been uncooperative. prince andrew should be panicking at the moment, because ghislaine doesn t care about anyone else but ghislaine. reporter: as for maxwell, she has long denied any involvement in epstein s alleged trafficking of girls. eva pilgrim, abc news, new york. eva, thank you. now, to the family of that army soldier, vanessa guillen, who went missing from ft. hood, saying the army has officially identified her remains now. and it comes as a suspect in the case appeared in federal court. here s stephanie ramos. reporter: today, the suspect accused of helping the killer of ft. hood army soldier vanessa guillen facing a judge in texas. cecily aguilar charged with conspiracy to tamper with evidence. authorities alleging she admitted to helping her boyfriend, aaron robinson, dismember guillen s body with a machete-type knife in april. after, she says, robinson told her he d bludgeoned guillen with a hammer. she did not enter a plea.
that is right, tom. she was taken in to custody in new hampshire but will be transferred to new york to face a judge in a bail hearing and if convicted faces up to 35 years in prison. next, the grim new details emerging about the disappearance of soldier vanessa guillen. federal prosecutors say a suspect in custody claims to know how she was killed and how her body was disposed of. guillen s family is accusing the army of failing to take her disappearance seriously. reporter: tonight the justice department is painting a gruesome picture of what they think happened to missing fort hood soldier vanessa guillen. this woman confessed to helping her former boyfriend to get rid of the body. robinson said he killed a female soldier and moved her body in a box to a location near the leon river in texas.
she said she helped robinson dismember the body and attempted to burn it later recognizing private first class vanessa guillen. authorities say robinson killed himself wednesday morning. partial remains were found near the river on tuesday and positive identification is still pending. guillen said before she vanished she claims to have been sexually harassed by a superior but was afraid to report it. ever since she came to fort hood her personality just changed. she wasn t the same person. reporter: the army investigating those claims but said they found no evidence guillen was sexually rassed fort hood of keeping the family in the dark. she wanted to join the army to have better opportunities for herself and for my parents.
confessing to help her boyfriend dismember guillen s body after he allegedly killed her with a hammer. the family demanding answers. and after years of resisting the scitll p the nfl team is taking ofnsive.turnin10 you will meet the man jumping out of a plane for his birthday. this is abc world news tonight with david muir. good evening and thanks for being with us on this friday night. we begin with the coronavirus pandemic and the staggering new numbers. cases rising in 38 new states and a record number of new cases for the seventh time. more than 57,000 people testing positive in the last 24 hours, the third day above 50,000. florida with 9,400 new cases. nearly 15% of everyone tested was positive. overnight curfew now in place in