“Tulisan Ko! DU30" (I am a robber! DU30)

CEBU CITY—An unidentified man wrapped in a black trash bag and tied with a packing tape like a mummy was found along the national highway in Barangay Balud, San Fernando town, 29 km south of here, past 4 a.m. on Monday. On the body was a white paper with a handwritten note that read, “Tulisan Ko! DU30 (I am a robber! DU30).” 

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/788152/man-wrapped-in-packing-tape-trash-bag-found-in-cebu

The 2001 UST Murder

The UST Murder that Abolished the ROTC
On the morning of March 18, 2001, 19-year-old Mark Welson Chua's body was found floating in the Pasig river, three days after he was reported missing. He was wrapped in a carpet, hog-tied, with his hands, feet, and face covered with cloth and duct tape.

Mark was a sophomore Mechanical Engineering student who became known for exposing the corruption and bribery in the Reserve Officers Training Corps of the UST in the school's official newspaper. His murder triggered public outrage, and urged the country's lawmakers to pass the Republic Act 9163 or the NSTP (National Service Training Program) Law, which abolished the then-existing ROTC system and gave college students a choice between the ROTC, the Literacy Training Service (LTS), or the Civic Welfare Training Service as a precondition for graduation.

SPOT.ph’s Top 10 Pinoy School Scandals

http://www.spot.ph/gallery/2210/spot-ph-rsquo-s-top-10-pinoy-school-scandals/article/51243#pid=40007 


NOTES:  Mark Chua's killer gets death by Elka Krystle R. Requinta
http://www.varsitarian.net/news/mark_chuas_killer_gets_death

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

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/35229/metrobriefs-72

victim's face wrapped with masking tape

"...at 12:45 a.m. of the following day, the body of a   man was found with  stab wounds in the back along Maximo Viola Street in Barangay Balingasa. The victim, Jonel Mamarinta, 21, was identified by his mother. Authorities found the body after a watchman received a call at the barangay hall reporting the discovery. Masking tape was wrapped around the face of the victim."

FULL REPORT BY JULIE M. AURELIO AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/204405/2-male-victims-of-brutal-killings-reported-in-qc

An Execution in San Juan

Report by :  Kristine Felisse Mangunay 
Two dead bodies found by barangay patrol
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/100977/metrobriefs-127

Patrolling officials of Barangay Maytunas in San Juan City found two dead bodies in a dimly lit area Saturday night. Senior Supt. Rainier Espina, San Juan chief of police, said both victims, possibly in their early and mid-30s, were handcuffed and blindfolded with a masking tape.

Espina said there were details in the scene that seem to indicate whoever killed the men did not want police to have a difficult time in conducting their investigation. 

He said three bullet shells that were found in the scene had been placed on the stomach of the younger victim. The shells were from a .45 cal. revolver, Espina said, and seemed to be consistent with the bullet wounds found in the forehead of the elder victim, and the right and left temples of the younger one. 

Drug Pusher Executed

Apparent victims of summary execution found in Manila
By Jeannette I. Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 28th, 2011

MANILA, Philippines—The bodies of a man and a woman, believed to be victims of summary execution, were discovered five minutes apart early Thursday in Manila’s San Andres Bukid district.

Both bodies bore strangulation marks, had their hands bound and packaging tape wound around their faces.

Placed on the male victim’s body was a sign, wrapped in a clear plastic bag, which read: “Pusher ako. Magnanakaw din ako (I am a drug pusher. I am also a thief).”

Police Officer 3 Giovanni Valera of the Manila Police District homicide section described the male victim to be between 45 and 50 years old, five-foot-four inches tall, fair-skinned, of medium build, and clad in a white sleeveless shirt and gray sweater and camouflage pants.

The woman was also between 45 and 50 years old, five-foot-one inch tall, fair-skinned, and clad in a dark blue shirt and checkered pants.

Neither of the bodies, he pointed out, bore a tattoo mark and they were found separately at Barangay (village) 807 Zone 87 in San Andres Bukid.

