Three implicated in slay of widow

Homicide investigators of the Cebu City Police Office is set to invite three personalities to give statements pertaining to the body of a 72-year-old widow found with stab wounds inside her house in Arellano Boulevard, San Roque, Cebu City the other day.

Police also learned that the victim, Ramona Ranay, might have been robbed first before she was brutally killed by stabbing her several times in the neck, head and face by still unidentified assailants last December 24.

SPO2 Jay Yballe, one of the investigators of the said case, told The FREEMAN that they would invite Adelina Bayno, Noe Madrista and Beinvenido Capacion alias Toto to their office to give them information about the incident.

Yballe said Bayno and Madrista who are not actually Ranay's kin but both lived together with the victim to accompany her, while Capacion is the driver of the public utility jeepney that the victim owned. Capacion, however, lived with his family in another house.

The three were not around when the body was discovered. A 32-inch knife with bloodstains was also found near the victim's body that was believed to be the weapon used in killing her.

Investigators learned that Ranay earned as much as P400,000 early this month for selling her Isuzu Elf truck, but the money that was supposedly hidden inside the victim's closet in the room was not found. Police are now considering the case as robbery-homicide.

Yballe said that Bayno has just started residing in the house of the victim after Capacion introduced her to be his friend two months ago. Madrista, meanwhile was once the victim's tenant, but when Madrista was laid-off from the company he was working with, the victim accepted him to stay in the house without paying the rent, Yballe added.

Police became suspicious when the three are nowhere to be found and did not even show up at the police station to give statements.

Investigators also learned that Capacion who used to give the PUJ boundary personally to Ranay everyday had asked another person to hand over the money to Ranay that day.

"Maong na-implicate ni sila kay nanglakaw man, wala naman makita. Hasta gani ang pamilya sa drayber(Capacion) wala na sad diha," Yballe added.

Homicide investigators however clarified that the three are not yet considered as suspects, but they must act on the invitation so that they could give their sides on the incident. - Edwin Ian Melecio/MEEV