Bloodstains also found in Ecleos’ bedroom

CEBU CITY — Bloodstains all over the Ecleos’ bedroom and the testimony of Alona Ecleo’s brother that he saw Ruben and his bodyguard carry a black garbage bag out of the couple’s house appeared to have bolstered earlier suspicions that Ruben may have something to do with her death.

These new details about Alona’s grisly death were revealed the other day to The Freeman by Enrique Lacerna, chief investigator of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG).

The body of Alona Ecleo, wife of Ruben Ecleo, former San Jose, Surigao del Norte mayor and now the head of the cult group Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association, was found inside a garbage bag bound by masking tape at a ravine in Dalaguete on Jan. 8.

Lacerna said CIDG and homicide investigators found what appear to be bloodstains inside the master’s bedroom of the Ecleos’ house in Forest Hills in Banawa.

He said probers reported finding a shower curtain with bloodstains in the comfort room of the master’s bedroom.

They also discovered bloodstains on the doorknob and on the toilet rug in the same comfort room and on a blue bedsheet inside the master’s bedroom.

Investigators also reportedly found a roll of masking tape, with several hair strands, inside the comfort room.

A bloodstained telephone cord and another roll of masking tape about the size of the tape used to seal the black garbage bag that contained Alona’s body were also recovered by investigators.

All these pieces of evidence are now under the custody of the CIDG and will be examined at the PNP Crime Laboratory at Camp Crame.

Despite the investigators’ discoveries that tend to suggest that Alona was killed in her own bedroom, Lacerna refused to say whether Ruben had something to do with her death. — Freeman News Service