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[music] My name is JC Hawks. I'm a retired Marine gunnery sergeant and a former Marine Special Agent with
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the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. I was assigned to a missing person investigation to locate Holly Lynn Wim
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Monk. >> Holly just kind of disappeared uh without a trace. Did not show up for work. No one was sure about her
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whereabouts. The search for her started at that point. >> I tried to call her and when she wasn't
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answering the phone for me, like I knew something was wrong because she's going to answer the phone for me.
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Holly [music] was such a loving person. When she walked in the room, you knew, okay, this is a good person. You just
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could feel [music] that energy coming from her. >> Holly was a 24year-old young lady. She
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was married to an active duty Marine. >> John Wy Monk was a Marine stationed at Camp Lune, North Carolina.
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>> When we first met, Holly used to say, "I want to be a pediatric nurse." And then somewhere along the way, she
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was like, "I'm going to the army. I can help more people being a military nurse.
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>> When it involves people in uniform, it brings more attention. We had national
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media in Fagetville through most of the summer. I was in the office on a Friday. It was
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in the evening and my boss came in and asked what I had going on. I said, "Not much. I'm just working on some reports."
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He said, "Listen, man. I need you in Fagetville. We've got a missing girl there. There's some suspicious
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circumstances." So I made a call to [music] my wife and headed to Fyville as quick as I could.
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>> So July 9th, 2008, I worked, came home that evening and had a voicemail from Holly asking me to give her a call
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back. I was just too exhausted after the end of a 12-hour shift and I fell straight to sleep.
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When I woke up, I had multiple messages and I called one of them back and they asked me again, "Is Holly with you at
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your apartment?" And at first I was like, "Well, what's going on?" A close friend of hers and co-orker
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decided that she needed to go to Holly's apartment immediately because she thought something was wrong.
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When they get there, they notice as they're looking in the windows that there is smoke damage and they smell
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some fumes. It smells like gasoline, smells like smoke. They're at the apartment and they notice what looks to
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be an intentionally set fire. They're obviously very concerned. They don't see Holly. They call 911. At that point,
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>> I had a chance to tour the entire area. Went into Holly's room. I immediately
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saw on the ground a large deliberately removed piece of carpeting. You got the sense immediately that
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something very bad had happened inside that apartment. >> What they did not find is Holly. There
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was no sign or trace of her at that point. >> Tonight we have an update on a Fort
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Bragg soldier missing for days. >> Tonight police remain on >> the summer of 2008 was a very busy time
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for the homicide team. We had two service members go missing. We had Megan Tuma who was a United States Army active
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duty person who was actually found deceased in a hotel bathroom. And that murder at that point was
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unsolved. A person claiming to be inspired by the Zodiac Killer from decades ago in California
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started writing letters to law enforcement and to the Fable Observer. And it just kind of had a lot of people
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nervous and on edge. There was a heightened sense of awareness and urgency that when someone doesn't show
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up for work, go look for them because it could be [music] the worst. [screaming]
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>> The NCIS mission is global. >> We're on aircraft carriers. We're in foreign ports. We watch after each
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other. We take care of each other. >> NCIS deal with every type of crime. cyber fraud, murder,
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>> general crimes, counter [music] intelligence, counterterrorism. >> Every crime is a tragedy. Involves
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sisters, brothers, husbands. >> It's the only way to find the truth. >> We live in dangerous times
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>> and we're never going to give up. >> NCIS, the cases they can't forget. Holly's case is among the most memorable
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[music] cases that I've worked. I I will never forget this case because of all the things [music] that Holly was.
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Someone's daughter, someone's mother, a nurse, and an officer in the United States Army.
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Fagville is home to the largest military installation in [music] the United States. Uh Fort Bragg has generally
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between 50 and 55,000 personnel stationed there. It's its own city. Holly Wy Monk's case uh happened in a
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very bad summer for Fagatville. >> And it got worse with the disappearance of Lieutenant Holly James Wy Monk.
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>> When Holly Wy is missing, a massive search commences. Was her case connected to the murder of Sergeant Megan Tuma and
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this copycat serial killer stalking the streets of Fagville? >> In the Megan Tuma case,
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>> Tuma had arrived at Fort Bragg less than 2 weeks ago from Germany. >> Megan was missing for [music]
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approximately a week, but nobody noticed. She was new in town. Her unit didn't report her missing.
