ZAMBOANGA CITY – A 22-year old woman who had been reported missing by her family was found dead in Zamboanga City in southern Philippines. She was murdered.
Police on Friday said the decomposing body of Rizza May Cuartocruz was recovered at Sitio Cabigan in the village called Maasin. She was missing since February 7.
It was not immediately known whether the woman was raped and killed. Her body was found buried in a shallow grave near a creek, police said. It did not say how the grave was discovered, but claimed that it is investigating a man who is being linked to the murder.
Police said the man’s house is about 100 meters from where the body had been exhumed. The cadaver, it said, would undergo an autopsy to determine how the woman died and whether she had been brutally abused. Her family did not give any statement to journalists.
Just last month, a 26-year bar girl in Zamboanga City – April Rose Villanueva – was also brutally killed and her body dumped in the village of Sangali. The decomposing body had no underwear, according to the police, raising speculations that she was raped before being brutally killed.
A knife and a sweatshirt were also recovered by police investigators from the area. The pieces of evidence, officials said, led policemen to one of the suspects who denied committing the crime, but eventually broke down during investigation and pointed to 2 other accomplices to the heinous crime.
Villanueva, a native of Zamboanga Sibugay’s Surabay town, had been absent from her work for days until the stench and pungent smell of the cadaver led a farmer to the crime scene and reported it to the police.
Police were investigating if the killing had anything to do with the woman’s own admission when the victim was still alive that she had been helping with the authorities in the government’s war on drugs.
It was unknown whether the suspects – who are facing criminal charges – were drug users or not, but the investigation is still going on, officials said. (Mindanao Examiner)
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