Executions in QC

2 bodies dumped in QC
By Nancy C. Carvajal
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 11/29/2009

The bodies of two men believed to be victims of summary execution were found Sunday morning in Quezon City.

PO3 Joselito Gagaza of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said the victims, whose heads were wrapped in packing tape, have yet to be identified.

Both had apparently been strangled to death because of the marks on their necks, he added. One of the men had a nylon cord tied around his neck while the other had an iron chain around his neck, he added.

NOTE : the report made no mention if the victims were stabbed or shot (which were usually seen in the other victims) and in this case, the victims were not wrapped in garbage bags

Henry Lomidao, a barangay tanod (neighborhood watchman), found the bodies at around 4:30 a.m., on Sunday, along Union Avenue Extension, Gloria III, in Barangay Culiat.

Gagaza said one of the victims could be a former inmate because he had a BCJ tattoo. BCJ stands for Batang City Jail.

The victim with the BCJ tattoo was described as between 35 and 40 years old, 5’6” in height, of slim build and with fair complexion. He was dressed in a black pair of cargo pants and a white long-sleeved shirt, which was worn over a black T-shirt and an undershirt.

On the other hand, the other victim was described as 5’3” in height, of medium build and clad in a pair of gray pants and blue shirt with long sleeves.

Gagaza said it appeared that both victims had been killed somewhere else and their bodies were only dumped in the area.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20091129-239175/2-bodies-dumped-in-QC

Ex-soldier stopped from suicide jump

Half-naked ex-soldier stopped from suicide jump
By Frinston Lim, Inquirer Mindanao
10/05/2009

TAGUM CITY, Philippines—Tension gripped residents in this city as a former soldier climbed a 140-foot telecommunications tower in an apparent suicide attempt early Monday morning.

Albert Carbo, 51, was safely brought down by rescue volunteers after a two-hour standoff, according to Senior Inspector Eleuterio Hernando, an officer of the Tagum City police station.

The incident began at past 7 a.m. when residents saw a man, with only his briefs on, scale up the Sun Cellular cellsite tower in Barangay Magugpo West, Hernando said.

“He is apparently suffering a nervous breakdown,” Dr. Arnel Florendo of the city health office told reporters. Florendo was among the first to talk to the victim as soon as he was safely led down the tower.

“The victim was hallucinating that someone or something is constantly pursuing him,” Florendo said, adding he is recommending a psychiatric evaluation of the victim's condition in order to help him.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20091005-228504/Half-naked-ex-soldier-stopped-from-suicide-jump

boy with power ring found dead

a report from the Cebu Daily News
By Chris Ligan, 07/26/2009
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/cebudailynews/metro/view/20090726-217299/Boy-with-power-found-dead

A 17-year-old boy was found hanging by the neck in his house in barangay Bangkal, Lapu-Lapu City at dawn Saturday.

The dead boy was found by his mother under their house.

An electrical cord was tied around his neck and the other end was tied to the bamboo slats of the house’s elevated flooring, a height of about eight feet, said PO3 Candido Barenque of the Lapu-Lapu City Police Office.

Police have recommended an autopsy to determine the cause of death and whether foul play was involved.

The teenager was last seen in a drinking session with friends.

The boy’s parents told police their son started acting strangely after he told them he found a ring a few days back.

The boy claimed that the ring gave him extra strength.

After his revelation, the parents said they noticed the teenager behaving unusually.

He was more hotheaded and depressed in recent days.

The parents said the boy explained that he was depressed because he failed to complete a task that would “give him additional powers”.

On Friday night, the boy asked money from his parents and had a drinking session with friends.

The mother said she didn’t notice her son come home.

She went out of the house looking for him only to find him hanging by the neck under their house about 2 a.m.

Albularyo asked to check if woman was possessed

Businesswoman jumps to her death in Manila
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 10/01/2009

A 44-year-old Palawan resort owner died instantly Thursday morning after jumping from her 15th floor condominium unit at a 33-story building in Manila.