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>> Megan had been strangled and left in a bathtub at a local hotel. Investigators
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poured over the taunting letters of her alleged murderer. He claimed to be inspired by California's infamous Zodiac
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Killer, >> who sent letters to the press in San Francisco from 1968 to 1987, claiming
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[music] responsibility for 40 murders. >> Fear that a new serial killer targeting
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female soldiers swept through Fyville. He said he was on a mission to claim more victims.
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>> The army reacts quickly. The Favville Police Department reacts quickly. The community is upset. With no sign of
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Holly, investigators were left to sift through the remains of her burned out apartment.
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>> Someone had intentionally poured fluids that were flammable and had set a fire.
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>> They found two bedrooms burned, windows broken, and the smell of gasoline. We
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monk was missing. Her car was still parked outside. >> Whoever had set the fire had absolutely
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no regard for anybody in that building or anybody around it. Agent Hogs believed the [music] fire had
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been set to destroy evidence. The missing carpet was a disturbing clue that indicated Holly might well be dead.
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Carpeting soaks bodily fluids. It s it soaks all types of of physical evidence. Nothing good in our minds came from that
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missing [music] carpet. As the scene began being processed, we observed there to be two missing [music] knives that
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were not in the knife block in the kitchen. We have missing knives. Why do we have missing knives? Uh we look at
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the presence of evidence and also the the absence of things that you think should be there. One of the things we
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started doing is interviewing family and friends of Holly. So family and friends
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are who you start talking with. You always want to start closest and then move out.
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So Hawks began his investigation by talking to Holly's husband, Marine Corporal John Wyuk,
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a combat engineer based at Camp Leour, North Carolina. The Marine base is 2 hours east of Fort Bragg, where Holly
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was stationed. Wunk had married Holly a year earlier and split his time between living at Camp Leern and Holly's
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apartment. >> I'm at the point where I have no idea what's going on. Okay. >> We were responsible for painting a a
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picture of John Wy Monk, learning his whereabouts, learning everything that there was to to find out about this
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young man. >> News of Holly's disappearance and the fire at the couple's shared apartment
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was the lead story locally. >> Police spent a lot of time around the missing soldiers apartment. K-9 units
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searched nearby woods. >> Wy Monk said he knew nothing beyond that. He says, "I don't know where she
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is. Haven't talked with her. Um, don't know anything." >> Wim expressed concern for both his wife
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and their apartment. >> This is my wife. All right. Everybody knows that. >> And it's my apartment.
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What the is going on with my wife? You know what I mean? >> The interview broke down after Hawk
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smelled what he thought was liquor on Wyuk's breath. >> You asked me earlier that have am I
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drunk? I'm not drunk, but I have been drinking. Okay? And I don't want the the uh things that I say to be turned
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around. You know what I'm saying? >> I understand. And that's why we're done. Okay.
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>> I understand it, sir. >> We're done talking about everything. Go home and chill out. Okay.
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>> Mhm. >> And I I don't want to I don't want to talk with you now that you know, I can
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smell the odor alcohol on you. I don't want to talk to you about legal stuff while that's in the question in my mind.
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>> And I'll let you recont us, whatever. We'll give you our contact numbers and we'll deal with it that way. Okay. Here
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you go, sir. I appreciate that I have a contact number of you guys. >> Hawks returned to Wim Monk to his
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command and continued learning about the couple's relationship from Holly's friends and family.
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>> Holly and John met as a result of an introduction by a Marine [music] in John's unit who happened to be Holly's
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brother. He thought John would be a would [music] be interested in meeting his sister.
