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