Suspect in 2010 rape-slay nabbed

CABANATUAN CITY – The Palayan City police arrested last Friday the prime suspect in the brutal rape-slay of a 20-year-old Filipino-Swiss in 2010.

Superintendent Eli Depra, station commander, identified the suspect as Felix Lasala, alias Piting, 43, of Puerto Galera, Occidental Mindoro.

Lasala is listed as Parañaque’s fifth most wanted man with a P200,000 reward for his arrest.

Lasala was arrested in his hideout in Barangay Atate by a 15-man arresting team led by Depra.

Lasala was tagged in the rape-slay of Glaudia Schnelli, 20, a graduating student at the Lyceum of the Philippines University in Manila on Dec. 3, 2010. Schnelli was found naked with multiple stab wounds in her home at Matias street, Better Living Subdivision, Parañaque City.