04 October 2005
Police, NBI still draw blank on judge’s slay
NATIVIDAD – The police and the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) are still facing a blank wall in their investigation of the brutal slaying of the presiding judge of a Regional Trial Court in Pasay City last Friday, Sept. 23.
The NBI joined the investigation of the case upon the request of the family of slain RTC Judge Estrellita Mariano Paas, 61, who was found by her husband in the comfort room of their house, both hands tied behind her back with a wire and bloodied all over from stab wounds in the nape and head.
A Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) team of the police that examined the body of the judge believes that Paas was killed five or six hours before.
Senior Insp. Bernardo Aromin, Natividad police chief, said they are not ruling out robbery as the motive for the killing although the P14,000 cash and jewelry of the victim were intact.
Discovered missing from the house were the lady judge’s cellphone, a digital camera and a licensed cal. 22 pistol.
Aromin hinted the suspects might have sneaked in when the husband of the judge left the house to induct student officers of a private high school in the town.
Judge Paas was on vacation from work at the time of the incident. She and her husband, a lawyer, and retired Ombudsman, live in Poblacion west here, in front of the Natividad Central School.
The police are also eyeing the possibility that the motive for the brutal slaying was work-related.
Paas was the second trial court judge murdered in Pangasinan. The first was RTC Judge Oscar Uson assigned in Tayug, Pangasinan, who was ambushed and killed by unidentified gunmen on the Asingan-Sta Maria bridge on his way home about three years ago. Uson’s case has remained unsolved.
Philippine National Police Director General Arturo Lomibao gave investigators till today, Sunday, to solve or at least find some leads in connection with the brutal slaying.
Lomibao, who flew in here last Wednesday to personally look into the progress of the investigation of the case, told newsmen he was hoping that investigators could solve the case or at least gather some leads before the lady judge is interred at the municipal cemetery here today Oct. 2.
Lomibao said he talked to the son of the victim, Ronald, a lawyer, who requested that if possible, prior to the interment of his mother, the police shall have already gathered some leads on the identities of the perpetrators including their motives.
“I promised him that we will try our best to identify the suspects and if they (police) can not file the case yet, they shall have at least determined the motives of the suspects so that we can facilitate the filing of the case,” Lomibao said.
He said that based on his talk with investigators, they are following up some leads.
Asked if he was creating a task force purposely to go after the killers of the lady judge, Lomibao said there was no need for it as the PNP Provincial Director of Pangasinan “is on top of the situation.”
“My advice to Colonel Purisima is to talk with the NBI and the (Paas) family so that there would be only one lead agency in the investigation of the case,” Lomibao said, adding, that whichever agency is chosen by the family to be the lead agency, the other agency will have to extend support.
The NBI joined the investigation of the case upon the request of the family of slain RTC Judge Estrellita Mariano Paas, 61, who was found by her husband in the comfort room of their house, both hands tied behind her back with a wire and bloodied all over from stab wounds in the nape and head.
A Scene of the Crime Operations (SOCO) team of the police that examined the body of the judge believes that Paas was killed five or six hours before.
Senior Insp. Bernardo Aromin, Natividad police chief, said they are not ruling out robbery as the motive for the killing although the P14,000 cash and jewelry of the victim were intact.
Discovered missing from the house were the lady judge’s cellphone, a digital camera and a licensed cal. 22 pistol.
Aromin hinted the suspects might have sneaked in when the husband of the judge left the house to induct student officers of a private high school in the town.
Judge Paas was on vacation from work at the time of the incident. She and her husband, a lawyer, and retired Ombudsman, live in Poblacion west here, in front of the Natividad Central School.
The police are also eyeing the possibility that the motive for the brutal slaying was work-related.
Paas was the second trial court judge murdered in Pangasinan. The first was RTC Judge Oscar Uson assigned in Tayug, Pangasinan, who was ambushed and killed by unidentified gunmen on the Asingan-Sta Maria bridge on his way home about three years ago. Uson’s case has remained unsolved.
Philippine National Police Director General Arturo Lomibao gave investigators till today, Sunday, to solve or at least find some leads in connection with the brutal slaying.
Lomibao, who flew in here last Wednesday to personally look into the progress of the investigation of the case, told newsmen he was hoping that investigators could solve the case or at least gather some leads before the lady judge is interred at the municipal cemetery here today Oct. 2.
Lomibao said he talked to the son of the victim, Ronald, a lawyer, who requested that if possible, prior to the interment of his mother, the police shall have already gathered some leads on the identities of the perpetrators including their motives.
“I promised him that we will try our best to identify the suspects and if they (police) can not file the case yet, they shall have at least determined the motives of the suspects so that we can facilitate the filing of the case,” Lomibao said.
He said that based on his talk with investigators, they are following up some leads.
Asked if he was creating a task force purposely to go after the killers of the lady judge, Lomibao said there was no need for it as the PNP Provincial Director of Pangasinan “is on top of the situation.”
“My advice to Colonel Purisima is to talk with the NBI and the (Paas) family so that there would be only one lead agency in the investigation of the case,” Lomibao said, adding, that whichever agency is chosen by the family to be the lead agency, the other agency will have to extend support.
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hhhhhhhhhmmm..have the authorities thought of investigating the husband? there is no forced entry, is there? no robbery moyive, is there? just a thought..
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