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>> Holly was deeply in love with him. She cared very much for him. She said that
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he was a very sweet and caring individual, that he was very fun, outgoing, and caring. She enjoyed
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spending time with him. Holly had a son and a daughter with a longtime boyfriend before falling in
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love with Wimunk. The children [music] split time with their parents and were with their father at the time of the
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fire. >> Holly told me that she had her children visit every now and then, and it was
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always a wonderful time for her. She loved having her children visit. Holly and April, both nurses in the maternity
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ward at the Wulmeck Army Medical Center at Fort Bragg, grew close. >> I could always rely on her as somebody
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to talk to. You could call her in the middle of the night. She'd be half asleep, but she'd be willing to chitchat
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with you and find out what was going on. >> As NCIS kept investigating, agents unraveled a complicated marriage. A
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former girlfriend of Wims had resurfaced in his life. Holly told friends the woman was badgering her with angry phone
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calls. She felt harassed. >> Holly never referred [music] to Lindsay by Lindsay. She was just always his
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little girlfriend. She was always there. She chose to call Holly at 3:00 in the morning and scream into the phone. And
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it was just random acts like that that I think were were kind of scary for Holly cuz you
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don't know what a person is going to do. >> Holly went to court naming Lindsay publicly. describing the alleged
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harassment and asking for a restraining order that would prohibit any contact. Holly [music] wrote,
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>> "I have changed my phone number six times. She has had individuals contact [music] my friends looking for me. This
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has been going on for 8 months. >> A district court judge here in Carmelan County ordered Lindsay to basically stop
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bothering Holly. Obviously, there was a history there. Uh there was bad blood, shall we say, between Holly and Lindsay.
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So, she certainly was a person of interest at this point in the investigation. >> Hawks discovered that Lindsay, who lived
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out of state, was actually in North Carolina when Holly vanished. So, he brought Lindsay in for an interview.
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>> A reporter from the Fateville Observer in summer of 2008 contacted Lindsay and
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spoke to her, and Lindsay said she was shocked that Holly was missing. >> Lindsay said she had [music] nothing to
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do with Holly's disappearance. And while agents checked out her story, they soon
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got another disturbing [music] tip from witnesses at Holly's building. >> Several residents see a male figure
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running. One says running with a bag, getting into a black pickup truck and leaving the complex.
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>> A Fort Bragg soldier missing for days. Police remain on the scene at the home
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of Holly Wy Monk. >> Police are giving us more information about the missing soldier, but they're
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still keeping a tight guard on the scene out here. >> The entire family was holding on to a
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thin thread of hope that why Monk would be found alive. Her car was still parked
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outside. There was not a doubt in our mind that we were looking into a murder case
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[music] and it was looking less and less like a missing person case. >> Investigators were going down three
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paths. Pauliey's husband, his ex-girlfriend, and the self-proclaimed Zodiac [music] copycat killer.
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>> It was just a very tense time for people here in the community. With the Marine's wife still missing,
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NCIS remained on high alert. >> The mission for us is fairly comprehensive. protecting the innocent.
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We take that very seriously. >> Whenever a case breaks, the agency that leads that case, if they could go a
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million directions at one time while being thorough, effective, they would do it.
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[music] 24 hours into Holly's disappearance, NCIS agents got their first break in the case.
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>> Law enforcement began questioning people that lived there in the apartment complex that may have seen something,
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that may have heard something. And several individuals talked about how on the night of July 9th
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that there had been a individual in black clothing running from the area of Holly's apartment getting into a black
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pickup truck in dark clothing and leaving the scene. I've covered a lot of homicides here in
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Fateville and usually it's people who know each other. As we were doing background leading up
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to Holly's disappearance, we discovered some troubling things about the relationship between John and
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Holly. All the family and friends that we talked to all told us this story. A volatile relationship existed between
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Holly and John certainly leading up to her disappearance. Holly's coworker, April, told
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investigators that Wim Monk couldn't handle Holly's superior rank. He was telling her that she wasn't really a
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lieutenant. She wasn't really an officer. She was just a nurse and it didn't count.
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He was really putting her down. I started to overhear some of these phone calls and I could hear John being
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really hard on her. During one of our shifts, he called multiple times and just ranted and raved
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and treated her like she was nothing. I took her phone away. I literally grabbed it out of her hand, hung up on
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him, and took it away from her. I said, "No." I said, "You do not need to deal with this. It's not fair. It's not
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right." The verbal abuse soon turned physical when Holly began [music] coming to work
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with bruises, which she documented in these photos that investigators recovered on her cell phone. She came in
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with a busted lip one day. Another day she came in with what appeared to be bruising around her eye. And she never
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really spoke to us about where these injuries came from. We were very worried about Holly.
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>> I wish I had have done more. I felt like it was more important for me to be that
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best friend and not say anything. But part of me wish I could [music] have told somebody.
