Eight victims in one month

2 more ‘salvage’ victims in QC; 8 bodies just this month

By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 21st, 2012 
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/255056/2-more-salvage-victims-in-qc-8-bodies-just-this-month

The bodies of two more men believed to be summary execution victims were discovered by the side of a road in Quezon City Tuesday morning.

The find brought to eight the number of “salvage” victims found in the city so far for this month. All of them died of strangulation and none of them has been identified.

Inspector Elmer Monsalve, homicide section chief of the Quezon City Police District, said that they were still checking their records to see if any of the eight was in their files of known criminals.

According to case investigator Police Officer 2 Alvin Quisumbing, the bodies of the two men were found around 6 a.m. in front of a bakeshop near the corner of Blumentritt Extension and Sampaguita Street in La Loma district, Quezon City.

Both bore rope marks around the neck, a sign that they were strangled.

A resident reported the grisly find to barangay officials who sent two watchmen to verify the information.

One of the victims was described as between 40 and 45 years old, of medium build, with fair skin and a tattoo which read “Jhun-jhun” on his right arm. He was dressed in a black shirt and a pair of blue shorts.

The other man was about the same age, around 5’3” in height, of medium build and with fair complexion. He wore a white shirt and cargo shorts.

Police said the residents did not notice any commotion or see suspicious-looking persons at the crime scene before the bodies were found.

Quisumbing added that the area where the men were dumped was dark.

The first salvage victim for this month, a man, was found on Aug. 4, on the North Diversion Road in Barangay Unang Sigaw.

The following morning, two more men were discovered separately stuffed inside two balikbayan boxes in Barangay Masambong and Sto. Domingo. Last Friday, a man’s body was found on the East Service Road in Barangay Unang Sigaw.

The next day, the bodies of a man and a woman were also discovered in two balikbayan boxes on San Jose Street in Barangay San Antonio.

5 SALVAGE VICTIMS FOUND IN QC, MANILA
ABS-CBN, AUGUST 18, 2012
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/08/18/12/5-salvage-victims-found-qc-manila

Five victims of summary execution were discovered in three separate areas in Metro Manila on Saturday.

The bodies of the first two female victims were found inside two balikbayan boxes abandoned along Blumentritt in Manila. The boxes were about 100 to 200 meters away from each other.
Police said one of the victims was about 45 to 50 years old and the other one was between 50 to 55 years old.

Authorities said the unidentified victims bore signs that they were strangled to death.

Witnesses said a white L-300 van was seen in the area before the balikbayan boxes were discovered.

In Balintawak, the body of a male victim was discovered around 4 a.m. along the East Service Road of the North Luzon Expressway in Barangay Unang Sigaw.

Two hours later, two more balikbayan boxes were abandoned along Lincoln Street in Barangay San Antonio in Quezon City. The words “Budol Ako” was found written on the boxes.

The boxes contained the bodies of a male and a female described to be around 35 to 40 years old. They were also strangled.

Police believe the three incidents are connected as “budol money” was found on the unidentified victims and the manner of death was also the same.

Man found strangled with nails driven into head

Just found this crime report from November 2011, where, supposedly six victims were found who were all killed in the same manner: they all had strangulation marks and had three nails hammered into their heads. Police said the crimes were all gang-related.

Man found strangled with nails driven into head

By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer November 12th, 2011 
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/92819/man-found-strangled-with-nails-driven-into-head
 
The Quezon City Police District is investigating the death of a man who was found dead early Saturday, apparently strangled to death and  with at least three nails driven into his head.
Police said it was the sixth such case so far this year in Quezon City.

Inspector Elmer Monsalve, homicide section chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, said the still unidentified victim was found at around 5 a.m. Saturday on the pavement on Mindanao Extension Avenue in Greater Lagro.

He described the man as around 4 feet 7 inches in height, of medium build, with curly hair and a “Jeffrey” tattoo on his left arm.

A passerby, Jonel Nasam, was the one who discovered the naked body.

Monsalve said this was  the sixth case this year showing the same style of execution.

Monsalve said the victim might have died as a result of gang-related violence as the previous victims were found to have affiliations with street gangs.

The body bore ligature marks on the neck, indicating strangulating, and  had three nails sticking out of the  head.

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

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT : http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/252692/gruesome-find-in-2-cities-4-boxes-4-bodies

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

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

Five dead bodies in Quezon City

2 more bodies with torture marks found in Quezon City—police

By Nancy Carvajal, Philippine Daily Inquirer , January 25th, 2012
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/134191/2-more-bodies-with-torture-marks-found-in-quezon-city%E2%80%94police

Two more bodies bearing torture marks were found in different places in Quezon City on Wednesday, bringing to five the number of dumped bodies recorded by the city police in the last three days alone, police records showed.


Police Office 1 Alvin Quisumbing of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD-CIDU) identified the latest victims as Dereck Page, 25, of Moonstar St., Las Villas del Ciello Homes, Sunville Subdivision, Barangay (village) Culiat, Quezon City; and Gilbert Borja, 29, of No. 4 Ginintuang Landas St., Barangay Sta. Monica, Novaliches, also in Quezon City.

