Police Treat Pregnant NC Soldier Death as Homicide

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Army's criminal investigations unit is joining the effort to catch the killer of a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier who was found dead in the bathtub of a motel room, authorities said Monday. Fayetteville police said civilian and military detectives are now treating last month's death of Army Spc. Megan Touma as a homicide, although they have not determined the cause of her death. Authorities have a person of interest in the case, a soldier the military has said is assigned to the Fort Bragg-based U.S. Army Special Operations Command. They're also investigating a letter sent to the local newspaper, purportedly from the killer, that included a symbol similar to one used by the famed Zodiac killer of the 1960s. Police said Monday that a similar symbol was found on a mirror in Touma's motel room.
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Paper Receives Note In Ft. Bragg Case
FORT BRAGG, NC -- The Fayetteville Observer says that it received a strange note taunting police and claiming that they are responsible for the killing of Army Specialist Megan Touma, a pregnant Fort Bragg soldier found dead in her hotel room last week.
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Touma Death Seen As Homicide
By Laura Arenschield and Nancy McCleary / The Fayetteville Observer
The Army would not say Monday whether it is keeping a close watch on a soldier identified as a person of interest in the death of a pregnant soldier. "It's speculation at this point if we're keeping an eye on someone," said Chris Grey, a spokesman for the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command. Also Monday, Fayetteville police said they have only one person of interest in the death of Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, whose decomposed body was found June 21 in a bathtub in her room at the Fairfield Inn next to Cross Creek Mall. But police Lt. David Sportsman said investigators are not dismissing the idea that another person could be responsible.

Posted by Editor at July 1, 2008 06:21 AM