MURDERED: Enrique Roman-Martinez
A young soldier vanishes during a camping trip. His partial remains wash up on the beach 10 days later.
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Episode Source Material
- ABC 7 News: Fort Bragg paratrooper from Chino killed while camping with fellow troopers, by Jessica De Nova
- Cape Lookout National Seashore (Facebook page): Second update on the search for Enrique Roman-Martinez
- WRAL: Missing Fort Bragg paratrooper found dead, disappeared while camping with fellow soldiers, by Heather Leah and Bryan Mims
- Rolling Stone: The Fort Bragg Murders, by Seth Harp
- WITN: 911 call for Fort Bragg missing soldier Enrique Martinez released
- Army Times: Inconsistencies in account of paratrooper’s disappearance and homicide trouble his family, by Kyle Rempfer
- WITN: Ft. Bragg soldier still missing at Cape Lookout
- Carteret County News-Times: Search continues for soldier missing from Cape Lookout, by Brad Rich
- CBS Los Angeles: $25,000 offered in FBI, Army investigation of dismembered Army paratrooper Enrique Roman-Martinez
- The Fayetteville Observer: ‘It was such a brutal crime:’ Autopsy report shows 82nd soldier was decapitated, by Steve DeVane
- Carteret County News-Times: Officials identify remains on Cape Lookout as those of missing soldier, by Brad Rich
- Orange County Register: Honored Army paratrooper from Chino laid to rest, his death still a mystery, by Josh Rosen
- The Americano: FBI will investigate homicide of 21-year-old soldier Enrique Román MartÃnez, by Araceli Cruz
- USA Today: Family wants answers in death of paratrooper after island camping trip in North Carolina, by Seth DeVane
- Cape Lookout National Seashore (Facebook): Update / Power Squadron Spit
- News & Record: Dive teams search waters off Cape Lookout for decapitated body of Fort Bragg soldier, by Mark Price
- ABC7: Enrique Roman-Martinez case: Divers scour NC coast for clues in killing of soldier from Chino who was decapitated, by KABC
- Stars and Stripes: Killing of Fort Bragg paratrooper Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez remains unsolved a year later, by Rachael Riley (The Fayetteville Observer)
- United States Army Criminal Investigation Command: Reward increased to $50,000 for information on the death of Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez (news release)
- Daily Press: Fort Bragg soldier killed on Outer Banks was decapitated, autopsy says, by Mark Price
- Los Angeles Times: Lawmaker urges new probe after Army closes investigation of Chino soldier’s slaying, by Nolan McCaskill
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