four murder victims found in two cities

Gruesome find in 2 cities: 4 boxes, 4 bodies
By Julie M. Aurelio, Nancy C. Carvajal , Philippine Daily Inquirer

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Gruesome finds came in four boxes in two cities early Saturday.

The bodies of two women stuffed in separate boxes were found a few meters from each other in a neighborhood in Manila, while a man and a woman also placed in boxes were found dead in a garbage pile in Quezon City.

In Manila, the boxes were found on Blumentritt Street, Sampaloc, at around 12:30 a.m., according to the head of the city police homicide section, Chief Insp. Joselito de Ocampo.

Ocampo identified one of the victims as Vita Bautista, 54, a buy-and-sell businesswoman from Bocaue, Bulacan province.

She was last seen alive by her daughter Jacqueline at around 3 p.m. Friday before she left their house to meet a friend on Tomas Morato, Quezon City, the officer said, quoting the victim’s relatives.

The other slain woman found in Manila remained unidentified as of late Saturday. She was described to be between 45 and 50 years old, with short hair and fair complexion.

Both victims appeared to have been strangled, Ocampo said.

In Quezon City, a seemingly related discovery was made on San Jose Street in Barangay (village) San Antonio at around 6 a.m. Saturday.

The bodies of a man and a woman believed to be victims of summary execution were found also stuffed in boxes dumped on a pile of trash. They remained unidentified and, like those found in Manila, bore strangling marks.

Masambong police station commander Supt. Pedro Sanchez said the two bodies were bound with nylon rope.

Wads of newspaper cutouts were also found in the victims’ pockets and the box containing the woman’s body had a piece of paper with the word “budol” written on it, Sanchez noted.

The woman was described to be between 35 and 40 years old, 5’1” in height, fair-skinned and wearing a red blazer, black shirt and striped shorts.

The man was about the same age, 5’3”, fair-skinned and wearing a white shirt with blue stripes, jeans and white rubber shoes.

Case investigator SPO1 Joselito Gagaza said a resident noticed a white van parked in front of the garbage pile about four hours before the discovery of the bodies.

The resident initially thought that the van’s occupants were just throwing away their trash, Gagaza said. But this resident got curious and reported the sighting to barangay officials, the investigator added.

On Aug. 5, the bodies of two men were also found stuffed inside boxes in Barangay Masambong and Sto. Domingo, also in Quezon City.

2011 report on another packaging tape victim

August 2nd, 2011 
Suspected ‘salvage’ victim found
A man with three gunshot wounds, his mouth covered by masking tape and hands tied behind his back was found before dawn Tuesday in a grassy area on Visayas Avenue in Quezon City, a police report said. Police Officer 3 Gregorio Maramag of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD) Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said the victim had gunshot wounds in the head, in the back and in the right arm.

According to him, the body was found by a crew member of a fast-food restaurant on Visayas Avenue who heard gunshots just minutes earlier. The victim was found at 2:45 a.m. at the corner of Visayas Avenue and Road 10 in Barangay (village) Vasra.

The policeman said it was apparent that the victim had been tortured before he was killed. The man was described as between 35 and 40 years old, 5’3” in height, of slim build and with short hair. He was dressed only in a pair of denim pants.—Nancy C. Carvajal

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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.

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 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?