Fort Bragg: Unexplained Deaths, Child Rape, Murder, and Porn Charges
What is going on at Ft. Bragg?
April 6, 2022 -- For the past few years, there have been strange reports of bizarre deaths at Fort Bragg, one of the largest military bases in the United States. Fort Bragg is home to the 82nd Airborne and JSOC as well as SOCOM. I had covered some of these deaths back in 2020 on my show but investigative journalist Seth Harp from RollingStone blew the story wide open with an expose entitled "The Fort Bragg Murders."
This groundbreaking article detailed and documented 44 deaths at Ft. Bragg in 2020, some homicides, some not:
Three weeks before Christmas, in the piney woods outside of Fort Bragg, North Carolina, a deer hunter came across the fallout from a firefight that, to date, no one has been able to explain. A tricked-out Chevy Colorado with matte-black wheels and racing tires was stuck in a rut on a dirt road near Lake MacArthur. In the bed of the truck and on the ground beside it were two dead men. Both had been killed by gunshots, and according to news reports, shell casings were scattered on the ground. Yet there were no firearms to be found at the scene, and no trace of the third man, the surviving shooter. There had to have been at least one.
The man on the ground, who had been dropped by a single bullet to the right temple, was 44-year-old Timothy Dumas. People who knew him tell me that in life, he fit a certain kind of American archetype: the wannabe special-forces guy, a fake operator who, in order to impress people or intimidate them, passed himself off as an ex-commando. He had served 19 years in the Army, including time in the 7th Special Forces Group at Fort Bragg, but as a property book officer, a glorified supply sergeant.
The man in the bed of the truck, by contrast, didn’t have to inflate his military credentials. Not only was he a decorated Green Beret with dozens of badges and patches and medals from 14 different deployments, he was also a member of Delta Force, the most elite military unit in the United States. At age 37, William “Billy” Lavigne II was a true Tier 1 operator, a master sergeant on the Army’s most selective and clandestine task force. On top of the sort of training that all Rangers, Green Berets, and Navy SEALs have to go through, he had been schooled in sabotage, demolition, hostage rescue, tactical driving, lockpicking, and spy-trade craft such as how to shadow people, use dead drops, and live under a cover identity.
Fort Bragg is home to two of the most important formations in the Pentagon’s sprawling, complex special-operations bureaucracy: the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, or USASOC, which includes the Rangers and the Green Berets; and JSOC, the “black ops” component of the military. Cloaked in secrecy and sloshing with money, JSOC has operational control over the most elite commando units of each of the major service branches, including the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 and the Army’s Delta Force, which it uses to carry out the nation’s most politically risky, no-fail missions, like the killing of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the emir of the Islamic State, in 2019. Over the past 20 years of continuous war, from the snowy passes of the Hindu Kush to the desert scrublands of Somalia, JSOC’s budget and autonomy have continuously grown, and so has the scope of its mission. Based out of a high-security compound inside Fort Bragg, it has become a covert military within the military.
In 2018, Lavigne shot and killed his best friend, a Green Beret named Mark Leshikar, in an inexplicable, drug-fueled altercation that no one witnessed but two little girls. Sheriff’s deputies took him to the station, but he was never placed under arrest or charged with a crime. He was taken home that same night by some of his Delta Force teammates. “They are a very hush-hush community,” says Diane Ballard, a police detective in the tiny town of Vass, where numerous Delta Force operators, current and retired, own houses. “They do what they want.”
Most immediately, though, the discovery of Lavigne’s body represented a problem for the leadership at Fort Bragg. Army authorities won’t disclose the total number of soldiers stationed there who died in 2020, but Lavigne was one of a spate of homicides and suicides that brought the tally up to at least 44, pushing Fort Bragg to a decisive first-place finish in a race no one wanted to win. It far surpassed Fort Hood, where 28 soldier deaths in 2020 led to a congressional investigation, a sweeping indictment of the installation’s “toxic culture,” and the dismissal of most of the chain of command. To date, the House Armed Services Committee seems not to have noticed the similar pattern at Fort Bragg.
