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

Batang City Jail gang members executed

Heavily tattooed men found dead in Quiapo
By Jeannette Andrade, Philippine Daily Inquirer 08/03/2010

MANILA, Philippines—The bodies of two heavily tattooed gang members, believed to be victims of summary execution, were discovered early Tuesday, after they were dumped under a bridge in Quiapo, Manila.

Both members of the Batang City Jail had been strangled to death before they were dumped.

Police Officer 3 Jay Santos of the Manila Police District (MPD) homicide section identified the victims as Jimmy Reyes, 31, of Oroquieta Street in Sta. Cruz; and an alias “Ivan,” whom he described to be between 30 and 40 years old, with his hair dyed. Both men bore tattoos all over their bodies and were half-naked.

Santos said that their bodies were discovered by a street sweeper at around 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday, near a shop under the Quezon Bridge in Quiapo.

The case investigator revealed that street sweeper Noel De Castro, of the Leonel Waste Management Incorporated, was cleaning the streets near a handicraft store under the bridge when he stumbled onto the bodies which were slumped on the concrete pavement.

He immediately sought police assistance from the MPD Sta. Cruz Station 3 Barbosa outpost.

Santos observed ligature marks around the necks of the bodies showing that they were strangled to death. The bodies were brought to the St. Yvan funeral parlor for autopsy and safekeeping.

Homicide investigators are conducting follow-up operations to determine the motive and to identify the killers.

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20100803-284721/Heavily-tattooed-men-found-dead-in-Quiapo

he came in the police station with a plastic bag containing a severed head

Boss beheaded by unpaid worker
by Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer

Manila policemen were preparing murder charges on Wednesday against a young man who admitted he killed and then beheaded his 59-year-old employer in Quiapo over the weekend because he had not been paid his wages for two weeks.

According to Chief Insp. Erwin Margarejo, chief of the Manila Police District homicide division, Srejan Sia, 24, a stay-in helper at Bernadette Eatery on San Rafael Street, Quiapo, Manila, is facing murder charges for the death of his employer, Jimmy Preston, 59.

Policemen at the Plaza Miranda Police Community Precint in Quiapo were shocked when the suspect surrendered to them on Tuesday night with a plastic bag containing the bloated and severed head of a man.

Senior Insp. Rodolfo Samoranos, the precinct commander, said the suspect later admitted to him that the head belonged to Preston and added that he was the one who killed the victim.

The headless body of the victim was found inside the bathroom wrapped in plastic sheet and lying in an improvised bath tub. Police also recovered two knives and a hammer believed to be used in the killing.

At the police station, Sia, who spoke in broken English and appeared restless, said he killed his employer because he had not been paid for the past two weeks.

Prior to the victim's death, the suspect said he was asking for his salary but the victim refused, resulting in a heated argument between them.

The suspect said he first hit the victim on the head with a piece of wood before he decided to cut off his penis, ears and then the head using a machete.

"I cut his dick and ears because I want them to blame the dogs," he said, adding that he later decided to surrender the head of the victim to the authorities.

"I don't know where to bury him so I surrendered his head," the suspect added.

Police said the suspect appeared mentally ill and are looking into reports that the victim had a romantic relationship with the suspect.

The suspect is now detained at the MPD headquarters.

READ THE COMPLETE REPORT AT:
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20090930-227722/Boss-beheaded-by-unpaid-worker

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 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 Firestarter

Here’s another case that I noticed in the Inquirer last year, mainly because the circumstances reminded me of one of stories in TRESE.

The two women were found burned in two separate motels. They were found two days apart.

The first woman was around 60 to 65 years old. She was found in Sweet Hotel at the corner of Rizal Avenue and C.M. Recto Street in Sta. Cruz, Manila in Room 320. The staff noticed thick smoke coming out of the room around 2am, which prompted them to open the door. In the room police found pink shorts, a yellow shirt with the name “Norma” on it, and a pair of beige shoes which could’ve belonged to the victim.

The second woman was around 30 to 35 years old. She found in Happy Inn Motel on Palma and Paterno Streets, Quiapo in Room 207. She was found naked on the bed, wrapped in a blanket. The body was found at 5:25pm. In the room, police found denim jeans, a pink belt, a pink T-shirt, yellow blouse, shoulder bag and rubber shoes that could have belonged to the victim.

In the autopsy, smoke was found in the lungs of both victims, indicating that they were burned alive.

Chief Insp. Dominador Arevalo, head of the Manila Police District homicide division, said the inability to identify both victims and the suspect made further investigation difficult. In a report posted on Feburary 29, 2007, the bodies were brought to Popular Funeral Homes and were not yet claimed.

The homicide chief said the crimes could have been done by the same person who was described as around 30-35-years old, male, about 5’6” in height. He reportedly stayed overnight in the motels with the victims. The artist’s sketches of the man in both incidents were similar, Arevalo said. In the case of the second victim, the room was registered in the name of Marvin Cachola.

So, were both crimes committed by the same unsub?

In both crimes, the witnesses saw the victims enter the motel with the unsub, which meant the victims knew the unsub. They trusted him enough to go with him into the room.

Was the first crime his “dress rehearsal”? Maybe the unsub chose an older victim, which he could easily subdue and the second victim was he intended target.

No other incidents were reported after those two victims.

Although, it is interesting to note that in the past year, there have been a lot of fires throughout the city. Is it possible that those fires were started by the same unsub and that there were victims that weren’t discovered because the fire burned up the whole building?

Below are links to the reports:

1
Badly burned body of woman found in hotel room
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080223-120654/Badly-burned-body-of-woman-found-in-hotel-room
By Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 02/23/2008

2
Another woman burned in motel
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/metro/view/20080224-120937/Another-woman-burned-in-motel
By Allison Lopez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 02/24/2008

3
Woman in motel fire burned alive
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080225-120979/Woman-in-motel-fire-burned-alive
By Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 02/25/2008


4
Woman’s burned body found in motel
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080226-121192/Womans-burned-body-found-in-motel
By Tina Santos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 02/26/2008

5
2 burned women found in motels remain unidentified
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20080229-121874/2-burned-women-found-in-motels-remain-unidentified
By Allison Lopez, Philippine Daily Inquirer, First Posted 02/29/2008