Valera said that the first body to be discovered was that of the woman, who was found at around 1:05 a.m. lying on the gutter of a sidewalk along Perlita Street near Dagonoy Street.

Neighborhood watch member Salvador Lligarco was conducting a routine patrol along Perlita Street when he stumbled onto the body and immediately reported his find to the police.

Five minutes later, 37-year-old vendor Ruben Mingote was about to go to sleep on the sidewalk on Sergio Osmena Highway when his pet dog started barking and growling and would not stop.

When Mingote decided to investigate, he found the man’s body dumped on the gutter along the highway near Zobel Roxas Street. He immediately sought the help of roving policemen.

Valera said that both bodies were possibly killed and dumped in the area by the same perpetrators, judging from the manner the victims were executed.

He pointed out that the woman could have been collateral damage with the male victim the suspects’ primary target. The case investigator stressed that the woman could have simply been at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

The bodies were taken to the St. Harold funeral parlor for autopsy.

2 bodies found in San Andres
By Nestor Etoll, The Philippine Star, July 29, 2011

MANILA, Philippines - The bodies of a man and a woman, believed to have been executed, were discovered a few feet apart on a sidewalk in San Andres, Manila at past midnight yesterday.

Police described the two victims as in their late 40s, the man wearing a pair of camouflage pants and a white undershirt beneath a gray sweater, while the woman was clad in checkered short pants and a dark blue t-shirt.

Their faces were wrapped in packaging tape and their hands were tied. A plastic bag was placed atop the man’s body with a message in Filipino: “I am a (drug) pusher and robber.”

Initial investigation showed the bodies bore bruises all over. “These victims could have been suffocated to death,” an investigator said.

A couple told police they were roused from sleep by a dog barking and when they looked around, they saw the body of a man lying on the sidewalk along Osmeña Highway near its intersection with Zobel Roxas street in San Andres.

They also discovered the woman’s body several feet away. No one in the area could identify the victims. Police believe the victims could have been killed elsewhere and their bodies dumped in the area to mislead investigators.

Victims' Faces Wrapped with Packaging Tape

2 bodies dumped in Manila
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 03/23/2011
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20110323-327083/2-bodies-dumped-in-Manila

Two bodies, both believed to be victims of summary execution, were found early Tuesday within an hour of each other in the Sampaloc area of Manila.

Manila Police District homicide section investigators described one of the bodies as between 40 and 50 years old, five-foot-four inches tall, slim, dark-skinned, wearing a white sleeveless shirt and black slacks.

The other was described as between 35 and 40 years old, five-foot tall, dark-skinned, slim, with a mole on the left side of his face above his upper lip. He was clad in a white collared shirt and denim pants, and had packaging tape covering his face.

Both bodies bore ligature marks around their necks.

At around 4:15 a.m. Tuesday, the first body was found along Antipolo Street, Barangay 543 Zone 54.

Police Officer 1 Michael Pavon, of the MPD homicide section, said that before the body was dumped, a resident in the area saw five or more persons hurriedly unload onto the street an unconscious man from a tricycle. Pavon pointed out that once the body was abandoned on the pavement, the group hurriedly left aboard the tricycle and a motorcycle. (NOTE: This is one of the few times that there were witnesses during the body dump and indicates that these acts are done by a group.)

The witness, out of curiosity, approached the body and immediately sought the assistance of village officials.

Pavon said that aside from the ligature mark, the victim also had a cut on his left eyebrow and bruises on his eyes.

The second body was discovered at 5 a.m. at the corner of Laong Laan and Asturias streets, Barangay 471 Zone 46 by village watchman Josefino Santiago.

Senior Police Officer 2 Edmundo Cabal, case investigator, said that Santiago initially thought that the man lying face down on the pavement had fainted due to drunkenness. But when he turned over the man, he discovered that his face had been covered with packaging tape and was dead. The barangay tanod immediately reported his find to the police.

