Suspect in Vanessa Guillen case pleads guilty to multiple federal charges

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WACO, Texas — A woman accused of helping Fort Hood soldier Vanessa Guillen's suspected killer dismember and dispose of her body pleaded guilty to multiple federal charges on Tuesday, weeks before her trial was scheduled to start.

Cecily Aguilar, 24, was indicted last year on 11 federal charges. She pleaded guilty to four of them in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in Waco -- one count of accessory to murder after the fact and three counts of false statement or representation.

"Still a lot of mixed emotions -- it's both anger and frustration," she told reporters following the hearing."Now we have to wait for the actual sentencing." Aguilar was indicted by a grand jury on the charges a month after a Texas judge denied her attorneys' motion asking that her confession in the crime be thrown out. She previously entered a plea of not guilty during an arraignment in August 2021. A jury trial in the case had been scheduled to start in January 2023.

Prosecutors said Vanessa Guillen was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by Robinson in the armory of the Killeen, Texas, military base, on April 22, 2020, according to the criminal complaint.

 

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