Before the suicide of Elena Flisi, the owner of the Dolarog Beach Resort in El Nido, Palawan, and a resident of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower at the corner of United Nations Avenue and Mabini Street, her 54-year-old Italian husband Edo Flisi claimed that she had been acting strangely.

“She had been showing signs of not being herself,” Flisi told SPO3 Richard Lumbad of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section.

Flisi, of unit 1501 of the Mayfair Tower who has been in the country for 20 years, disclosed that he returned to the country on September 7 as soon as siblings of his wife informed him that Elena had not been herself.

“We talked when I arrived at 12 midnight (of September 30) at our unit and her actuations were strange,” Flisi said in his statement. Lumbad pointed out that on September 18, the suicide’s mother died in Barangay (Village) Corong-Corong, El Nido, Palawan, and had to be transferred to Quezon Province.

Elena’s siblings told Lumbad that in Quezon Province, they noticed that the businesswoman was acting strange and had an albularyo (traditional healer) look at her because she acted as if she were possessed. She was reportedly never cured and remained depressed even after she returned to Manila to her home at the Mayfair Tower.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20091001-227860/Businesswoman-jumps-to-her-death-in-Manila

he came in the police station with a plastic bag containing a severed head

Boss beheaded by unpaid worker
by Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Manila policemen were preparing murder charges on Wednesday against a young man who admitted he killed and then beheaded his 59-year-old employer in Quiapo over the weekend because he had not been paid his wages for two weeks.

According to Chief Insp. Erwin Margarejo, chief of the Manila Police District homicide division, Srejan Sia, 24, a stay-in helper at Bernadette Eatery on San Rafael Street, Quiapo, Manila, is facing murder charges for the death of his employer, Jimmy Preston, 59.

Policemen at the Plaza Miranda Police Community Precint in Quiapo were shocked when the suspect surrendered to them on Tuesday night with a plastic bag containing the bloated and severed head of a man.

Senior Insp. Rodolfo Samoranos, the precinct commander, said the suspect later admitted to him that the head belonged to Preston and added that he was the one who killed the victim.

The headless body of the victim was found inside the bathroom wrapped in plastic sheet and lying in an improvised bath tub. Police also recovered two knives and a hammer believed to be used in the killing.

At the police station, Sia, who spoke in broken English and appeared restless, said he killed his employer because he had not been paid for the past two weeks.

Prior to the victim's death, the suspect said he was asking for his salary but the victim refused, resulting in a heated argument between them.

The suspect said he first hit the victim on the head with a piece of wood before he decided to cut off his penis, ears and then the head using a machete.

"I cut his dick and ears because I want them to blame the dogs," he said, adding that he later decided to surrender the head of the victim to the authorities.

"I don't know where to bury him so I surrendered his head," the suspect added.

Police said the suspect appeared mentally ill and are looking into reports that the victim had a romantic relationship with the suspect.

The suspect is now detained at the MPD headquarters.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090930-227722/Boss-beheaded-by-unpaid-worker

Digging their way to the bank

Hole found under Quezon City bank vault
By Nancy C. Carvajal, Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090925-226902/Hole-found-under-Quezon-City-bank-vault

A two-meter deep hole directly under the vault of a Quezon City bank was found on Wednesday by security guards, leading police to believe it was the work of robbers.

Chief Supt. Elmo San Diego, Quezon City Police District director, said a robbery could have been foiled with the discovery of the hole beneath the vault of a Banco de Oro branch on Tandang Sora Road in Quezon City.

Supt. Alex Sintin, commander of QCPD Station 3, said the diggings were found Wednesday afternoon behind the bank in Barangay Sangandaan.

Sintin theorized that the robbers could have started digging last week because of the long weekend break.

He said police had, since the discovery, been monitoring the area to find out if those who dug the hole would come back. “Up to now, no one has returned. Apparently they knew that we had been on the lookout for them,” Sintin added.

The diggings were traced to a lot near the bank where three shanties shielded by tall grass had been erected.