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>> Shortly before Holly's [music] disappearance, Traa says she learned about an incident that truly terrified
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Holly. >> One day she called me and she was just crying. She was hysterical. He like had
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a bullet and he had showed her the bullet. >> The bullet literally had Holly's name on
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it. >> He had like carved initials in the bullet and it was like this is your bullet and this is my bullet.
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>> He produced a gun. and he put it to his head and threatened suicide. And then he
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put the gun to Holly's head and threatened to murder her. >> Holly had enough. Fearing for her life,
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she sent her children to live with their biological father and sought a restraining order.
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>> On May 19th of 2008, Holly had taken out a restraining order against John. uh
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that was in place for about 10 days, just a temporary order, and then she had to appear in court about 10 days later
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in order to keep the restraining order in place. >> But when it came time to face [music]
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Wim Monk in court, Holly couldn't bring herself to follow through with the charges.
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>> I never think she thought John was going to hurt her because when a person loves
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you, you don't think that they're going to hurt you. >> Holly did not show up for that court
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date. So, as a result, the restraining order was dismissed and no longer in place. She was estranged from John that
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they had been going through a difficult transition uh leading to divorce. >> A Fort Bragg soldier missing for days.
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>> Police spent a lot of time around the missing solders's apartment. K-9 units searched nearby woods.
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>> But when news of Holly's disappearance reached her circle of friends, they [music] were convinced why Monk was
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responsible. The first thing that crosses my mind is, "Oh my god, that son [music] of a [ __ ]
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did it. He actually did it." >> We were focusing our efforts on John Wy Monk, either to eliminate him or include
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him as being involved in Holly's disappearance. [music] >> NCIS agents no longer had their sights
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on the self-proclaimed Zodiac copycat, or Lindsay, who was ultimately cleared. But it's what she revealed about Wim
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Monk's behavior the day Holly vanished that now had investigators fearing [music] the worst.
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>> Lindsay mentioned that he seemed very upset and angry early on Wednesday, July
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9th. He said that he was going to take care of Holly [music] and Lindsay says that
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he had a gun with him. At this point, John Wamik is a suspect, but we did not have anything
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specifically to link him >> to her disappearance. >> Hey, John. Jeff Lville. >> Y Monk wasn't talking.
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>> I choose not to answer any further questions, so I have a lawyer present. Okay. I'm sorry for the waste of time.
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>> No worries. But NCIS kept him under constant surveillance while they tried to uncover
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hard evidence connecting Wim Monk to Holly's disappearance. Was he the killer? And could he get away with it?
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>> NCIS agents began knocking on every door that we could aboard Camp Learner. >> And soon a new name hit NCIS's radar.
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>> NCIS began talking to some of John's friends, associates, co-workers uh there
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at the Marine Base. And one name that came up was uh Kyle Alden. >> [music] >> 48 hours into Holly's disappearance,
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Investigators were desperate for answers. [music] And with the clock still ticking, NCIS
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returned [music] to John Wyuk's base at Camp Leour, searching for clues. >> We started to perform just some very
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traditional police work and immediately began knocking on doors. That's when NCIS got a tip about a
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Marine who was looking to borrow a pickup truck. >> We eventually found a young man by the
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name of Kyle Halden. A few Marines heard about Kyle asking if he could borrow their pickup truck
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because he needed to help a friend move some things that would not fit in a car.
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And this we found interesting because it just so happened to occur on the 9th of
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July, which is the day prior to Holly going missing. Remember, witnesses reported seeing
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someone flee from Holly's apartment in a black pickup truck the night she vanished.
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>> I want to make sure that you understand this is quick. You're not being detained. On July 12th, Kyle Alden
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agreed to meet without a lawyer. >> Do you understand that? >> Yes, sir. >> All right.
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>> We brought Alden to our offices for an interrogation that the Fateville homicide detectives would conduct. One
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of my partners met with Alden and asked him about this truck, about his whereabouts on the 9th and 10th of July.
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And Alden essentially explained that he did in fact borrow a truck and that he was in fact contemplating helping a
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friend move. >> Investigators would learn that friend was John Wy Monk. >> He asked [music] if I if I can come to
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pay bill and give him a hand. >> Okay. What do you tell him? >> Tell him. Yeah, not a problem. The
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Marine Corps, not unlike the other armed services, there exists a very strong bond between Marines.