The deaths began in January 2020, when a 19-year-old Texan’s body was discovered in his bunk in an advanced state of decomposition; the Army has not disclosed the cause, and one year later, the investigation remains ongoing. The same is true in the case of a young Ohioan, a Green Beret candidate, who in March was found “unresponsive” in his barracks. In late May, a 21-year-old enlisted man from California was killed — beheaded, in fact — while on a camping trip with six of his fellow paratroopers; once again, no arrests have been made in the case. In November, yet another soldier, a 24-year-old Texan, was discovered “unresponsive” in his bunk, with no further details from the Army. By the end of the year, there had been 21 suicides at Fort Bragg, more than at any other U.S. military post.
To cap off a freakish year at Fort Bragg, just three weeks after Lavigne and Dumas turned up dead, a 31-year-old combat medic assigned to Special Forces named Keith Lewis shot and killed his pregnant wife, Sarah Lewis, an Air Force veteran who was due to give birth at any moment. Keith’s mom, Lynda Lewis, tells me that her son should have been expelled from the Army back in 2016, when he assaulted Sarah and got into an armed standoff with the Fayetteville police. “He called me and said, ‘Mom, I’ve got a gun to my head. I hurt Sarah, and my career is ruined.’ I talked to him for a long time. He finally put the gun down.” In the aftermath, Lynda says, “There were no real repercussions.”
…Two days after Dumas and Lavigne were found dead, more details emerged on an earlier Fort Bragg killing: the death of Specialist Enrique Roman-Martinez, who had gone missing over Memorial Day weekend on a camping trip to the North Carolina shore with six of his fellow paratroopers. Roman-Martinez’s partial remains had washed up on Shackleford Banks a few days later, but in the six months since then, few details had been forthcoming.
Finally, on December 4th, authorities released the autopsy report, and it left no doubt of foul play. According to the medical examiner, Roman-Martinez had been decapitated. Only his severed head had been found. It showed multiple chop injuries, a broken jaw, lacerations, and fractures of the cervical spine. His injuries were not done by a shark or boat propeller. The cause of death was homicide.
It’s not even clear exactly how many soldiers died at Fort Bragg in 2020. Over the course of several months of correspondence, the public-affairs office eventually disclosed the number of homicides and suicides, but not deaths from accidents and illnesses, which would include drug overdoses. The base’s spokesman, Col. Joe Buccino, acknowledged that illegal drug use seems to have been a common factor in all of the homicides that involved Fort Bragg soldiers, but emphasized that all but one of the killings pertained to the special-forces units at Fort Bragg, which he could not speak for. “The things that have happened with special forces are outside the purview of the Fort Bragg command,” he says. But neither JSOC nor USASOC responded to repeated requests for comment. Nor would the base discuss the perplexing incidence of young men turning up “unresponsive” in their bunks, such as 19-year-old Caleb Smither, whose body was so decomposed when they found him that he couldn’t have an open-casket funeral.
…It was much easier, ironically, to get information on Fort Bragg-based personnel who died in foreign countries. Two from the 82nd Airborne were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, and another paratrooper, a combat engineer, lost his life in a vehicle rollover in Syria, for a total of three who perished overseas. It would be an exaggeration to say that Fayetteville must be a more dangerous duty station than Raqqa or Kandahar, and yet piecing together data provided by Col. Buccino, and previous Army disclosures to the McClatchy news agency, as well as reports in the local media, I count no fewer than 44 active-duty deaths at Fort Bragg during 2020. That number is significantly more than at any other U.S. military base, despite Fort Hood and Fort Bliss having had freakishly violent years of their own. - Seth Harp, Rollingstone
Fort Bragg is notoriously tight-lipped and secretive when it comes to protecting their soldiers from the press and from any unwanted scrutiny. Fort Bragg has a history of very strange occurrences, including the Dr. Jeffrey McDonald scandal and the fact that an exorcism was performed on the base at one point, according to Malachi Martin.
There have been even more strange deaths this year:
Photo credit: Seth Harp
Steve Kirsch has reported on recent deaths at Fr. Bragg that are still unexplained but many believe might be tied to the U.S. Army's policy of mandatory covid-19 vaccinations:
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world, with around 54,000 military personnel.