The Trinoma Suicides

Today's report on the supposed suicide in SM Fairview made me search for these news items:

Dead on arrival (November 15, 2007)
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20071115-100983/MetroBriefs

MALL goers were surprised when a man jumped from the upper floor of the Trinoma shopping center in Quezon City and landed on another man on Tuesday afternoon. Zeno Jerome Pilar, 24, of 1802-A Florentino St. in Sampaloc, Manila, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, according to reports of the Quezon City Police District. Initial investigation revealed that Pilar, an engineer, jumped from the mall’s upper floors and landed on Rico Abendan who was seated on a bench at the Trinoma activity center. Abendon was also brought to the VMMC where he was treated for a fractured left foot. Police are still trying to determine why Pilar jumped. Marlet D. Salazar

Man falls to his death at TriNoma By Thea Alberto (May 16, 2008)
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080516-137053/Man-falls-to-his-death-at-TriNoma

MANILA, Philippines -- A man died after he fell from an upper floor of an upscale shopping mall in Quezon City Friday, police said.

The still unidentified man was found lying dead on the ground floor of TriNoma’s carpark building, said Superintendent Franklin Mabanag, Quezon City police district chief for criminal investigation unit.

A report on dzMM Teleradyo said the man, believed to be in his mid or late 20’s, may have committed suicide.

But Mabanag said police were looking at the possibility of foul play.

From the blog of "siopaomaster" dated November 14, 2007 : "NOT FOR THE WEAK STOMACH. Around 6:30pm. someone jumped and killed himself. Photos courtesy of my Informatics students"
http://siopaomaster.multiply.com/photos/album/122/Suicide_Trinoma

GMA News' report on the November 2007 Trinoma suicide
http://www.gmanews.tv/largevideo/related/14193/QC-cops-probe-fall-of-man-in-Trinoma

Suicide in the Mall

Student jumps to his death in mall
By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: September 19, 2009
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090919-226021

A student of a computer school jumped to his death from the third floor of a mall in Quezon City on Friday night reportedly because of personal problems.

The apparent suicide, Danilo Jadd Coronel, 18, landed on the ground floor food court of the SM Fairview mall on Quirino Highway after taking the plunge at around 6:45 p.m.

Case investigator Police Officer 2 Joycelyn Marcelo of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said the victim was a student of STI College and a resident of Camus Extension in Malabon City.

“The victim had a personal problem and he also left an alleged suicide note for his parents,” Marcelo said without providing details.

Initial investigation showed that Coronel and a friend, Crystal Enriquez, were walking in front of Story Land on SM Fairview’s third floor at around 6:45 p.m. Friday.

Coronel suddenly jumped from the third floor and crashed on the ground floor food court, sending his friend Enriquez to seek help from mall nurse Jennifer Subjano.

Subjano, along with customer relation service supervisor Chona Lopez and building official Bryan Balino, rushed Coronel to the FEU Medical Center.

However, the victim was declared dead on arrival by attending physician Dr Eden Lazala at around 7:20 p.m.

OTHER REPORTS ABOUT THIS SUICIDE:

Teen jumps to death in mall
(The Philippine Star) September 20, 2009
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=506817&publicationSubCategoryId=65

Student jumps to death in mall
By: Joel dela Torre, Journal Online
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2009-09-20&sec=1&aid=103313

Estudyante nag-suicide sa mall
Jethro Sinocruz, Abante Tonite
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2009/crime_news2.htm

Woman killed and set on fire

Taguig cops find woman’s body set on fire
reported by Niña Catherine Calleja

THE BODY of a still unidentified woman, who may have been killed earlier according to police, was set on fire on the sidewalk of C5 road in Taguig City Monday past midnight. Police Officer 2 Allan Corpus, Taguig police investigator, said mobile patrol men were making the rounds in Barangay Fort Bonifacio at around 12:30 p.m. when they noticed a fire across the street near McKinley Hill Village.

Upon checking it, the lawmen were taken aback to find out a burning body of a woman. Corpus said the face of the woman was already beyond recognition after the police put out the fire.

The woman, wearing black upper undergarment and short pants, may be killed first before she was set on fire for the purpose of hiding the crime, Corpus said. Police found four cigarette butts and a folded shirt reeking of flammable fluid, Corpus said.