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[music] Kyle was another active duty Marine. He was assigned to John's unit. They were close enough to where if the
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phone rang and somebody said, "Hey, I need help with something." The other guy is going to come and try to help him.
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>> How does [music] he sound at this point in time? >> He sounds kind of distraught. Something
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didn't add up. He's like, "Yeah, you can't say anything about this, but I need your help doing something."
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It's like, "Okay, good to go." >> Alden says, "Why Monk abruptly called off their plan, so he went home to pay
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some bills." >> I think he [music] could sense that my partner knew that he was lying
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>> and later corrected his statement by saying, "Hey, I I lied about the last part when I said I was going to go pay
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the bill. I was actually meeting with my wife. We had sex and so that's where I was.
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>> But what Alden didn't know is that investigators had already spoken with his wife. What would you say if I told
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you I talked to your wife and she said what you just told me ain't the truth. >> Maybe she doesn't remember cuz she was
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out of it from the pentails that they said. >> The time a man know his wife spends
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together, they normally remember that kind of stuff. All right. Yes, sir. So if your wife ain't lying to me and you
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ain't lying to me, what do we have? [music] >> A big misunderstanding. >> But it was crystal clear that Alden was
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stonewalling the investigation. >> In talking to people that know him, his wife, and other things, you develop an
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idea of the person that you're dealing with. And what he was demonstrating to us during the initial hours of this
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investigation led me to believe that he was happy to lie to people. You know what I want you to say? I'm
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going to tell you what I want you to say. What I want you to say is the truth. >> Alden was never under arrest, but
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because he was a Marine, he was never allowed to leave NCIS's custody either and remained on base.
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>> I want you to be honest with me. I want you to >> For 3 days, investigators pressed Alden
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for answers. >> I want you to tell me what happened. I got to find Harley. For God's sakes,
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where's Holly at? I do not know. >> Okay. He would give investigators a little, but they didn't feel like he was
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giving them the whole truth. >> But Alden's cool demeanor suddenly changes when he's shown photos of
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Holly's children. >> I can't help but think about these two kids. Something bad happened to Holly.
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Something bad happened in that apartment. Okay, that's what I'm figuring out now.
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Realizing he'd been boxed into a corner, Alden admits to helping Wyuk remove items from Holly's apartment the night
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she vanished. But what happened to Holly? You know I know what happened. Okay. Why ain't Holly calling me on the phone
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and telling me I'm coming to talk to you later? Why ain't she doing that? >> She's probably going to
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Where's Holly at? I had no idea. >> I didn't want to think that he did it. I didn't want to think that it was
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possible. >> Investigators felt close to getting a confession, but Alden wouldn't budge.
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>> We knew that there was more to what he was saying. He wasn't at a point where
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he wanted to tell us what really happened. >> But everything was about to change when
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NCIS got a call they never expected. We received a phone call and that gentleman asked me if I was looking for
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a little blonde girl. I said, "Yes, I am." And he said, "I think I've got her. >> [music]
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>> I received a phone call from a firefighter from the North Carolina Division of Forestry and what I remember
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him asking me, "Hey man, you looking for a blonde girl?" And I said, "Yes, I am."
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>> While detectives questioned Alden, NCIS got a tip about a suspicious fire nearly
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20 m from Alden and Wyuk's base at Camp Learn. He said that he was on a road in the Sneez Fairy [music] area. The Sneezy
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area is south of Camp Leern. It's a rural area. There's not a lot of people around, especially [music] undercover of
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darkness, to see what's going on. It's a good place to get rid of something that
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you don't want anybody to find. Down this path, maybe about a half a mile, it opens up into a clearing.
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And in the center of that clearing, basically there was a uh a shallow grave. >> There beneath the smoldering ash,
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investigators uncovered human remains. [music] >> Fagville detectives are still working on
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a definitive identification on the remains. [music] >> It was just a blip on the news saying
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that what body was found and it just it just hit me. I just knew it. [music] >> That's Holly. They found her.
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[music] >> An autopsy would confirm it was Holly. [music] >> Crime scene video shot by deputies shows
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the shallow grave containing the remains of Holly Wonk. >> Her dad actually called me and said
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before you hear it on TV, you know, I want to I want to tell you. And I didn't expect that.
