2007.04.20: April 20, 2007: Headlines: COS - Philippines: Safety: Crime: The Daily Tribune: More details released on suspect in the death of Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell
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2007.04.20: April 20, 2007: Headlines: COS - Philippines: Safety: Crime: The Daily Tribune: More details released on suspect in the death of Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell
More details released on suspect in the death of Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell
Police Supt. Joseph Adnol, spokesman of the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) PNP, denied earlier reports that Campbell’s killer is now under the custody of the Ifugao police. Adnol said they were establishing the identity of Campbell’s suspected killer through the testimony of a 10-year old witness. According to Adnol, the witness was physically present when Campbell was killed by the suspect. The local police have yet to produce a composite sketch of the suspect’s description but Adnol expressed confidence that the child can accurately describe the suspect’s face to a police composite sketch illustrator. PNP chief Director General Oscar Calderon said the police have found a blood-stained piece of wood that was possibly used to kill Campbell. He added the police recovered the piece of wood near the house of the suspected killer. “We believe that the piece of wood was used in hitting Julia”, Calderon said. He said the wood was taken in as evidence and is set to be submitted to the PNP-Crime Laboratory in Camp Crame in Quezon City for forensic testing. The recovery of the bloodied, crude wooden club bolstered police claims that Campbell was bludgeoned by her assailant and that her death was not an accident. The police have also told of recovering a box containing Campbell’s sandals, money and a transportation ticket near the grave where her body was found.
More details released on suspect in the death of Peace Corps Volunteer Julia Campbell
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Meanwhile, the PNP yesterday said it was trying to establish the identity and the whereabouts of the suspected killer of Campbell.
Police Supt. Joseph Adnol, spokesman of the Cordillera Autonomous Region (CAR) PNP, denied earlier reports that Campbell’s killer is now under the custody of the Ifugao police.
Adnol said they were establishing the identity of Campbell’s suspected killer through the testimony of a 10-year old witness.
According to Adnol, the witness was physically present when Campbell was killed by the suspect.
The local police have yet to produce a composite sketch of the suspect’s description but Adnol expressed confidence that the child can accurately describe the suspect’s face to a police composite sketch illustrator.
PNP chief Director General Oscar Calderon said the police have found a blood-stained piece of wood that was possibly used to kill Campbell. He added the police recovered the piece of wood near the house of the suspected killer.
“We believe that the piece of wood was used in hitting Julia”, Calderon said.
He said the wood was taken in as evidence and is set to be submitted to the PNP-Crime Laboratory in Camp Crame in Quezon City for forensic testing.
The recovery of the bloodied, crude wooden club bolstered police claims that Campbell was bludgeoned by her assailant and that her death was not an accident.
The police have also told of recovering a box containing Campbell’s sandals, money and a transportation ticket near the grave where her body was found.
On Thursday, police said the identity of Campbell’s attacker has been established and a manhunt has been launched by the CAR police.
Calderon had said Campbell probably knew her assailant as a masseuse who knew the American volunteer is related to the suspect. He said the assailant could be the masseuse’s husband.
He though declined to reveal the name of Campbell’s suspected killer and the masseuse.
Calderon said Campbell could have been killed elsewhere and later buried in the shallow grave in Batad.
He said the police have applied for a warrant in an Ifugao court so it could search the suspect’s house in Banaue, where Campbell was reported to have been missing and whose body was found on Wednesday.
Reports said the suspect disappered after Campbell was reported missing last April 11.
Campbell, a Virginia native, had worked in the Philippines for two years and spoke the local language. She was last seen alive on Easter Sunday while hiking a mountain trail in Batad, a picturesque hamlet fringed with terraced mountainsides planted with rice.
He said the names of the people involved in the incident would be revealed as soon as a case had been filed against the assailant.
Campbell’s body was brought to Loyola Memorial Chapels in Makati City Thursday.
The US Embassy in Manila canceled the scheduled autopsy of Campbell’s remains in the PNP main headquarters in Camp Crame and announced that a team of American forensic experts will arrive today to assist the local police in the autopsy.
Campbell’s body will remain preserved at the memorial chapel’s morgue until the arrival of the American forensic experts.
Police said the findings of the autopsy could be out after nine days.
Jojo Arazas and Sherwin C. Olaes
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