Vanessa Guillén, the Fort Hood soldier who has been missing since late April, was killed and dismembered by a fellow soldier, a woman alleged in a criminal complaint obtained by CBS News.
The complaint was not filed against specialist Aaron Robinson, suspected of Guillén’s death, because he died by suicide when authorities approached him on Wednesday. But the documents accuse Cecily Aguilar, a 22-year-old civilian identified as Robinson’s girlfriend, on one count of conspiracy to manipulate evidence.
The complaint says Aguilar told investigators that Robinson said he had killed a female soldier by hitting her in the head with a hammer, and that the couple dismembered and disposed of Guillén’s body near a river.
Aguilar has been arrested since then, the Bell County Sheriff’s Department confirmed to CBS News.
Guillén was last seen on April 22, when she went to a Robinson-controlled weapons and equipment warehouse, according to the complaint.
In May, two witnesses named in the complaint said they saw Robinson pulling a large wheeled box “that looked very heavy” that came out of the same room where Robinson worked. They said that Robinson put the box in his vehicle and left.
Robinson’s phone records, cited in the complaint, pointed officials to a nearby area where “what appeared to be human remains” were discovered on June 30.
Later that day, Aguilar allegedly told investigators that Robinson had said that he had killed a female soldier by hitting her head multiple times with a hammer, and had kept her remains in a box. He allegedly added that Robinson picked him up at a service station and took him to the site and showed him the remains. Aguilar then identified the remains as Guillén’s.
He added that they dismembered Guillén’s body and tried to burn it, and finally placed his remains in three separate holes, according to the complaint.
Remains found at the site have yet to be officially identified as Guillen, Fort Hood Major General Gen. Scott Efflandt said at a press conference Thursday.
Guillén’s family has said they believe the remains are theirs and that she told them they were sexually harassed on two separate occasions. But Efflandt said the investigation has not found a link between the allegations and her disappearance.
Aguilar will appear in court next week, according to the Justice Department. If convicted, she faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a maximum fine of $ 250,000.
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