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I [music] still felt like she was going to call me. And when I actually saw it on the news,
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[snorts] >> at Holly scene and at at the scenes of other victims that other agents and I
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have [music] have been at, you can't afford to become emotional about it. Uh because if if you if you if [music] you
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are, you're you're not good to the team. at night when we go home and be with [music] our families uh and and me with
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my wife. Um we would share what we could with [music] with them and it and and that's when you get the the human
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element. That's when you get the the emotion behind it when you watch the reaction in their faces when you tell
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them what you had to do at work today. It was a [music] pretty gruesome, difficult scene to collect evidence
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from. It was like something out of a horror movie. Holly's body had been dismembered
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and set on fire. Investigators sorted through the ash and debris, uncovering critical clues into
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Holly's murder. There were some knives and a hatchet that were also found. And what was
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interesting and critical evidence about this is these knives fit a knife set that was missing from Holly's apartment.
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Those knives were a perfect match and [music] provided a crucial link connecting the crime scene to Holly's
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apartment fire. You >> realize you're in trouble. You in some trouble. >> Okay. >> They say, "Look, you're not telling us
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the truth. We just found her body." And at that point, he becomes mo much more forthcoming about what they did.
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>> Look at her now. You tell me. Tell me the rest of it. Tell me the rest of it.
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>> After misleading investigators for 3 days, Alden begins to unravel. I went out there. You know exactly what I saw.
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>> I can kind of imagine what you saw. >> Okay. Tell me what you imagine that I saw out there.
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>> I imagine there was a hole. >> Alden ultimately told us everything that he had received a call from John. He
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didn't know why he was going to Fagville, but he agreed to do it because he and John were Marines in the same
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unit. Once he arrived, however, John told him that he had killed her and needed his help getting rid of Holly's
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body. >> What did he say? He's like, "We were arguing." It's like I killed her. I didn't ask him how he killed her.
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I said, "Why?" He's like, "I didn't mean to. I don't know if he hit her, shot her, or whatever. Told me that she
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didn't die right away, so he had to hit her again." And I told him, "I don't want to hear
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that." He's like, "The look in her eye, he he'd never seen anything like it. the
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look in her eye. Every word that I heard just made my stomach turn that much more.
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>> Alden told us that Holly's remains were ultimately placed in what what we in the
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Marine Corps refer to as a seabag. >> After loading Holly's body into the pickup truck, Alden says Wim Monk set
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fire to the apartment to destroy the evidence. And then they made the 3-hour drive back to Camp Leern
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and ultimately arrived in Sneed's Ferry. They then dig a shallow grave. They place Holly's remains inside that
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grave [music] and they attempt to burn Holly's remains. >> I was sitting there thinking, "What the
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hell am I doing? Why am I getting myself into this? Why am I getting myself into
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this?" Common sense may tell someone once you hear that someone has killed their wife, why do you still carry on?
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And I think one thing is within the military structure, rank is very important. And John outranked Kyle. He
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had someone who outranked him asking for help with the situation. And I think Kyle made the very poor decision to
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participate in this cover up. The Marine in me was angry that that man had the title that me and other Marines have
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based on what he did and the decisions that he made. [music] I absolutely do not call him a Marine. We're different
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now. The whole time we've been talking, you ain't called her name. I want to hear
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you say Holly. Her name was Holly Lynn James. And I'm not even going to put he his name his last name ain't even worth
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being attached to hers. So, her name was Holly Lynn James. >> After confessing to his role in Holly's
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disappearance, investigators took an unusual step, demanding an apology. >> Tell her you're sorry.
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>> I'm sorry. >> Tell her children you're sorry. Say, "I'm sorry that you ain't got no mama no
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more." >> Sorry that you ain't got no mama no more. >> There's about as much feeling in what
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you just said is in this cup right there. Okay. That's about how much feeling you got.
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You know, you're going with us cuz you want no arrest. >> Yes, sir. >> Alden was charged with seconddegree
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arson and conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Lieutenant Holly James Wyuk. Now, NCIS had one thing left to
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do. >> We knew at this point that John Wyuk had committed this murder. >> But would the confession of an admitted
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liar be enough to seal Wyuk's fate? Once we had Alden's statements, once we had what we believed were Holly's
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remains, [music] Fateville Police Department homicide squad swore warrants for the arrest of John Wy Monk.
