JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (AP) — The Army says a soldier accused of killing two fellow soldiers and kidnapping their baby pleaded guilty to murder and kidnapping charges to avoid a possible death penalty.
Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokeswoman Catherine Caruso says the pleas from Ivette G. Davila were accepted by the judge, Col. Stephen R. Henley, at Monday’s court martial and she’ll be sentenced in an afternoon session to life in prison.
Davila was accused in the March 2008 shootings of Staff Sgt. Timothy Miller and Sgt. Randi Miller in the couple’s Parkland home.
Officials say Davila poured muriatic acid over the bodies in a bathtub and took the couple’s baby girl unharmed.
