The United States Army recently announced that there is no connection between four recent murders at Fort Bragg and the use of the anti-malaria drug Lariam. In August, the Pentagon, joined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, sent a group of medical experts to Fayetteville, North Carolina to determine if a link existed between the homicides and the medication. Sgt. Rigoberto Nieves, Master Sgt. William Wright, Sgt. Cedric Griffin and Sgt. Brandon Floyd murdered their wives (Nieves and Floyd also shot and killed themselves) within a six-week span this summer. Authorities immediately discovered that three of the four men might have been taking Lariam.

A spokesperson for the Army would not comment on the investigation, only saying that side effects of Lariam had been ruled out. Authorities believe each couple had serious marital problems.