Suspect in Feliciano murder wants to yield?

One of the four members of the gang that perpetrated the grisly rape-slay of La Salle graduate, Claudine Mabel Feliciano, has reportedly sent feelers to surrender to Parañaque City Mayor Joey Marquez.

Sources at the Parañaque police said a female caller had called Superintendent Ronald Estilles, Parañaque police chief, over the weekend inquiring about the mayor’s P500,000 reward and procedures in applying for the government’s Witness Protection Program.

But Marquez declined to confirm the report of an imminent surrender but said that he was regularly monitoring developments on the police investigation of the case.

"I want a swift solution of the case. Because of this, we will welcome any information that will lead to the arrest of the suspects," Marquez said.

Marquez revealed that he will be conferring with the city’s legal office to discuss the possibility of a surrender of one of Feliciano’s killers. "I think we can extend protection to any suspect that will surrender as long as he or she is the least guilty," Marquez said.

Estilles revealed that two of Feliciano’s four to six abductors had raped her. "Examination of Feliciano’s body showed that there were two rapists," Estilles said.

The police chief also refused to neither confirm nor deny that a suspect had called him inquiring about the possibility of surrender.

"We are withholding information in the meantime. I do not want to jeopardize our follow-up operations," Estilles said.

Feliciano’s naked and hogtied body was found dumped along the banks of a creek in San Antonio Valley 3, in Sucat, on the morning of March 11.

She was last seen by friend, Myra Dacanay, whom she had driven to her Ayala Alabang Village home in Muntinlupa City.

Feliciano was driving back to her house in Parañaque when she disappeared. It was learned that she called her father, Rolly, on her mobile phone to say that she was on her way home. Nothing was heard from her since. – Rainier Allan Ronda