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[woman] Vanessa's always been,
I think, the bravest of all of us.

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She had a lot of courage.

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The advice she used to give me was,
"If you want something, go for it."

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Right now, even with what's happening
to Vanessa, I'm not going to give up.

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[reporter 1]
Private First Class Vanessa Guillén

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was reported missing
from Fort Hood on April 22nd.

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[man] This had my attention
from the very beginning.

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There was something odd about it.

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We want to bring Vanessa home
as efficiently and as rapidly as possible.

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[woman 1] She's a soldier at
a federal base, which it's supposed to be

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one of the safest places to be in,
and apparently, it's not.

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[woman 2] All these things that
you'd never think can happen in America

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was happening at this base.

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They're gonna railroad this family.

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[woman 3] I want Fort Hood to be shut down

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and to investigate
every single one of them!

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[reporter 2] Her case is
grabbing headlines across the nation.

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People want to know,
where is Vanessa Guillén?

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[woman 4] The Hispanic culture
is a sleeping giant.

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And I feel like the Guillén family
just, like, woke it up.

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[crowd chanting indistinctly]

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-[woman 5] What do we want?
-[crowd] Justice!

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-[woman 5] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

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[music ends]

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[woman in Spanish]
My daughter was a miracle.

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God left her with me,
and she had a purpose.

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When she was ten, she told me,
"Mom, when I grow up, I'll join the Army."

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I said, "No, mija, that's not for women."

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She said, "Don't be so dramatic, Mom!
One day, I'll have to leave."

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"I know I'm gonna make it there."

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I thought it was a child thing,
and she would forget.

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And then when she was turning 18,
she told me in the bedroom,

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"Mom, remember
when I said I'd either join the Army

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or become an astronaut?"

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Two things, be an astronaut
and go to the moon, or go to the Army.

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I said, "You'd better go to the moon."

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"Go to the moon, daughter."

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When she turned 18, she came home
and said, "I already enlisted."

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[instructor in English] Go! Go! Go! Go!

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[woman] Vanessa did her boot camp
at Fort Jackson.

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-[instructor] One, two, three.
-[all] One!

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[instructor] One, two, three…

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[woman] They had a super strict schedule.

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She was like, "It's hard."

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And I was like, "I bet."

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But she was very proud.

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She would write letters.

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"I love it here,
the environment, everything."

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"I'm the fastest female.
I can tell you that."

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"I shot 31 out of 40 shots with my M4."

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I was like, "There you go."

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[crowd applauds]

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I went to her graduation.

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PRECIOUS SISTER

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She was literally glowing.

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[woman laughs]

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That's when she tells me,
"I'll be stationed at Fort Hood.

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I was happy to know
that she was gonna be close to home,

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and she wasn't gonna be stationed
in some other state or far, far away.

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[man] What do we have here?

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[laughs] Ay ay!

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Stop doing that.

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[man] Me and Vanessa were good friends.

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We worked together.

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So every day at work,
we'll, like, see each other.

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She was a firearms repairer,
basically, a weapons mechanic.

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[gun cocking]

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[people laugh]

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[woman]
She used to come home every weekend.

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And then

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everything changed.

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[somber music plays]

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April 22nd of 2020 was Vanessa's day off.

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The Army took this initiative
to not bring anyone to work

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because that's when COVID
started to spark.

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But Vanessa received a message
saying that she had to come in.

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[door opens]

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[door closes]

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I wish to never go back to that day.

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I remember Mayra coming home from work,

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and she tells me,

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"I think something is going on
with Vanessa

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because she's not answering her calls."

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[engine stops]

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Her fiancée, Juan, said the same thing.

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[man in Spanish] I was working,

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and at lunchtime, I sent her a text.

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I thought she was still working.

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But it seemed like a long time.

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[messages popping]

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The messages didn't say "delivered."

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That's when I asked Mayra,
"Have you talked to Vanessa?"

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[Mayra in English]
Juan said, "I'm worried."

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I was like, "I don't know
how to tell my parents this."

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[in Spanish] Mayra said, "Mom, come."
"What is it, baby?"

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"Don't you notice anything strange?"

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"Vanessa doesn't answer
the text messages."

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I texted her, and no answer.
I said, "How come?"

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I said, "Talk to the base
and tell them to get her on the phone."

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"Right now!"

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[Mayra in English]
I called the staff sergeant.

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"What's going on? I've been trying
to reach my sister all day,

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and she doesn't answer the phone."
And he's like, "Oh."

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"No one has seen her since lunchtime.
We don't know anything about her."

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We were supposed to go hiking that day,
like, whenever she got off of work.

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[phone chimes]

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She texted me that morning.
The weather said it was gonna rain.

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-I told her that it's not raining.
-[phone chimes]

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She didn't reply to that.

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A lot of hours went by.

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I was like, "Uh, this isn't normal."

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So me and Landy went to the Arms Room.

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She left her car keys,
driver's license, and her wallet.

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It was, like, just something…
Vanessa wouldn't leave that around.

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"You guys don't have cameras, nothing?"
And they were like, "No."

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That's when I was like,

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"I'm not gonna be able to get
anything done over the phone."

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I was like, "I'm leaving."

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[car engine starts]

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I call Juan, and I'm like,
"I'm gonna go look for her."

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And he was like, "Okay, pick me up."

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[tense music plays]

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Never in my life had I been scared
of something or someone

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as much as that night.

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[blinker clicking]

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It just felt like something
really bad had happened.

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-[siren wailing]
-[messages popping]

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When I get there,
it's like three in the morning.

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I called the staff sergeant,
and no answer.

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So I go get a hotel room.

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[dog howling]

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[Lupe] I didn't go to sleep
the whole night.

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I was just texting Mayra,
"What's going on?"

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I felt helpless.

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[tense music continues]

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[helicopter blades whirring]

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[Mayra] The next morning, I go into
the base, and things didn't feel right.

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-[martial music plays]
-I walk into the barracks,

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and the first sergeant
gets off some truck.

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He said, "What's going on?"
I was like, "You tell me what's going on."

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"It's about to be 24 hours."

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[truck engine revving]

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They weren't really open
with me about who last saw her,

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and everything was really shady.

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I try to keep my mom calm.

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I could see she was very anxious.

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[tense music plays]

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[car honks]

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[Gloria in Spanish]
I said, "For God's sake, let's go."

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"These animals won't look for my child.
I have to look for my daughter myself."

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[train rails rattling]

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[train horn blaring]

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The second I arrived at Killeen,

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do you know what I said?

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"Here smells like death."

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"Smells like death. This town is death."

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[bird chirping]

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[Mayra in English] Eventually,
my parents had to come to Killeen,

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and they were scared
because there was no sign of Vanessa,

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and they couldn't go into the base
because… their immigration status.

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[Gloria in Spanish] I was born on
a little ranch called Tierra Blanca,

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Rio Grande, Zacatecas in Mexico.

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We were all together,
and it was a different time, a lot of joy,

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going outside to play,
helping my dad in nature.

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He used to call me "my goat."

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That's what he called me
because I was very thin.

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"My little goat, come here."

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Little goat but strong.

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My husband, since he was a child,
they put him to work here

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to earn his money on his own.

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When I got married,
that's when I came here.

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So we made a life here, here in Houston.

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I dedicated myself to our home.

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My little Vanessa,

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she was always a fighter
and always for her dreams.

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She was special.

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She absolutely loved soccer.

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It was her passion.

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[woman speaks Spanish]

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[in English] Vanessa and I
met in high school, at the soccer field.

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[women yell indistinctly]

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We shared the same passion,
and even though I was a beginner,

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the same love for the sports
was still there.

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[somber music plays]

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She was always very determined,
especially testing herself physically.

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Even if it was a tough practice,

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you would see her
in the weightlifting area.

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I'd pass by, and I'd be like,
"What are you doing in here?"

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"It's time to go." She's like,
"You wanna learn how to lift?"

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"You'll like this." I'm like, "Yeah,
maybe some other time." [chuckles]

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She was very focused on school too.

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She was not at the lunch table
chatting with her friends.

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She would be doing her work
with her earphones.

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But of course, you know, with us,
whenever we would hang out after that,

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she was very talkative and very girly.

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Because, usually, you see the girly side
or the athletic side. She was both.

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[Juan in Spanish] The day that I met
Vanessa was at a quinceañera party.

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In 2014, I think.

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Vanessa was very brave.

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She wasn't afraid of anyone.

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I liked to make her laugh.
She always laughed.

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She was very nice. She was lovely.

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[Frida in English]
When we were starting to talk about

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where you want to go to college,

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she was like, "I'm going to the Army,

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getting a scholarship,
and going from there."

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At first, for any, like, I'd say Hispanic,
not necessarily Mexican, family,

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it's like, "You're going to the Army.
You're a girl. That's not gonna happen."

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But for her, it was more like, uh,
something she genuinely wanted to do.

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[Lupe] I was proud of her.

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That's a big step to take,
joining, you know, military service,

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but my mom was
the one being worried all the time.

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She used to say
that it's a pretty rough place.

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And she was the first one to notice
that something was wrong with Vanessa

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the few months
after she was stationed at Fort Hood.

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[Mayra] She started
not being able to sleep.

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She started losing weight.

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She would tell me that the Army was BS

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and that things weren't what they seemed.

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[melancholic music plays]

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[Gloria in Spanish] One day,

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she said, "Mommy,
I'm having a hard time at the base."

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I said, "For what reason?"

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"I feel in my heart
that you are hiding something from me."

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Because she'd told me
there had been sexual harassment

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towards young women, young men,
no matter what gender.

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She said, "It's true, Mom.
People are being sexually assaulted."

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"You told me in December
that girls were being harassed

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but not you."

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She said, "Mommy,
I lied to you. I have been harassed."

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"By a superior,

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by a sergeant."

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Over at Fort Hood,
it's a mafia that exists there.

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It's a mafia. It's nothing more
than a place of corruption and evil.

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[tense music plays]

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[reporter 1 in English] The Fort Hood
military base in Killeen, Texas,

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-is now under intense scrutiny.
-[whistle blows]

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[reporter 2] Calls to investigate
the Army installation are growing louder.

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[shot fires]

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[woman] Fort Hood is a very vast base.

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It's one of the largest posts
that the United States has.

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-It's like its own world.
-[blades whirring]

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Different bases have
different reputations.

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Fort Hood is not one
that has a very good reputation.

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[men chanting]

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[man] Fort Hood has one
of the highest sexual assault rates

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of any base in the American military.

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They've had two mass shootings.

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[reporter 1]
A soldier with mental problems

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shot dead three colleagues and wounded 16.

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[reporter 2] It's the second deadly attack
by a Fort Hood soldier

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in the last five years.

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[man] There was a sexual assault advocate

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who was serving as a pimp
prostituting out his soldiers.

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First Class Gregory McQueen

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is accused of luring female soldiers
with money problems

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into having sex
with other soldiers for cash.

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[Don] A lot of bad there.

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[reporter 1] Two Fort Hood soldiers are
accused of trying to smuggle immigrants

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through a Border Patrol checkpoint.

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[Don] A lot of missing soldiers,
a lot of dead soldiers.

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[reporter 2] Twenty-eight soldiers
stationed at the US Army base

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have died this year.

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Fort Hood just seems
to cultivate the worst of the worst

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when it comes to command culture,

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to that good ol' boys type of club.

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[woman 1] They call it "the Great Place,"
but at the end of the day,

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this place is definitely a black hole.

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[keyboard clattering]

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[woman 2] A few weeks
after the pandemic started,

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my editor asked me
to look into a press release

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that we received from Fort Hood
about Vanessa's disappearance.

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I remember that I went on to Facebook,

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and I started searching
for family or friends.

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And I immediately found Mayra Guillén.

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And we got on the phone,

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and she described
this really powerful scene.

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[helicopter blades whirring]

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She was sitting alone
in a hotel room in Killeen

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and hearing helicopters flying overhead,

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hoping that
they were searching for her sister.

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She wanted answers
and asked me to contact Fort Hood

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to see if I could find anything out
that she didn't already know.

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My interaction
with the military police was

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a joke, literally.

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The first sergeant told me,
"Do you want to go into her room

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and see if anything's missing?"

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And I thought about it,
and I was just like,

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"If it were to be part,
God forbid, of an investigation,

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he shouldn't be letting me in."
But I guess my curiosity won,

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and I was like, "Yeah, take me."

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And I was like, "Where's her keys?
Where's her CAC card?"

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And then he had them in his pocket,
and I was just like so confused.

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I was like,
"This should have been all turned in."

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If this is the police
I'm supposed to trust

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to look for my sister,
I was like, "Game over."

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[somber music plays]

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[Heather] The US Army's
Criminal Investigation Division, CID,

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was one of the main investigation units

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to handle Specialist
Vanessa Guillén's disappearance.

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At the time,
the people who were assigned to CID

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only had about three years of experience,
and they had no expert oversight.

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They were also severely understaffed,

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overwhelmed with so many other cases
on top of that.

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And so, it was all of those factors
coming together at once

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that really hindered the investigation.

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[Mayra] That same day, they were like,
"We have to go do a police report."

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And we go to the station.

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They start calling in anyone
that might have last seen her

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or anyone that she interacted with
the day and the previous day.

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They stand there and stare at each one
of them. I tried to memorize their faces.

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One guy,

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he literally looked at me and laughed,

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and then he left.

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And I told Juan, I was like,
"Did you see that?" And he's like, "Yeah."

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I started questioning myself,
I was like, "Who is he?"

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I learned that this was Robinson.

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The day Guillén disappeared,
we were trying to figure out

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who was the last person with her,
and someone says, "Robinson."

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He was an armorer,
and she was an arms mechanic.

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We got somebody that had
Robinson's number, and we called him.

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[Tay] He was like,
"I sent her to the motor pool."

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I said, "Did she say anything
when she was leaving?" He said, "No."

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And then he hung up.

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So I gave CID Robinson's phone number,

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and they were just like,
"Yeah, we're going to look into it."

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[birds chirping]

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My sister wakes me up, and she's like,
"Frida, have you seen Vanessa's missing?"

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I was like, "What? What do you mean?"
And she's like, "Go on Mayra's Twitter."

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I was shocked. Like, she's in the Army.
She's supposed to be safe there.

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Hello, everyone.

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This video was made to spread awareness
on Vanessa's disappearance…

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We started posting on social media.

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At first, I started posting
on my accounts.

