Army Specialist pleads guilty to murdering fellow soldiers
Spc. Ivette Davila entered guilty pleas to two counts of premeditated murder and one count of kidnapping during a military court hearing Monday morning.
In exchange for admitting guilt, prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty.
The judge, Col. Stephen R. Henley, was expected to sentence Davila to live in prison for the March 2008 killings of Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Miller and Sgt. Randi J. Miller at their home in Parkland, Wash. .
According to court documents filed in Pierce County before the Army took over the prosecution, Davila allegedly confessed to another soldier that she went to Randi Miller's home to kill her because she thought the woman was having an affair with Davila's ex-boyfriend.
Investigators, though, said it was not known if any affair was actually taking place.
During the hearing on Monday, Davila said she shot Randi multiple times with a silenced pistol while the woman was in bed and then shot Timothy six times while he was in the shower.
"I understood I was shooting them. I understood I was killing them, and I understood I was wrong," Davila said. "That's why I'm guilty."
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Davila allegedly drove to a hardware store after the shootings to purchase muriatic acid, which investigators say she poured over the two bodies in a bathtub in an attempt to dispose of them.
Court documents indicate that Davila then took the Miller's then 6-month-old baby girl and went back to her barracks at Fort Lewis where she was arrested.
Before her arrest, she had been serving as a chemical operations specialist with Fort Lewis' Headquarters and Headquarters Company, I Corps, as a member of the Fort Lewis ceremonial color guard.
Both Timothy and Randi Miller served in Iraq. Their baby was placed in the care of relatives.