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>> Only a year before, Holly had married Jon and told friends he was sweet and good to her children. Now love had
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turned to hate and Wim Monk was about to be arrested for Holly's murder. >> We went to John's unit where we knew him
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to be. I expected that his head would be down, that he would look defeated, that
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he would be emotional. He was seated, his head was up. He didn't to me look like he really had a care in the world.
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>> I identified myself to John Wy as a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. I told him to
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stand up and I told him that he was under military apprehension for the murder of Holly Lyn Wim.
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>> He complied immediately. He looked at my partner and looked at me. The Marines
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present were watching. He said nothing to any of us. He had a facial expression that told me he knew exactly what was
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happening and that he was content. >> Holly was one [music] of three female soldiers murdered in that terrible
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summer of 2008 in Fagatville, North Carolina. There was no serial killer. Authorities believe Sergeant Megan
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Tuma's killer, a fellow soldier with whom she was having an affair, wrote those so-called Zodiac letters.
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Monday, July 14th, John Wy was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Holly Wy. She had actually died from a
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gunshot wound to the head. He was also charged with seconddegree arson and conspiracy to commit seconddegree arson.
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>> The criminal case was just beginning, as was the emotional fallout. Holly's commanding officer selected Holly's
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friend, Lieutenant April Wartz, for what the military considers a special honor.
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>> I had the chance to accompany the remains back home from the the funeral home in Fateville to the airport in
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Detroit [music] and we drove back down to Deuke, Iowa. It was there in Holly's hometown that April first [music] met
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Holly's father, Jesse James. >> Holly's dad welcomed me like a member of the family, like I'd been her best
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friend since childhood, and I'll never forget it. It was a really nice experience in a
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very dark, dark time. Jesse was especially close to his daughter and spoke to her in the days
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before her murder as he recalled in this interview for the university where he was the dean of admissions.
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>> Holly said, "Dad, it's going to be a nasty divorce. Not sure what nasty divorce conjured up in my mind. I
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suppose that I thought they would fight, but the thought that he would murder Molly [snorts] is a thought that never
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occurred to me." District Attorney Billy West says the state, armed with Kyle Alden's detailed
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confession and his agreement to testify, sought the death penalty for John Wyuk.
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It took two years for the case to get to court. >> John Wy reached a plea agreement with
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the state where he would plead guilty to first-degree murder as well as arson, conspiracy to commit arson, and that he
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would serve life without the possibility of parole. John Wyuk accepted his fate,
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but never apologized or provided any insight into why he murdered Holly when he appeared at his sentencing.
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>> North Carolina, we do not have allecution where the accused or the defendant actually explains what they
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did on the day of the crime. Kyle Alden plead guilty to his responsibility in the case and that was
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that he was an accessory after the fact to first-degree murder and he also was guilty of secondderee arson and
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conspiracy to commit seconddegree arson. Kyle Alden served 3 years of a potential
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5-year sentence. Today he's free. >> Both men were dishonorably discharged. I'm so angry.
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He took my friend. He took a daughter. He took a mother most of all. So, two kids grow up
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without their mother. You know that that's hard. The only time I actually met her
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children were during the funeral. They were three and six. I remember thinking that little girl
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is the spitting image of her mother. That is a little Holly right there. her little boy. They handed him a folded
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up flag and the look on his face is a look that will always be with me. That look of pain.
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Some people search a lifetime to find a friend like Holly and I had that. I had a friend like that.
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Sometimes I'll hear [music] somebody's voice and it'll remind me of her voice or a laugh and it'll just take me back
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to our [music] graduation day, how the sun hit her hair and how she was smiling that [music] day.
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What's it like to lose a child? Everyone in your family goes through grief and their own certain [clears throat]
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way. >> I know [music] that in the years after Holly's death, he actually went around
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speaking and bringing awareness to domestic violence, specifically domestic violence in the military.
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>> I think what adds to the grief of a death of a man is that he's supposed to protect his father.
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I don't want to speak for Mr. [music] James. I will say that myself and the other folks that
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agreed to to do this interview did so because he wanted his daughter's story told in the most accurate and truthful
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way possible. 48 hours. To miss it would be a crime. >> Were [music] you at all prepared for
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what happened in this case? [music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music]