Cabal noted a ligature mark around the victim’s neck, similar to the first body.

Homicide investigators theorized that both killings could have been perpetrated by the same group.

Both bodies were brought to the St. Harold funeral parlor homes for autopsy and safekeeping while homicide section operatives conduct follow-up operations for the identification of the slain men as well as the arrest of their killers.

Two men executed in Quiapo

Manila Police District homicide section head Inspector Armando Macaraeg described one of the slain men as 20-28 years old, six-feet tall, of medium build, and clad in a gray shirt and cargo short pants. The man had a ring on his left ear lobe.

The other, Macaraeg said, was between 30 and 40 years old, five-foot-one tall, and clad in a white shirt and white printed short pants. He had his face wrapped in packing tape.

Macaraeg said both men had their hands tied behind their backs and their feet bound with nylon cord. Oddly, Macaraeg pointed out, the bodies were piled up in the shape of a cross, with the victim in his 20s lying across the other man’s body.

“One had bullet wounds in the face and in the back, while the other had a gunshot wound in the stomach and had a contusion on the forehead,” Macaraeg said, adding both were shot with a .45-caliber pistol.

Police Officer 3 Giovanni Valera, case investigator, said that a witness reported hearing four shot and when he looked out of his window he saw a gray sedan and two scooters speeding away from their neighborhood toward the direction of Claro M. Recto Avenue.

2 victims of summary execution found in Quiapo
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20101210-308162/2-victims-of-summary-execution-found-in-Quiapo

The victim's face was wrapped in packaging tape

Man killed; body thrown into river
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 06/20/2010


The decomposing body of a man was fished out of the Pasig River in Manila before dawn on Sunday.

Manila Police District homicide section investigators described the still unidentified half-naked victim as between 25 and 37 years old, 5’6” tall and of medium build.

His head was wrapped in packaging tape while his hands and feet were tied.

Case investigator Police Officer 3 Jaime Gonzales said in his report that a green towel was looped around the victim’s neck.

Gonzales added that the body was discovered floating in the river at around 3:45 a.m. yesterday near the Del Pan Elliptical Road in Ermita.

(It's interesting to note that in the past couple of years, victims have been found with their faces wrapped in packaging tape, their hands and feet bound, but this is the first time a body has been found floating in the Pasig. They are usually found dumped in some street corner. I wonder what makes this victim different. I also wonder if this victim also had stab wounds/gun shot wounds and if he had gang tattoos, like all the others.)

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20100620-276653/Man-killed-body-thrown-into-river

Is the Garbage Collector back?

Body in sack fished out of Pasig, By Jeannette Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 02/26/2010

The body of an unidentified street gang member, believed to be a victim of summary execution, was found Friday morning stuffed into a sack and dumped in the Pasig River in Manila.

Manila Police District homicide section investigators described the man to be between 45 and 55 years old, 5-foot-7 inches tall, fair-skinned, of medium build and with several front teeth missing. He wore a green t-shirt, black short pants and bore the Commando gang tattoo on his body.

The Commando gang is usually composed of members who have been charged with crimes and have been jailed.

The corpse, which was stuffed head first into a violet rice sack, was found with a towel and brown packaging tape wrapped around the head, steel wire lopped around the neck and feet, and hands bound with plastic straw.

(And I continue to wonder if this crime to related to these ... http://metrocrimescene.blogspot.com/search/label/packaging%20tape)

PO2 Gerry Amores of the MPD homicide section said the body was fished out of the portion of the Pasig River along Muelle del Industria Street, Barangay 282 Zone 26, in Binondo at around 6:40 a.m.

Amores said the floating sack, with the feet of the victim jutting out, was first spotted by a concerned citizen who immediately informed SPO3 Reynaldo San Andres of the Lawton outpost of the MPD Ermita station 5.

REPORT FROM : http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100226-255501/Body-in-sack-fished-out-of-Pasig

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

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 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

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?