REPORT FROM THE INQUIRER:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090916-225391/Metrobriefs

an UPDATED report by Marlon Ramos

A “trained killer” could be behind the gruesome slaying of a still unidentified woman whose charred body was found near an upscale subdivision on C-5 Road in Taguig City the other day, police said Wednesday.

Senior Supt. Camilo Cascolan, Taguig police chief, said the assailant crushed the woman’s hands before setting the victim on fire apparently to destroy her fingerprints and hide the crime.

He added that it was possible that the victim knew her killer.

“With the way she was murdered, the killer may have been very angry with her. The killer also seemed to know how to hide the crime because the victim’s fingerprints were completely destroyed,” Cascolan said.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090916-225583/Trained-killer-may-be-behind-C-5-Road-slay

The Davao Death Squad

Vigilante-style attacks attributed to the Davao Death Squad (DDS) have resumed here and in other parts of southern Mindanao since August, claiming the lives of at least 22 more victims, officials said.

The situation is “disturbing,” State Prosecutor Antonio Arellano said. Fifteen cases have been reported in August and seven others in just four days of this month alone, he said.

Since 1998, more than 900 people, including those with criminal records and juvenile offenders, have been victims of unexplained killings in Davao City.

THE REPORT CONTINUES TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE VICTIMS WERE EXECUTED

In nearby Digos City, the latest victim was a young unidentified male, possibly a minor, whose body was dumped in a grassy area of Purok Catleya in Barangay Tiguman at around 5 a.m. on Wednesday.

Chief Insp. Anthony Padua, Digos police chief, placed the victim’s age at 15 or 17 years. “He was stabbed at least 17 times in the head, neck, back, arms and belly,” he said.

In the late 1990s, the killers rode on motorcycles and gunned down their victims, most of whom were known to be gang members and illegal drug peddlers. But recently, the killings were done by stabbing.

Some victims were murdered just minutes after their release from prison, while others were executed days after they committed a crime.

In some cases, the DDS warned families of would-be victims.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090911-224645/Davao-Death-Squad-22-more-victims

Woman allegedly sets self on fire

"Woman trader allegedly sets self on fire" By DJ Yap
Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090909-224403/Woman-trader-allegedly-sets-self-on-fire

A businesswoman having deep financial troubles allegedly set herself ablaze while driving her car with her stepdaughter still inside the vehicle Wednesday morning in Rodriguez town, the police said.

But the police said they were not yet prepared to declare the case of Antonia Golez, 58, a widow, as a suicide pending the results of the crime scene investigation and the questioning of the victim’s stepdaughter Princess Rose Ann, 18.

Based on the initial report, at about 8:42 a.m. Golez was driving her Nissan sedan, with plate number TMD -729, along a zigzag road in Barangay San Jose, with Princess in the passenger seat, when the victim allegedly reached for a gasoline container.

Princess told investigators her stepmother doused herself with gasoline and set herself on fire using a lighter while the car was still moving, said Supt. Felipe Abigan Jr., chief of the Rodriguez police.

“Princess escaped by jumping out of the car. When she came to us, she had bruises on her body,” Abigan said.

Eyewitnesses told investigators that “there was no attempt” on the part of Golez to get out of the car, the official said.

Golez, who had a transport business in the town, was reportedly depressed about her financial problems.

The two had gone on a trip to Quezon City to borrow money from someone and were on their way back home when the incident occurred, Abigan said. “Princess said they were not quarreling and were just having a normal conversation when it happened,” he said.

After Golez set herself ablaze, Princess jumped out of the moving car which kept going until it stopped when it hit the gutter, Abigan said.

Firefighters came too late to rescue the businesswoman, who was burned beyond recognition. The car was also totally razed. A scene-of-the-crime operations team processed the scene.

As of press time, Princess was still being held and questioned at the Rodriguez police station. Abigan said she would be released once the investigators had ruled out any foul play in the case.

Masked Gunman

A 27-year-old man was shot dead by a masked gunman here on Wednesday evening, raising suspicion that a copycat of the shadowy vigilante group blamed for the deaths of at least 900 people in Southern Mindanao since 1990s has become active anew.

