Man and woman, wrapped, found dead along C-5

Couple killed in Taguig 
Reported by Angel Ermita, trainee
Philippine Daily Inquirer
  
THE BODIES of a man and a woman were found on C-5 Road in Taguig City Wednesday morning. Senior Supt. Camilo Cascolan, city police chief, identified the couple as Angeline Ann Flores, 19, and her live-in partner, Jimboy Sabaresa, 20, residents of Barangay Katuparan.

In a phone interview, Cascolan said the victims were probably killed because of a misunderstanding with a man he identified as Mat Sorbito.

“The victims were apparently selling a laptop,” he told the Inquirer although he refused to elaborate as the investigation was still ongoing.

The bodies were discovered by a passerby at around 5:45 a.m. Police operatives said Flores’ body was wrapped in tarpaulin while Sabaresa had been stuffed inside a sack. He had a gunshot wound in the wrist. Cascolan said Sorbito was now the subject of a manhunt.



http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20100421-265717/Metrobriefs

Korean woman found dead in Quezon City

Korean businesswoman found dead in car
By Jerry Botial (The Philippine Star) April 11, 2010
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=565362&publicationSubCategoryId=65

MANILA, Philippines - A Korean businesswoman was found dead in the backseat of her own car in Quezon City yesterday morning.

Chief Inspector Benjamin Elenzano, Quezon City Police District (QCPD) homicide investigation chief, said Kim Young Suk, 52, a resident of Loyola Heights, was found sprawled in the backseat of her blue Ford Lynx (XAR-636) parked in front of her rented house along Xavierville Avenue yesterday at 9 a.m.

The cause of her death is still being determined. SPO1 Mario Turiano of the QCPD’s Crime Investigation and Detection Unit, said according to Sandra Kim, the victim’s friend, Kim owned a coffee shop in the area and had been engaged in business in the country for some years.

Turiano said her face was swollen and no traces of blood were found anywhere near the body.

FROM : http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/04/10/10/korean-businesswoman-found-dead-car

Investigators suspect foul play.

The Quezon City Police Department-Scene of the Crime Operations (QCPD-SOCO) said Kim’s cellphone, jewelry and handbag were missing.

Police said there were also other pieces of evidence which indicate the victim was not alone shortly before she died.

“May maiikling buhok na hindi match sa biktima na nakita sa driver’s seat… kita rin ang undies [underwear], tinitignan [namin] kung may sexual intercourse,” said Senior Inspector Elizalde Odo, team leader of the QCPD SOCO Team.

UPDATE: Based on the limited information given in these news reports,  I asked The Doctors to speculate on the possible cause of death of the victim.

Dr. H said : if there was no sign of blood trauma, it could be due to two things: she might have had pulmonary congestion and so there was a damming back of blood to the upper extremities. Second, it might have been due to postmortem change but this would be together with other signs of postmortem lividity. I think there could be a third one, this person might be a suffering from chronic asthma and that's part of a change in the long time use of steroids.

Dr. D said : Or maybe she was strangled... That would explain the swollen face, different kind of hair in her hand and the fact that she was in the backseat of the car.

Face will get swollen because of constriction in the neck. It would be helpful if there were bruises, hematomas noted in the neck that are circumferential or are in the shape of fingers. That would lead to the conclusion of strangulation.

Different kind of hair in the hand might point to a struggle. Imagine yourself being strangled by someone. You'd try anything to take that grip off your neck... like pulling on the other person's hair. You'd also kick and claw at anything you can reach. So it would be helpful if they found anything under the nails of the victim. Blood, seat material or fabric and dead skin which is not the victims are usually a signs that there was a struggle.

Three more suicides this summer

Suicide cases rising
Nancy C. Carvajal, Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20100409-263324/Metrobriefs

A man jumped to his death from the second floor of the hospital where he was confined after an earlier attempt to commit suicide by stabbing himself failed on Thursday in Quezon City.

In a separate incident, also in Quezon City, a construction worker is now under close watch in a hospital after he survived a suicide try with the timely arrival of his brother.

The two separate incidents brought to nine the number of suicide cases recorded in Quezon City. “The frequency of such reports is alarming and I have ordered a study on how the police can get involved in its prevention,” said Chief Supt. Elmo San Diego, city district director.

PO1 Hermogenes Capili of the QCPD homicide section identified the dead victim as Rene Yurag of Cebu City. Yurag had at least 10 stab wounds in various parts of the body when he was brought to the hospital. Based on his relatives’ accounts, Yurag stabbed himself inside the bathroom of his cousin’s house in Sauyo Road where he had been staying since he arrived from Cebu a week ago. The relatives said they did not know why the victim would kill himself.

Chopped Up Body Found

A report from the Inquirer's METRO section filed by Jeannette I. Andrade
http://politics.inquirer.net/politics/view/20100405-262418/MetroBriefs

A scavenger fished out a man’s torso from a creek in Tondo, Manila the other day. The body part, a Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section investigator said, was found in a sack at the Estero de Vitas.

Last week, scavengers found a man’s head in the same area followed by the discovery of two left legs at the Pasig River and Smokey Mountain in succeeding days.

Case investigator PO3 Joseph Kabigting said there were several tattoos on the torso—the name Edgar on the abdomen and the letters L on the right shoulder, N in the middle of the chest area and C on the left shoulder.