TikTok video claims body buried at Camp Lejeune; Marines, NCIS investigating

WITN reports the Marine Corps is investigating a video posted on social media where a man claims to have helped bury a body at Camp Lejeune.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service confirms that it is conducting an investigation into the matter.

“Out of respect for the investigative process, NCIS will not comment further while the investigation remains ongoing,” said NCIS spokesman Jeff Houston.

The Marine Corps says it is also investigating the video.

“U.S. Marine Corps Training and Education Command is aware of the content published on social media,” said Major Joshua Pena. “There will be an investigation into the matter in cooperation with appropriate commands and organizations. No additional information is available, at this time.”

The video was posted four days ago on TikTok. The caption claims a sergeant based at Camp Lejeune, along with two other Marines buried the body.

In the video, the man is speaking to a woman and says the victim was a “biker dude" killed after a fight outside a nightspot in Sneads Ferry.

The three put the body in the back of a truck and looked for a place to dispose of the body, according to the video.

The man, who said he was the designated driver, said at first they wanted to dump the body in a jetty but a military police vehicle scared them off. He said they then went to a seldom-used landing zone on base.

“At the very end of that LZ if you walk into the woods, like 20 to 30 feet into those woods, ‘cause no one uses that LZ, you dig like 10 feet down and there’s a f***in’ dead body,” the man in the video said.

The video did not say when the man was killed or exactly where the body was buried on the Marine Corps base.

Onslow County Sheriff Chris Thomas said they have only provided minimal assistance in this investigation, adding that any additional information would have to come from NCIS or the Marine Corps.