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Well, that evening when I got here and I met with the chief of detectives, one of the first questions I said is, is my daughter dead?

And he said, we can't say that.

He said, because that hasn't been proven.

But he said, I can tell you we have grave, grave concern.

Once the flames were out, investigators combed through the charred remains of Holly's apartment, searching for anything the fire had not destroyed.

The case would soon fall to Detective Jeff Locklear of the Fayetteville Police Department.

The man tasked with uncovering what happened to Holly.

What was your reaction when you learned that the woman that's missing

was a soldier.

My partner and I, we were surprised.

At that time, you know, the whole city was kind of on edge.

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.