The 2008 disappearance and murder of Army 2nd Lt. Holley Wimunc will be featured Tuesday on an episode of “48 Hours: NCIS” airing on CBS at 10 p.m.

The episode, “Trail of Fire,” follows the case of Wimunc, 24, a Fort Bragg soldier who disappeared from her Fayetteville apartment only to be found three days later buried in a shallow grave in Sneads Ferry, near Camp Lejeune.

Her body had been burned and dismembered.

Her husband, Marine Cpl. John Patrick Wimunc, was charged and later pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in her death. A fellow Marine, Lance Cpl. Kyle Ryan Alden, was charged and pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to the murder.

Former NCIS Agent J.C. Hawks, who worked the case, will be featured on the show as will Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West and The Fayetteville Observer reporter Paul Woolverton, LaRosa said.

 John and Holley Wimunc

NCIS Agent J.C. Hawks

Wimunc’s murder was one of three Fort Bragg female soldiers who were murdered between June and September 2008, which played into the decision to tell the story, LaRosa said.

“Trail of Fire” was chosen as the title because of the role fire played in the case, he said.

When Wimunc, who worked at the Womack Army Medical Center, didn’t show up as scheduled on July 11, a co-worker went to her home in the Morganton Place apartments. She discovered a smoldering fire inside, but there was no sign of Wimunc.

“The way they found her body,” LaRosa said, “was they (John Wimunc and Alden) buried her and set a fire. That started a fire and (Forestry Service) rangers traced it back to her grave.”