Female Soldier Held in Killings, Kidnap

A Fort Lewis soldier allegedly shot Army couple dead before kidnapping infant.

ByABC News
March 3, 2008, 11:02 AM

March 4, 2008— -- A female soldier fatally shot a husband-and-wife Army medic pair and then poured acid over their bodies before taking off with the couple's infant daughter, Washington state authorities told ABC News.

Spc. Ivette Gonzales Davila, 22, appeared in Pierce County Superior Court Monday in shackles. She answered a judge only with "yes, sir" and "no, sir" as she was booked on two counts of murder and one count of kidnapping. Her Pierce County public defender argued unsuccessfully that the media should not be allowed to photograph his client during the proceedings.

Prosecutors believe that Davila, an active duty member of the honor guard, returned to her barracks at Fort Lewis, Sunday afternoon, with the 6-month-old child and told a fellow soldier she was baby-sitting, according to a court declaration. Davila later allegedly confessed that she had killed the baby's parents, identified Monday as Timothy Miller, 27, and Randi Miller, 25, and military police contacted sheriff's deputies.

The two victims were Army medics who worked at the Madigan Army Medical Center. Their bodies were found Sunday night in a bath tub inside their Parkland, Wash., home off base. Timothy Miller was shot while showering; Randi was shot in bed. According to the prosecutor's declaration, Davila took the baby to a home-improvement store after the killings, bought muriatic acid and then returned to the house and poured it on the corpses.

Davila, already in the custody of military police, was handed over to sheriff's deputies and placed under arrest. A receipt for the acid and pistol were found in her barracks, according to prosecutors.

Davila may have been jealous about an affair between her ex-boyfriend and Randi Miller, according to a statement of probable cause filed in Pierce County Court.

Davila is being held without bail in the Pierce County Jail. She will be charged with two counts of murder and a single count of kidnapping.

"There's not going to be a reason that's ever going to make sense of this," Detective Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff's Office, told ABC News late Monday. "If people are going to go look for an answer, they're not going to find one."