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That's what The Seattle Times says in a report this morning:

Pierce County Deputy Prosecutor Ed Murphy said Tuesday that prosecutors plan to file the murder charge, which has only two possible penalties in Washington state: death or life in prison without parole. Murphy said a decision on whether to seek the death penalty had not been made.

If the trial were in King County, where prosecuting attorneys rarely recommend the death penalty, Davila might be able to breathe a bit easier. But Pierce County is a whole different story: unlike King County, it lacks the urban backbone that is Seattle...which we'd guess makes our neighbors to the south far less educated and much more redneck. And from what we've seen over the years, the majority of death penalty supporters fall into one (or, more often than not, both) of the aforementioned groups.

UPDATE:

The Times has updated their story with the latest: looks like Ms. Davila has been transfered to the custody of the U.S. Army, who will administer her court martial proceedings.

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Earlier this morning, we wrote about the developing case of Ivette Gonzalez Davila, a Fort Lewis soldier and total hotty who apparently murdered two of her colleagues and kidnapped their baby. The 22-year-old suspect was reported to have had a MySpace...which we have since discovered, thanks to the help of reader theDude. Alas, the profile belonging to Davila - aka Miss Eve -  has already been set to private.

But Steve Huff, the diligent crime blogger behind the True Crime Weblog, is providing in-depth coverage of the case...and he managed to snag a few of the so-called "racy" pictures mentioned in this morning's P.I. Head over to his site to see pictures, details of a possible motive, and more analsis.

Huff's readers also pointed him to the online profiles of the two victims:

• Randi Miller's MySpace page
  
• Timothy Miller's MySpace page

Worth noting at Randi's page: look at her top 24 friends, pictured below. Note the seventh profile on the list. Look familiar? Yup. It's Miss Eve. The plot thickens.

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We can't claim to know much about Ivette Gonzalez Davila, the 22-year-old Fort Lewis soldier recently arrested on suspicion of homicide and kidnapping. But after reading the coverage of her supposed crime in the local dailies this morning, one thing is clear: this suspect has got it going on in the looks department.

Tasteless on our part? Probably. But we just can't help ourselves.

Look at the picture (right) and tell us she isn't just the cutest little suspected murderer you've ever seen. Though it's still early March, we at Seattle Crime Blog would even be so bold as to claim that Ms. Davila has already secured the crown in our unofficial, just-announced "Hottest Northwest murder suspect of the year" competition. I mean, come on...how often does such a bodacious babe grace our local crime headlines? Usually we just see sleazy looking dirtbags.

Sure, Davila is suspected of some heinous business: authorities say she killed a married couple - also soldiers at Fort Lewis - with a handgun, before dousing the bodies in acid (in an unsuccessful attempt to dispose of the evidence) and kidnapping their baby. The gravity of these crimes should not be understated, and it goes without saying that our hearts are with the victims and their families. If guilty, Davila certainly deserves to be punished appropriately.

Police think the motive may be tied to some sort of jealousy-induced rage. And yes, MySpace was involved. From the P.I.:

Davila had been corresponding with Randi and Timothy Miller [the couple she is suspected of murdering] through the personal networking Web site MySpace.com. In recent months, Davila had posted four short notes on the Millers' sites, most recently on Feb. 11, telling Timothy she would be coming over.

Lights & Sirens, the Tacoma News Tribune's crime blog, offers details from the victims' MySpace pages...but they don't provide links to either (apparently its authors haven't gotten hip to the purpose of blogs). We at SCB tried, unsuccessfully, to locate Davila's profile; after all, reading the P.I.'s coverage makes it hard to resist:

On her own site, Davila posted several racy photos -- including several of herself -- as well as two shots of semiautomatic handguns.

Hubba hubba. Like we always say, the only thing sexier than a scantily clad woman is a scantily clad woman who loves semiautomatic weapons.

Of course, some moralists, probably lacking the ability to detach themselves from emotionally-charged situations, feel a need to rain on the parade. At the P.I.'s Soundoff, commenter foulshot snaps us out of our daydream:

To the people who think this ugly female is hot, I feel sorry for you and suggest counseling. She's destroyed at least three lives.

Maybe so...but in this case, the saying "beauty is only skin deep" works to our advantage. Plus, as commenter Felon for Rossi noted in a post that P.I. moderators seem to have since deleted:

[S]he's 22, she's hot and this being Washington, 2 counts of 1st degree murder will get you less that 8. She'll be out before she is 30 and she's mine!!!

Felon for Rossi is probably not alone...we'd guess that, assuming Davila makes it out of jail before her good looks are gone, potential suitors will be lining up at the prison gates on the day of her release. Some people are into that whole "bad girl" thing.

But we at Seattle Crime Blog won't be among them. Oogling pictures of a suspected murderer over the Internet is one thing; lining up to take her hand and bring her home to meet the parents is a whole other story.