Murder in the Military

Unsolved Mysteries

Cosgrove Meurer Productions, Inc. + Audacy

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

It’s Memorial Day weekend 2020, and SPC Enrique Roman-Martinez, along with seven other paratroopers, break Fort Bragg’s Covid protocols to go camping on North Carolina’s Cape Lookout National Seashore. Enrique disappears the first night, and a week later, only his head washes ashore — the rest of his body is never found. Enrique’s family believes his fellow campers know more than they are saying about what happened to the 21-year-old soldier. They are desperate for answers. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We lost our friend. We don't know where she has gone.
0:11.0	I'm a word to something happened to him.
0:15.0	Now how long has he been missing?
0:18.0	We woke up.
0:21.0	Where's the last spot you saw him at?
0:24.0	We all went to bed last night and when we woke up he was not here and we've been looking for more days.
0:38.0	On Saturday evening, May 23rd, 2020, Cartaret County Emergency Services receives a 911 call from South Corb Banks, a tiny, sandy, spit of an island off the coast of North Carolina.
0:51.0	The caller is one of a group of army paratroopers from Fort Bragg that shows this grey, wet, and cold Memorial Day weekend to go camping.
1:00.0	And now, one of their companions is missing.
1:03.0	There's no sign of the missing soldier until six days later when his severed head washes ashore.
1:10.0	I'm Steve French and this is Unsolved Mysteries, Murder in the Military.
1:22.0	In May 2020, 21-year-old Enrique Roman Martinez is one of more than 50,000 soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
1:41.0	He's been a paratrooper for nearly four years and is scheduled to be discharged from the army in just a few months.
1:48.0	The unassuming Enrique is the youngest of three children from a close-knit family that lives in Chino, California.
1:54.0	Enrique is looking forward to being reunited with his loved ones and in particular, his older sister, Griselda.
2:03.0	We're very close. We always hung out together.
2:07.0	I was definitely the nagging older sister and I always made sure to take care of him.
2:13.0	I mean, he didn't always like it, but it's what it was. My brother had a heart of both.
2:20.0	He wasn't an angry or violent person. He wasn't aggressive.
2:24.0	He would take his shirt off his back for his friends and he was incredibly generous, incredibly noble.
2:32.0	Noble to a fall and just whenever he did any kind of work, he always wanted to give his 110%. Whatever he needed to do to complete the task, he would do it.
2:43.0	He was definitely a role follower, for sure.
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