Three people were found dead with multiple stab wounds and their heads wrapped with packaging tape inside a house in Cavite on Wednesday, police said.
Cavite police spokesman Chief Inspector Milagros Sanchez identified the victims as Cristy Chavez Saromo, 36; her live-in partner Edgar Zerida; and cousin Dennis Chavez Panganiban, 20.
Police said the victims may have been killed four or five days ago as their hogtied bodies were already in an advance stage of decomposition when found by Saromo’s aunt.
Sanchez said Saromo and Panganiban’s bodies were found in a room while Zerida’s body was found inside the comfort room.
Investigators have yet to establish if valuables were missing from the house of the victims located at Bautista Compound in Barangay Tramo in Kawit town. No weapons were also recovered.
Sanchez said Saromo was about to meet some friends last Saturday morning, but her friends said she did not arrive and did not answer phone calls. They said they even visited her house in the morning and evening.
Sanchez said Saromo’s aunt, Leticia Chavez Solis, 59, tried but failed to contact her by phone for several days. It was Solis who discovered the bodies and reported it to the police. (report from Paterno Esmaquel II/KBK, GMANews.TV)