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And then I started making a Facebook page.

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I named it "Find Vanessa Guillén."

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The people in my hometown,
who knew Vanessa,

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started sharing the Facebook page as well.

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Help us find Vanessa. We need her home.

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Vanessa Guillén,
we need you back home with us.

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Please, help her family find her.
Please, every share counts.

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It has been seven days since Vanessa
was last seen here on Fort Hood.

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[Mayra] It felt like it's been forever.

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It actually feels like
so much longer than a week.

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[Heather] I would reach out to Fort Hood
every few days asking for updates,

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and they would always send me back
to the press releases.

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So it was really, really hard
to get information.

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They also really failed to inform
the family about search efforts.

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[Lupe] Because of the frustration
of not having answers,

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we decided, if no one wants to talk to us,
we are going to talk to them.

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[crowd chants] We want answers!

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[Lupe] We started protesting
the first week of May

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in front of Fort Hood.

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[crowd chants] Where is Vanessa?

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[Lupe] We called out people,
like, from social media.

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"Come over here.
Bring posters, bring pictures

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and demand for her to be found."

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[crowd chants] We want Vanessa!
We want Vanessa!

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[Frida] Each Friday,
we'd have more people.

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We would make, like, banners.

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And I'd stand out there
with my phone recording,

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"We're outside of Killeen."

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"Our friend's been missing
for a week, two weeks now."

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"She was supposed to be in this base."

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-[in Spanish] What do we want?
-[crowd] Vanessa!

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-[Lupe] When do we want her?
-[crowd] Now!

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[Lupe in English] Looking
at that quote saying "the Great Place,"

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it made me so frustrated.

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I want justice, and I want answers.

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You have all the technology.
You have all the materials.

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But you can't find my sister?

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[Frida] Seeing Lupe during those protests
was very heartbreaking,

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but that was something
that I think was also important

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for the media and for people to see,
like, this is actually happening,

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a 16-year-old's out here
crying for her sister,

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and it seems like
we're not getting any help yet.

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[Lupe] Where's my sister?

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They know where she is,
and I want them to speak up.

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[crowd chants] We need answers!

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[tense music plays]

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[Gloria in Spanish] It's been four weeks.
Let's keep going until I have my daughter.

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[in English] There was a new push to find
the missing Fort Hood soldier…

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Vanessa Guillén was last seen at Fort…

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[reporter] Communication with officials
on Fort Hood has been limited.

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[Mayra] We made sure Fort Hood saw
what we were doing

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and that we weren't gonna back down.

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[crowd in Spanish] We want Vanessa!

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[man in English] We want answers!

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[birds chirping]

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[Mayra] I really didn't know what

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I was entitled to ask
as far as legal questions

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and what information
they could give me and they couldn't.

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I needed someone that was gonna be honest

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and knew the system.

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So I started searching
for military lawyers.

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[phone line rings]

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Eventually, someone messaged me,
"I know someone."

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[woman] Mayra called me, and she said,

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"I understand you are
the right person to do this.

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"You have a lot of background in this."
I said, "Yes."

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"I have military clients
at bases all over,

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not just the country, the world."

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"I have experience
dealing with the military."

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"I know the language that they speak."

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"I would be more than honored
to help you guys."

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[Mayra] As I was talking with her,
I felt this connection instantly.

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She was like, "It'll be, like, pro bono,
and we'll see where things take us."

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She was able to get things moving.

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Of course our most important thing
was to find Vanessa.

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I saw that the military
did not give a damn.

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They're gonna railroad this family.

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That's when I said,
"We need to do our own investigation."

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[talks indistinctly]

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I started reaching out to all the people
I knew that could get me information.

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This was gonna be a full-on effort.

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[Mayra] Because we weren't getting
answers from Fort Hood,

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we reached out to EquuSearch,
an organization that dedicate themselves

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to help find missing people.

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And they were able to help us.

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[reporter] Texas EquuSearch has searched
several areas around Fort Hood,

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looking for anything
that might lead to Vanessa.

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[Mayra] The Army was hesitant
about letting them join the search,

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but since they were
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they had no other option.

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Just hoping
the right person sees the flyer

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and says, "I need to make a phone call."

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[engine revving]

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[Natalie] When I talked to Tim, he's like,

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"They don't like me.
They don't wanna tell me information."

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I'm like, "They don't like anyone
that's gonna figure this out."

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[melancholic music plays]

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[Lupe] I was like, "We're going
to find her no matter what."

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No matter how long it takes,

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I just want my sister.

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[Gloria in Spanish]
I looked for my daughter everywhere,

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like a weeping woman in a sea of tears.

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In the ditches…

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-[train horn blaring]
-…the railroads.

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With my rosary praying,
"I'm gonna find her."

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"I swear. I'm gonna find her."

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She wasn't swallowed up by the earth.

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I'm going to find her.

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[Mayra in English]
No higher-up from the base had reached out

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until word started getting out.

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I was just like, "Wow, two months later,
you wanna say something?"

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On 22 April, Vanessa Guillén,
PFC in the 3rd Cavalry Regiment,

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was at her place of duty,
and around noon is the last time

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anyone has seen her.

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Somebody, some person out there,
has the piece of information we need

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to bring Vanessa home.

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We need to bring
Vanessa back to her Army family.

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[helicopter blades whirring]

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[reporter 1] An extensive search
is now underway by military members,

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as well as military police.

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[reporter 2]
The Army's Criminal Investigation Command

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is leading the investigation.

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[Gloria in Spanish] The detectives
of Fort Hood had me going crazy.

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I had no patience.

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I cried every night and had no sleep.

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Not sleeping, and crying.
I'm gonna find my daughter.

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[Mayra in English] My mom thought
it was very important

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to point out the sexual harassment,

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but basically, they ignored it.

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I asked myself one night
that I couldn't sleep, like,

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"Should I post this or not?"

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I mean, it is the military,
and I was just like,

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"I mean, what if they-- I get in trouble?"

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I decide to post it.

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[tense music plays]

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00:26:53,236 --> 00:26:57,616
Lupe mentioned to me one day,
"Have you seen on Twitter the hashtag?"

474
00:26:58,366 --> 00:27:01,119
Then she starts showing me
all these stories.

475
00:27:01,703 --> 00:27:05,081
People using my sister
as a resemblance of themselves

476
00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:07,459
on Facebook and Instagram, everywhere.

477
00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:13,256
[survivor 1] This officer arrived
at my home, and I was violently raped.

478
00:27:14,007 --> 00:27:16,593
[survivor 2] This leader of mine took me
under his wing.

479
00:27:16,676 --> 00:27:19,095
He groomed me so that he could abuse me.

480
00:27:19,929 --> 00:27:23,183
[survivor 3] It's so much more
than a physical assault.

481
00:27:24,059 --> 00:27:29,731
If I couldn't stop that from happening,
how do I ever protect myself again?

482
00:27:31,107 --> 00:27:35,528
[Lucy] I remember that hashtag coming out
and watching everybody explode.

483
00:27:36,529 --> 00:27:40,033
I changed my profile picture
on social media.

484
00:27:41,242 --> 00:27:46,915
I made it a picture of Vanessa,
and I wrote #IAmVanessaGuillén.

485
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:55,340
I remember saying,
"My God, she is us. This is us."

486
00:27:58,134 --> 00:28:02,639
I was assaulted in '92. Vanessa was 2020.

487
00:28:02,722 --> 00:28:06,017
As we're talking right now,
someone is getting assaulted.

488
00:28:06,101 --> 00:28:08,103
Someone is getting
harassed in the military.

489
00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:09,729
-[man] What do we want?
-[crowd] Justice!

490
00:28:09,813 --> 00:28:11,731
-[man] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

491
00:28:11,815 --> 00:28:16,027
[man] We need everybody to tell
the Guillén family they are not alone!

492
00:28:16,736 --> 00:28:19,739
[Lupe] Seeing people coming
from all over the places

493
00:28:20,615 --> 00:28:24,703
made us have that piece of hope.
It kept growing and growing.

494
00:28:25,912 --> 00:28:28,206
-In Houston.
-[man] I say no justice!

495
00:28:28,289 --> 00:28:31,209
-[Lupe] Austin, San Antonio.
-[man] We say no justice!

496
00:28:32,419 --> 00:28:33,336
[Lupe] California.

497
00:28:34,379 --> 00:28:38,800
There are so many murals in Mexico
where my parents, you know, were born.

498
00:28:40,218 --> 00:28:42,804
[Heather]
In places like Egypt, there were posters

499
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:44,723
saying, "I am Vanessa Guillén,"

500
00:28:44,806 --> 00:28:47,642
and at military installations
across the globe,

501
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:50,061
who were all rallying behind the family.

502
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:58,445
[reporter 1] We're about to bring you
a press conference live from Fort Hood

503
00:28:58,528 --> 00:29:02,365
about the disappearance
of Vanessa Guillén. Let's take a listen.

504
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:08,121
[reporter 2] This case has stirred up
a lot of questions about sexual assault

505
00:29:08,204 --> 00:29:11,541
and the way that Fort Hood
is handling those kinds of cases.

506
00:29:11,624 --> 00:29:13,877
What do you have to say
to the public about that?

507
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,004
Each allegation of sexual assault

508
00:29:16,087 --> 00:29:18,965
or sexual harassment
is fully investigated,

509
00:29:19,048 --> 00:29:21,426
regardless of the source
or what it's related to,

510
00:29:21,509 --> 00:29:25,430
whether it's tied to
Specialist Guillén's disappearance or not.

511
00:29:25,513 --> 00:29:28,850
We take those allegations,
and all allegations, seriously.

512
00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:31,352
We're gonna pursue them
to our fullest extent.

513
00:29:31,436 --> 00:29:32,645
It's not acceptable.

514
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:37,901
[CJ] There was more than one individual
making Vanessa feel uncomfortable at work.

515
00:29:39,027 --> 00:29:41,571
They both said
inappropriate things to her,

516
00:29:41,654 --> 00:29:46,075
and both of those individuals
were in charge of us.

517
00:29:48,119 --> 00:29:50,747
She didn't feel comfortable
coming forward.

518
00:29:50,830 --> 00:29:56,336
She didn't really think
any action was going to be taken.

519
00:29:57,879 --> 00:30:01,674
Good afternoon.
There has been no information,

520
00:30:01,758 --> 00:30:04,135
and we've interviewed hundreds of people

521
00:30:04,219 --> 00:30:08,348
to include all acquaintances
and coworkers of Miss Guillén.

522
00:30:08,431 --> 00:30:12,644
So there's no allegation whatsoever
that she's been sexually assaulted

523
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:17,941
or harassed, and any hint of information
that was sexual harassment

524
00:30:18,024 --> 00:30:21,277
was completely looked at
without any credible information.

525
00:30:23,196 --> 00:30:25,448
[Natalie] This press conference
boiled my blood.

526
00:30:25,990 --> 00:30:28,117
They were basically saying that she lied.

527
00:30:30,328 --> 00:30:33,915
How dare you come on national TV
and say she was not sexually harassed?

528
00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:35,166
That's some gall.

529
00:30:38,545 --> 00:30:42,090
They knew a lot more at the time
than they were letting us know.

530
00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:46,135
This morning, we went in
with a lot of questions.

531
00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:50,139
We got some answers,
but we still have a lot of questions.

532
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:56,354
They have now, uh,
used the words "foul play."

533
00:30:57,730 --> 00:31:00,483
And they're following
all the leads that they can.

534
00:31:01,276 --> 00:31:05,697
[Natalie] They won't tell us
who they're investigating or why.

535
00:31:05,780 --> 00:31:10,326
We want to know what happened,
and who is a cover-up for who,

536
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,036
and why they're covering up.

537
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:16,833
[Mayra] That day was very intense.

538
00:31:18,626 --> 00:31:21,462
I know my mom didn't want to go that day.

539
00:31:22,755 --> 00:31:25,842
She was very emotionally not well.

540
00:31:25,925 --> 00:31:29,721
[camera shutter clicks]

541
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,140
Uh…

542
00:31:32,223 --> 00:31:34,767
[in Spanish]
First of all, I want to thank God

543
00:31:34,851 --> 00:31:37,145
for getting me out of bed to come here.

544
00:31:37,645 --> 00:31:40,773
Because it took them too long
to look for my daughter.

545
00:31:40,857 --> 00:31:44,611
I begged them from the beginning
to look for my daughter.

546
00:31:44,694 --> 00:31:46,154
They never did it.

547
00:31:46,237 --> 00:31:50,491
Why until now are they making this show
of searching for my daughter? Why now?

548
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:54,370
I demand justice and respect
for me and my daughter,

549
00:31:54,454 --> 00:32:00,543
a soldier that enlists in the military
to serve her country and all of us.

550
00:32:00,627 --> 00:32:06,841
Because God forbid she is found dead,
I will shut down this base!

551
00:32:08,718 --> 00:32:11,137
[in Spanish] We will continue on.

552
00:32:16,684 --> 00:32:19,604
[Mayra in English] A couple days later,
it was my birthday.

553
00:32:22,357 --> 00:32:26,069
My aunt said, "Have you checked
your phone?" And I'm like, "No."

554
00:32:27,695 --> 00:32:30,198
She said, "There's something on the news."

555
00:32:31,866 --> 00:32:35,662
[reporter] There were human remains
found here this morning around 11:30.

556
00:32:35,745 --> 00:32:40,541
Bell County Sheriff's Department alerted
the FBI, alerted Army CID who came out…

557
00:32:40,625 --> 00:32:46,297
[Mayra] I get a call from Tim Miller,
the founder of Texas EquuSearch.

558
00:32:48,091 --> 00:32:52,595
He was just… very straightforward,

559
00:32:53,179 --> 00:32:58,101
and he described
certain things that I can't say.

560
00:32:58,184 --> 00:33:01,104
I just can't say them.
They won't come out, and, um…

561
00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:07,443
my aunt hears, like, my cry,
and she comes, and she's like,

562
00:33:07,527 --> 00:33:09,696
"You can't let your mom see you." And…

563
00:33:10,655 --> 00:33:12,991
I had to fix myself in, like, two minutes.

564
00:33:14,158 --> 00:33:17,328
So… I had to hold everything in.

565
00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:22,583
[inhales deeply]

566
00:33:29,674 --> 00:33:33,928
Before the officer came, I told my mom.

567
00:33:35,763 --> 00:33:38,224
[Gloria in Spanish]
She said, "Mommy, let's talk."

