intoxicated Bennett left Camp Roeder to find a brothel.

[1] Witnesses reported seeing him wandering around, entering random civilian homes asking for a girl (or according to some, for a woman) named Margaret or Margot.

In a confession he gave to U.S. Army Military Police, he said: I walked part way into the field with her and then I carried her the rest of the way about 25 yards.

[5] Although Bennett had repeatedly raped the girl before strangling her and dumping her body in a stream, the child survived.

Bennett was tried at a general court-martial at the Lehener Kaserne, the former military barracks of the 59th Infantry Regiment of the Imperial-Royal Landwehr in Salzburg, on February 8, 1955.

The military court heard medical testimony from a doctor who examined the victim at the officer's home, as well as another who saw her later that day at the nearby hospital.

On February 27, 1961, the newly appointed Secretary of the Army Elvis Jacob Stahr Jr. ordered that the sentence should be carried out.

Bennett was hanged at United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on April 13, 1961.

[2] His last meal consisted of cocktail sauce, hot rolls, cake, peaches, milk and coffee.