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