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Soldier admits killing couple

Associated Press

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A woman accused of killing two fellow soldiers and abducting their baby pleaded guilty Monday to murder and kidnapping charges to avoid a possible death penalty, an Army spokeswoman said.

Ivette G. Davila faces life in prison, but her court martial judge, Col. Stephen Henley, will decide whether her sentence will include the possibility of parole.

Henley accepted Davila’s guilty pleas to two counts of premeditated murder and one count of kidnapping, said Joint Base Lewis-McChord spokeswoman Catherine Caruso.

Davila is accused in the March 2008 shootings of Staff Sgt. Timothy Miller and Sgt. Randi Miller in the couple’s Parkland home. Davila, 24, of Bakersfield, Calif., poured muriatic acid over the bodies in a bathtub and took the couple’s baby girl unharmed, officials said.