Nine US soldiers, all stationed at Fort Bragg, all in their 20s or 30s, recently died at from “undetermined” causes, or after being discovered “unresponsive” in their bunks.
In all nine cases, you can see the causes are “Determination pending” in the documents below.
Dates of death range from August 13 to December 29, approximately a four month span.
The soldiers were all stationed at Fort Bragg at the time of their deaths (the lower left of the report says this), but they did not all die on the base.
Fort Bragg isn’t commenting on these deaths.
The mainstream media isn’t asking any questions either.
One of them, Sgt. Raymond Lopez, 30, died in a car accident on September 13, 2021. Of course, he could have lost consciousness right before the accident; details weren’t revealed.
Kevin Dandy died in a motorcycle crash. No details.
David William Clark died in a motorcycle crash. Details not released. “The release did not say what exactly happened leading up to the crash.”
David Mazzullo died, no details.
This death is clearly troubling:
There was another death (crash) on the same day as Hamilton - The second death is Pfc. Patrick Hernandez. This was in a Humvee on base and may have been a training accident, in which case there's a background rate to consider. There were 4 other soldiers injured who could presumably report what happened.
Another fatal crash in June, on the way to training in a caravan. Cpl. Mojave Littlejohn. I am not sure how you crash in a caravan unless you pass out. Hmm…
Of course, some of these deaths could be legitimate accidents. I’m not aware of any autopsies being done for any of these soldiers to determine whether the COVID booster was involved.
It is troubling when I read of stories like the following:
'(From a Physician and who is a very close friend from medschool): One of my patients is a lawyer who works for the military. She knows of 2 people in the military who died from cardiac arrest less than 24 hours after receiving the vaccination. In both cases, a VAERS report was filed, and then later it was manually deleted and removed from VAERS. As a result, neither of their deaths are now registered.' - Steve Kirsch
Sadly, it appears even more than that have died due to what may be adverse reactions to the Covid vaccine.
From the Miami Standard:
One of the largest military installations in the world, Fort Bragg is home to approximately 54,000 military personnel and includes the Special Forces, the Airborne Corps, and the Joint Special Operations Command. In just 18 months, Fort Bragg lost over 80 soldiers from 'sudden' and 'unexplained' causes. According to officials, 33 of the fatalities are of 'undetermined' causes. Fort Bragg cannot explain why dozens of soldiers are dying in their own bunks.
During that same eighteen-month period, three Fort Bragg soldiers died in overseas combat. This means soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg are twenty-seven times more likely to die unexpectedly on their home base than in overseas combat!
Fort Bragg stops reporting soldier deaths after dozens found dead in their bunks
An investigative reporter for Rolling Stone Magazine, Seth Harp, has been looking into this medical anomaly. On February 9, 2022, Seth reported the death of 83 soldiers at Fort Bragg in the 18 months ending in June 2021. Fort Bragg stopped reporting the fatalities after June 2021, but the bodies continue to pile up. Out of the 83 'sudden and unexpected' fatalities, eleven of them were determined to be from natural causes.
Harp wrote: 'Fort Bragg soldiers have been turning up ‘unresponsive’ in their barracks on a disturbingly regular basis since the beginning of 2020, including Caleb Smither, Terrance Salazar, Jamie Boger, Joshua Diamond, Matthew Disney, Mikel Rubino, Michael Hamilton, and numerous others who have not been named.'
Drugs were in involved in the deaths of Joshua Diamon and Matthew Disney. The two were found dead on the same day in June 2021, just two weeks after airborne master sergeant Martin Acevedo III was caught trafficking cocaine.
The Military Health System began administering the spike protein mRNA vaccine to military service members on December 14, 2020. Since then, the military has administered more than 6.4 million doses, fully inoculating 90.1 percent of active-duty service members with the two-dose protocol. What role do these bioweapon shots have on the number of “unexpected” and undetermined deaths? Why is Fort Bragg less safe than it was before the mask, testing and vaccine mandates?
The Army is failing to keep soldiers combat-ready, and this is evidenced by the military’s own medical surveillance system. The Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) is used to detect surges of injury and illness in the military to make sure that all individuals are combat ready. The DMED is the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Branch’s 'web-based tool to remotely query de-identified active component personnel and medical event data contained within the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS).'
