{"id":116094,"date":"2021-08-03T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=116094"},"modified":"2021-08-02T20:34:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T00:34:04","slug":"cid-ups-reward-on-information-in-case-of-mysteriously-murdered-paratrooper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=116094","title":{"rendered":"CID ups reward on information in case of mysteriously murdered paratrooper"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SPC Enrique Roman-Martinez<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought we’d talked about the case of Specialist Enrique Roman-Martinez, an 82nd Airborne Division paratrooper who died while on a camping trip with fellow soldiers. For the life of me, I can’t find any previous posts on it. The Reader’s Digest version is that the other soldiers reported him missing at 1930 hours on May 23, 2020, saying they last saw him at 0000 hours the night before. They claimed they’d been looking for him all day and had been trying to find a park ranger to report him missing. All normal, right? Not so fast.<\/p>\n

It turns out that during the day, while they were looking for a missing battle buddy\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>trying to report him to a park ranger, they encountered a park ranger. The soldiers had parked their vehicles on one of the park’s precious sand dunes and were instructed to move it. They complied and the ranger moved on with his day.<\/p>\n

Since then a year has passed and no leads have materialized, despite extensive work they claim. CID has upped the reward to $50k, the highest award they’ve had in more than a decade.<\/p>\n

Army Times reports<\/a>;<\/p>\n

For more than a year, the Army\u2019s Criminal Investigation Command, or CID, has been unable to find a concrete lead in the May 2020 homicide of Spc. Enrique Roman-Martinez.<\/p>\n

Now, CID is offering up to $50,000 for credible information concerning the death of the 21-year-old Fort Bragg paratrooper, who went missing late at night on May 22, 2020, while camping with fellow soldiers near Cape Lookout National Seashore in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first one to hit this level in more than 10 years,\u201d CID spokesman Jeffrey Castro said of the large sum of money being offered for information.<\/p>\n

The increased reward follows an extensive investigation that does not appear to have generated any tangible leads. The sister of Roman-Martinez said the case still \u201cdoesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d and she remains suspicious of the soldiers with whom her brother camped that weekend.<\/p>\n

\u201cUntil they let me speak to these individuals I will never be convinced it wasn\u2019t them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A specialized task force was created to investigate Roman-Martinez\u2019s death, comprising CID special agents, FBI personnel and the FBI\u2019s Behavioral Analysis Unit. The task force executed 100 warrants and subpoenas and 400 interviews across North Carolina, Michigan, Texas, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Colorado and California, according to a CID statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a criminal investigator for more than 40 years and have worked hundreds of death investigations,\u201d CID Special Agent Steve Chancellor, who is spearheading the investigation, said in the statement. \u201cThis tragic death is a real mystery on what exactly happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, the task force has not recovered a single piece of physical, forensic or testimonial evidence linking anyone to the death of Roman-Martinez, according to Chancellor. That includes 130 items of physical evidence and five terabytes of digital data.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll logical theories or suspicions that were developed to date have been investigated and either discounted or disproven,\u201d Chancellor said. \u201cWe have and are still looking at all possibilities, but need the public\u2019s help.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Roman-Martinez\u2019s death is ruled a homicide, according to Chancellor, it doesn\u2019t necessarily mean it was a murder.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat means that the death could have been intentional or it could have been unintentional \u2014 for example in this case, someone running over someone with a boat while the person was in the water,\u201d Chancellor said.<\/p>\n

The severed head of Roman-Martinez washed up near Cape Lookout National Seashore on May 29, 2020, a week after he had gone missing during a camping trip with seven fellow soldiers.<\/p>\n

Roman-Martinez\u2019s older sister, Griselda Martinez, has in previous interviews with Army Times said she worries that those soldiers haven\u2019t been completely truthful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel that way,\u201d Griselda Martinez said again on Monday. \u201cThey had a whole day to cover anything up. They also had the weather conditions on their side.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Much more at the source. I can sympathize with Ms Martinez and see why she feels that way. Here’s hoping they find something on this sooner than later so he can rest in peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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