Monday, March 3, 2008

IVETTE DAVILA: SOLDIER KILLS FAMILY, STEALS BABY

Andy Rogers / P-I
Ivette Gonzalez Davila attends a bail hearing in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma Monday. Davila is suspected of killing a couple in Parkland and kidnapping their child.


Andy Rogers / P-I
Ivette Gonzalez Davila attends a bail hearing in Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma Monday. Davila is suspected of killing a couple in Parkland and kidnapping their child.


Parkland couple shot, then doused with acid
Slaying victims, suspect were Fort Lewis soldiers

By
MIKE BARBERP-I REPORTER

TACOMA -- Randi Miller was sitting on her bed. Her husband, Timothy Miller, was in the shower when they both were shot to death Saturday night inside their Parkland home, according to court papers filed Monday in Pierce County Superior Court.

The 22-year-old woman now held on suspicion of aggravated murder and kidnapping -- of the couple's 6-month-old girl -- left the Millers' home after the shooting, bought muriatic acid at Home Depot and returned, the affidavit of probable cause said. She tried but failed to destroy the bodies in a bathtub, a court affidavit said.

The suspect, Spc. Ivette Gonzalez Davila, a member of Fort Lewis' I Corps color guard, shackled and dressed in an orange Pierce County Jail inmate's uniform, appeared at a preliminary bail hearing before Superior Court Judge Ronald Culpepper on Monday. Davila is to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.

Culpepper ordered Davila held without bond for investigation of aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of the Millers, who also were active duty Fort Lewis soldiers, and the kidnapping of their baby. Timothy Miller, 27, of Nevada and Randi Miller, 25, who was believed to be from the East Coast, served at the post's Madigan Army Medical Center.

WHY DID THIS HAPPEN?

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