Two months ago, Vanessa Gillen (opens in new tab) - a 20-year-old woman serving as a petty officer at the US Army base at Fort Hood - disappeared on April 22. She was last seen in the parking lot of the squad headquarters (opens in new tab) around 12:00 p.m. that day. Her car keys, barracks identification card, and wallet were in the armory room where she was repairing a cannon, but she and her cell phone were nowhere to be found (opens in new tab).

The Guillen family suspected Vanessa of wrongdoing in the case because Vanessa had previously told them she had been sexually harassed (opens in new tab) and they feared retaliation. As a result, the Gillen family hired a lawyer to investigate the truth of the case and now suspects wrongdoing at Fort Hood itself. The facts are not good." Natalie Khawam, the Gillen family's attorney, told Inside Edition (opens in new tab). 'There have been several incidents where she [Vanessa] told co-workers, friends, and family members that she had been sexually harassed, but was afraid to report it. How could someone disappear on a base that is more protected and guarded than anyone else on the planet?"

Fort Hood's deputy commander, Major General Scott Effland, waited until June 22 (a full two months after Vanessa's disappearance) before issuing his first statement on Vanessa's case. He said, "We want to bring Vanessa home as efficiently and quickly as possible. To that end, we ask for your help," he said in a video on Twitter (opens in new tab)." We need to get Vanessa back to her Army family and we need to get her back to her family." "We will not stop this effort until we succeed."

On June 30, a week after Fort Hood's deputy commander issued his formal statement, human remains were discovered in a rural area near the Leon River (open in new tab). The river is 30 miles (about an hour's drive) from Fort Hood, and Tim Miller, founder of Texas EquuSearch (a nonprofit search and rescue organization dedicated to finding missing persons), told ABC13 (open in new tab) that the remains were those of Vanessa Guillen and that the location where the body was found was a "shallow grave site." Mr. and Mrs. Gillen (open in new tab) also believe the remains are Vanessa's.

"It has to be determined by the coroner's office, but I can say with confidence that the search for Vanessa is now over," Miller says. However, the Army's Criminal Investigation Command told ABC13 that they have not confirmed that the remains are Vanessa's and that identification will take time.

Hours after the remains were found, authorities confronted an unidentified Fort Hood soldier who was a suspect in Vanessa's case (opens in new tab). However, "when officers attempted to make contact with the suspect, the suspect removed the weapon and shot himself," local authorities said in a statement.According to NPR (opens in new tab), the Army is also investigating a civilian suspect who is "the estranged wife of a former Fort Hood soldier."

The Gillens are currently requesting a congressional investigation (open in new tab) into Vanessa's case because of how the current investigation is being handled.

If you want to help Vanessa's case, start by giving her name. If you have a platform, you can bring more attention to Vanessa's disappearance by reposting resources that Vanessa's family has uploaded to their official Instagram page, @findvanessaguillen (opens in new tab). The Guillen family has also set up a GoFundMe page (opens in new tab) to collect donations.

In addition, there is a petition to hold the U.S. military accountable for how it handled her disappearance and how it reviewed complaints of sexual harassment. The petition (open in new tab) has received over 220,000 signatures. The petition goes a step further, calling for the total closure of the Fort Hood base, claiming that Vanessa's mother did not take the incident seriously enough until she sought help from the media (opens in new tab).