568
00:33:40,476 --> 00:33:44,313
And I said, "They found something,
right?" She said, "Yes, they did."

569
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:48,943
I asked, "What did they find?"
She replied, "Mom, you be strong, please."

570
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,113
"Yes, I'll be strong."
"Mom, I don't know how to tell you this."

571
00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:57,535
"Tell me, daughter. I'm strong. Tell me."
She said, "It was our girl."

572
00:33:57,618 --> 00:34:00,872
I said, "What do you mean, our girl?
Did they find her?"

573
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:03,124
"Yes, Mommy."

574
00:34:04,542 --> 00:34:06,627
"But not the way you wanted."

575
00:34:07,253 --> 00:34:08,087
"Keep going."

576
00:34:08,171 --> 00:34:10,381
She said, "She was murdered."

577
00:34:12,717 --> 00:34:13,843
"No, forget it."

578
00:34:16,137 --> 00:34:19,640
I went crazy at that moment.

579
00:34:20,433 --> 00:34:23,478
I went crazy because of the pain.

580
00:34:24,187 --> 00:34:29,650
I said, "No, it's not our girl."
She said, "Mommy, it's our girl."

581
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:46,626
"Am I going to see her, to hug her,
to caress her beautiful, virginal face?"

582
00:34:48,711 --> 00:34:51,005
"Yes, Mommy, but you have to wait."

583
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,885
"Take the tranquilizer. Go to sleep."

584
00:34:56,677 --> 00:34:59,931
"You have to be well for the child,
for her burial and all that."

585
00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:02,767
[somber music plays]

586
00:35:04,310 --> 00:35:07,063
"But why did they do
that to my daughter? Why?"

587
00:35:08,439 --> 00:35:09,690
"We don't know, Mom."

588
00:35:13,486 --> 00:35:15,446
"Tell me it's a nightmare, daughter."

589
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:18,783
"No, Mommy."

590
00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:22,161
"It's our little Vanessa."

591
00:35:29,961 --> 00:35:31,963
[bells tolling]

592
00:35:48,479 --> 00:35:50,106
[in Spanish] Long live Vanessa Guillen!

593
00:35:50,189 --> 00:35:52,275
-[crowd in Spanish] Long live!
-[applauding]

594
00:35:57,196 --> 00:35:59,490
[somber music ends]

595
00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:18,467
[tense music plays]

596
00:36:38,154 --> 00:36:40,531
[Mayra in English]
The area where Vanessa was found,

597
00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:41,908
something was burnt.

598
00:36:43,242 --> 00:36:45,745
They found, like, pieces of plastic.

599
00:36:47,371 --> 00:36:48,623
[wind chime tinkling]

600
00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:52,376
That day we talked
to someone on behalf of the Army.

601
00:36:54,962 --> 00:36:57,340
Basically, they threw everything at us,

602
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:00,051
like, the whole investigation

603
00:37:01,010 --> 00:37:03,095
without sympathy or anything.

604
00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,226
Then it came out on the news.

605
00:37:08,309 --> 00:37:11,771
[reporter] When Specialist Vanessa Guillén
vanished, several agencies,

606
00:37:11,854 --> 00:37:15,066
including the FBI,
descended on Fort Hood to investigate.

607
00:37:15,149 --> 00:37:18,361
And now a new criminal complaint
alleges she was murdered.

608
00:37:18,444 --> 00:37:23,407
Specialist Aaron Robinson struck Guillén
in the head with a hammer multiple times,

609
00:37:23,491 --> 00:37:26,202
killing her on base
before placing her in a box.

610
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:30,957
[woman] He tells us initially that he went
to the unit to do this training,

611
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:32,667
and then he went back home.

612
00:37:33,376 --> 00:37:36,379
But because we were able
to ping his cell phone,

613
00:37:36,462 --> 00:37:38,547
his alibi begins to break down.

614
00:37:41,425 --> 00:37:46,681
A subsequent ping of his cell phone
led us to the Leon River.

615
00:37:48,474 --> 00:37:51,978
[reporter 1] Another suspect,
22-year-old Cecily Aguilar,

616
00:37:52,061 --> 00:37:55,147
was charged in connection
to Guillén's disappearance.

617
00:37:56,357 --> 00:37:59,860
[reporter 2] In a five-page affidavit,
Aguilar confesses to helping him

618
00:37:59,944 --> 00:38:01,487
get rid of Guillén's body.

619
00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:04,573
He took her out
to a bridge near the Leon River,

620
00:38:04,657 --> 00:38:07,410
where the couple cut her up,
set her on fire,

621
00:38:07,493 --> 00:38:10,371
and buried her in three separate places.

622
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:12,581
[insects chirping]

623
00:38:12,665 --> 00:38:15,543
[Heather] The day that Vanessa's remains
were discovered,

624
00:38:15,626 --> 00:38:20,798
Robinson was actually being held
for breaking COVID protocols,

625
00:38:21,465 --> 00:38:25,261
and Army CID leaders failed
to let the soldier,

626
00:38:25,344 --> 00:38:27,972
who is in charge of looking over Robinson,

627
00:38:28,055 --> 00:38:31,100
know that he was also suspected
of killing Guillén.

628
00:38:33,060 --> 00:38:35,563
[reporter 1] Robinson was allowed to keep
his cell phone

629
00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:40,234
and read about Guillén's body being found,
calling his girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar,

630
00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:42,695
saying, "Baby, they found pieces."

631
00:38:44,613 --> 00:38:48,492
[Heather] That soldier somehow
let Robinson escape from his watch.

632
00:38:50,536 --> 00:38:54,707
[reporter 2] Officers located the suspect
walking about six miles from Fort Hood.

633
00:38:54,790 --> 00:38:58,794
When police confronted the suspect,
he pulled out a weapon and shot himself.

634
00:38:58,878 --> 00:39:00,588
[indistinct radio chatter]

635
00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:03,966
[Don] They knew without a doubt
that Robinson was the murderer,

636
00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,053
and they do not arrest him?

637
00:39:07,678 --> 00:39:10,306
It's a massive failure.

638
00:39:10,806 --> 00:39:14,185
Uh, CID agent should have been fired.

639
00:39:14,268 --> 00:39:19,023
The commander should have been fired.
Uh, people should have been punished.

640
00:39:19,106 --> 00:39:20,441
None of that happened.

641
00:39:21,484 --> 00:39:23,986
[Lupe]
How can this happen on a military base?

642
00:39:24,070 --> 00:39:26,614
How can this happen while she was on duty?

643
00:39:26,697 --> 00:39:29,992
Fort Hood, "the Great Place,"
hasn't done anything at all!

644
00:39:30,576 --> 00:39:32,620
And this is the proof
they have lied to us!

645
00:39:32,703 --> 00:39:34,705
[melancholic music plays]

646
00:39:39,668 --> 00:39:41,921
[reporter] If the Army was hoping
to mend fences

647
00:39:42,004 --> 00:39:43,964
with the Guillén family with this meeting,

648
00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:47,051
I do not believe that happened.
And matter of fact, the family stated

649
00:39:47,134 --> 00:39:48,844
that they're just as angry as ever

650
00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:51,639
at how the Army has handled
Vanessa Guillén's murder

651
00:39:51,722 --> 00:39:54,392
and the subsequent investigation
into her murder.

652
00:39:54,475 --> 00:39:57,269
Lupe Guillén, Vanessa's sister,
has told me the family

653
00:39:57,353 --> 00:40:01,899
still does not have several answers.
Specifically, why Vanessa was murdered

654
00:40:01,982 --> 00:40:05,694
and why it took the Army so long
to zero in on a fellow soldier.

655
00:40:06,529 --> 00:40:09,990
The Army and all the services
use the Privacy Act

656
00:40:10,074 --> 00:40:13,577
to keep information away
from victims and victims' families.

657
00:40:13,661 --> 00:40:15,704
So the Army will say things like,

658
00:40:15,788 --> 00:40:19,333
"We took appropriate action."
And that's all you get to know.

659
00:40:19,417 --> 00:40:21,919
[helicopter blades whirring]

660
00:40:22,002 --> 00:40:24,130
The military criminal justice system

661
00:40:24,213 --> 00:40:26,424
is different than
the civilian criminal justice system,

662
00:40:26,507 --> 00:40:32,263
fundamentally, in that the civilian system
is controlled by prosecutors and judges.

663
00:40:33,013 --> 00:40:36,392
In the military,
it's controlled by a commander,

664
00:40:36,475 --> 00:40:38,269
and that commander's not a lawyer.

665
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:39,353
[alarm blaring]

666
00:40:39,437 --> 00:40:43,566
They count on survivors
and their families staying quiet

667
00:40:44,191 --> 00:40:45,901
or the media not being interested,

668
00:40:45,985 --> 00:40:49,697
and they miscalculated
on this case dramatically

669
00:40:49,780 --> 00:40:52,575
because the Guillén family
were not gonna stay quiet.

670
00:40:53,868 --> 00:40:59,123
Natalie taught me a lot about
how the military has its own jurisdiction,

671
00:40:59,206 --> 00:41:03,294
and there can't be really
anything done by civilians

672
00:41:03,377 --> 00:41:07,423
unless it's a higher authority,
which in this case is Congress.

673
00:41:08,090 --> 00:41:12,720
So bringing in a bill
would be the path to justice.

674
00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:14,889
Since there's no consequences
with sexual harassment

675
00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:16,474
and sexual misconduct in the military,

676
00:41:16,557 --> 00:41:17,600
it's a free-for-all.

677
00:41:17,683 --> 00:41:19,768
The only way to fix it
is through legislation.

678
00:41:19,852 --> 00:41:21,770
You could put
all the policies out there you want.

679
00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:24,356
They have the policy!
Is anyone following it? No.

680
00:41:26,442 --> 00:41:29,570
[Lupe] The military has done nothing
to face this problem.

681
00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:35,701
Justice is not only about getting answers
to my sister's murder.

682
00:41:37,286 --> 00:41:39,830
It's also about trying to help victims.

683
00:41:42,708 --> 00:41:44,793
I think it was our duty to fulfill,

684
00:41:45,294 --> 00:41:49,048
especially for Vanessa,
as a victim of sexual harassment.

685
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:58,557
My family talked about it. I was like,
"Do you think this is a good idea?"

686
00:41:59,934 --> 00:42:04,688
"We'd be going back and forth to DC,
having to meet with politicians."

687
00:42:06,232 --> 00:42:09,235
"Are you sure you wanna be
all the way across the country?"

688
00:42:11,278 --> 00:42:13,572
[Mayra] I was actually born
here in Houston.

689
00:42:14,073 --> 00:42:16,325
Been here, basically, all my life.

690
00:42:18,410 --> 00:42:21,038
This whole time that we've lived together,

691
00:42:21,121 --> 00:42:22,831
no one has separated.

692
00:42:25,334 --> 00:42:28,963
Being the oldest,
it's a lot of responsibility.

693
00:42:31,090 --> 00:42:32,675
My mom usually needs help

694
00:42:33,259 --> 00:42:36,387
because she's not at her very best
right now with her health.

695
00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:41,016
I mean, I feel like, to my siblings,

696
00:42:41,100 --> 00:42:46,146
I'm the big sister, like,
and also kind of like a mom to them.

697
00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:51,068
[Lupe] My mom is the first mom.
Mayra's the second mom.

698
00:42:52,027 --> 00:42:52,861
Vanessa,

699
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:55,239
she was like the third mother.

700
00:42:56,991 --> 00:43:02,288
[in Spanish] If I misbehaved at school
or got a bad grade,

701
00:43:03,372 --> 00:43:05,207
she scolded me like she was my mom,

702
00:43:05,291 --> 00:43:08,836
and she'd tell me to do my homework
and stare at me like, "Are you done yet?"

703
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:11,547
[upbeat music plays]

704
00:43:11,630 --> 00:43:14,300
[in English] My life
before Vanessa's death

705
00:43:15,050 --> 00:43:16,635
was like any normal kid.

706
00:43:17,428 --> 00:43:20,264
Just living day by day, going to school,

707
00:43:20,347 --> 00:43:24,268
playing sports,
you know, talking to friends.

708
00:43:25,519 --> 00:43:26,812
I was in tenth grade.

709
00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:32,276
When I think about going back
to when my life was normal,

710
00:43:33,152 --> 00:43:34,570
it will never be normal.

711
00:43:34,653 --> 00:43:37,114
[rosary clattering]

712
00:43:38,699 --> 00:43:43,329
Every time that I think… try to find
a normal life per se or go back to work

713
00:43:43,412 --> 00:43:45,956
and do what I was doing in the past,

714
00:43:46,915 --> 00:43:48,250
I think about Vanessa.

715
00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:52,880
It kind of became a responsibility

716
00:43:52,963 --> 00:43:56,133
for myself, for my family,
to advocate for this.

717
00:43:57,593 --> 00:44:02,097
[Lupe] We had no other choice
but to go and fight for a legislation

718
00:44:02,181 --> 00:44:05,225
under my sister's name
to help other people.

719
00:44:17,946 --> 00:44:19,948
[train bell ringing]

720
00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:25,454
In order to make legislation into a law,

721
00:44:25,537 --> 00:44:29,291
Congress and senators have to vote on it,
and the president has to sign it.

722
00:44:29,958 --> 00:44:31,460
It's a lot of work.

723
00:44:32,336 --> 00:44:36,006
[reporter] Relatives of Vanessa Guillén
met today with President Trump,

724
00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:38,384
where he told them
the Department of Justice

725
00:44:38,467 --> 00:44:40,177
is investigating her murder.

726
00:44:41,387 --> 00:44:44,306
[Lupe] Natalie set up
the meeting with Donald Trump.

727
00:44:44,390 --> 00:44:46,392
[upbeat music ends]

728
00:44:47,393 --> 00:44:50,604
[in Spanish] I'd like your help
getting justice for my daughter.

729
00:44:51,105 --> 00:44:53,440
[interpreter in English]
She wants your help to bring justice

730
00:44:53,524 --> 00:44:55,234
for what happened to her daughter.

731
00:44:56,318 --> 00:44:59,655
How can this happen on a military base,
where you think everything's safe,

732
00:44:59,738 --> 00:45:01,699
but yet, the soldiers are not safe?

733
00:45:01,782 --> 00:45:04,618
We need a congressional investigation
because it's impossible

734
00:45:04,702 --> 00:45:06,370
that no one saw or heard anything.

