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A Crime of Passion and Tragedy

By Rachel Plotnick

In what appears to be a crime of passion fueled by jealousy, pretty 22-year-old Spc. Ivette Gonzalez Davila, a soldier stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, has been arrested on allegations that she killed two fellow soldiers, a man and a woman, and then took the married couple?s six-month-old baby back to the barracks with her. The victims, Timothy and Randi Miller, ages 27 and 25, respectively, were killed in their off-base home in the community of Parkland, Washington, sometime Saturday evening, March 1, 2008, according to reports by The Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. According to Ed Murphy, a Pierce County, Washington deputy prosecutor, Davila purportedly told another soldier that "Randi Miller was in a relationship with Davila?s ex-boyfriend, another soldier, who had apparently chosen Randi Miller over Davila...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).