Foul play is suspected in the disappearance and death of a Ft. Hood soldier, and the Army has doubled the reward for information that can shed light on this case.
Foul play is suspected in the disappearance and death of a Ft. Hood soldier, and the Army has doubled the reward for information that can shed light on this case.
The reward for information into the death of Fort Hood soldier Gregory Morales has been doubled. Officials suspect foul play since they found his remains in the search for Spc. Vanessa Guillen.
When a Facebook friend reached out to Kim Wedel shortly after Fathers Day, her world sank. It had been nearly two years since her son, Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales, had gone missing from Fort Hood in August 2019, mere days before he was supposed to receive his discharge.
His body was found 11 months later in June 2020 during the search for Spc. Vanessa Guillen, another missing Fort Hood soldier.
The problem, however, is that apparently not all of her sonâs body made it to his Oklahoma home to be buried, Wedel said.
The notification on Facebook was that a bone fragment was found by the memorial marking the spot where her son had been found in Killeen. Within days, two more people reached out to her on Facebook saying they had found additional bones.
A Copperas Cove woman said she found what she thinks to be a human bone near the memorial of Fort Hood soldier Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales, just days shy of the one-year anniversary of the discovery of the soldierâs remains.
Wedel-Moralesâ remains were discovered in a field in the 3200 block of Florence Road in Killeen on June 19, 2020, after he had been missing since August 2019. The Oklahoma native was 23 years old when he went missing from Fort Hood.
The remains of missing Pvt. Gregory Wedel-Morales, 23, of Oklahoma, were found in the 3200 block of Florence Road in Killeen on June 19, 2020. Courtesy | Fort Hood