Al Amen Magarang Abdullah was playing computer games inside an Internet café along First Crumb St. here around 9:30 p.m. when the gunman arrived with another companion and shot him dead, Chief Inspector Anthony Padua, city police director, said.

Quoting witnesses, Padua said the gunman casually entered the Internet café' and shot Magarang. He said the gunman left without a fuss and fled onboard the motorcycle driven by his companion. He said the victim died instantly.

Police investigators said they recovered two slugs and two spent shells of a .45 caliber pistol from the crime scene.

Some residents, who spoke to the Philippine Daily Inquirer, said Abdullah's death could be the handiwork of the so-called Digos Death Squad.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20090723-216895/Man-shot-dead-in-Internet-caf-in-Digos

Murder in the Manila City Jail

Woman visiting lover in jail found dead
By Jeannette Andrade

A 25-year-old woman was strangled to death late Wednesday afternoon allegedly by her detained common-law husband during her conjugal visit at the Manila City Jail (MCJ).

Joan Fernandez, of Interior 60, Zamora Street in Pandacan, was found dead inside one of the conjugal visit rooms of the detention facility in Sta. Cruz, just minutes after her live-in partner Nelson Danao, 24, left her and returned to his cell at dormitory 2 where he is held for a robbery charge.

Police Officer 2 Jaime Gonzales of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section said that Fernandez’s body was found at around 3:45 p.m. by MCJ inmate Eduardo Ruban who maintains the conjugal visit room.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090723-216891/Woman-visiting-lover-in-jail-found-dead

White Lady causes bus accident?

FROM GMA NEWS http://www.gmanews.tv/story/166917/Report-White-lady-blamed-for-bus-crash

A mythical White Lady was blamed for an accident involving a passenger bus that went out control and crashed in the northern Philippine city of Tuguegarao, a radio report said Wednesday.

Bombo Radyo reported at least one passenger was injured in the incident involving the bus (BVB-535) plying the route between Tuguegarao and Santiago City.

Bus driver Rogelio Gaspar said a long-haired woman in white suddenly showed up in his path, prompting him to swerve to avoid hitting her. He said he lost control of the bus.

A local resident, Nonong Decena, said several road accidents had happened in the area, with motorists saying they tried to swerve to avoid hitting the White Lady.

Decena’s claim could not be immediately confirmed with the police.

Kilabot ng Quiapo

Another dead body found in black trash bag. 

(see: The Garbage Collector)

Could all these killings be connected or are they are copycats?




In Inquirer's report: The body of a man, believed to be a victim of summary execution, was found in Manila’s Quiapo district early Friday morning, police said.

The victim was described to be between 25 and 28 years old, about 5'5" to 5'6" in height, of medium built and with "J.R. Sebastian" tattoo on the chest and with a "Sigue-sigue" gang marking on his back, police said.

The body, which bore 29 stab wounds in the chest, hogtied and his face covered with masking tape, was found inside a black garbage bag along Quezon Boulevard underpass in Quiapo, Manila around 5 a.m., police said.

Also found beside the victim's body was a paper written with the words "Kilabot ng Quiapo."

29 stab wounds?

That must have been made by one angry unsub or by several attackers.


READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090703-213705/Body-with-29-stab-wounds-found-in-Quiapo

AND AT:

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=483561&publicationSubCategoryId=65

NOTE: photo above from the Philippine Star

The Ruby Rose Murder

Mafia-style murder: Steel drum, cement
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090612-210050

It took more than two hours for crime laboratory experts from Camp Crame to remove just the first layer of what served as Ruby Rose Jimenez’s tomb: A well-soldered steel barrel filled with concrete and encased in another welded steel box.

Another couple more hours or so were spent cutting open the light blue-colored drum, where the remains of the missing Ruby Rose were eventually found, immersed in soggy concrete.

“The entire thing, including the cement, probably weighed about a ton,” said an officer from the Philippine National Police Crime Laboratory, who requested anonymity for lack of authority to speak with the media.

Counting the hours they spent prying open the tightly sealed container on Wednesday afternoon, experts believed that Ruby Rose’s killers had meticulously prepared for her disappearance with the intention that she would never be found.

