The Garbage Collector

Late last year, I noticed these reports in the METRO section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

I found the details of the murders / executions curious.

Maybe it was because I was watching CRIMINAL MINDS around that time that I started to attempt to profile the unsub (unknown subject).

If the murders were "gangland" or "vigilante" executions, I found it interesting that the unsub went through the lengths of putting the victims in garbage bags and them dumped them in places where they could easily be found.

If the unsub just wanted to send out a sign to other supposed gang members, then he could've just left the bodies out in the open. Why were they placed in garbage bags? Because he thinks he's doing the city a favor? He wants to show people that he's cleaning up the city? He feels he's enforcing the law?

Well, my speculation ends there.

The complete reports can be found by clicking the links below.

Another dead body dumped in Quezon City
By Jeannette Andrade, Inquirer, First Posted 10/09/2007
http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=93457

MANILA, Philippines -- The body of another suspected victim of summary execution was discovered inside a black garbage bag before dawn Tuesday in Quezon City. The cadaver is the fifth, with a ligature mark around the neck and several stabwounds in the chest, to be found in a month in the commercial district of Cubao.

Investigators of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU) described the victim as between 25 and 30 years old, 5’7” tall, slim-built, fair-skinned, and clad in a blue t-shirt worn over denim short pants.

The body also bore several tattoos “Gerry Bonayog” on the right shoulder, a spider on the right wrist, “Michael Siopao” on the lower back portion of the body, and “Macky Ramirez” and “Sigue-Sigue Sputnik” on the upper back.

The victim was found inside a black garbage bag at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in front of house number 78 Cambridge Street, in the village of E. Rodriguez, in Cubao, by tricycle driver Leonardo Henson.

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Records from the QCPD-CIDU revealed that from January to August this year, some thirty reports of “found dead bodies” were gathered, making up three to four bodies discovered monthly. In these incidents, neither the victims nor suspects are identified leaving the trail to solving the case cold.

Body in garbage bag dumped in QC parking lot
By Jeannette Andrade, Inquirer, First Posted 11/20/2007
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view_article.php?article_id=102091

The body of another suspected victim of summary execution was found stuffed in a black garbage bag that was dumped in a parking lot early Tuesday morning in Cubao, Quezon City, police said.

The unidentified man, who police said was a member of the “Batang City Jail” gang based on a tattoo, bore a ligature mark around his neck and icepick stab wounds in the body like five previous slain gangmen who were similarly stuffed in garbage bags that were discovered in the same area.