Family think, oh, I'm sending my loved one off to the US military.

Oh, for sure they're going to be safe.

But you have a lovely, spirited young lady who, you know, vanishes

on what should be one of your safest environments in the United States.

I'm Scott Weinberger, investigative journalist and former deputy sheriff.

I'm Anna Sige-Nikolazi, former New York City homicide prosecutor and host of investigation discoveries, true conviction.

And this is anatomy of murder.

The men, women, the people who serve in our United States military hold a special place in our heart here at AOM.

These hardworking people serve our country, putting themselves at risk for all the things that we hold dear.

And we think about that amount of risk usually during war conflicts or overseas, but not necessarily expected that they're in danger while they're working here in the US.

You would think these highly secure military facilities are completely safe from crime.

That is not always the case. And for today's podcast, we spoke to retired Navy criminal investigative service agent Joe Kennedy.

My name is Joe Kennedy. It's been 28 years within CIS working cases all over the world.

If you've ever seen that show NCIS, you might have an idea of what they do.

The NCIS has three primary missions.

Criminal investigations, counterintelligence and naval security. The NCIS consists of over 1200 special agents.

And not only does the agency investigate crimes against service members, but they also investigate service members who commit crimes all over the world.

And here's the big difference between NCIS and most other law enforcement agencies is that they travel all over the world.

I'm going to give you an example. I've deployed to Fallujah, Iraq several times, to Afghanistan several times.

All of those occasions were in support of conducting criminal investigations that were either involving a military member as a victim or perhaps the military member was a suspect of committing a crime.

And quite honestly, I have to admit that I was fan-girling a bit when I started reading all this because the idea of getting to do this type of work, the investigation, plus traveling the world, well, it sounds pretty amazing to me.

NCIS is responsible for covering a lot of ground. And one of their cases is of Pamela Kimbrue, a sailor based at the Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia.

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