“Whoever was behind it really worked on it. The steel casings were welded,” said the officer.

The metal box was fished out of Navotas waters in Manila Bay the other day by local police following a tip from a suspect, who wanted to turn state witness in exchange for a lesser punishment.

A fishing magnate is a key suspect in the Mafia-style murder.

Ruby Rose disappeared on March 14, 2007, after a bitter custody dispute with her estranged husband for their two children.

Last week, police arrested one of seven suspects, said Metro Manila police commander Chief Supt. Roberto Rosales.

CIDG tapped to speed up Ruby Rose slay probe
The Philippine National Police has tapped its Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) to speed up the investigation of the Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez slay case, a Mafia-style murder that sent shock waves across the law enforcement community.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090616-210720/CIDG-tapped-to-speed-up-Ruby-Rose-slay-probe


Witness says 5 killers were paid P250,000
The five men who carried out the gangland-style execution of Ruby Rose Barrameda-Jimenez each received P50,000 from the in-laws of the victim, a suspect-turned-state witness told police.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090615-210490/Witness-says-5-killers-were-paid-P250000

7 suspects in Barrameda slay summoned
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20090616-210715/7-suspects-in-Barrameda-slay-summoned

Ruby Rose father-in-law, 6 others face murder charges
The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) on Thursday said they are preparing the murder complaints against the father-in-law, lawyer Manuel Jimenez II and his brother, Lope Jimenez. Also facing charges are Eric Fernandez, Spike Discalzo, Roberto Ponce alias Abet, Rudy de la Cruz and Manuel Montero.

Montero is the informant who led police into discovering the metal box containing Ruby Rose’s body buried at the bottom of the Manila Bay.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/164718/Ruby-Rose-father-in-law-6-others-face-murder-charges

DOJ: Testimony of Ruby Rose murder witness strong
Newly-appointed Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera said Saturday that the police has a very strong case against a fishing magnate who has been charged with murder for the gruesome killing of a former actress' sister two years ago.

"It's very difficult to pinpoint the exact location of the drum... On the basis of what the police have gathered, merong malakas na ebidensya (there is a strong evidence)," Devanadera said in an interview over radio dzMM, referring to Manuel Montero, a suspect-turned-witness in the killing of Ruby Rose Jimenez, sister of former actress Rochelle Barrameda.

Montero told police that Jimenez was strangled to death and then her body was placed inside a rectangular steel case filled with cement.

The steel case was loaded into a ship with the use of a forklift and then dumped into the seawaters of Navotas.

The suspect's confession led to the recovery of the body of Jimenez, who went missing in March 2007 while on her way to visit her two children, whose custody has been given by the court to her husband, Manuel "Third" Jimenez III.

MORE BODIES
The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO), the lead law enforcement unit handling the case, said Friday that Montero has admitted that their group was also responsible in several other Mafia-style killings.

Chief Superintendent Roberto Rosales, NCRPO chief, said Montero is guiding them in the recovery of the bodies, also stuffed in drums and encases in cement.

“We received reports that the group are behind other killings so we are validating them. Our witness is helping us in pinpointing the exact location of the bodies,” said Rosales, noting that majority of the supposed victims are business rivals of shipping magnate Lope Jimenez.

Rosales said that after the discovery of Ruby Rose’s body, prominent families have contacted him, claiming Jimenez and his group may have something to do with the killing of their next of kin.

“We are uncovering more killings allegedly authored by the same suspects. I’m asking these relatives to come to my office so we could discuss the cases,” he said.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/06/13/09/doj-testimony-ruby-rose-murder-witness-strong

Bones

A Japanese man was carrying the bones of up to 100 people wrapped in bags in his van when he was stopped at a checkpoint in Manila, police said Tuesday.

They want state prosecutors to file criminal charges against Kazuya Tomita, who was detained on April 25 after police inspected his van.

