Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I bought this camcorder just so I could talk to you. I just wanted to tell you hi, and I love you, and I miss you. I'm very proud of you.
My wife got the call at home, and they said Holly was missing. I mean, the Army's got a missing soldier. That's a big deal. We're now inside Fort Bragg. One of those soldiers goes missing. They would just jump into action. We didn't know this is someone that had kidnapped Holly or killed Holly. That's 146.
Chapter 2: What led to the disappearance of Army nurse Holly James?
That was her apartment. We could tell, looking through the back window, that place had been burned. She was not in there.
Several knives were missing from the knife block.
Then, bizarrely, a second female soldier goes missing. Megan Tumo, she was supposed to go to work, and she didn't show up for work. Are they just missing? Did they succumb to foul play? Like, you just don't know.
The mirror had a very large insignia drawn on it. That insignia is a Zodiac sign. While there's this massive search for Holly, these mysterious letters come in. From a person purporting to be reenacting the Zodiac murders. This could be the same killer. My name is Jesse James. For 17 years, we have lived with the pain of losing our daughter, Holly.
It's something that cannot be explained in words.
Recently, I decided to write to the person responsible for taking Holly from us. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure what I'm reaching for, but it just feels like I need to express my thoughts
Many, many people loved Holly, and you took her from all of us.
I still have episodes of grief that I'm unable to control. Why did he choose Holly? I've decided to reach out and try to discover that.
So right now, I'm on my way to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. It's one of the largest military bases in the world. Some say that this base right here is America's first line of defense. I'm investigating a mysterious disappearance of a Army nurse. Her name is Second Lieutenant Holly Lynn James. When Holly fails to show up for her shift at Womack Army Medical Center,
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Chapter 3: How did Holly's family respond to her being missing?
It was unusual. Holly was very dependable and it's just, you know, being an army officer, it was kind of unheard of to not show up for work.
Her coworkers went to her apartment, and when they got there, they found that she wasn't there, and it had been set on fire. So they called the police.
Chapter 4: How did the investigation expand with a second missing soldier?
Pretty much as soon as Holly went missing, I heard about it. Our homicide team heard about it. It was very concerning. She had just sort of disappeared into thin air.
Chapter 5: What evidence was found at Holly's apartment?
This is the face of the missing Fort Bragg soldier, has not been seen since Wednesday. Holly was driven by ambition, an unshakable work ethic, and felt a powerful call to serve her country. A lot of us are military and our family, and she wanted to go out and do something great. Holly's younger brother, Beau, a Marine himself, says that Holly had found her calling.
As a nurse, were you pretty proud of her? Absolutely, yeah. They're absolutely lifesavers. She wanted to go to Iraq. I said, why would you want to go to Iraq, to the war zone? And she said, Dad, I just think I can help soldiers if I'm out there as a first responder in a war zone. I can do more good and help more soldiers.
Although Holly never served in combat and was ultimately stationed in the U.S., she was going places. And by age 23, had become a second lieutenant in the United States Army. Even though I was a Sergeant Major, she was technically a higher rank than me starting out, you know, and I was pretty proud of that. They assigned her to the mother-baby ward at Womack.
Chapter 6: What connections were made between Holly and the Zodiac letters?
She just always wanted to be in the thick of things.
She was a floor nurse. She loved helping people all the time. And she really loved children.
Actually, at the time, Holly was raising a couple of children on her own, born from a relationship with her ex-boyfriend from her hometown of Dubuque, Iowa. Then in 2007, she met this 22-year-old Marine Corporal John Wymunk, a combat engineer who was stationed along with her brother Beau at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. Colonel Kirk Cordova was John Wymunk's commanding officer.
He's a non-commissioned officer working towards being a sergeant and probably one of the best ranks in the Marine Corps. So he was very proficient, I can tell you that.
We deployed together. A lot of times we were looking for explosives or blowing things up. He was very good at our robots that we used for looking for explosives or setting them.
