Cops end diggings in Cavite mass killer’s backyard

CAVITE, Philippines – Police authorities in Kawit town have ended their diggings for more supposed skeletal remains in the backyard of slain mass killer Roland Bae.

Chief Inspector Reynaldo Magdaluyo, Cavite head of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said they decided to stop excavating after forensic experts and municipal health workers failed to recover more skeletal remains in Bae’s backyard in Barangay Tabon 1.

“After two weeks of digging, we decided to discontinue the exhumation because we feel that there are no more skeletal remains and bone fragments to be retrieved at the vacant lot,” Magdaluyo said.

Magdaluyo said Bae’s helper, John Paul Lopez, told police that Bae had killed two persons and buried their bodies in the lot.

Bae grabbed the headlines earlier this month when he went into a rampage in Barangay Tabon 1, killing seven residents.

Magdaluyo said several bone fragments found in the lot have been brought to the crime laboratory at Camp Crame in Quezon City for analysis and identification.

“We have to wait for the results of the forensic experts if the recovered skeletal remains belong to Bae’s former helper Teodulo Villanueva,” he said. Villanueva went missing in 2003.

Magdaluyo told The STAR that Lopez will be arraigned this week for 11 counts of multiple murder and multiple frustrated murder and illegal possession of firearms.