735
00:45:06,453 --> 00:45:09,498
And now, as you know,
the DOJ and the FBI are there,

736
00:45:09,581 --> 00:45:12,292
and they're doing
a very strong investigation,

737
00:45:12,376 --> 00:45:16,547
as is the Army, so they're doing
a very strong investigation.

738
00:45:16,630 --> 00:45:19,425
[in Spanish]
You'd be making history with Vanessa.

739
00:45:19,508 --> 00:45:21,969
[in English]
You'd be making history with Vanessa,

740
00:45:22,469 --> 00:45:24,680
because we need a change,
and the change now,

741
00:45:24,763 --> 00:45:30,477
and we need something positive
so the soldiers feel safe to be recruited,

742
00:45:30,561 --> 00:45:33,772
feel safe while serving their nation,

743
00:45:33,856 --> 00:45:37,609
feel honored to serve their nation
but to feel respected and safe.

744
00:45:37,693 --> 00:45:39,445
That's how the bill will help them.

745
00:45:40,237 --> 00:45:44,825
We will get to the bottom of a lot of this
and maybe all of it. Okay?

746
00:45:44,908 --> 00:45:47,786
-Thank you very much.
-[staffer] All right, let's go. Thank you.

747
00:45:47,870 --> 00:45:49,705
-[man] No justice!
-[crowd] No peace!

748
00:45:49,788 --> 00:45:51,957
-[man] No justice!
-[crowd] No peace!

749
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,792
-[woman] What do we want?
-[crowd] Justice!

750
00:45:53,876 --> 00:45:56,128
-[woman] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

751
00:45:56,211 --> 00:45:59,840
[Lucy] The Guillén family went
to meet with the president

752
00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:02,676
to talk about
the I Am Vanessa Guillén bill.

753
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,219
[crowd cheers]

754
00:46:04,303 --> 00:46:07,848
Lupe wore these high heels.
Y'all probably noticed her heels.

755
00:46:07,931 --> 00:46:08,974
They're gorgeous.

756
00:46:09,057 --> 00:46:12,811
Vanessa bought these for her.
So she wanted to wear them for her today.

757
00:46:13,437 --> 00:46:15,189
[woman shouts] Lupe!

758
00:46:15,272 --> 00:46:21,820
It was the first time that I actually saw
Lupe get on the stage and speak.

759
00:46:21,904 --> 00:46:23,781
She did not hold back.

760
00:46:23,864 --> 00:46:26,784
[crowd shouts indistinctly]

761
00:46:29,286 --> 00:46:32,039
[tearfully] It's very emotional
for me to be here

762
00:46:32,122 --> 00:46:33,999
because, yeah, I was coming barefoot

763
00:46:34,082 --> 00:46:39,213
because, I mean, Vanessa gave me
those shoes, and I decided to wear them

764
00:46:39,296 --> 00:46:42,090
because this is for her,
not for anyone else.

765
00:46:42,174 --> 00:46:43,425
This is for Vanessa.

766
00:46:43,509 --> 00:46:44,551
-[crowd cheers]
-[sniffles]

767
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:47,137
Because now, my sister is… [sobs]

768
00:46:47,221 --> 00:46:49,097
…with God. She's in a better place.

769
00:46:49,181 --> 00:46:51,934
But then the other survivors,
they're here with their families,

770
00:46:52,017 --> 00:46:53,811
but my sister's not.

771
00:46:53,894 --> 00:46:55,187
[woman] Come on, Lupe!

772
00:46:56,104 --> 00:46:58,106
[crowd shouts indistinctly]

773
00:47:00,818 --> 00:47:02,110
[Lupe] President Trump.

774
00:47:02,653 --> 00:47:06,156
He said he's going to support
the #IAmVanessaGuillén bill.

775
00:47:08,325 --> 00:47:09,952
And for everyone that said,

776
00:47:10,661 --> 00:47:14,832
"The president will never meet with you,"
or, "You'll never enter the White House,"

777
00:47:14,915 --> 00:47:17,584
well, we just met him.
We have his support.

778
00:47:17,668 --> 00:47:18,710
[crowd cheers]

779
00:47:18,794 --> 00:47:21,880
And let me tell you something.
He came up to me

780
00:47:21,964 --> 00:47:26,134
and asked me,
"How old are you?" I said, "I'm 16."

781
00:47:28,345 --> 00:47:29,179
[inhales]

782
00:47:29,263 --> 00:47:33,725
He said, "We need people like you.
I'm impressed that you're very mature,

783
00:47:33,809 --> 00:47:37,020
and you speak your words,
and you're not afraid to talk to no one."

784
00:47:37,104 --> 00:47:39,690
You shouldn't be afraid
to talk to no one as well!

785
00:47:39,773 --> 00:47:41,859
[crowd cheers]

786
00:47:43,652 --> 00:47:45,904
Because if we have
the president's support,

787
00:47:45,988 --> 00:47:47,781
I want the nation's support,

788
00:47:47,865 --> 00:47:50,701
because this is not
a Republican-Democratic issue.

789
00:47:50,784 --> 00:47:52,619
This is not a race issue.

790
00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:55,455
This is a human issue,
so it should be everyone's issue.

791
00:47:57,833 --> 00:47:59,501
It's important legislation.

792
00:47:59,585 --> 00:48:03,755
Usually, the ones sexually harassing
are someone from the leadership,

793
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:05,424
someone from the chain of command.

794
00:48:05,924 --> 00:48:09,887
Yet, those same commanders are the ones
that take the investigation

795
00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:11,221
into their own hands.

796
00:48:11,305 --> 00:48:13,724
[crowd chanting]

797
00:48:13,807 --> 00:48:16,810
That's what the legislation is,
to take it out the chain of command,

798
00:48:16,894 --> 00:48:21,815
have professional, you know,
lawyers counseling for the victims.

799
00:48:23,317 --> 00:48:27,154
[reporter] Congresswoman Jackie Speier
and Oklahoma Congressman Markwayne Mullin

800
00:48:27,237 --> 00:48:29,031
are leading the bill's efforts.

801
00:48:29,114 --> 00:48:32,451
We were very excited to let the world
know that this was actually the bill

802
00:48:32,534 --> 00:48:36,663
that Vanessa Guillén's family
sponsored and was behind.

803
00:48:36,747 --> 00:48:39,958
I found that it was best
to ask Jackie Speier

804
00:48:40,042 --> 00:48:43,211
to be the sponsor,
or the cosponsor, of the bill

805
00:48:43,295 --> 00:48:45,297
because I knew she can get this done.

806
00:48:46,298 --> 00:48:50,719
[Jackie] So I became involved in this
in 2010.

807
00:48:50,802 --> 00:48:52,846
The issue was being talked about,

808
00:48:52,930 --> 00:48:56,850
but it was like a throwback
to the '50s and '60s.

809
00:48:56,934 --> 00:48:58,602
[tense music plays]

810
00:48:59,561 --> 00:49:01,688
It was talked about in terms of

811
00:49:01,772 --> 00:49:05,400
the reason why it's happening
is because women in the military

812
00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:09,613
were wearing provocative clothes
or drinking too much.

813
00:49:11,073 --> 00:49:15,911
So in 2011, I introduced
the first piece of legislation

814
00:49:15,994 --> 00:49:18,205
to deal with sexual assault
in the military.

815
00:49:18,288 --> 00:49:22,125
Sexual assault scandals
are the new norm for the military.

816
00:49:22,209 --> 00:49:26,213
This is the result of a legal system
beholden to the chain of command

817
00:49:26,296 --> 00:49:29,132
that some are hell-bent on protecting.

818
00:49:29,216 --> 00:49:31,259
You're indicting
the whole chain of command here.

819
00:49:31,343 --> 00:49:32,928
That's why I'm emotional about this.

820
00:49:33,011 --> 00:49:36,640
If you take the responsibility
from that commanding officer,

821
00:49:37,224 --> 00:49:40,727
then you are eroding his ability to lead.

822
00:49:40,811 --> 00:49:45,482
The resistance came,
initially, from the military.

823
00:49:45,565 --> 00:49:48,735
You know, they always mouth
the right words,

824
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:52,322
and yet, it was clearly an epidemic.

825
00:49:52,406 --> 00:49:56,118
We need to have commanders more involved
in the solution to this problem,

826
00:49:56,201 --> 00:49:57,119
not less involved.

827
00:49:57,202 --> 00:50:01,331
Commanders need to be part
of the good order and discipline

828
00:50:01,415 --> 00:50:02,541
for their units.

829
00:50:02,624 --> 00:50:04,501
[woman] They believed
the commanders have to have

830
00:50:04,584 --> 00:50:07,045
exclusive authority over everything.

831
00:50:07,546 --> 00:50:12,384
Historically, commanders were in charge
of whether you could get a divorce.

832
00:50:12,467 --> 00:50:16,972
Commanders were in charge
of whether a doctor could amputate a leg.

833
00:50:17,848 --> 00:50:19,933
These original laws, 200 years ago,

834
00:50:20,017 --> 00:50:25,147
were designed totally for decisions
to be made on the battlefield.

835
00:50:25,230 --> 00:50:26,940
That is not the case anymore.

836
00:50:27,441 --> 00:50:30,902
We've changed how we deal with
these things, and we should continue

837
00:50:30,986 --> 00:50:34,614
that change by professionalizing
the legal system as well.

838
00:50:34,698 --> 00:50:38,285
If one in five women say
they are serving in the military,

839
00:50:38,368 --> 00:50:40,746
and they are receiving
unwanted sexual contact,

840
00:50:40,829 --> 00:50:41,913
that's a huge problem.

841
00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:44,708
[Welsh] In the civil sector,
they have the same problem.

842
00:50:44,791 --> 00:50:48,086
[Kirsten] It's different in the military.
Everything's about the chain of command.

843
00:50:48,170 --> 00:50:52,340
[Don] The chain of command controls
the military justice system.

844
00:50:52,424 --> 00:50:54,885
They have complete authority over it.

845
00:50:54,968 --> 00:50:57,220
What I would say
this is the equivalent of is,

846
00:50:57,304 --> 00:50:59,806
for example, if someone was
an employee at Walmart,

847
00:50:59,890 --> 00:51:02,267
and they were sexually assaulted
by another employee,

848
00:51:02,350 --> 00:51:06,271
and that floor manager says, "Okay.
Well, I don't believe you. Done."

849
00:51:06,855 --> 00:51:09,566
Or he says, "Well, yeah,
I think that's really serious,

850
00:51:09,649 --> 00:51:11,818
so I'm gonna take it
to the office manager."

851
00:51:11,902 --> 00:51:13,653
And the office manager says,

852
00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:16,073
"Oh yeah. I don't think
anything happened. Go away,"

853
00:51:16,156 --> 00:51:17,991
or the office manager's saying,

854
00:51:18,075 --> 00:51:20,535
"We'll take it up to regional
and see what they think."

855
00:51:20,619 --> 00:51:23,830
And regional saying, "We'll take it up
to corporate, see what they think,"

856
00:51:23,914 --> 00:51:27,084
and then eventually,
some CEO at Walmart decides

857
00:51:27,167 --> 00:51:29,419
whether or not
someone's prosecuted. It's absurd.

858
00:51:29,503 --> 00:51:32,172
No one would want to work
in a system like that,

859
00:51:32,255 --> 00:51:34,007
but that's what the military has.

860
00:51:34,716 --> 00:51:40,680
The grisly murder of Vanessa Guillén
forced the military to recognize

861
00:51:41,473 --> 00:51:47,479
that this was not going to be able
to be one of those cases

862
00:51:47,562 --> 00:51:49,397
that you can sweep under the rug.

863
00:51:56,905 --> 00:52:02,911
We were promised that the bill
was going to get voted on September 30th,

864
00:52:02,994 --> 00:52:06,540
which is Vanessa's birthday,
so we were looking forward to it.

865
00:52:06,623 --> 00:52:09,209
And the day came,
and all we got was a call saying

866
00:52:09,292 --> 00:52:10,877
that it wasn't able to be done.

867
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,839
It was disappointing.

868
00:52:14,881 --> 00:52:18,343
This bill was gonna be put out
on the floor, and it never happened.

869
00:52:20,137 --> 00:52:22,055
It never went on the floor for a vote.

870
00:52:22,806 --> 00:52:26,977
And so every bill dies
if it's not passed by the end of the year,

871
00:52:27,060 --> 00:52:29,855
because next year,
there's a whole new Congress,

872
00:52:29,938 --> 00:52:31,857
and that new Congress starts new.

873
00:52:32,899 --> 00:52:35,235
[reporter] Congress took up the bill
back in September,

874
00:52:35,318 --> 00:52:37,070
but it failed to advance.

875
00:52:37,154 --> 00:52:39,114
[keyboard clattering]

876
00:52:39,197 --> 00:52:44,828
The I Am Vanessa Guillén Act failed
to pass, and, you know, it's frustrating.

877
00:52:44,911 --> 00:52:46,913
[melancholic music plays]

878
00:52:58,341 --> 00:53:01,178
[Mayra] It's sad, you know,
to see all these victims,

879
00:53:01,928 --> 00:53:07,142
and I don't know of a way
to help people, and nothing's being done.

880
00:53:07,225 --> 00:53:08,685
[thunder rumbling]

881
00:53:12,981 --> 00:53:14,983
[Gloria praying in Spanish]

882
00:53:26,703 --> 00:53:29,039
[Mayra] Ever since what happened
with the bill…

883
00:53:31,041 --> 00:53:33,210
it's been really hard on my parents,

884
00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:36,838
and my mom has been sick.

885
00:53:38,423 --> 00:53:40,133
[in Spanish] Move it to the right.

886
00:53:41,468 --> 00:53:43,261
[Mayra] I can never find the thing.

887
00:53:44,554 --> 00:53:46,598
-[in English] There we go.
-[in Spanish] There you go.

888
00:53:50,977 --> 00:53:53,730
[Mayra] When are they gonna start
taking things out of the room?

889
00:53:54,231 --> 00:53:55,941
[Gloria] When I get some help.

890
00:53:56,608 --> 00:53:59,653
-[Mayra] When?
-[Gloria] January, if God allows.

891
00:54:00,570 --> 00:54:02,113
As long as we're all okay.

892
00:54:04,616 --> 00:54:05,533
[quietly] No.

893
00:54:06,785 --> 00:54:08,161
[Gloria] Sickness all around.