Quisumbing said the body of Page with multiple stab wounds was discovered by a gardener around 8 a.m. at a vacant lot not far from where he lived.

Page’s wife, Maria Cristina, told police she last saw and talked to her husband at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when he went out of the house to gather condiments for the food they were cooking for dinner.

However, she said Page never returned since then.

Meanwhile, PO3 Gregorio Maramag said Borja was found dead at around 1:10 a.m. on Wednesday, at the corner of Ginintuang Landas and Tatlong Hari Streets in Barangay Sta. Monica.

Maramag said the victim’s body bore torture marks and had a gunshot wound in the back and multiple stab wounds in the right side of his body.

Three bodies bearing torture marks and signs of summary execution were found earlier in separate areas in Quezon City.

Inspector Elmer Monsalve, chief of the homicide investigation of the Quezon City Police District (QCPD), expressed alarm over the discovery of several bodies in the space of a few days.

Monsalve said they were still establishing the motive for the killings but initial investigation showed the killings could be part of an ongoing “gang war.’’

another suicide in SM Fairview

Oct 18, 2010 : this tweet was posted on the Philippine Daily Inquirer's Twitter feed. There were other people who posted similar reports and others claimed to have witness the incident.


And here's the Inquirer's report:

MANILA, Philippines—A 19-year-old student killed himself inside a mall in Fairview, Quezon City, on Sunday afternoon following an argument with his girlfriend.Case investigator PO1 Hermogenes Capili of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit identified the victim as Richard Fernando, a student of Fatima University. Fernando, a resident of Lagro Subdivision in Barangay Greater Lagro, sustained serious head injuries when he jumped from the second floor of the mall at around 3:10 p.m. Witnesses told the police that the teenager had climbed over the railings near the cinema and food court area before he jumped. Capili said Fernando was rushed to Far Eastern University Hospital but he died of his injuries nearly two hours later. The victim’s father told the police that his son may have killed himself over relationship problems. The police noted that a check of the victim’s cell phone showed that Fernando had been fighting with his girlfriend before he took his life.

If this person did jump to his death, this would be the second or third time a person has decided to commit suicide in this particular mall.

Here's the report from 2009:
http://metrocrimescene.blogspot.com/2009/09/suicide-in-mall.html

Dead Baby Boy Found in Plastic Bag

an Inquirer report from 2008


...the body of a baby boy was discovered at a tricycle terminal on H. Francisco Street corner Morato Road, Barangay Damayan.


Driver Hermilando Balalad Jr. said he found a plastic bag inside a tricycle as he was parking his vehicle at the terminal.


Curious about its contents, he said he opened the bag and was shocked to see the dead baby estimated to be about seven months old.


Balalad said the baby had a long open wound on his chest.


“It was likely that the baby boy’s chest was cut open. But we’re not sure if his internal organs were gone,” said village chairman Gualberto Casaje.

Two Severed Heads Found

an Inquirer report from 2008


Superintendent Franklin Moises Mabanag, chief of Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU), said the two heads were found by scavengers floating along a creek in Sitio (sub-village) West Riverside, Barangay (village) San Antonio at around 9:30 a.m.


Quoting witnesses, Mabanag said the heads were already bloated and in the early stages of decomposition.


He said they believe the heads belonged to members of a drug syndicate who may have been killed by their gangmates.


“Members of illegal drugs syndicate are known to kill their members in such ghastly ways,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer (parent company of INQUIRER.net).


Mabanag said they invited a woman who had gone to their office Wednesday night to file a blotter entry about her husband and their friend, who went missing after they were allegedly abducted by unidentified men in Quiapo, Manila a week ago.

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.

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

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 Trinoma Suicides

Today's report on the supposed suicide in SM Fairview made me search for these news items:

Dead on arrival (November 15, 2007)
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20071115-100983/MetroBriefs

MALL goers were surprised when a man jumped from the upper floor of the Trinoma shopping center in Quezon City and landed on another man on Tuesday afternoon. Zeno Jerome Pilar, 24, of 1802-A Florentino St. in Sampaloc, Manila, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, according to reports of the Quezon City Police District. Initial investigation revealed that Pilar, an engineer, jumped from the mall’s upper floors and landed on Rico Abendan who was seated on a bench at the Trinoma activity center. Abendon was also brought to the VMMC where he was treated for a fractured left foot. Police are still trying to determine why Pilar jumped. Marlet D. Salazar

Man falls to his death at TriNoma By Thea Alberto (May 16, 2008)
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080516-137053/Man-falls-to-his-death-at-TriNoma

MANILA, Philippines -- A man died after he fell from an upper floor of an upscale shopping mall in Quezon City Friday, police said.

The still unidentified man was found lying dead on the ground floor of TriNoma’s carpark building, said Superintendent Franklin Mabanag, Quezon City police district chief for criminal investigation unit.

