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Remembering Vanessa Guillen one year later 20-year-old Army specialist Vanessa Guillen was murdered at Fort Hood in April 2020 Tags:  Vanessa Guillen FORT HOOD, Texas – Thursday marks the one year anniversary since 20-year-old Army specialist Vanessa Guillen was murdered on April 22, 2020. Guillen’s disappearance became the focus of a nationwide search before her remains were found in a concrete-like substance buried along the Leon River. She was last seen in the parking lot of her barracks at the Fort Hood Army post the day she was killed. It wasn’t until June 30, more than two months...

Today marks one year since former Fort Hood soldier, Spc. Vanessa Guillen, was last seen alive. On April 24, 2020, Fort Hood officials sent the initial news release of her disappearance, saying that she had last been seen around 1 p.m. April 22, 2020. In the following days, weeks and months, details surrounding her disappearance, and subsequent grisly end, began to surface. During a press conference on June 23, 2020, following a meeting with Fort Hood officials, U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston, said that Fort Hood officials told Guillen’s family that a supervisor who was conducting ba...

April 22 marks the one-year anniversary of the disappearance of Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen from Fort Hood.

With the anniversary of Spc. Vanessa Guillen's death just two days away, the slain Fort Hood soldier's two sisters traveled Tuesday to Austin to continue fighting for laws meant to protect members of the military from sexual abuse.   Speaking from inside the Capitol, Lupe Guillen, a 17-year-old Houston native and the youngest of the three Guillen sisters, said that instead of mourning her sister Vanessa privately, she wants to continue being outspoken during this heartbreaking week to help prevent other families from feeling the same pain. The Guillen family has alleged that the 20...

FacebookTwitterEmail Gloria Guillén, seated, is comforted Tuesday, June 23, 2020 in Killeen by her daughter Lupe Guillén after she spoke at the Fort Hood main gate about her then-missing daughter, Fort Hood soldier Pfc. Vanessa Guillén.William Luther/Staff Days shy of the one-year anniversary of Vanessa Guillén’s death, Fort Hood is honoring the former soldier and murder victim in a new way. On Monday, April 19, officials at the Army base dedicated a gate renamed in Guillén’s memory, according to an Express-News report. Previously named the Access Control Point 2 Alpha, the gate lea...