894
00:54:09,913 --> 00:54:12,123
After the tragedy, came the sickness.

895
00:54:14,209 --> 00:54:19,089
They say, "Calm comes after the storm."
God almighty.

896
00:54:20,799 --> 00:54:21,758
I don't know.

897
00:54:24,928 --> 00:54:27,305
[Gloria] For us,
sickness came after the storm.

898
00:54:27,389 --> 00:54:29,432
[tense music plays]

899
00:54:33,061 --> 00:54:36,439
[Mayra in English] I know
we don't have it easy, but it's like,

900
00:54:36,523 --> 00:54:38,316
"How do I manage with the stress?"

901
00:54:40,193 --> 00:54:42,696
There's days
where I want to shut everyone out.

902
00:54:44,030 --> 00:54:45,323
Then I think back, and I'm like,

903
00:54:45,407 --> 00:54:50,578
"This isn't going to help anyone,"
so I have to, somehow, just keep going.

904
00:54:51,162 --> 00:54:52,205
[inhales]

905
00:54:56,668 --> 00:54:57,502
Okay.

906
00:55:05,677 --> 00:55:08,138
[reporter 1] New tonight,
Cecily Aguilar's defense team

907
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:10,056
wants her confession tossed out.

908
00:55:10,807 --> 00:55:12,809
[reporter 2]
Aguilar's defense attorney claims

909
00:55:12,892 --> 00:55:15,312
she was never read her Miranda rights.

910
00:55:18,189 --> 00:55:21,860
[Lupe] We've recently found out
that Cecily Aguilar,

911
00:55:22,569 --> 00:55:26,239
uh, Robinson's girlfriend,
was trying to throw out her confession,

912
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:30,076
meaning everything
she said to CID throughout,

913
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:33,079
and, you know,
we're not going to let that happen.

914
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,499
[Gloria in Spanish]
God help you and protect you,

915
00:55:37,334 --> 00:55:39,711
both of you, on your long journey.

916
00:55:41,921 --> 00:55:44,883
[speaking Spanish]

917
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:52,390
My little daughter, God bless you
and keep you healthy.

918
00:55:53,767 --> 00:55:55,352
And try not to cry, eh?

919
00:55:57,187 --> 00:55:59,022
Be strong.

920
00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:01,066
[Gloria speaking Spanish]

921
00:56:01,649 --> 00:56:05,445
[Mayra in English] The confession has
a huge role in this prosecution.

922
00:56:06,946 --> 00:56:11,493
Without it, I don't even know if there's
evidence that would prove her guilty.

923
00:56:13,995 --> 00:56:15,413
[Lupe] We're going to Waco.

924
00:56:16,623 --> 00:56:18,291
We're gonna go to the courthouse

925
00:56:19,292 --> 00:56:21,294
and hear what she has to say.

926
00:56:24,047 --> 00:56:28,009
[Gloria in Spanish] I am proud of them
'cause they're doing it for their sister.

927
00:56:29,427 --> 00:56:33,348
And as they promised her,

928
00:56:33,890 --> 00:56:37,352
they were gonna do everything
they could to get to the truth.

929
00:56:39,854 --> 00:56:42,023
[Natalie in English]
It's like, "How dare you?"

930
00:56:43,108 --> 00:56:45,568
The family has a right
to have some closure

931
00:56:45,652 --> 00:56:47,445
in their loss of their daughter.

932
00:56:49,114 --> 00:56:52,200
[Mayra] The biggest question
of them all is, "Why?"

933
00:56:52,951 --> 00:56:58,164
"Why take her life? And then, basically,
get rid of her completely?"

934
00:56:59,332 --> 00:57:04,546
I just don't understand how
Aguilar helped him do such things.

935
00:57:05,422 --> 00:57:10,009
I honestly hope that they're questioning
Aguilar to see what she knows.

936
00:57:13,346 --> 00:57:15,265
[Lupe] Justice! Justice!

937
00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:17,100
[crowd joins] Justice for Vanessa!

938
00:57:17,183 --> 00:57:19,394
-[Lupe] What do we want?
-[crowd] Justice!

939
00:57:19,477 --> 00:57:21,855
-[Lupe] When do we want it?
-[crowd] Now!

940
00:57:21,938 --> 00:57:24,774
[Lupe] My parents and my family
did not want me

941
00:57:24,858 --> 00:57:26,526
to go into the courthouse

942
00:57:26,609 --> 00:57:32,782
because of my age, and going through it
would have been kind of traumatic.

943
00:57:32,866 --> 00:57:35,702
-What's her name?
-[crowd] Vanessa!

944
00:57:35,785 --> 00:57:39,372
-Loud and proud! What do we want?
-[crowd] Justice!

945
00:57:39,456 --> 00:57:43,209
Justice! Justice! Justice for Vanessa!

946
00:57:43,293 --> 00:57:47,630
So I was like,
"Well, if I can't do anything inside,

947
00:57:47,714 --> 00:57:50,091
then at least, I did something outside."

948
00:57:50,842 --> 00:57:54,512
I feel that it's… it would be
a great idea to spend right now

949
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:58,391
connecting as a community,
so if anyone is willing to, like,

950
00:57:58,475 --> 00:58:02,770
speak and say their name, like,
raise your hand or anything, I don't know.

951
00:58:04,689 --> 00:58:07,567
We're gonna pass it around. Okay?

952
00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:11,321
-[woman 1 talks indistinctly]
-Mm-hmm.

953
00:58:11,404 --> 00:58:14,782
[woman 1 in Spanish] Good afternoon.
I came from Austin.

954
00:58:14,866 --> 00:58:19,287
If we unite to demand justice for Vanessa,
we will get justice.

955
00:58:19,871 --> 00:58:21,831
-[horn honking]
-[crowd applauds]

956
00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:27,045
[woman 2 in English] This means a lot
'cause I'm a survivor of sexual assault.

957
00:58:27,128 --> 00:58:31,466
You know, I hear lots of people say,
"Oh, I'm not gonna make a difference."

958
00:58:31,549 --> 00:58:34,511
Well, I'm one person,
and I'm here, and my voice is loud.

959
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:36,262
-[horn honks]
-[crowd applauds]

960
00:58:38,431 --> 00:58:42,769
All of us have a voice. That's why
I say, "Be the voice. Be the change."

961
00:58:42,852 --> 00:58:45,480
We're here with you.
Your fight is our fight.

962
00:58:47,315 --> 00:58:50,944
[Lupe] No matter the age,
no matter the gender, no matter the race,

963
00:58:51,027 --> 00:58:54,072
in order for change to happen,
we have to speak up.

964
00:58:54,948 --> 00:58:57,033
My name's Lupe Guillén.

965
00:58:57,116 --> 00:59:01,120
Um, I'm 17 years old.
I'm still in high school.

966
00:59:01,204 --> 00:59:03,373
I'm Vanessa's youngest sister.

967
00:59:05,875 --> 00:59:07,877
When I was four or five years old,

968
00:59:08,461 --> 00:59:11,256
I had speaking problems.
I couldn't talk at all.

969
00:59:12,173 --> 00:59:14,634
I started speaking at the age of seven.

970
00:59:15,552 --> 00:59:18,888
And I was ashamed for that,
so I used to, like, just stay quiet.

971
00:59:18,972 --> 00:59:23,560
I didn't even try because, when I tried,
like, I couldn't get it out,

972
00:59:24,769 --> 00:59:26,646
and it's like getting bullied for it.

973
00:59:29,274 --> 00:59:32,026
And I guess now,

974
00:59:32,110 --> 00:59:36,322
it drove me to, like, a very,
you know, spoken-out person.

975
00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:38,533
I express my opinion when I have to.

976
00:59:38,616 --> 00:59:41,578
And I'm speaking for a good cause,
and I'm here for it.

977
00:59:43,538 --> 00:59:48,626
The woman named Cecily Ann Aguilar
is in there, inside, facing my family.

978
00:59:48,710 --> 00:59:49,544
[sniffles]

979
00:59:50,128 --> 00:59:54,591
And she still has the nerve to show
her face after what she did to my sister.

980
00:59:55,842 --> 00:59:57,468
[somber music plays]

981
00:59:57,552 --> 01:00:01,097
You saw a body
being dismembered, being burned.

982
01:00:03,308 --> 01:00:08,521
And then you have the energy
to dig up holes, to drive to a river,

983
01:00:09,689 --> 01:00:13,234
to be quiet for two months
even though you saw us in the news

984
01:00:13,318 --> 01:00:14,777
every single day.

985
01:00:15,737 --> 01:00:17,238
[sobs]

986
01:00:17,322 --> 01:00:20,450
She stole the chance for me
to see her one more time.

987
01:00:21,242 --> 01:00:22,160
[sniffles]

988
01:00:23,036 --> 01:00:27,081
But my mom always says,
"You just have to keep fighting,"

989
01:00:28,124 --> 01:00:33,004
and every single day, I remind myself,
"This is not only about Vanessa."

990
01:00:35,340 --> 01:00:36,424
[sniffles]

991
01:00:36,507 --> 01:00:37,759
It's about all of us.

992
01:00:38,635 --> 01:00:43,181
We hope that everything
that's going on inside goes as we want.

993
01:00:43,681 --> 01:00:45,099
-So thank you.
-[horn honks]

994
01:00:45,183 --> 01:00:47,185
[crowd applauds]

995
01:00:54,108 --> 01:00:56,194
[Natalie] We just got out of our hearing.

996
01:00:56,944 --> 01:01:01,115
The judge denied their request
to suppress Cecily Aguilar's statement,

997
01:01:01,199 --> 01:01:04,243
her confession, uh, with what happened.

998
01:01:04,994 --> 01:01:07,789
One of the things we learned
was that Cecily tried to allege

999
01:01:07,872 --> 01:01:10,166
that Aaron Robinson put a gun to her head

1000
01:01:10,792 --> 01:01:14,545
the night that she helped him,
uh, dispose of Vanessa's body.

1001
01:01:14,629 --> 01:01:17,715
That was, you know,
something that we find hard to believe.

1002
01:01:17,799 --> 01:01:20,259
We're sure it's just part
of her defense tactics.

1003
01:01:20,885 --> 01:01:22,595
So, trying to spin the truth

1004
01:01:22,679 --> 01:01:25,473
and the law didn't work
today in her favor,

1005
01:01:25,556 --> 01:01:28,601
and, hopefully,
justice will prevail in this case.

1006
01:01:30,353 --> 01:01:32,939
[Lupe] This is a step
on the right direction.

1007
01:01:33,022 --> 01:01:36,275
This is a step to justice for my sister,
justice for Vanessa Guillén.

1008
01:01:37,485 --> 01:01:40,530
And we will never stop fighting.
We'll keep pushing.

1009
01:01:41,114 --> 01:01:46,577
-[woman in Spanish] Justice for Vanessa!
-[crowd] Justice for Vanessa!

1010
01:01:46,661 --> 01:01:50,957
Justice for Vanessa!

1011
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,460
-[man] Justice for Vanessa!
-[crowd] Justice for Vanessa!

1012
01:01:58,548 --> 01:02:00,717
[reporter 1 in English] Tonight,
the US Army is releasing

1013
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,469
a scathing report saying
leaders at Fort Hood in Texas

1014
01:02:03,553 --> 01:02:07,348
ignored complaints of sexual harassment
from Vanessa Guillén.

1015
01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:10,309
[reporter 2] Army officials confirmed
what Vanessa Guillén's family

1016
01:02:10,393 --> 01:02:12,186
have been saying all along,

1017
01:02:12,270 --> 01:02:15,231
that she was sexually harassed
on Fort Hood.

1018
01:02:15,815 --> 01:02:18,276
[Gloria in Spanish]
It was proven there was sexual harassment.

1019
01:02:20,027 --> 01:02:22,613
Is that what you were investigating
for five months?

1020
01:02:23,114 --> 01:02:25,450
Is that what you had me in anguish for?

1021
01:02:25,533 --> 01:02:28,703
That was the criminal investigation
from the Army,

1022
01:02:28,786 --> 01:02:32,248
to say what I had already told them.

1023
01:02:32,331 --> 01:02:33,332
It was for that?

1024
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:35,960
By God, everyone knows that already.

1025
01:02:36,043 --> 01:02:40,506
I know it being her mother.
You don't have forgiveness from God.

1026
01:02:41,007 --> 01:02:44,051
[in English] I'm actually glad
that they were confirming

1027
01:02:44,135 --> 01:02:46,179
what we were saying the whole time.

1028
01:02:46,262 --> 01:02:48,181
That we weren't
just saying things to say them.

1029
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:50,850
Because at some point, they were like,

1030
01:02:50,933 --> 01:02:54,103
"You're lying about sexual harassment.
There's no proof."

1031
01:02:55,354 --> 01:02:59,692
This is an example of why we have
this broken trust with the Army.

1032
01:02:59,776 --> 01:03:01,903
[melancholic music plays]

1033
01:03:01,986 --> 01:03:04,906
[Heather] The report found
that in the summer of 2019,

1034
01:03:04,989 --> 01:03:09,035
one of Vanessa's superiors tried
to solicit her for a threesome.

1035
01:03:11,204 --> 01:03:16,417
Later during a field training exercise,
that same supervisor approached her

1036
01:03:16,501 --> 01:03:20,087
as she was performing
personal hygiene in the woods.

1037
01:03:21,506 --> 01:03:24,759
She told her friends,
and she told her superior

1038
01:03:24,842 --> 01:03:26,010
that she was afraid

1039
01:03:26,093 --> 01:03:28,429
that she was going to be
retaliated against.

1040
01:03:29,263 --> 01:03:33,226
How long did Fort Hood leadership know
that she was sexually harassed?

1041
01:03:33,309 --> 01:03:35,812
Was this common knowledge
when they were repeatedly saying

1042
01:03:35,895 --> 01:03:38,523
that there was no evidence
to prove that she was?

1043
01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:41,359
Army leaders were asked
several times if they'd release

1044
01:03:41,442 --> 01:03:44,946
the name of Vanessa Guillén's harasser,
and they refused to do so.

1045
01:03:45,029 --> 01:03:47,031
They also couldn't say
whether or not that person

1046
01:03:47,114 --> 01:03:49,242
would face criminal charges in the future.

1047
01:03:49,784 --> 01:03:52,537
[Mayra] From talking to different soldiers
at the base,

1048
01:03:53,412 --> 01:03:56,999
there wasn't only one supervisor
harassing her, but two.

