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Exclusive: Army Files Charges in Mysterious Fort Bragg Beheading Case
After disappearing during a camping trip, Enrique Roman-Martinez became one of dozens of Fort Bragg soldiers to die recently under unexplained circumstances
By SETH HARP | January 13, 2022
Spc. Alex Becerra, who according to multiple sources planned and organized the camping trip to the North Carolina seashore that preceded Roman-Martinez's disappearance and death, has been charged with conspiracy; dereliction of duty; two counts of making false official statements; three counts of disobeying a superior officer; and wrongful possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance — but not murder or manslaughter.
Roman-Martinez's death occurred over Memorial Day weekend of 2020. The mysterious sequence of events, which remain completely unexplained, began when a group of seven soldiers, plus Roman-Martinez, defied a pandemic lockdown order to go on a camping trip to Camp Lookout National Seashore. Friday night it rained heavily. The next day, around 7 p.m., the group of soldiers reported Roman-Martinez missing. Becerra was the one who spoke to a 911 dispatcher. "We lost our friend," he said. "When we woke up he was not here, and we've been looking for him all day. We were trying to find the park ranger or their offices or anything."
That last part wasn't true, it later emerged. Earlier in the day, park rangers had approached the group to ask them to move their vehicles, which were encroaching on protected sand dunes. At no time during that interaction did the off-duty soldiers mention a missing person, a spokesman for the national park told Army Times shortly after the recording of the 911 call was made public.
Becerra also volunteered, unprompted, that Roman-Martinez might have taken his own life. "We might be afraid he might have hurt himself," he told the dispatcher. "He wasn't diagnosed, but he did have suicidal tendencies."
The victim's sister, Griselda Roman-Martinez, says there’s no truth to that, either. "I spoke to him that Wednesday and we talked about him leaving the Army," she tells Rolling Stone. "There was no way he wanted to end his life. He had too many plans."
About a week after her brother went missing, on May 29, 2020, his severed head washed ashore on Shackleford Banks, not far from the soldiers’ campsite. The medical examiner at Fort Bragg determined that the cause of death was likely homicide. The rest of his body has not been found.
Nineteen months went by with no apparent developments in the case. The seven soldiers who were on the camping trip claimed that Roman-Martinez simply walked away in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, and agents with the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, or CID, couldn’t seem to get any more information out of them.
"CID has told me they're quite confident it's murder by one or more of the seven other soldiers," says Dustin Collier, an attorney representing the Roman-Martinez family pro bono. "They have told me, while they don’t have enough to charge for homicide, they have ample for lesser offenses that they could use to leverage people to flip."
Now the Army has quietly docketed a raft of charges against Becerra. A spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division declined to provide the charge sheet — which would spell out the factual basis for bringing Becerra up on a court martial — but confirmed that the charges are related to the disappearance and death of Roman-Martinez.
Reached by phone, Becerra declined to comment. "I have plenty to say,” he tells Rolling Stone, "but I prefer not to say anything at this time." He gave no indication of how he intends to plead at his arraignment, scheduled for Jan. 20.
Why anyone would have wanted Roman-Martinez dead is a complete mystery. There are no obvious suspects. But some elements of the account of his disappearance given by the seven soldiers who last saw him alive don't add up.
Christian Romero, a high school friend of Roman-Martinez who joined the Army around the same time and also had been stationed at Fort Bragg, says he can’t understand why Becerra planned a camping trip at a time when the weather was so foul. "It was raining nonstop," he tells Rolling Stone. "The ferry was closed. The tents blew over. Enrique just wanted to go home. That's why he walked away in the middle of the night."
This is according to what Romero says he heard from soldiers who were on the camping trip. They told the same story to authorities, who related it Griselda. But the group of seven also told investigators that Roman-Martinez had left his wallet, phone, and glasses behind in the tent, which Griselda says is very unlikely. Her "baby brother," whom she "always took care of," could barely see without his pair of thick glasses, she says, and never would have left them behind voluntarily.
Please go to Rolling Stone to read more.
