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July 14th, 2008
Posted: 08:57 AM ET
(CNN) — Authorities have told the father of a missing female Fort Bragg soldier that she is dead, the father told a Raleigh television station. And authorities said they have arrested another soldier in connection with the crime. Authorities have been searching for missing soldier, 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc, 24, since a fire torched her apartment on July 10. “It is with profound sadness that our family just received the news from authorities that our beloved daughter Holley is dead,” Wimunc’s father said in a statement released to CNN affiliate WRAL in Raleigh, North Carolina. “Since last Thursday’s shocking news about Holley’s burned apartment and her missing person status, our family through the country has nonetheless been holding on to a thin thread of hope that she would be found alive.” Wimunc is the second female soldier from Fort Bragg to die under suspicious circumstances in a month. |
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