1049
01:03:58,042 --> 01:04:02,213
There's still one of them
currently serving at Fort Hood.

1050
01:04:03,214 --> 01:04:06,717
He's still getting his salary.
Um, it's like nothing happened.

1051
01:04:06,801 --> 01:04:08,177
[truck engine revving]

1052
01:04:08,261 --> 01:04:10,221
He can still harm another person.

1053
01:04:11,681 --> 01:04:14,892
[reporter] According to investigators,
this incident has no connection

1054
01:04:14,976 --> 01:04:17,645
to her alleged killer,
specialist Aaron Robinson,

1055
01:04:17,728 --> 01:04:20,606
and there is no credible evidence
that he harassed her,

1056
01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:23,109
but he had harassed someone else.

1057
01:04:24,902 --> 01:04:26,779
[Natalie] They think
that if they keep on saying

1058
01:04:26,863 --> 01:04:30,825
that Robinson did not sexually harass
Vanessa, that we'll believe it.

1059
01:04:31,325 --> 01:04:32,827
Given his reputation,

1060
01:04:33,536 --> 01:04:37,290
there is a high likelihood that
that happened more than anything.

1061
01:04:37,790 --> 01:04:41,460
They have no idea
because of their poor investigation

1062
01:04:41,544 --> 01:04:44,380
of what he did to Vanessa
before he killed her.

1063
01:04:44,463 --> 01:04:48,259
I'd say it's more likely than anything
that he killed her during the process

1064
01:04:48,342 --> 01:04:49,385
of a sexual assault.

1065
01:04:49,468 --> 01:04:50,553
[helicopter blades whirring]

1066
01:04:50,636 --> 01:04:54,640
Without a doubt to me,
the Army's number one concern was

1067
01:04:54,724 --> 01:04:59,478
to detach the murder from any allegation
of sexual harassment or sexual assault.

1068
01:05:00,521 --> 01:05:03,107
They were in the middle
of the fight on the hill,

1069
01:05:03,190 --> 01:05:07,945
and they could not have this family
and Vanessa's disappearance

1070
01:05:08,029 --> 01:05:10,323
be used as ammunition against them.

1071
01:05:11,657 --> 01:05:14,160
The Army wasn't going to change
on their own.

1072
01:05:14,785 --> 01:05:17,747
The Army's only concern was
about protecting the Army,

1073
01:05:18,414 --> 01:05:23,794
and so legislation was
the only real, uh, response to this.

1074
01:05:26,088 --> 01:05:28,299
[Lupe] If the legislation
gets reintroduced,

1075
01:05:28,799 --> 01:05:32,887
victims will get the justice
that my sister did not get.

1076
01:05:33,471 --> 01:05:37,475
And so we have to keep going with it
no matter how long it takes.

1077
01:05:39,018 --> 01:05:41,103
[Mayra] Now that time did go by,

1078
01:05:41,896 --> 01:05:43,940
it just makes things even harder.

1079
01:05:45,274 --> 01:05:49,195
But at the end of the day,
we have to find a way to get this done.

1080
01:05:50,112 --> 01:05:53,574
If we got Congress to listen,
then we can get Congress to pass the bill.

1081
01:05:53,658 --> 01:05:55,576
[tense music plays]

1082
01:05:58,037 --> 01:06:00,665
[Natalie] What we decide to do
is reintroduce a new bill

1083
01:06:00,748 --> 01:06:04,919
and hope that that gets passed,
because this is our last chance.

1084
01:06:05,002 --> 01:06:07,630
There's no way that we're gonna have
the momentum in the campaign

1085
01:06:07,713 --> 01:06:09,590
like we have this year ever again.

1086
01:06:12,385 --> 01:06:14,637
-[tense music ends]
-[plane engines roaring]

1087
01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:18,307
[Lupe] After the presidential elections
under Biden's Administration,

1088
01:06:19,016 --> 01:06:22,186
we decided to introduce
the I Am Vanessa Guillén bill

1089
01:06:22,269 --> 01:06:23,479
for the second time.

1090
01:06:24,939 --> 01:06:29,193
We hope, you know, we get all the support
to pass the House, the Senate,

1091
01:06:29,276 --> 01:06:31,862
and go to the president
to be signed into law.

1092
01:06:31,946 --> 01:06:35,032
-[Mayra in Spanish] How are you feeling?
-[Gloria over the phone] A bit better.

1093
01:06:35,116 --> 01:06:36,033
[Mayra] Okay.

1094
01:06:36,117 --> 01:06:37,493
[Gloria] Tell Lupe to eat.

1095
01:06:37,576 --> 01:06:38,744
Yes, look at this.

1096
01:06:39,662 --> 01:06:41,038
Eat that fruit.

1097
01:06:42,039 --> 01:06:44,083
-It's healthy.
-[Mayra laughs]

1098
01:06:44,667 --> 01:06:46,836
[Mayra] Okay, let's talk later.

1099
01:06:46,919 --> 01:06:48,754
[man in English]
Tell Natalie thanks for everything.

1100
01:06:48,838 --> 01:06:49,672
[Mayra] Yes.

1101
01:06:50,214 --> 01:06:53,050
-[man] Okay, mija, bye-bye.
-[Gloria in Spanish] You're in my prayers.

1102
01:06:53,801 --> 01:06:55,845
-[in English] Bye. Bye.
-[man in Spanish] Bye.

1103
01:06:56,721 --> 01:06:59,640
-[crowd talks indistinctly]
-[camera shutter clicks]

1104
01:07:03,978 --> 01:07:06,105
[Natalie in English]
To say, "What is justice?"

1105
01:07:06,939 --> 01:07:09,650
Justice isn't only incarcerating

1106
01:07:09,734 --> 01:07:13,279
or holding the person who was part
of the murder accountable.

1107
01:07:13,863 --> 01:07:16,907
It's also about… fairness.

1108
01:07:16,991 --> 01:07:22,913
Hello. Hi, Speaker. Mayra Guillén.
Nice to see you again. It's been a while.

1109
01:07:22,997 --> 01:07:25,458
-[Speaker laughs] We promised you.
-[Mayra] Thank you.

1110
01:07:25,541 --> 01:07:28,169
-[Lupe] Good to see you, Speaker.
-[Speaker] Hi, Lupe. How are you?

1111
01:07:28,252 --> 01:07:29,503
Nice to see you again.

1112
01:07:29,587 --> 01:07:31,797
[Natalie] We're never gonna get
Vanessa back,

1113
01:07:31,881 --> 01:07:34,425
but I believe, if this was my daughter,

1114
01:07:35,009 --> 01:07:37,511
that the greatest thing
you could ever do is

1115
01:07:37,595 --> 01:07:39,430
have a law in your name

1116
01:07:39,513 --> 01:07:43,559
and change history with that law,
and that would be, in a sense, justice.

1117
01:07:45,686 --> 01:07:47,271
[Speaker] Good afternoon, everyone.

1118
01:07:47,354 --> 01:07:54,028
As Speaker, I'm proud to support
Jackie Speier's I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.

1119
01:07:54,111 --> 01:07:58,407
I thank you for helping us all
keep our promise we made a year ago

1120
01:07:58,908 --> 01:08:01,660
to the family
that we would have legislation

1121
01:08:02,495 --> 01:08:04,455
and it would make a difference.

1122
01:08:05,456 --> 01:08:08,959
[Lupe] So we must be the voice,
be the change and honor my sister.

1123
01:08:10,377 --> 01:08:13,464
[Mayra] We're here to ensure
that her name won't be forgotten.

1124
01:08:13,547 --> 01:08:16,383
This change needs to happen,
and it needs to happen now.

1125
01:08:19,887 --> 01:08:21,972
-[Lupe in Spanish] My mom says hi.
-[Sylvia] Thank you.

1126
01:08:22,056 --> 01:08:25,017
-[Lupe] She thanks you for being with us.
-[Sylvia] Thank you for your words.

1127
01:08:26,477 --> 01:08:28,687
[Lupe in English]
Oh, look how my feet are.

1128
01:08:28,771 --> 01:08:30,564
[Mayra] Why did you wear those shoes?

1129
01:08:30,648 --> 01:08:31,816
[Lupe] I don't know.

1130
01:08:33,109 --> 01:08:36,779
-Can we go take a picture over there?
-[Natalie] That's what I wanted. Come.

1131
01:08:36,862 --> 01:08:39,323
-[Lupe] We're taking a picture quickly.
-[Mayra] Yeah.

1132
01:08:41,534 --> 01:08:42,576
[Lupe sighs]

1133
01:08:43,327 --> 01:08:44,328
[Natalie] Okay, one.

1134
01:08:46,831 --> 01:08:49,542
We've been seeing senators
and congresswomen and men

1135
01:08:49,625 --> 01:08:51,460
fighting for this for a decade.

1136
01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:53,754
And it's every year,
it's died and died and died.

1137
01:08:53,838 --> 01:08:56,590
It becomes, like, one of those,
"We don't wanna talk about this issue."

1138
01:08:58,175 --> 01:09:01,470
I realized I have a bullhorn,
and I need to make sure

1139
01:09:01,554 --> 01:09:04,140
that everybody heard about it
and every reporter knows.

1140
01:09:04,223 --> 01:09:07,685
This is not gonna die on my watch.
This has to change.

1141
01:09:07,768 --> 01:09:09,478
[elevator dings]

1142
01:09:09,562 --> 01:09:14,567
And we have this machine rolling now,
and we just got to get it passed into law.

1143
01:09:15,776 --> 01:09:20,948
[Jackie] You have been very powerful
in convincing members of Congress,

1144
01:09:21,031 --> 01:09:25,661
but some members that supported it
last year are not supporting it this year,

1145
01:09:25,744 --> 01:09:26,620
so talk to them.

1146
01:09:28,622 --> 01:09:34,545
[Mayra] We have meetings with congressmen,
congresswomen to try to convince them

1147
01:09:34,628 --> 01:09:36,797
to say yes to the bill.

1148
01:09:38,007 --> 01:09:42,136
Right now, we're hoping to get
a vote on it before the year ends

1149
01:09:42,219 --> 01:09:45,681
because, if not, we would have
to start all over again next year.

1150
01:09:46,932 --> 01:09:48,142
-[woman] Hi.
-[Natalie] Hi, Senator.

1151
01:09:48,225 --> 01:09:50,978
How are you? Natalie Khawam.
Good to see you again.

1152
01:09:51,061 --> 01:09:53,314
-And this is Mayra Guillén.
-[Mayra] Mayra.

1153
01:09:53,397 --> 01:09:56,066
[Natalie] It's important that we keep
the pressure on

1154
01:09:56,150 --> 01:09:59,987
and that we make sure that this is
a household issue, a mainstream issue.

1155
01:10:00,070 --> 01:10:01,405
[tense music plays]

1156
01:10:01,488 --> 01:10:05,034
We are hopeful and believe
the legislation will be passed this year.

1157
01:10:05,618 --> 01:10:08,162
We're gaining traction on this.

1158
01:10:08,662 --> 01:10:12,124
And for me,
a turning point was… was your sister.

1159
01:10:13,375 --> 01:10:16,837
[Mayra] Talking about
Vanessa's murder often,

1160
01:10:17,546 --> 01:10:19,798
it brings a lot of memories.

1161
01:10:20,758 --> 01:10:25,095
So having to be repetitive
over and over again,

1162
01:10:25,804 --> 01:10:26,639
it's hard.

1163
01:10:26,722 --> 01:10:30,434
When you suffer the loss
that you did in such a horrible way,

1164
01:10:30,935 --> 01:10:33,103
the human instinct is

1165
01:10:33,187 --> 01:10:35,522
to, what the Bible calls,
"curse the darkness."

1166
01:10:35,606 --> 01:10:36,440
[Mayra] Hmm.

1167
01:10:36,523 --> 01:10:38,859
The saintly instinct is to light a candle.

1168
01:10:39,360 --> 01:10:42,446
That's what you're doing
so it doesn't happen to anyone again.

1169
01:10:42,529 --> 01:10:43,530
-[Mayra] Right.
-Touching.

1170
01:10:45,282 --> 01:10:46,992
[Natalie] There was a lot
of highs and lows

1171
01:10:47,076 --> 01:10:49,954
with who I felt like
were gonna be on the good team

1172
01:10:50,037 --> 01:10:51,914
and who were gonna be
on the team that was gonna fight us.

1173
01:10:52,498 --> 01:10:54,750
The basic ethic of the military

1174
01:10:54,833 --> 01:10:59,755
is to protect your colleagues
and subordinates, not to exploit them.

1175
01:10:59,838 --> 01:11:00,839
Right.

1176
01:11:01,507 --> 01:11:05,219
[Don] Despite all the momentum,
there's still strong resistance

1177
01:11:05,302 --> 01:11:07,513
within senior senators

1178
01:11:07,596 --> 01:11:10,933
and senior congresspeople serving
on the Senate Armed Services Committee

1179
01:11:11,016 --> 01:11:15,562
and the House Armed Services Committee
to really sweeping fundamental reform.

1180
01:11:17,523 --> 01:11:21,777
[Lupe] The determination that Vanessa
always used to have comes into my mind.

1181
01:11:22,444 --> 01:11:24,613
I'm going to do this in her memory.

1182
01:11:27,241 --> 01:11:32,246
But I hate being, like,
days and days far from my family,

1183
01:11:32,955 --> 01:11:34,581
especially from my mom.

1184
01:11:37,293 --> 01:11:39,420
[congressman] How are you doing?
How are you holding up?

1185
01:11:39,503 --> 01:11:42,673
-[Lupe] Okay. It's just frustrating.
-[congressman] It's very frustrating.

1186
01:11:42,756 --> 01:11:48,387
[Lupe] 'Cause traveling back and forth
to DC and have nothing in our hands.

1187
01:11:49,054 --> 01:11:51,265
We're just waiting
for the legislation to pass.

1188
01:11:51,348 --> 01:11:52,808
-So…
-[congressman] Yeah.

1189
01:11:52,891 --> 01:11:55,019
Government's not made to work fast.

1190
01:11:55,102 --> 01:11:58,355
Unfortunately, it's made
to work very slow.

1191
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:01,775
And a lot of times,
you get one shot at legislation,

1192
01:12:01,859 --> 01:12:04,653
because, if you get it to the floor,
and it fails,

1193
01:12:04,737 --> 01:12:07,990
the chance of you getting it back
to the floor are just not good.