Local media said they may be the remains of Japanese soliders killed during World War II.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090512-204587/Japanese-with-bags-of-human-bones-detained

Another Strange Offering

Fetus found in Sta. Mesa church : A church maintenance worker stumbled Sunday morning onto a fetus left on one of the pews at the Sta. Mesa parish in Manila. Benny Liasmine said he found the fetus inside a shopping bag as he was cleaning the church at around 9:30 a.m. Senior Police Officer 2 David Tuazon of the Manila Police District homicide section said the fetus was brought to the Universal Funeral Homes.

REPORTED AT:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090419-200260/MetroBriefs

UPDATE:
Boy stumbles into 12th fetus thrown in Manila in '09
Joel Aguilar found the fetus placed inside a cardboard box beside the Sta. Cruz Church in Manila's Quiapo district at 2 a.m., authorities said.
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/151172/boy-stumbles-into-12th-fetus-thrown-in-manila-in-09

The Garbage Collector in Binondo?

"A 21-year-old stevedore was found strangled to death then stuffed inside a sack after going missing for 24 hours in Manila. Joselito Mercader, of 325 Antonio Velasquez Street in Binondo, was naked, had strangulation marks around his neck, and his face had been wrapped up in packaging tape when discovered by an unidentified passerby."

Based on the report, the victim was not stabbed like the others that were found in trash bags with their faces covered in packaging tape. See: http://metrocrimescene.blogspot.com/2009/02/garbage-collector-returns.html

Could this be the work of a new unsub?

READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090405-198044/Missing-stevedore-found-dead

Newborn baby kidnapped

"Janet Banico, a 26-year-old bank teller, had already picked out a name for her daughter: Jharian Ezekiah. The first-time mother, however, never got a chance to name her newborn baby after two women whom she met by chance in a passenger jeepney last week kidnapped her, took the infant and then dumped her in front of a church in Manila."

According to the report, the mother was riding a jeepney and on her way to the hospital. She got out of the jeepney to get a cab and two women, who were also riding the jeepney, came down to help her. They joined her in the cab and gave her medicine to calm her down. The mother fell asleep and later woke up in a hospital gown, but she noted that the bedroom did not look like the usual hospital room.

She was kept there from Thursday til Sunday.

She woke up Sunday, 1am, in front of the Sta. Cruz church from across Plaza Sta. Cruz.

There was no sign of her shoes or her bag which contained P18,000 in cash and her cell phone.

Her baby was nowhere to be found.

read the complete report at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090317-194526/Newborn-baby-snatched-from-mother

follow-up report at:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20090318-194706/Cops-clueless-on-newborn-kidnap

Libre's report:
http://www.libre.com.ph/news-a-events/current-news/494-bagong-silang-na-sanggol-dinukot-ng-tumulong-sa-ina

Manila Bulletin's report:
http://www.mb.com.ph/node/199222

Fetuses in plastic bags

2 fetuses found an hour apart in Manila
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 12/21/2008

Two male fetuses were found outside a videoke bar and near an underpass at least an hour apart Sunday morning in Manila.

The fetuses were each placed inside an ice cream bucket with the umbilical cords still attached and the placenta intact.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20081221-179214/2-fetuses-found-an-hour-apart-in-Manila

Another vigilante?

Reynaldo Q. Bartolome, 33, was found dead on Urbano Velasco Avenue in the village of Pinagbuhatan in the early morning of Tuesday. Hanging around his neck was a piece of cardboard with the message (in Filipino): "Don't be like me. I am a notorious drug pusher. I'm the man of Macmac Payapa." The victim sustained a gunshot wound to the head, and that his killing could be the work of vigilantes.

Reported by : DJ Yap, Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090210-188557/Another-vigilante-victim-found

This might be the work of another vigilante or group of vigilantes. The victim did not have any stab wounds and was not placed in a trash bag, like in the other killings.

Still, why does there seem to be increase in vigilante-style killings lately?

The Garbage Collector Returns?

Five dead bodies found in three days.

All the victims had stab wounds
Two of them had gunshot wounds.

All of the victims’ faces were covers with packing tape.

All of them were tied with straw rope or wire. One of them was handcuffed.

Four of victims were wrapped in garbage bags.

One of them was stuffed in a wooden crate with a message that said the man inside was “holdaper”.

