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Autopsy: soldier found dead in North Carolina decapitated

Enrique Roman-Martinez's death was a homicide, but the cause of death remains undetermined because only his head was available for examination.

RALEIGH, N.C. — An autopsy has found a Fort Bragg solider found dead this summer on North Carolina's Outer Banks was decapitated. The Raleigh News & Observer reports that Spc. 

Enrique Roman-Martinez's death was a homicide, but the cause of death remains undetermined because only his head was available for examination. Roman-Martinez was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division. 

He was reported missing May 23, while on a Memorial Day weekend camping trip with friends at Cape Lookout National Seashore. Roman-Martinez was a native of Chino, California. The Army says he was last seen May 22 at a campsite on the park’s South Core Banks. 

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