Disclaimer: The incident in this article is a slight adaptation of the real event, but it is not news, it happened in 1997, the plot comes from the official media, for the sake of smooth content, part of the dialogue is based on the content extension, not a real record, please know.
Source of this article: News Report: Philippine News Network "The Criminals in the Rape and Murder Case of the Zhong Sisters Propose to Seek Presidential Leniency"
On July 16, 1997, the two daughters of the Dionic · Zhong family, who lived in the Philippines, went out shopping, and the two said that they would come back at 10 o'clock in the evening.
But before ten o'clock in the evening, it was pouring rain outside, and the mother, Telma, was worried that her two daughters would get wet, so she asked her son Bruce to drive to pick them up.
At that time, Bruce also said: "Mom, sister, how old are they, and they still need to be picked up for shopping." ”
Bruce was reluctant to go, but his mother kept nagging him that made him go out.
He started calling his two sisters when he arrived at the mall, but he never got through.
At this time, he guessed that his two younger sisters might go back, so he went home.
Unexpectedly, after coming back, there was no one at home, and when they saw that something was wrong, the family called the police.
It wasn't until two months later that the suspect was arrested, but when the Bruce family wanted the criminal to be sentenced to death, the criminal's words tickled their angry teeth......
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"Mom, I'm going to the Social Security Bureau today to get my social security card, don't cook my food at night."
On July 16, 1997, Jacqueline, who had just graduated from college, went to get her social security card.
It just so happened that her sister Mary was also at home, and after she finished her own affairs, she invited her sister Mary to go shopping together.
The two sisters, who were supposed to be home at 10 o'clock in the evening, did not expect to return home by 5 o'clock in the morning the next day.
The family was so anxious that Bruce was worried that something would happen to his sister, so he went directly to the police station to call the police.
Bruce's mother, Telma, watched her two daughters go out with her own eyes, and she told the police what her daughters were wearing and what they looked like that day.
Following these two clues, the police began to release information to see if anyone had met the two men.
It wasn't until two days later, on July 18, 1997, that the disappearance of the two sisters became a bit of an eyebrow.
On this day, Ranger Rudy was walking on the top of Tanwan Mountain on the outskirts of Kaka City in the morning when he suddenly saw large red bricks scattered everywhere on the side of the cliff to fix the drainage canal.
Out of curiosity, he deliberately walked forward for a while, but as soon as he reached the edge of the cliff, he was startled by the scene in front of him: "Hello, I want to call the police, I found a female corpse here." ”
As soon as Rudy saw the female corpse in front of him, he squatted on the ground in fright. He didn't dare to look at the woman's appearance at all, so he could only call the police quickly.
When the police got the call, they rushed over.
As soon as the police arrived, they began to get the body up, and when they saw the girl's appearance, they had already determined that the deceased was Mary.
Immediately afterward, the medical examiner began to perform an autopsy on Mary, in fact, even if an autopsy was not performed, everyone could guess what had happened to this beautiful girl.
Because when the police found Mary, Mary's clothes were messy and her body was full of scars.
What's even more unbearable to look at is that Mary's wrists are still handcuffed, and her wrists are also scarred from being bruised.
The family didn't dare to accept the news that their youngest daughter had died, and Bruce had been blaming himself for not picking up his sister earlier that night.
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After finding Mary's body, the police also speculated whether her sister Jacqueline was also there.
My sister has already suffered an accident, and my sister's situation will definitely not be much better.
Originally, the police thought that they would find news of Jacqueline nearby, but they didn't find anything, which made the police wonder if it was the two sisters who were killed by a murderer.
In order to find out the real culprit, the police did not find any clues for two months, and it was not until September 15, 1997 that the police arrested the suspect, 19-year-old Paco.
First, the sisters' mother, Telma, told police that Parker had been courting the two daughters with another man his age, Yoman, since the spring of 1997.
However, the two daughters didn't want to fall in love with them, and they still remember that the two were guests at home at that time.
And later the daughter told herself that the two of them frequently harassed them, which made them feel very annoyed.
