When a group of paratroopers hits a North Carolina beach for a laid-back holiday weekend, one of their own goes missing.

Tragic evidence washes ashore and ignites one of 2020's most devastating missing and murdered American soldier investigations in this episode of Last Seen Alive.

Thanks for listening to Last Seen Alive. I'm your host, Leah, crime analyst by day, and true crime storyteller by night.

And it's always, I'm gonna. This is the revisited and enhanced edition of one of our early episodes, which features the Unsolved Homicide of Enrique Roman Martinez.

The original edition was recorded in 2020,

and we've revisited and re-recorded an episode on his case with investigative updates in 2025.

As I'm sure those of you who've been listening

since the early days of last seen alive have noticed,

our production and audio quality have improved significantly over the years.

Lately, we've been working on remaking our earlier episodes. When we originally recorded them,

we were doing the best we knew how at the time. However, our best wasn't the best, and we've learned a lot

since then. We want to honor those victims by telling their stories with the production

quality they deserve.

So we've been completely remaking all of our early episodes, including this one.

Yeah, this is one that I've really been looking forward to re-recording because I know that there have been updates.

And I've been going out of my way to not go across any of them so they'll be the usual

surprise to me. Okay. I'm really interested in seeing what the updates are. Yeah, although the case is

unfortunately still unsolved, yes, there are updates. Now, Enrique Roman Martinez was last seen alive on May 22, 2020. He was 21 years old at the time and lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Specifically, he lived at Fort Bragg, which is the largest of all U.S. Army bases and one of the largest military bases in the world, rivaling many mid-sized U.S. cities in size.

Enrique was originally from Chino, California, and had joined the U.S. Army nearly four years before,

enlisting early at the age of just 17, which was something he'd had to have special parental

permission to do. And his desire to enlist had taken his family by surprise,

because he wasn't really the type of guy you'd picture in combat boots marching around with a

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