After disappearing during a camping trip, Enrique Roman-Martinez became one of dozens of Fort Bragg soldiers to die recently under unexplained circumstances
By SETH HARP | January 13, 2022
The remains of Army Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez are carried by the Patriot Guard Riders at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles. Keith Birmingham/MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News/Getty Images
The U.S. Army has filed criminal charges related to the case of Enrique Roman-Martinez, a 21-year-old soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division whose beheading remains one of the most baffling of the many unsolved killings to have taken place at Fort Bragg lately.
Spc. Alex Becerra, who according to multiple sources planned and organized the camping trip to the North Carolina seashore that preceded Roman-Martinez's disappearance and death, has been charged with conspiracy; dereliction of duty; two counts of making false official statements; three counts of disobeying a superior officer; and wrongful possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance — but not murder or manslaughter.
Roman-Martinez's death occurred over Memorial Day weekend of 2020. The mysterious sequence of events, which remain completely unexplained, began when a group of seven soldiers, plus Roman-Martinez, defied a pandemic lockdown order to go on a camping trip to Camp Lookout National Seashore. Friday night it rained heavily. The next day, around 7 p.m., the group of soldiers reported Roman-Martinez missing. Becerra was the one who spoke to a 911 dispatcher. "We lost our friend," he said. "When we woke up he was not here, and we've been looking for him all day. We were trying to find the park ranger or their offices or anything."
That last part wasn't true, it later emerged. Earlier in the day, park rangers had approached the group to ask them to move their vehicles, which were encroaching on protected sand dunes. At no time during that interaction did the off-duty soldiers mention a missing person, a spokesman for the national park told Army Times shortly after the recording of the 911 call was made public.
Becerra also volunteered, unprompted, that Roman-Martinez might have taken his own life. "We might be afraid he might have hurt himself," he told the dispatcher. "He wasn't diagnosed, but he did have suicidal tendencies."
The victim's sister, Griselda Roman-Martinez, says there’s no truth to that, either. "I spoke to him that Wednesday and we talked about him leaving the Army," she tells Rolling Stone. "There was no way he wanted to end his life. He had too many plans."
About a week after her brother went missing, on May 29, 2020, his severed head washed ashore on Shackleford Banks, not far from the soldiers’ campsite. The medical examiner at Fort Bragg determined that the cause of death was likely homicide. The rest of his body has not been found.
Nineteen months went by with no apparent developments in the case. The seven soldiers who were on the camping trip claimed that Roman-Martinez simply walked away in the middle of the night, never to be seen again, and agents with the Army's Criminal Investigative Division, or CID, couldn’t seem to get any more information out of them.
"CID has told me they're quite confident it's murder by one or more of the seven other soldiers," says Dustin Collier, an attorney representing the Roman-Martinez family pro bono. "They have told me, while they don’t have enough to charge for homicide, they have ample for lesser offenses that they could use to leverage people to flip."
Now the Army has quietly docketed a raft of charges against Becerra. A spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division declined to provide the charge sheet — which would spell out the factual basis for bringing Becerra up on a court martial — but confirmed that the charges are related to the disappearance and death of Roman-Martinez.
Reached by phone, Becerra declined to comment. "I have plenty to say,” he tells Rolling Stone, "but I prefer not to say anything at this time." He gave no indication of how he intends to plead at his arraignment, scheduled for Jan. 20.
Why anyone would have wanted Roman-Martinez dead is a complete mystery. There are no obvious suspects. But some elements of the account of his disappearance given by the seven soldiers who last saw him alive don't add up.
Christian Romero, a high school friend of Roman-Martinez who joined the Army around the same time and also had been stationed at Fort Bragg, says he can’t understand why Becerra planned a camping trip at a time when the weather was so foul. "It was raining nonstop," he tells Rolling Stone. "The ferry was closed. The tents blew over. Enrique just wanted to go home. That's why he walked away in the middle of the night."
This is according to what Romero says he heard from soldiers who were on the camping trip. They told the same story to authorities, who related it Griselda. But the group of seven also told investigators that Roman-Martinez had left his wallet, phone, and glasses behind in the tent, which Griselda says is very unlikely. Her "baby brother," whom she "always took care of," could barely see without his pair of thick glasses, she says, and never would have left them behind voluntarily.
Please go to Rolling Stone to read more.
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