Caloocan Massacre: Mother, 2 kids hogtied, killed

A mother and her two kids were hogtied and stabbed dead by still unidentified suspects in what initially appeared to be a robbery last Sunday in Caloocan North.

Superintendent William Macavinta, city police chief, who rushed to the crime scene, said victims Marife, 36 and sons Marc John, 12 and Jovrie Ivan, four, all surnamed Ordono, were already in the early stages of decomposition when found yesterday in their home at Block 11, Lot 12, Phase 2 Natividad Subdivision, Barangay 168, Deparo, Caloocan City.

The victims sustained several stab wounds in different parts of the body. Marife was also found with her mouth gagged with a piece of cloth.

Senior Inspector Domingo Alminiana, Scene of the Crime Operatives team leader who processed the crime scene, said the victims could have died between 11 p.m. Sunday and 11 p.m. Monday.

“Nobody among the victims’ neighbors heard anything unusual at the time the crime was committed,” Alminiana told The STAR. He said the nearest neighbors stood about five to 10 meters away from the victims’ residence.

Evidence recovered from the scene were two foot-long kitchen knives, a steel pipe and hair strands indicating a struggle while the crime was being committed. Several fingerprints were lifted by the SOCO team for analysis at the crime laboratory.

Marife’s brother, Ramon Rodney Isaac, told police yesterday she went to his sister’s house at around 11 p.m. Monday after he was informed that she could not be reached on her cellphone.

The phone, including cash and jewelry, were reported missing prompting investigators to initially tag the incident as a case of robbery with multiple homicide. The Ordono patriarch is reportedly working in Korea at the time of the slaying.

Ramon said he noticed that the main door was not locked and entered at the unusually quiet home. He found his nephew Mark John tied in both hands and feet with strips of cloth and dead in the living room. He quickly left and sought the help of barangay officials who in turn informed the police.

The victims’ bodies were taken to the Matias funeral home for autopsy.

Mark John, it was gathered by The STAR, had just graduated from a local elementary school last week.