Douglas High grad, wife, murdered in Tacoma

A Douglas High School graduate and his wife were murdered Saturday in Tacoma, Wash., and their infant daughter kidnapped, but later found unharmed.

The bodies of Army Sgts. Timothy and Randi Miller were discovered shot to death early Sunday in their home. Their six-month old daughter had been abducted, but she was found unharmed Sunday with a 22-year-old woman, also a solider.

The woman was booked into jail on two counts of first-degree murder and one county of kidnapping, Pierce County Sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.

The woman is an active-duty soldier with I Corps at the Fort Lewis Army base south of Tacoma and a member of the honor guard, Troyer said.

Acting on information from the Army, deputies went to a home south of Tacoma on Sunday and found a man and a woman dead, Troyer said.

The baby belonging to the couple was missing from the home and was found with the Fort Lewis soldier, authorities said. The baby was not harmed and was in the care of the state's Child Protective Services agency.

The baby's grandparents, Randy and Tami Gray, were on their way from Gardnerville to Tacoma on Monday to pick up their 6-month-old granddaughter.

Family friends Heather and Brian Keene said the family was devastated. They did not know the suspect, nor could they imagine a motive.

"Tim and Randi both were in the military, served our country, then got murdered," Heather Keene said. "If the military personnel had come and said they both got killed in Iraq, you could understand that."

The young couple had been married for five years. They both served as medics in the Army and had served in Iraq.

Timothy Miller, 27, had been in the military for 10 years, Keene said.

"Tim was such a great father," Heather Keene said. "He really loved his baby."

Friends of the family learned of the murders when they saw television news accounts Monday morning.

"One of their close friends had just been up visiting. She saw it on the news and recognized a playpen she bought for the baby, and saw two numbers of their home address. She knew it was them," Keene said.

The Associated Press contributed to the story.