The unsolved killing of a Fort Bragg soldier has led to an effort to reform Army investigations
North Carolina Public Radio | By Jay Price
Published December 29, 2022 at 8:23 AM EST
The unsolved killing of a Fort Bragg soldier in 2020 has led Congress to enact some military criminal justice reforms.
The omnibus spending package passed just before Christmas contains language designed to improve the military's handling of "cold cases." Representative Norma Torres, a California Democrat, began pushing for the changes after the death of Specialist Enrique Roman-Martinez, whose family lives in her district.
Roman-Martinez disappeared on Labor Day Weekend of 2020 while camping with a group of fellow 82nd Airborne Division soldiers on Cape Lookout. They reported him missing the next evening after a puzzling delay of several hours in which they interacted with a park ranger without mentioning Roman-Martinez.
Six days later, his severed head washed ashore. No other remains were found.
https://www.wunc.org/military/2022-12-29/the-unsolved-killing-of-a-fort-bragg-soldier-has-led-to-an-effort-to-reform-army-investigations
