Narrator/Host

How far are we from her apartment?

So as the crow flies, maybe a mile, not very far at all.

All of that stuff was pretty centralized around the mall area of Fayetteville.

Holly's apartment sits along this busy stretch of road just five miles outside the gates of Fort Bragg, where she worked as an army nurse.

And her apartment building was actually the first building that you come to on the right.

Down here, 146.

Yep, 146.

Well, as soon as we got here, we could tell, looking through the back window, that place had been burned.

She, of course, was not in there.

What's the first thing you saw when you walked in?

Well, I think a better question would be what was the first thing that I smelled, and that was gasoline.

There was so much gasoline in the apartment, poured on the floor and on the carpet,

that as my partner and I would walk, it would kind of gush up next to our shoe.

The fire department was really concerned.

They said a spark could light this whole place up.

Why was it the building was not completely burnt to the ground?

Anybody can strike a match, but you got to know you got to have enough air.

With this amount of gasoline that was poured in the apartment, they didn't have enough air.

They should have left the door open to have vented it more, and we would have had a more complete fire.

So this was an arson, but not a very talented arson.