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Vanessa Guillén, 20, has been missing since April. She was last seen in the parking lot of her barracks at the post on April 22, according to the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. Investigators had “returned to an area of interest near the Leon River, Bell County, Texas, to conduct …
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