1194
01:12:08,657 --> 01:12:11,410
So right now,
there is some opposition to it.

1195
01:12:12,369 --> 01:12:13,996
Timing is the most important thing,

1196
01:12:14,079 --> 01:12:16,332
and I don't know
when that timing's gonna come available.

1197
01:12:16,415 --> 01:12:18,542
[melancholic music plays]

1198
01:12:18,625 --> 01:12:24,715
Lupe spoke out so much
that it affected her emotionally a lot.

1199
01:12:27,217 --> 01:12:32,222
So I try to tell her, basically,
that I'm proud of her.

1200
01:12:35,809 --> 01:12:38,312
[Lupe] I never got the chance
to grieve until now.

1201
01:12:39,813 --> 01:12:42,316
That's why, you know, it's been hard.

1202
01:12:43,942 --> 01:12:46,779
I tried to, like,
you know, do it the right way.

1203
01:12:46,862 --> 01:12:48,989
Yet there's no right way to grieve,

1204
01:12:49,490 --> 01:12:52,326
and the anxiety you build up, I guess,

1205
01:12:52,409 --> 01:12:56,538
now I get nervous
no matter with one, two people, I--

1206
01:12:56,622 --> 01:13:00,751
You know, it's something that
it's now affecting me in my daily life.

1207
01:13:00,834 --> 01:13:02,836
[melancholic music continues]

1208
01:13:06,298 --> 01:13:07,674
It's been overwhelming.

1209
01:13:09,259 --> 01:13:12,012
I've kind of separated myself
from a lot of things,

1210
01:13:12,513 --> 01:13:14,431
like my friends

1211
01:13:16,141 --> 01:13:17,684
and playing soccer.

1212
01:13:19,812 --> 01:13:23,524
The memory just comes back
of me playing soccer with my sister

1213
01:13:23,607 --> 01:13:26,402
and the way I'm never going
to be able to do that again.

1214
01:13:29,113 --> 01:13:31,740
Now, I'm trying
to go back to the way it was,

1215
01:13:32,658 --> 01:13:35,577
but after going through a lot of stuff,

1216
01:13:36,995 --> 01:13:39,581
the way you see the world,
you see it way differently.

1217
01:13:42,543 --> 01:13:44,461
I think all of us always need a break.

1218
01:13:47,172 --> 01:13:49,216
Especially for our mental health.

1219
01:13:52,511 --> 01:13:54,096
[birds chirping]

1220
01:13:54,179 --> 01:13:56,098
I'm not giving up on my sister.

1221
01:13:57,182 --> 01:14:00,269
I'll be fighting for her,
even if it's in the background.

1222
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:08,902
[Mayra] Lupe was forced to grow up.

1223
01:14:11,572 --> 01:14:13,907
Now she has to go back to school

1224
01:14:13,991 --> 01:14:16,493
and try to focus
on getting back to normal.

1225
01:14:17,911 --> 01:14:20,289
She deserves to enjoy her life.

1226
01:14:42,644 --> 01:14:45,355
[Lupe] I need 300 more words in the essay.

1227
01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:47,608
I think I wrote it really, really good.

1228
01:14:47,691 --> 01:14:52,112
Yeah, I can review it. Just send it to me
when you're done so I can read it.

1229
01:14:53,197 --> 01:14:55,616
[Natalie] Hi, Lupe.
I like your bangs. [laughs]

1230
01:14:56,825 --> 01:14:58,202
[Mayra] Natalie works hard,

1231
01:14:58,285 --> 01:15:00,954
but she's also
a very fun person to be around.

1232
01:15:01,872 --> 01:15:05,250
I've always told her, "You're not one
of those nine-to-five lawyers

1233
01:15:05,334 --> 01:15:09,087
that I can't… like, after five,
I can't call you and stuff like that."

1234
01:15:09,171 --> 01:15:12,466
-[CJ] Hello?
-It's Mayra and me, Natalie.

1235
01:15:12,549 --> 01:15:15,093
[laughs] She took over my phone, Landy.

1236
01:15:16,803 --> 01:15:18,514
She's been there for me,

1237
01:15:18,597 --> 01:15:21,391
not only as a lawyer,
but as a good friend,

1238
01:15:21,475 --> 01:15:25,395
and she's even treated me like a daughter,

1239
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:29,358
so I… I appreciate her a lot.

1240
01:15:31,068 --> 01:15:33,070
Thanks, Landy. Talk to you later.

1241
01:15:33,153 --> 01:15:35,155
-[CJ] All right. Bye.
-Bye.

1242
01:15:36,323 --> 01:15:38,325
[Natalie] This is not just a job for me.

1243
01:15:39,576 --> 01:15:41,662
This is… a commitment,

1244
01:15:42,871 --> 01:15:45,958
and my commitment
to my family is just as strong.

1245
01:15:48,085 --> 01:15:52,756
My parents are from Lebanon,
and we left, uh, because of the civil war.

1246
01:15:53,924 --> 01:15:56,176
My dad really wanted me
to help others, and he said,

1247
01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:59,596
"This is you giving back to this country
that gave to you."

1248
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:04,518
I'm proud to be Lebanese,
but I'm American to the core.

1249
01:16:08,480 --> 01:16:11,066
Daddy, would you like the lights off?
Are they distracting?

1250
01:16:11,149 --> 01:16:12,401
[beat starts, stops]

1251
01:16:12,484 --> 01:16:14,736
I'm trying to get the… the beat to…

1252
01:16:16,863 --> 01:16:18,865
[upbeat music plays]

1253
01:16:25,664 --> 01:16:27,708
[all clapping to the beat]

1254
01:16:27,791 --> 01:16:30,836
[Natalie] Being an immigrant,
you wanna help other immigrants.

1255
01:16:30,919 --> 01:16:32,212
This is a calling.

1256
01:16:32,963 --> 01:16:35,966
It's about becoming
an extended family on a mission.

1257
01:16:48,687 --> 01:16:50,689
[upbeat music ends]

1258
01:16:50,772 --> 01:16:53,025
[all applaud]

1259
01:16:54,985 --> 01:16:56,903
[insects chirping]

1260
01:16:58,655 --> 01:17:01,158
[reporter] New York Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand's lengthy battle

1261
01:17:01,241 --> 01:17:03,994
with the Pentagon to change the way
victims of sexual assault

1262
01:17:04,077 --> 01:17:06,955
in the military are treated
has cleared a major hurdle.

1263
01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:11,460
[Natalie] So just as an FYI,
just a quick and dirty of this,

1264
01:17:11,543 --> 01:17:14,296
the Gillibrand bill is expansive.
It's more expansive.

1265
01:17:14,379 --> 01:17:17,841
We really are doing the bill
on just sexual assault in the military,

1266
01:17:17,924 --> 01:17:19,176
which is what our focus was.

1267
01:17:19,259 --> 01:17:23,138
She's doing her bill on all misdemeanors
gonna be out of the chain of command.

1268
01:17:23,221 --> 01:17:26,350
Versus us, we were just focused on
the… the sexual assault.

1269
01:17:26,892 --> 01:17:29,853
When we finally got through the process,
and we had Jackie Speier

1270
01:17:29,936 --> 01:17:34,816
championing the I Am Vanessa Guillén bill,
we saw that Gillibrand had her bill,

1271
01:17:34,900 --> 01:17:38,987
and that almost became,
in a sense, competing bills.

1272
01:17:39,071 --> 01:17:41,281
Even though one's in Senate,
one's in the House,

1273
01:17:41,365 --> 01:17:44,451
it was gonna put everybody
in a position of, "Which one do we want?"

1274
01:17:46,995 --> 01:17:48,580
So everything's changed right now.

1275
01:17:49,331 --> 01:17:53,126
We're flying out to meet
with Senator Gillibrand, but obviously,

1276
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:55,420
working together is what our goal is.

1277
01:17:55,962 --> 01:17:59,049
To accomplish some legislation
to come out of this together.

1278
01:17:59,132 --> 01:18:01,301
[upbeat music plays]

1279
01:18:06,682 --> 01:18:10,143
[Jackie] Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
has a bill on the Senate side

1280
01:18:10,227 --> 01:18:14,147
that she has worked very hard on.
Um, I have a bill on the House side.

1281
01:18:14,856 --> 01:18:16,650
Both bills take these cases

1282
01:18:16,733 --> 01:18:19,194
of sexual assault
out of the chain of command.

1283
01:18:20,654 --> 01:18:23,782
They are similar, but they are not exact.

1284
01:18:23,865 --> 01:18:26,451
So what needs to happen
through this process

1285
01:18:26,535 --> 01:18:30,038
is that we come up
with, um, a single version.

1286
01:18:30,122 --> 01:18:32,749
-Great to see you.
-Thank you for being here.

1287
01:18:32,833 --> 01:18:36,002
You must be tired of coming to Washington
over and over again…

1288
01:18:36,086 --> 01:18:39,297
-It's an experience.
-To just keep demanding justice.

1289
01:18:39,381 --> 01:18:41,717
-It's a calling, really.
-Yeah.

1290
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:44,302
It's a full-time effort,

1291
01:18:44,386 --> 01:18:48,390
but I think the work you've done
to bring a coalition of people

1292
01:18:48,473 --> 01:18:50,726
behind this idea really matters.

1293
01:18:50,809 --> 01:18:53,061
Lifting your voice up
by coming to Washington

1294
01:18:53,145 --> 01:18:56,440
and knocking on doors and demanding
meetings with senators works.

1295
01:18:56,523 --> 01:18:57,482
I think it's essential.

1296
01:18:58,316 --> 01:19:02,112
But I would not let people celebrate
what's in the House version.

1297
01:19:03,488 --> 01:19:04,823
It's a good first step.

1298
01:19:04,906 --> 01:19:08,034
And we're very proud of the work
we've done to get it that far,

1299
01:19:08,118 --> 01:19:09,327
but it's not enough.

1300
01:19:10,704 --> 01:19:15,751
It does sexual assault and harassment,
but Vanessa's case would not be included

1301
01:19:15,834 --> 01:19:17,586
because it doesn't include murder cases.

1302
01:19:17,669 --> 01:19:18,503
Right.

1303
01:19:18,587 --> 01:19:22,257
So we just have to be really clear
about that because, unfortunately,

1304
01:19:22,340 --> 01:19:25,927
what happens behind closed doors
is they take out reforms

1305
01:19:26,011 --> 01:19:28,096
that the DOD is not comfortable with.

1306
01:19:28,180 --> 01:19:29,014
[Mayra] Right.

1307
01:19:29,097 --> 01:19:32,017
And there will be four men
in that conference room,

1308
01:19:32,100 --> 01:19:35,145
and they do not support
the full Vanessa Guillén Act.

1309
01:19:36,855 --> 01:19:40,317
We have to really push on them, to insist.

1310
01:19:41,193 --> 01:19:42,360
I completely agree.

1311
01:19:44,112 --> 01:19:47,073
This is a family
that has been through hell and back,

1312
01:19:47,157 --> 01:19:51,077
trying to give voice
to their murdered sister and daughter.

1313
01:19:51,161 --> 01:19:54,164
It's important that her case
would have had

1314
01:19:54,247 --> 01:19:56,124
this independent justice system.

1315
01:19:57,292 --> 01:20:01,087
Having their advocacy, having
their support, and having a coalition

1316
01:20:01,171 --> 01:20:05,300
of the leads in the House
and all of us in the Senate

1317
01:20:05,383 --> 01:20:10,138
is a defining aspect
of this legislation and moving it forward.

1318
01:20:11,306 --> 01:20:14,684
So what we decide to do
is marry the two bills, come together,

1319
01:20:14,768 --> 01:20:17,729
and know that we have the House
and the Senate in support of this,

1320
01:20:17,813 --> 01:20:20,106
which is a great move strategically.

1321
01:20:20,190 --> 01:20:24,361
So everything is-- I always say,
"You can have all the plans you want

1322
01:20:24,444 --> 01:20:27,322
and then go to the Hill
and realize every day is a new day."

1323
01:20:27,405 --> 01:20:28,990
-Stay well. Stay strong.
-[Mayra] Will do.

1324
01:20:29,074 --> 01:20:31,993
-[Natalie] We're gonna do this.
-Thank you for your leadership.

1325
01:20:32,077 --> 01:20:34,579
-[Mayra] Thank you.
-[Natalie] Thank you for all your support.

1326
01:20:37,332 --> 01:20:38,708
[Jackie] Today we announce

1327
01:20:38,792 --> 01:20:43,338
the Vanessa Guillén
Military Justice Improvement

1328
01:20:43,421 --> 01:20:45,549
Increasing Prevention Act.

1329
01:20:45,632 --> 01:20:49,636
Senator Gillibrand and I have dedicated
the better part of ten years

1330
01:20:49,719 --> 01:20:51,388
to right this wrong.

1331
01:20:51,471 --> 01:20:54,766
We will pass this bill this year.

1332
01:20:54,850 --> 01:20:56,893
[Natalie] We're really close to the end.

1333
01:20:57,394 --> 01:21:02,190
This is like the final inning.
If we don't get this, it's game over.

1334
01:21:02,274 --> 01:21:03,608
This is our last chance.

1335
01:21:06,069 --> 01:21:08,071
[triumphant music plays]

1336
01:21:10,156 --> 01:21:12,742
[reporter 1] The push to overhaul
the military's handling

1337
01:21:12,826 --> 01:21:16,079
of sexual assault cases
is moving towards becoming law.

1338
01:21:16,663 --> 01:21:18,623
[reporter 2] The US House voted
Wednesday to pass

1339
01:21:18,707 --> 01:21:20,834
the National Defense Authorization Act,

1340
01:21:20,917 --> 01:21:23,712
which contains the revised
I Am Vanessa Guillén Act.

1341
01:21:25,130 --> 01:21:27,632
[reporter 3] The bill now moves
to the Senate before it makes its way

1342
01:21:27,716 --> 01:21:28,925
to the White House.

1343
01:21:30,302 --> 01:21:31,553
[Mayra] And there we go.

1344
01:21:34,014 --> 01:21:36,391
So the bill did get passed in the House.

1345
01:21:36,474 --> 01:21:39,144
Now, we're just waiting
for the Senate vote.

1346
01:21:39,227 --> 01:21:40,437
[Natalie inhales]

1347
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:41,771
[Mayra] It's crazy.