In January 2022, attorneys Thomas Renz and Leigh Dundas retrieved the DMED data from military whistleblowers, Drs. Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers and Theresa Long. The data was provided to Senator Ron Johnson at a historic round table meeting with doctors and lawyers.
According to the data, the five-year average for medical issues in the military was 1.7 million codes. After the COVID-19 vaccine protocol was mandated on the military, the number of medical issues spiked to 22 million in the first 10 months of 2021 – a 1,000 percent increase! Many of the issues are directly related to the covid-19 vaccines, including Bell’s palsy, myocardial infarction, pulmonary embolisms and neurological disorders. One of the military doctors testified: 'It is my professional opinion that the major increases incidences of the above discussed instances of miscarriages, cancers, and disease were due to COVID-19 ‘vaccinations.’'
The Commander-in-Chief, the Secretary of Defense, the Department of Defense (DoD) and the highest-ranking commanders are culpable for unlicensed medical malpractice and mass murder, and must be held responsible for their unethical actions of coercion and discrimination, which were used to force dangerous experiments on soldiers that injured, sickened, disabled and killed many. For the latest update on stopping the mandates in the military, read Liberty Council’s updates on the Navy SEAL 1 v. Austin case. - Miami Standard
Will anyone be held accountable for what is happening at Fort Bragg?
If the deaths are Covid related, then this trend should be seen at all U.S. Military bases, not just at Fort Bragg.
That sounds high, but we must remember that Ft. Bragg is a very large installation and it might not be much higher than what is normal per capita.
The Military does indeed appear to suffer from higher suicide rates than the rest of the population, probably due to things like PTSD, but these deaths should still be investigated by an independent agency. Fort Bragg has engaged in far too much suspicious behavior, causing family members of those who have died there to claim they are engaging in a cover-up.
Seth Harp of Rollingstone reported on the disturbing and bizarre "beheading case" at Fort Bragg, claiming that the Army has filed charges against the alleged assailant:
The U.S. Army has filed criminal charges related to the case of Enrique Roman-Martinez, a 21-year-old soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division whose beheading remains one of the most baffling of the many unsolved killings to have taken place at Fort Bragg lately.
Spc. Alex Becerra, who according to multiple sources planned and organized the camping trip to the North Carolina seashore that preceded Roman-Martinez’s disappearance and death, has been charged with conspiracy; dereliction of duty; two counts of making false official statements; three counts of disobeying a superior officer; and wrongful possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance — but not murder or manslaughter.
Roman-Martinez’s death occurred over Memorial Day weekend of 2020. The mysterious sequence of events, which remain completely unexplained, began when a group of seven soldiers, plus Roman-Martinez, defied a pandemic lockdown order to go on a camping trip to Camp Lookout National Seashore. Friday night it rained heavily. The next day, around 7 p.m., the group of soldiers reported Roman-Martinez missing. Becerra was the one who spoke to a 911 dispatcher. 'We lost our friend,' he said. 'When we woke up he was not here, and we’ve been looking for him all day. We were trying to find the park ranger or their offices or anything.'
The U.S. Army has filed criminal charges related to the case of Enrique Roman-Martinez, a 21-year-old soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division whose beheading remains one of the most baffling of the many unsolved killings to have taken place at Fort Bragg lately.
Spc. Alex Becerra, who according to multiple sources planned and organized the camping trip to the North Carolina seashore that preceded Roman-Martinez’s disappearance and death, has been charged with conspiracy; dereliction of duty; two counts of making false official statements; three counts of disobeying a superior officer; and wrongful possession, use, or distribution of a controlled substance — but not murder or manslaughter.
Roman-Martinez’s death occurred over Memorial Day weekend of 2020. The mysterious sequence of events, which remain completely unexplained, began when a group of seven soldiers, plus Roman-Martinez, defied a pandemic lockdown order to go on a camping trip to Camp Lookout National Seashore. Friday night it rained heavily. The next day, around 7 p.m., the group of soldiers reported Roman-Martinez missing. Becerra was the one who spoke to a 911 dispatcher. 'We lost our friend,' he said. 'When we woke up he was not here, and we’ve been looking for him all day. We were trying to find the park ranger or their offices or anything.'