I was embedded in the war zone with the Marines in the invasion of Iraq in 2003. The level of danger was similar to what they experienced. Marines continue to bring their heavy armor north. And you realize just how intense their jobs really are. Why did you decide you wanted to introduce him to your sister Holly? Everything he said just seemed so funny.
And I thought Holly deserved some humor in her life too. She outranked him. She was an officer and he was an enlisted man, a lower enlisted man. The couple eventually married and shared an apartment together in Fayetteville, just outside the gates of Fort Bragg. Weimont lived two hours away at Camp Lejeune, but would visit on weekends.
Holly and John seemed happy. It seemed like a good match. Being a dual military couple, it's just that extra layer of complication. You're just apart quite a bit.
During Wymonk's deployment, Holly bridged the distance with heartfelt video messages.
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Chapter 7: What was the significance of Holly's relationship with John Wymonk?
23-year-old Megan Tuma was a dental specialist who had been with the Army for five years. Her body was found in a hotel room June 21st. She was seven months pregnant and may have been dead for days.
Megan Tuma had newly transferred to Fort Bragg from a military base in Germany. She was supposed to go to work and she didn't show up for work. They did not notice that she was missing. She's found on the 21st of June. The last time she was seen, I believe, was 15 June. And so there's about a six day gap.
And then the hotel that she was staying in off post, she had one of those do not disturbs on. And so that's why she was in there for a lengthy time without anybody coming in.
So she was in an advanced state of decomposition.
Some evidence of a struggle, some of what we believe to be blood, light blood transfer on the wall. So she was murdered in that hotel. The autopsy revealed she had been strangled. We flipped the switch then and it went to a homicide investigation.
There was something else in the room though that made us really suspicious. The mirror outside the bathroom had a very large insignia drawn on it and lipstick. That insignia that was drawn there was the Zodiac sign.
A couple days later, we get a letter through the mail from a person purporting to be somebody who is reenacting the Zodiac murders from the West Coast. From 1968 to 1974, several newspapers in the San Francisco area received a series of anonymous letters from the self-proclaimed Zodiac killer who claimed credit for up to 37 murders.
The 2007 movie Zodiac put one of America's biggest unsolved murder cases on the big screen. It's unsigned except for a symbol.
Is it me? Or does that look like a gun sign?
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Chapter 8: How did the investigation conclude with the discovery of remains?
A letter has surfaced claiming the murder is a work of a serial killer. Good morning, Robin. That letter certainly has gotten everyone's attention.
In a twisted case with very few leads, police have been forced to pay particular attention to this letter sent to a local newspaper. The writer signed the letter with a symbol made famous by the infamous Zodiac Killer of the 1960s.
The Fayetteville Observer received a letter, and this is what the letter said.
I am responsible for the dead body that was found on Saturday, June 21st at 1130 in room 143. I confess that I have killed many times before in several states, but now I will start using my role model's signature.
We were sitting down in a meeting with CID about this exact letter when we got the call to go out to Holly's apartment. We were like, what is going on here? It's like something you see in a movie. The guy's trying to communicate with the police by way of mail. And you're looking at the possibility this could be the same killer.
Of course, the same symbol is on the bottom of this letter that was written on the mirror in the hotel room in the lipstick. So are we dealing with a copycat here? We very much thought that it was a possibility these were connected. Was Holly this killer's next victim, which would have been just a couple of weeks after Megan Tuma's murder?
So it was certainly of interest and of concern in the disappearance of Holly. The public is demanding answers. Now people are making phone calls. They're calling the chief, the city council. Hey, is there a serial killer in Fayetteville? But as investigators dig deeper into the Megan Tuma case, they begin to question that serial killer theory.
Detectives are able to uncover evidence that her murder might have been a highly personal one. and the trail leads to someone very close to her. She had began a relationship with an individual, and she had become pregnant as a result of that relationship.
Well, it turns out he was married. He was in the military in the same base in Germany that Megan was assigned to.
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