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On June 19, 2020, almost two months after Vanessa Guillen's disappearance,

TV viewers around Texas hear some startling news.

We have some breaking news.

Fort Hood Criminal Investigation Division have found skeletal remains in a field in Kaleen. Human remains in a field not five miles from where Vanessa was last seen alive. Vanessa's

sister Myra Guyanne's phone rings. It's someone from Fort Hood.

They called me and they said we found a human remains.

Those remains, they were badly decomposed. It appeared they'd been out in that field for a while,

longer than the roughly two months Vanessa had been missing.

The Army investigator told Myra it likely wasn't her little sister.

As it turned out, the remains belonged to another Fort Hood soldier, one who had also gone missing.

The soldier was Army Private Gregory Morales, who had gone missing in 2019,

eight months before Vanessa.

When he disappeared, the Army listed him as AWOL.

But now, authorities believe something quite different happened.

An examination of Gregory's remains leads them to suspect foul play.

Private Morales was discovered while the army was searching for Vanessa,

and their stories contain unmistakable echoes of one another.

Two young soldiers who chose to serve their countries,

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