Last May, Rolling Stone was the first to report that drugs — specifically, LSD — might have played some role in whatever went down that Memorial Day weekend. Griselda says that her brother was an enthusiastic proponent of hallucinogenic mushrooms, which he believed held the cure for mental illness. Romero says that Roman-Martinez also took LSD, and that Becerra was allegedly known around the barracks as a small-time dealer of acid tabs. The drug charge against Becerra, which could be for simple possession or a more serious accusation of distribution, shows that military prosecutors suspect him of some kind of narcotics offense.
The detail might be a red herring. Kids in their early twenties go on camping trips and get drunk and trip on psychedelics all the time. But Roman-Martinez’s death took place amid a surge in drug crime on Fort Bragg, with multiple murders with apparent links to the use or distribution of narcotics on-post. And there are few other clues in his killing, which was just one of a massive wave of fatalities at Fort Bragg over the past two years, including repeated instances of fratricidal soldier-on-soldier violence, and literally dozens of deaths for which there is no explanation at all.
In one case, an elite Delta Force soldier suspected of trafficking drugs was found dead on an Army training ground, the victim of an apparently professional hit by skilled assassins. In another, a heavily pregnant Army wife named Sarah Lewis was brutally murdered by her steroid-enraged husband, a medic in the 1st Special Forces Command, who then died by suicide. Not long after that, a parachute rigger in the 7th Special Forces Group named Tiara Vinson allegedly walked up to Kelia Horton, her rival for the affections of a third soldier, and shot her in the face. Most recently, a staff sergeant in the 82nd Airborne named Alonzo Dargan allegedly did a high-speed drive-by shooting on his extramarital mistress, Akeila Ware, the second pregnant woman to be allegedly murdered by a Fort Bragg soldier in the span of a year.
Sadly, the killings didn’t end there. In September 2021, a warrant officer named Anthony Rivera was charged with the murder of two toddlers he’d adopted, both of whom died of blunt force trauma. In addition, no fewer than five Fort Bragg soldiers were charged with or convicted of raping children under the age of 13 over the course of just six months in 2021.
Meanwhile, Fort Bragg soldiers have been turning up “unresponsive” in their barracks on a disturbingly regular basis since the beginning of 2020, including Caleb Smither, Terrance Salazar, Jamie Boger, Joshua Diamond, Matthew Disney, Mikel Rubino, Michael Hamilton, and numerous others who have not been named. Drugs may have been involved in the cases of Diamond and Disney, who were found dead on the same day in June 2021, just two weeks after an airborne master sergeant named Martin Acevedo III was charged with trafficking cocaine. Otherwise, there has been absolutely no explanation from the Army for how these apparently healthy young men died.
Likewise, in January 2021, an Army captain named Robert Latham died from an 'apparent heart attack,' despite being 32 years old and seemingly in excellent physical condition. In October, a highly trained Green Beret and intelligence sergeant named Calvin Rockward died from a 'sudden, unexpected medical event,' though he was only 38 and in even better shape, to go by his Instagram photos.
In total, a staggering 83 active-duty soldiers stationed at Fort Bragg died in the 18 months ending June 2021, according to data obtained by Rolling Stone. Only 11 of these deaths were from 'natural causes.' Many, perhaps a plurality, were suicides. But in no fewer than 33 cases, the Army has classified the cause of death as 'undetermined.' - Seth Harp, Rollingstone
It is not an exaggeration to say that it is dangerous to be at Fort Bragg these days, maybe as dangerous as being in a combat zone. I have not seen anything from the Army leadership to suggest they are doing anything substantive to address the clear problem of narcotics trafficking and abuse that is occurring on the base. And even more ominously, it's dangerous to be a child near Fort Bragg:
Photo Credit: Seth Harp
Why so many child rape, murder and porn charges in such a short time period? According to Mr. Harp, Fort Bragg refuses to discuss the charges or comment on the situation. What exactly is going on at Fort Bragg?
Is the CIA still operating and conducting mind control experiments at U.S. Military bases? Here is a link to another thread asking similar questions. Ultimately, we do not yet have any answers. We are only left with more questions and Fort Bragg isn't talking.