1348
01:21:42,355 --> 01:21:44,733
When things like this happen
or even with the courts,

1349
01:21:44,816 --> 01:21:48,445
I can't sleep as much as I would want to.
Like, I'm just anxious,

1350
01:21:49,154 --> 01:21:51,197
like, wanting to get it over with,

1351
01:21:51,281 --> 01:21:55,911
so that's me, like, I hate doing that,
but I can't help it either.

1352
01:21:57,913 --> 01:22:00,290
[Natalie] Okay. Thank you.

1353
01:22:01,833 --> 01:22:02,751
[Mayra] So…

1354
01:22:03,335 --> 01:22:05,795
[Mayra humming]

1355
01:22:05,879 --> 01:22:07,505
…basically, the cheeks is what…

1356
01:22:09,215 --> 01:22:10,842
[Natalie] Do whatever you wanna do.

1357
01:22:15,680 --> 01:22:17,682
[upbeat music plays]

1358
01:22:26,232 --> 01:22:29,361
I like how you do the white
under your eye and your eyelid.

1359
01:22:29,945 --> 01:22:30,779
I now see it.

1360
01:22:30,862 --> 01:22:32,489
[Mayra] Otherwise,
my eyes would be closed.

1361
01:22:32,572 --> 01:22:35,408
I would look like I have
closed eyes in the pictures.

1362
01:22:38,912 --> 01:22:42,916
I really want to stay positive,
but I got to protect my clients

1363
01:22:42,999 --> 01:22:44,417
and their expectations.

1364
01:22:44,501 --> 01:22:48,129
I would hate to think
that they raise our hopes up this high

1365
01:22:48,213 --> 01:22:52,425
to, like, just let it drop, so…
But you never know.

1366
01:22:52,926 --> 01:22:54,928
[birds chirping]

1367
01:23:09,567 --> 01:23:12,612
[reporter] This bill includes
historic, sweeping reforms

1368
01:23:13,530 --> 01:23:17,492
in how the military investigates
and prosecutes sexual assault.

1369
01:23:19,786 --> 01:23:21,037
Clerk, call the roll.

1370
01:23:22,539 --> 01:23:24,374
[clerk] Mr. Wyden, no.

1371
01:23:26,459 --> 01:23:28,837
Mr. Hoeven. Mr. Hoeven, aye.

1372
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:31,339
Mrs. Hyde-Smith. Mrs. Hyde-Smith, aye.

1373
01:23:32,632 --> 01:23:36,052
Mr. Durbin. Mr. Durbin, aye.

1374
01:23:36,928 --> 01:23:39,639
Mr. Warner. Mr. Warner, aye.

1375
01:23:41,349 --> 01:23:43,560
Miss Ernst, aye.

1376
01:23:45,353 --> 01:23:47,439
Mr. Whitehouse, aye.

1377
01:23:52,527 --> 01:23:56,865
On this vote, the yeas are 89.
The nays are 10.

1378
01:23:56,948 --> 01:23:59,117
The motion to concur is agreed to.

1379
01:24:01,161 --> 01:24:03,872
[reporter] Lawmakers for the first time
agreeing on legislation

1380
01:24:03,955 --> 01:24:06,458
that would hand
military sexual assault cases

1381
01:24:06,541 --> 01:24:09,794
to an independent prosecutor
outside the chain of command.

1382
01:24:09,878 --> 01:24:13,631
It's being called "historic reforms"
to how the military investigates

1383
01:24:13,715 --> 01:24:15,383
and prosecutes sexual assault.

1384
01:24:15,467 --> 01:24:18,178
A lot of folks have been hailing
this new legislation, this agreement,

1385
01:24:18,261 --> 01:24:21,139
as a sea change, a giant leap forward.

1386
01:24:21,222 --> 01:24:23,224
[dramatic music plays]

1387
01:24:31,066 --> 01:24:33,777
TODAY, TOMORROW, ALWAYS
JUSTICE FOR #VANESSAGUILLÉN

1388
01:24:42,410 --> 01:24:44,788
-[Natalie] Congratulations.
-Thank you, Nana.

1389
01:24:44,871 --> 01:24:45,955
[Natalie] You did it.

1390
01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:50,335
"We." [chuckles] I wouldn't have been able
to do anything without you.

1391
01:24:50,418 --> 01:24:52,504
[Natalie]
I couldn't do it without you either.

1392
01:24:52,587 --> 01:24:54,214
-Thank you.
-I'm proud of you.

1393
01:24:54,714 --> 01:24:57,133
This has been worked on
for over ten years now.

1394
01:24:57,217 --> 01:25:01,304
To see we were able to accomplish it,
it's something that I ask myself,

1395
01:25:01,387 --> 01:25:03,389
"How did… how did we do it?"

1396
01:25:03,973 --> 01:25:09,479
I mean, it shows, uh,
the drive that family love can have,

1397
01:25:09,562 --> 01:25:13,191
and it proves that if you want
to move mountains, you can.

1398
01:25:13,817 --> 01:25:17,153
President Biden signed an executive order
today to make sexual harassment

1399
01:25:17,237 --> 01:25:19,155
a crime under military law.

1400
01:25:19,823 --> 01:25:22,617
These are historic changes
and a step forward

1401
01:25:22,700 --> 01:25:25,411
in a decades-long battle for reform.

1402
01:25:26,496 --> 01:25:29,999
We made landmark reforms
in military justice and to help end

1403
01:25:30,083 --> 01:25:33,128
the epidemic of sexual violence
and harassment in our armed forces.

1404
01:25:33,211 --> 01:25:34,045
[crowd applauds]

1405
01:25:39,217 --> 01:25:43,721
[Lupe] I'm just so proud of Mayra
for having the courage,

1406
01:25:43,805 --> 01:25:47,183
even though she doesn't like
being in the public eye.

1407
01:25:49,102 --> 01:25:51,688
To pass this legislation, I feel that

1408
01:25:51,771 --> 01:25:54,983
Vanessa, you know, she didn't die in vain.

1409
01:25:56,151 --> 01:26:01,406
[Lucy] What's so incredible about this
is that we saw a family

1410
01:26:02,574 --> 01:26:05,577
stand strong and make change.

1411
01:26:07,287 --> 01:26:10,498
[reporter] Senator Gillibrand, you said,
"Yes, it does have some major reforms,

1412
01:26:10,582 --> 01:26:13,877
but it doesn't go far enough,"
and you voted against it. Why?

1413
01:26:14,460 --> 01:26:16,462
[Kirsten] We had such
a groundswell of support,

1414
01:26:16,546 --> 01:26:18,673
and unfortunately,
the conference committee

1415
01:26:18,756 --> 01:26:23,720
chose to retain enormous amount
of authority within the chain of command.

1416
01:26:24,679 --> 01:26:29,100
Being able to offer a discharge,
deciding which evidence is allowed,

1417
01:26:29,184 --> 01:26:33,771
which expert witness is allowed,
um, even just deciding judge, jury,

1418
01:26:33,855 --> 01:26:35,565
prosecutor, defense counsel,

1419
01:26:35,648 --> 01:26:38,484
it's all still sitting with
Commander so-and-so,

1420
01:26:39,110 --> 01:26:41,613
the decision of whether or not
to prosecute.

1421
01:26:42,113 --> 01:26:43,531
That's the only decision

1422
01:26:43,615 --> 01:26:45,617
that the independent prosecutor
gets to make,

1423
01:26:45,700 --> 01:26:49,412
but it's a positive step
because at least you have the beginning

1424
01:26:49,495 --> 01:26:52,332
of a system
that could eventually be independent.

1425
01:26:52,415 --> 01:26:54,959
We just need to keep advocating.
We need to keep pushing back.

1426
01:26:55,043 --> 01:26:59,380
We need to keep explaining
why just one step isn't adequate,

1427
01:26:59,464 --> 01:27:01,382
that you need to fix the whole system.

1428
01:27:07,472 --> 01:27:09,057
[truck engine revving]

1429
01:27:09,140 --> 01:27:10,475
[Lucy shouts] Say her name!

1430
01:27:10,558 --> 01:27:12,101
[crowd] Vanessa Guillén!

1431
01:27:12,185 --> 01:27:13,603
[Lucy] Say her name!

1432
01:27:13,686 --> 01:27:15,730
-[crowd] Vanessa Guillén!
-[man] Vanessa!

1433
01:27:15,813 --> 01:27:16,856
[crowd in Spanish] Present!

1434
01:27:16,940 --> 01:27:18,650
-[man] Vanessa!
-[crowd in Spanish] Present!

1435
01:27:18,733 --> 01:27:20,902
-[man] Vanessa!
-[crowd in Spanish] Present!

1436
01:27:21,402 --> 01:27:25,073
[woman in Spanish] Hello, how are you?
How have you been?

1437
01:27:25,156 --> 01:27:26,074
[in Spanish] Good.

1438
01:27:26,157 --> 01:27:28,451
[Mayra in English]
There's so many things I could say.

1439
01:27:28,534 --> 01:27:32,580
It's the second-year anniversary,
and it feels like it was just yesterday…

1440
01:27:33,164 --> 01:27:35,500
Long story short,
the bill has been passed.

1441
01:27:35,583 --> 01:27:38,086
Uh, it was a lot of hard work,
and there's…

1442
01:27:38,169 --> 01:27:39,587
[crowd cheering]

1443
01:27:39,671 --> 01:27:41,673
There's, um, still more work to do

1444
01:27:41,756 --> 01:27:44,968
on behalf of Vanessa
and a lot of, uh, service members

1445
01:27:45,051 --> 01:27:47,762
that are still currently
suffering in silence,

1446
01:27:47,845 --> 01:27:52,642
so, this year, I'll be in DC again.
We're trying to get another act

1447
01:27:52,725 --> 01:27:55,979
with all provisions
that we proposed the first year,

1448
01:27:56,062 --> 01:28:00,525
and, um, thank you, everyone,
for coming today, and it means a lot.

1449
01:28:05,488 --> 01:28:06,406
[crowd cheers]

1450
01:28:06,489 --> 01:28:10,535
[Don] Vanessa Guillén's legacy in history
is going to be defined as

1451
01:28:11,244 --> 01:28:13,579
the person who changed the process.

1452
01:28:14,872 --> 01:28:20,920
I've been saying the military was just
one scandal away from real reform,

1453
01:28:21,004 --> 01:28:24,257
and… and Vanessa,
unfortunately, was that scandal.

1454
01:28:24,757 --> 01:28:26,592
[Gloria speaking Spanish]

1455
01:28:26,676 --> 01:28:28,594
[Don] If her family had stayed silent,

1456
01:28:29,470 --> 01:28:31,681
I don't know if we'd be where we are.

1457
01:28:32,265 --> 01:28:34,183
You know, the price they've paid

1458
01:28:34,726 --> 01:28:38,688
is immeasurable, but the impact
they've had is also immeasurable.

1459
01:28:40,315 --> 01:28:41,858
[woman] Guadalupe Guillén.

1460
01:28:41,941 --> 01:28:43,526
[crowd cheers, whistles]

1461
01:28:44,235 --> 01:28:47,864
[Lupe] The last few months of my life,
I graduated high school.

1462
01:28:48,531 --> 01:28:51,117
And I've been recently playing soccer.

1463
01:28:52,493 --> 01:28:57,707
I want to get into journalism
and go to college, get my diploma,

1464
01:28:57,790 --> 01:29:00,585
and make my parents proud,
make my sister proud.

1465
01:29:00,668 --> 01:29:02,628
[triumphant music plays]

1466
01:29:11,262 --> 01:29:12,930
[birds chirping]

1467
01:29:13,639 --> 01:29:16,267
[Mayra] I would say
I grew a lot as a person.

1468
01:29:17,268 --> 01:29:18,436
Especially in politics.

1469
01:29:20,229 --> 01:29:23,399
I do see myself, hopefully,
one day, running for office

1470
01:29:23,483 --> 01:29:27,862
and continuing to use my voice
in order to get positive things done.

1471
01:29:32,992 --> 01:29:37,455
It's a miracle that we were able to do
such a thing after so many decades

1472
01:29:37,538 --> 01:29:39,248
of actual lawmakers trying.

1473
01:29:43,461 --> 01:29:47,882
It's crazy how, when we placed her here,
all of that was empty.

1474
01:29:50,301 --> 01:29:51,135
Now it's full.

1475
01:29:53,304 --> 01:29:55,932
[Lupe] Well, we all die.

1476
01:29:56,015 --> 01:29:58,601
Yet, we shouldn't die by getting killed.

1477
01:30:02,730 --> 01:30:04,857
Now I just have to acknowledge that

1478
01:30:05,358 --> 01:30:08,736
I may never know the answer
of what happened to my sister.

1479
01:30:12,281 --> 01:30:15,910
Going through this tough journey,
it has taught me so much.

1480
01:30:17,203 --> 01:30:19,038
Time goes by fast.

1481
01:30:19,122 --> 01:30:21,541
Life is short,
and while you're living life,

1482
01:30:21,624 --> 01:30:24,001
you have to, you know, cherish
every moment.

1483
01:30:29,966 --> 01:30:32,218
[Gloria in Spanish]
My little piece of heaven, my Vanessa,

1484
01:30:33,636 --> 01:30:37,140
in my heart and in everybody's heart
around the world…

1485
01:30:39,934 --> 01:30:41,936
because everybody got to know her.

1486
01:30:48,818 --> 01:30:51,696
Now I understand why I felt
something special for my daughter.

1487
01:30:54,824 --> 01:30:58,202
Because God our Lord
was lending her to me for a short time.

1488
01:31:00,955 --> 01:31:03,249
She already had a destiny planned out,

1489
01:31:04,041 --> 01:31:05,376
and she had a purpose.

1490
01:31:06,461 --> 01:31:10,131
STRONGER TOGETHER

1491
01:31:10,214 --> 01:31:14,510
HAIL THE CAUSE
HAIL THE RACE AND HAIL UNITY!

1492
01:31:36,115 --> 01:31:38,534
[triumphant music ends]

1493
01:31:38,618 --> 01:31:40,620
[martial music starts]

1494
01:32:03,017 --> 01:32:04,769
[martial music ends]

1495
01:32:07,104 --> 01:32:10,233
["Vanessa Guillén" by Ivonne Galaz plays]

1496
01:33:11,877 --> 01:33:14,005
["Vanessa Guillén" by Ivonne Galaz ends]

1497
01:33:16,716 --> 01:33:19,927
[somber music plays]

1498
01:34:53,312 --> 01:34:56,148
[somber music ends]