Holley Lynn James was stationed at Fort Bragg when she vanished.
In July 2008, 2nd Lt. James, a 24-year-old army nurse stationed at Fort Bragg near Fayetteville, North Carolina, failed to show for a nursing shift at Womack Army Medical Center, the military hospital located at the base.
Authorities began to investigate what could have happened to James and found her apartment had been destroyed by a fire. There was also disturbing evidence that violence had occurred there.
Most alarming of all — investigators say there was a letter found in the apartment that read “she shot herself and I tried to make it look like an accident.”
A few weeks later, James’ burned body was found over 100 miles away at Sneads Ferry by the local forestry department.