Fort Sill soldier missing since 2005 remains found in shallow grave

Body found in Texas identified as Sill soldier
The Associated Press
Posted : Tuesday Mar 13, 2012 14:47:43 EDT

PETROLIA, Texas — Authorities said human remains found in a shallow grave in rural North Texas are those of a missing Army soldier, five years after they think he was killed.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday said Spc. Jose Ramirez of El Centro, Calif., was found early last month outside a home near Petrolia, just south of the Texas-Oklahoma border. Authorities were called to the home after an anonymous tipster contacted them about an unsolved murder.

According to a criminal complaint, authorities found bullet holes in a bedroom wall and blood stains in a hallway. A day later, they searched the area around the home and found a human skull with bullet marks as well as a pair of shorts with the word “Army,” the complaint said.

Authorities charged 30-year-old Justin Green with first-degree murder in February. Green, who once lived in the home where the bullet holes were found, remains in jail on $1 million bond and will appear in court Monday. His attorney did not return a phone message.

Ramirez was 22 when he was reported missing from Fort Sill, Okla., in December 2005, a military spokesman said. Ramirez’s family in California could not be reached.
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