Officials and family members now suspect foul play in the disappearance of Pfc. Vanessa Guillen, who went missing on April 22. She was last seen in the parking lot of her Regimental Engineer Squadron Headquarters at
Fort Hood, Texas.
Texas Rep. Sylvia Garcia and the Guillen family held a press conference Tuesday after meeting with Fort Hood leadership to discuss her whereabouts and how the 20-year-old soldier went missing.
"They now have used the words foul play," Garcia said Tuesday. "They are convinced now there's foul play involved and they are following all the leads that they can."
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"I still don't understand why it had to take a little more than six weeks for them to start taking action because we started since day one," Mayra Guillen, Vanessa's older sister, said Tuesday.
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Vanessa's mother, Gloria Guillen, echoed that sentiment.
"If my daughter appears dead, close this base immediately," she said, according to a translation by ABC affiliate
KXXV. "I want her alive, for the love of God. I need my daughter with me. She is my life. That's why I'm fighting until they bring her back and the people who are responsible pay."
"Investigate from the top to the bottom, everyone is responsible."
The U.S. Army's Criminal Investigation Command also told ABC station KTRK Tuesday that foul play is suspected.
"As we have stated from the day we opened a very extensive investigation on 23 April, we have not ruled anything in or out and are looking at all possibilities," Chris Grey, Chief of Public Affairs, USA Criminal Investigation Command, told KTRK. "At this point, and after the results of investigative information that has been developed in the last few days, we suspect foul play in the disappearance of PFC Vanessa Guillen."
There is a $50,000 reward for information on her whereabouts.
Anyone with information can contact Army CID Special Agents at 254-495-7767 or the Military Police Desk at 254-287-4001.