Was Third N.C. Military Woman Murdered?

July 12, 2008— -- Authorities in North Carolina investigating the high-profile murder of a female soldier stationed at Fort Bragg who was found dead in a hotel room late last month are now searching for a second female soldier from the same base who's missing after someone set fire to her apartment.

The Fayetteville Police Department identified 24-year-old Holley Wimunc, a second lieutenant at the Womack Army Hospital at Fort Bragg, as missing and endangered Friday. A smoldering blaze was found Thursday morning at her apartment by a concerned colleague after Wimunc failed to show up for her nursing job in the military hospital's maternity ward.

Authorities quickly ruled that the fire had been intentionally set with the help of an accelerant, Lt. David Sportsman, spokesman for the Fayetteville Police Department, told ABC News in an interview Friday. Investigators spent Thursday contacting Wimunc's family and friends, hoping she'd intentionally taken off. Wimunc was nowhere to be found, and authorities identified her Friday so the public could possibly help in the investigation.

"There was arson, it was in her place and we can't find her," Sportsman said. "So the answer is 'Yes.' We are concerned."

Authorities have interviewed her military husband, Marine Cpl. John Wimunc, who is also stationed in North Carolina and with whom Holley Wimunc is reportedly in the middle of a bitter divorce.

According to divorce documents cited by ABC News' Raleigh-Durham affiliate WTVD, Holley Wimunc had had a restraining order out on her husband and claimed that at one point he held a gun to her head and threatened to kill her. John Wimunc is not currently in custody and is not considered a suspect in his wife's disappearance.

The Army Public Affairs Office at Fort Bragg, where Wimunc has been stationed since her arrival in August 2007, is working with Fayetteville police on the investigation.

For police, Wimunc's disappearance follows uncomfortably close to the murder of Army Specialist Megan Touma, who was seven months pregnant when her dead body was found inside a Fayetteville hotel room June 21.