Vanessa Guillen's sister doesn't believe official account that soldier was killed in Fort Hood armory room, says more people may have been involved, and slams evidence in the case as 'sketchy'
Murdered Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen’s sister is speaking out saying she doesn’t believe her sister was murdered in the armory room of the Texas base as officials claim.
Myra Guillen opened up on her heartbreak on losing her sister who went missing from the Killeen base on April 22 and whose dismembered remains were found three months later on June 30.
Guillen had vanished after telling her family she was sexually harassed at the base, however, officials have denied any connection between the claim and her death.
'Honestly, in my heart, I don’t believe that it happened in the arms room. I don’t feel like that’s the real story,' Myra said in a special called 'A Fort Hood Investigation with Nancy Grace' that will air on Fox Nation.
Vanessa Guillen's sister Myra Guillen says she doesn't believe her sister was murdered in the armory room of the Fort Hood Army base as officials claim. She said: 'Honestly, in my heart, I don’t believe that it happened in the arms room. I don’t feel like that’s the real story'
Vanessa Guillen, 20, went missing from Fort Hood on April 22 and her dismembered remains were found three months later on June 30
Myra says Vanessa’s boyfriend last tried to contact her at 11am and he got no reply, leading Myra and her family to suspect that Vanessa was dead by that time.
'It’s so, so sketchy because they say he clocked out at 11.40am. What makes me think he can do everything in 40 minutes from picking her up, cleaning up, and everything? There’s no way,' she added.
When Vanessa disappeared investigators said she left behind her car keys, room key, ID and wallet in the armory room - but Myra says that's unlike her sister and she would never leave those things behind.
A federal complaint released July 2 identified 20-year-old soldier Specialist Aaron Robinson as her killer.
Myra said she suspects Robinson knocked her sister was knocked unconscious then took her elsewhere to kill her.
'I believe she was taken unconscious. There’s no telling where he might have went or with who. I don’t know if it was just him and Aguilar or if there’s more people to this, which I strongly believe there is,' Myra said in the interview.
Host Grace responded: 'I see what you’re saying Myra. Because they’re in the armory room in broad daylight. Nobody saw anything? Nobody knew anything? Is it possible they were the only two at work? I don’t think so.'
'It’s so, so sketchy because they say he clocked out at 11.40am. What makes me think he can do everything in 40 minutes from picking her up, cleaning up, and everything? There’s no way,’ Myra said in a special called 'A Fort Hood Investigation with Nancy Grace' that will air on Fox Nation
A federal complaint released July 2 identified 20-year-old soldier Specialist Aaron Robinson as her killer. The complaint said he killed Guillen by hitting her in the head with a hammer and he enlisted the help of his girlfriend Cecily Aguilar to help dispose of her remains
Investigators who searched Guillen's phone said the last person she texted was Specialist Robinson.
The complaint, filed at the U.S. District Court Western District of Texas, said he killed her by striking her in the head with a hammer while on the base.
He then transferred her body off the base to a remote area where he enlisted the help of his girlfriend Cecily Aguilar, 22, of Killeen to dispose of her body, burying her body parts in several graves close to the Leon River about 25 miles from Fort Hood, according to the complaint.
He shot and killed himself as police honed in on him.
Aguilar was arrested and charged with conspiracy to tamper with evidence.
Family members say that Robinson had been sexually harassing Guillen and once watched her while she showered.
Robinson, a 20-year-old soldier from Calumet City, Illinois who was deployed to Iraq for seven months in 2018, was a specialist ranked above Guillen, a private first class, at the time.
However, Former Fort Hood senior commander Maj. Gen. Scott Efflandt, who has since been reassigned, said there was no connection between sexual harassment and her disappearance.
This year alone there have been 28 deaths at Fort Hood base in Killeen, Texas including five homicides and eight suicides
Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's mother Gloria Guillen, left, tears up as she meets with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on July 30 to discuss the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill to reform how military addresses sexual misconduct
'In our criminal investigation, we found no evidence of sexual harassment between Vanessa and Spc. Robinson…That was ruled out very early,' Maj. Gen. Donna Martin, who leads the Army’s Criminal Investigation Command, said in an ABC's 20/20 interview last month.
Today the harsh spotlight over Fort Hood has only intensified as a slew of soldiers have disappeared or died at the base, triggering multiple investigations into the command culture, the base's handling of deaths missing cases and sexual assault reports.
This year alone there have been 28 deaths at Fort Hood base in Killeen, Texas including five homicides and eight suicides.
'A total lack of transparency. A mountain of glaring evidence exposing undeniable negligence at America’s single largest military base,' Grace said.
In September, the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill was introduced in the House of Representatives that will change the way the Army handles reports of sexual harassment and abuse.
Timeline of Fort Hood disappearances/deaths
February 1, 2020: PVT Eric Christopher Hogan and PFC Anthony Nevelle Peak Jr. die in a car crash
March 1, 2020: SPC Shelby Tyler Jones is shot dead at a convenience store in Killeen
March 5, 2020: Spc. Christopher Wayne Sawyer found dead at his home. Foul play is not suspected.
March 14, 2020: SPC Freddy Beningo Delacruz Jr. is killed in a triple murder
March 23, 2020: Fort Hood soldier Spc. Jovino Jamel Roy, 22, was charged with murder after allegedly shooting former Fort Hood soldier Michael Steven Wardrobe, 22
April 22, 2020: Vanessa Guillen goes missing and is last seen in the parking lot of the base. She disappeared after telling her family she was being sexually harassed by a sergeant on the base.
May 18, 2020: Body of Army Pfc. Brandon S. Rosecrans, 27, was discovered with gunshot wounds and his Jeep was found three miles away engulfed in flames.
June 19, 2020: Search teams discover the corpse of missing soldier Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales following a tip to Army base investigators. Remains were found in a field in Killeen, just over 10 miles from Stillhouse Hollow Lake, five miles from Fort Hood.
July 1, 2020: First parts of Giullen's remains found about 20 miles east of Fort Hood.
Spc. Aaron Robinson, 20, kills himself. Officials say he killed and dismembered Guillén and had the remains disposed of.
July 2, 2020: Army Specialist Miguel Yazzie, 33, died on July 2; Yazzie, of Window Rock, Arizona, was hospitalized for a medical condition the day before he died.
July 17, 2020: Pvt. Mejhor Morta, 26, of Pensacola, Florida was found dead July 17 in the vicinity of Stillhouse Hollow Lake, around 15 miles from the Fort Hood base.
August 2, 2020: The body of Spc. Francisco Gilberto Hernandezvargas, 24, is recovered from Stillhouse Hollow Lake following boating incident not far from where Morta was found.
August 12, 2020: Spc. Cole Jakob Aton, 22, of Kentucky died after he was hit by a car as he was assisting a minor accident scene
August 13, 2020: National Guard soldier, Sgt Bradley Moore dies during a training exercise at the base
August 19, 2020: Sgt. Elder Fernandes, 23, is reported missing after he was last seen on August 17.
August 25, 2020: The body of Fernandes is believed to have been found about 30 miles from Fort Hood
August 28, 2020: Pvt. Corlton L. Chee, 25, collapsed during fitness training at Fort Hood on August 28. He died two days later.