Police said the victim, businessmen Jerry Oficial, 38, together with his wife, Perla, was watching television inside their home in Barangay Barang on the night of March 9 when the suspect, Alberto Caldona, 40, who was drunk, attacked him with a bolo for no apparent reason.
Caldona fled after the incident but policemen caught with him in a nearby village.
Superintendent Leopoldo Rivera, municipal police chief, said Caldona admitted that he "tasted" his brother-in-laws blood. Eva Visperas