The attack left a father and his two young sons dead.
But a Central Police District-Criminal Investigation Unit legal officer said yesterday that all the evidence gathered in the stabbing attack now points to the father as the culprit.
And his two young sons may have been the unfortunate victims of a crime of passion.
"All implications point to the father," Chief Inspector Roger Yalung, CPD-CIU legal officer, said.
Based on the statements of witnesses, particularly that of the surviving victim, Giljean Mabulac, 13, it was their father Gil Mabulac, 38, who was responsible for the carnage, Yalung said. He explained the father repeatedly stabbed his children before stabbing himself.
Yalung said a message on the wall of the victims’ home could not have been written by a child in distress for it was legibly written. "Pa si Kuya Edwin ang sumaksak" was found, written with a felt-tipped marker.
Mabulac was found dead inside their home at NPC Compound, Ambuclao street, Barangay Baesa Mendez, together with his two sons, Gil Jr., 2, and Chris Paul, 10, at around 1:45 a.m. last Monday.
"We have started gathering the handwriting specimens of the father, the kids, as well as that of another suspect Edwin Abalos, for comparison to the message written on the wall," Yalung said.
Abalos, Mabulac’s nephew, who was said to be having an affair with the victim’s wife Gina, voluntarily surrendered to the police upon learning the authorities were after him, Yalung said.
Gina, 33, left her husband and three children last May and is set to leave the country for the US on July 27 to work there as a domestic helper, a decision which her husband opposed.
Gina reportedly told police that her husband often beat up her whenever he was drunk or high on drugs. She decided to leave her family and live with a sister in Taguig.
"Gil often told his neighbors that he would never allow his wife to leave for the US," Yalung said.
He added that the daughter, still in serious condition at the Quezon City General Hospital due to a stab wound in the chest, would be a vital witness in the murder. – Pete Laude