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The Dark Secrets of Fort Bragg: The William J. Lavigne II CaseA Documented Account of Drug Trafficking and Murder within an Elite Military Unit A deer hunter steps onto a sandy firebreak and finds a truck stuck at the edge of McArthur Lake. One man lies face-down by the pines; another is wrapped in a painter's tarp in the truck bed. What begins as a grim discovery on federal land becomes a painstaking military true crime investigation that pulls together ballistics, phone records, and a town living in the long shadow of an elite base. This book follows the double homicide at Fort Bragg with the clarity of a case file and the pulse of a real-life murder mystery. It reconstructs the hours before and after the lake, opens the door on the 2018 foyer shooting that set everything in motion, and traces how overlapping drug trafficking networks, off-hours social scenes, and jurisdictional turf wars shaped the pursuit of justice. You'll meet families who refused to accept tidy answers, investigators who wrestled with evidence and silence, and an accused outsider whose name, charges, and movements reframed what many thought they knew about this place. What you'll find inside A clean, date-stamped timeline from the Disney trip to the McArthur Lake murders, built from interviews, records, and on-the-ground reporting. Forensic walk-throughs of the scene work, including the small-caliber question, trajectory patterns, and what the absence of guns, cash, and dope really means in a double homicide investigation. How Army CID and the FBI investigation converged-and collided-over evidence, disclosure, and charging decisions. The indictment of an alleged ""third man,"" and what the filings say (and don't say) about organized crime ties, drug trafficking rings, and motive. A sober look at reform inside military justice: what changed, what didn't, and why murder on a military base is never just another case. Voices from the families-and the paper trail-that cut through rumor to real, verifiable detail. Why readers choose this book Accuracy you can trust. Built on documents and sourced accounts, this is a true crime book based on real events-fast-paced but careful with facts. Clarity without jargon. Complex procedures are explained in plain English: how indictments work, why jurisdiction matters, and what ""chain of custody"" means when the stakes are life and death. Context that sticks. You'll see how a military base murder investigation unfolds inside a culture of secrecy, and why site-selection at a base lake wasn't an accident. A story that respects service and the truth. No sensationalism-just clear eyes on courage, failure, and the human cost. Who this book is forReaders who search for true crime, military true crime, Fort Bragg true crime book, drug trafficking investigation, forensic evidence analysis, Army CID investigation, FBI case files, double homicide at Fort Bragg, real-life murder mystery, organized crime in North Carolina, and criminal justice reform will find the depth-and answers-they're looking for woven naturally through every chapter. If you want a meticulously documented narrative that reads like a thriller and informs like a brief, this is the one to add to your shelf. Open the file. Follow the facts. Let the record speak.

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