A report on dzMM Teleradyo said the man, believed to be in his mid or late 20’s, may have committed suicide.

But Mabanag said police were looking at the possibility of foul play.

From the blog of "siopaomaster" dated November 14, 2007 : "NOT FOR THE WEAK STOMACH. Around 6:30pm. someone jumped and killed himself. Photos courtesy of my Informatics students"
http://siopaomaster.multiply.com/photos/album/122/Suicide_Trinoma

GMA News' report on the November 2007 Trinoma suicide
http://www.gmanews.tv/largevideo/related/14193/QC-cops-probe-fall-of-man-in-Trinoma

Suicide in the Mall

Student jumps to his death in mall
By Julie M. Aurelio, Philippine Daily Inquirer
Posted date: September 19, 2009
http://services.inquirer.net/print/print.php?article_id=20090919-226021

A student of a computer school jumped to his death from the third floor of a mall in Quezon City on Friday night reportedly because of personal problems.

The apparent suicide, Danilo Jadd Coronel, 18, landed on the ground floor food court of the SM Fairview mall on Quirino Highway after taking the plunge at around 6:45 p.m.

Case investigator Police Officer 2 Joycelyn Marcelo of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said the victim was a student of STI College and a resident of Camus Extension in Malabon City.

“The victim had a personal problem and he also left an alleged suicide note for his parents,” Marcelo said without providing details.

Initial investigation showed that Coronel and a friend, Crystal Enriquez, were walking in front of Story Land on SM Fairview’s third floor at around 6:45 p.m. Friday.

Coronel suddenly jumped from the third floor and crashed on the ground floor food court, sending his friend Enriquez to seek help from mall nurse Jennifer Subjano.

Subjano, along with customer relation service supervisor Chona Lopez and building official Bryan Balino, rushed Coronel to the FEU Medical Center.

However, the victim was declared dead on arrival by attending physician Dr Eden Lazala at around 7:20 p.m.

OTHER REPORTS ABOUT THIS SUICIDE:

Teen jumps to death in mall
(The Philippine Star) September 20, 2009
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=506817&publicationSubCategoryId=65

Student jumps to death in mall
By: Joel dela Torre, Journal Online
http://www.journal.com.ph/index.php?issue=2009-09-20&sec=1&aid=103313

Estudyante nag-suicide sa mall
Jethro Sinocruz, Abante Tonite
http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep2009/crime_news2.htm

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?

The Garbage Collector

Late last year, I noticed these reports in the METRO section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

I found the details of the murders / executions curious.

Maybe it was because I was watching CRIMINAL MINDS around that time that I started to attempt to profile the unsub (unknown subject).

If the murders were "gangland" or "vigilante" executions, I found it interesting that the unsub went through the lengths of putting the victims in garbage bags and them dumped them in places where they could easily be found.

If the unsub just wanted to send out a sign to other supposed gang members, then he could've just left the bodies out in the open. Why were they placed in garbage bags? Because he thinks he's doing the city a favor? He wants to show people that he's cleaning up the city? He feels he's enforcing the law?

Well, my speculation ends there.

The complete reports can be found by clicking the links below.

Another dead body dumped in Quezon City
By Jeannette Andrade, Inquirer, First Posted 10/09/2007
http://technology.inquirer.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=93457

MANILA, Philippines -- The body of another suspected victim of summary execution was discovered inside a black garbage bag before dawn Tuesday in Quezon City. The cadaver is the fifth, with a ligature mark around the neck and several stabwounds in the chest, to be found in a month in the commercial district of Cubao.

Investigators of the Quezon City Police District Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit (QCPD-CIDU) described the victim as between 25 and 30 years old, 5’7” tall, slim-built, fair-skinned, and clad in a blue t-shirt worn over denim short pants.

The body also bore several tattoos “Gerry Bonayog” on the right shoulder, a spider on the right wrist, “Michael Siopao” on the lower back portion of the body, and “Macky Ramirez” and “Sigue-Sigue Sputnik” on the upper back.

The victim was found inside a black garbage bag at around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in front of house number 78 Cambridge Street, in the village of E. Rodriguez, in Cubao, by tricycle driver Leonardo Henson.

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Records from the QCPD-CIDU revealed that from January to August this year, some thirty reports of “found dead bodies” were gathered, making up three to four bodies discovered monthly. In these incidents, neither the victims nor suspects are identified leaving the trail to solving the case cold.

Body in garbage bag dumped in QC parking lot
By Jeannette Andrade, Inquirer, First Posted 11/20/2007
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The body of another suspected victim of summary execution was found stuffed in a black garbage bag that was dumped in a parking lot early Tuesday morning in Cubao, Quezon City, police said.

The unidentified man, who police said was a member of the “Batang City Jail” gang based on a tattoo, bore a ligature mark around his neck and icepick stab wounds in the body like five previous slain gangmen who were similarly stuffed in garbage bags that were discovered in the same area.