Some details of these crime scenes are very similar last year’s reports of dead bodies found in garbage bags : http://metrocrimescene.blogspot.com/2008/08/garbage-collector.html

What’s the connection?


Reported : January 29, 2009
http://archive.inquirer.net/view.php?db=1&story_id=186289

The dead body of Darwin Pajarillo, 29, a fruit vendor, was found inside a wooden crate left on the Quezon Bridge in Manila’s Quiapo district early Thursday morning(3:30am). Written on top of it of the crate was a message that read, “Holdaper ako, huwag niyo ako tularan (I am a holdup man, don’t follow my example).” Pajarillo was hogtied and his face was wrapped in masking tape. He had a bullet hole in the left side of the chest and multiple knife wounds in the neck.

Reported : January 30, 2009
http://archive.inquirer.net/view.php?db=1&story_id=186352

In Quezon City, a tricycle driver found the bodies of two men on Mindanao Avenue at 6:30 a.m. The heads and hands of the victims were wrapped in packing tape. Their bodies also bore puncture wounds, indicating that they were probably stabbed with an ice pick. Police said the two men could have been strangled to death because of the gash wounds and marks on their necks.

One of the victims was carrying a residence certificate with the name of Ruben Saavedra, 52, of Agpangan, Quezon province.The other man was described as between 25 and 30 years old and of medium build. Both were shirtless and clad only in denim pants.

In Manila, around 4:00am, another body of an unidentified man was stuffed into a garbage bag. Like the other bodies found, the man’s face was wrapped with packing tape and was hogtied with straw rope. A wire was looped tightly around his neck and bore several puncture wounds in the chest. The victim was said to be between 25 and 35 years old, 5’3” tall, slim, brown-skinned and having long hair, clad in a white t-shirt with a red lining worn over denim pants.

The garbage bag was found along Rizal Avenue between Yuseco and Camarines streets in Sta. Cruz, which is near Universal Funeral Parlor,

Reported : January 31, 2009
http://archive.inquirer.net/view.php?db=1&story_id=186589

A dead body was found inside the Capitol Green Subdivision in Tandang Sora, Quezon City, at dawn. The victim’s face was covered with packaging tape similar to the two bodies found in Mindanao Avenue the other day. The victim was strangled with a rope, based on gash wounds on his neck, and had a lone gunshot wound on his face. The victim’s hands were handcuffed.

Quezon City Police Director Chief Supt. Magtanggol Gatdula said they are looking for “similarities” in the killings.

“We are scrutinizing the killer’s signature on the dead bodies to establish the suspects’ identities,” Gatdula said. They have not found any conclusive clue on the identity of the suspect or suspects. But he theorized the incidents could be the results of turf war between criminal groups.

“The way it is being carried out showed that it’s all borne out of anger and personal grudge,” Gatdula noted.


some questions:

If they were all done by the same unsub or group, why were there a differences in the way the men were killed?

Was the gun used to shoot Victim #1 the same as the one used on Victim #5?
If this is now a two man crew, is Unsub#1 the one who likes to use the knife/ice pink and Unsub #2 is the one who likes to use the gun?

Was the same type of packaging tape used?

Was the same type of straw wire used?

Why were the faces of the victims covered with tape? To torture them? To prevent them from seeing where they were being taken? To control them? Or maybe the unsub didn’t want to look them in the face while he murdered them?

Why was the last victim handcuffed and not tied up with the same straw wire?
Where did the unsub get the handcuffs? Was the victim from a law enforcement division? Could the unsub be part of some law enforcement division? Or maybe he’s always wanted to be a law enforcer but was denied or never given the chance?

Can the autopsy reveal how the victims died? What was the order of the wounds they received? Where they stabbed first and then shot or vice-versa?

Were all of these executed by a serial killer, a vigilante, or a death squad?

cause of death : unknown

"The body of a 24-year-old janitor was found inside the stockroom of the EDSA-Guadalupe MRT station early Sunday, police said Sunday. Although no external injuries were found on the young man's body, [police were] awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death."

READ THE FULL REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090202-186875/Body-found-on-MRT-station