The horror - Iraq vet murders woman, obeying "dark impulses"

A Fort Carson soldier admitted that he had violent sex with a 19-year-old woman before cutting her throat and leaving her to die in the wooded foothills west of Colorado Springs, according to an arrest affidavit released Tuesday.

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Marko served in Iraq from January 2007 to February with a unit that has had some of the heaviest casualties of any Fort Carson unit in the Iraq war. He joined the Army in June 2006 and is a mortarman with Charlie Company, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division.

He is the sixth 4th BCT soldier suspected or convicted of a local homicide since returning from Iraq. Two other soldiers from the brigade were tied to killings outside Colorado Springs - one in Fort Collins in 2005 and one in Los Angeles earlier this year.