Since the two of them didn't do anything and acted aggressively, Telma didn't take it to heart at the time.
Secondly, Paco is young, but he has done nothing less to harass girls, and he has also been included in the national juvenile delinquent list by the National Bureau of Investigation for violating juvenile law.
Moreover, Paco faced the police questioning after the incident, and kept saying that he had nothing to do with the two sisters and did not know them.
Even though I came to their house for dinner, but said that it had nothing to do with them, this is obviously a lie.
Later, the police speculated that with his own strength, there must be no way to arrest the two sisters, and there must be an accomplice.
Following this clue, the police caught the remaining seven suspects.
Originally, it had been determined that the main suspect was Paco, but just when the police were about to sentence, Paco, as the main suspect, provided an alibi......
"Why did you arrest me, I had an alibi on the day of the incident."
Hearing Paco say this, the police also began to be curious, and they also wanted to know what alibi Paco was.
Then Paco spoke: "On July 16, 1997, I was taking a midterm exam at the Culinary School in Quezon City, and I didn't have time to go out. ”
For this, the teachers at his school also testified to him.
However, although he provided his so-called alibi, his classmates had a different story than his teacher.
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Richard told police that he and Paco were eating at a restaurant near the school before 6:30 p.m. that night.
After eating they went to the bar again, and it was 10 o'clock when they got to the bar.
The group played until the early hours of the morning, but Paco's homeroom teacher had Paco's exam sign-in sheet, and he and the two sisters were in different cities, so he felt that he had no motive for the crime, and he was not a suspect.
First of all, before we get to know about this case, let's first understand Paco's identity background.
Paco was born into the wealthiest and most prominent family of Osmei in Cebu City.
Because he is the youngest child in the family, he has been pampered since he was a child.
Perhaps it is precisely because he has been favored by his family since he was a child that he is so lawless.
To prove that he was not a suspect, Paco also provided police with his plane ticket back to Cebu City from Manila, the capital of Quezon City.
There is a distance of 500 kilometers between the two, and there is a certain distance from Quezon City to Cebu City, and there is no way for him to run to Cebu City to kill people in such a fast time.
Judging by Paco's testimony, he did have a lot of point.
If that's the case, he really can't kill people.
But the reality is that what he said was different from the testimony of the police interrogating him.
On the morning of July 16, Paco had a class, but when the police asked him what class he had taken that morning, he could not say a word.
When they saw his confused eyes, the police suspected that what he had said before was false, and if he had taken a class, why did he not know what class he had taken when the police asked him.
What's even funnier is that Paco later gave a lesson, but it was not at all what his teacher said.
Paco said they went to the bar that night and took a group photo, but Paco's face was not visible from the photo, and there was no way to conclude that the person was Paco.
In addition to the lack of face-to-face photos, the tables and chairs on the scene are very out of place with the whole scene.
It stands to reason that the tables and chairs in the bar should all be the same.
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However, the table and chair where Paco was sitting were different from the other tables, and the whole color did not match.
At that time, although there were not many composite photographs, it is clear from the photographs at that time that they were synthetic, so this means that everything Paco said before does not constitute evidence.
Every reason Paco said he was not present was forcefully refuted by the police.
Paco thought he was speaking perfectly, but he didn't know that the police were very detail-oriented, especially for such a major criminal case, they paid more attention to every small detail.
Whether it's the timeline, or everything Paco says.
The police have compared them one by one, and each one of them is not correct, which means that what Paco said is false.
Under normal circumstances, why would people make up a false reason, it is obvious that it is to cover up some facts.
Coupled with the fact that Paco often got into trouble before, and denied that he knew the two sisters, this one after another, Paco can't be considered innocent.
Although the police did not have enough evidence, it is clear that everything that Pale said did not constitute evidence.
As we mentioned earlier, the police suspected that Paco alone could not pose a danger to the two sisters, so they found the remaining seven suspects.
The seven suspects have a very good relationship with Paco, and at the same time, their families are very wealthy. However, when interrogated about them, their testimony was surprisingly consistent with Paco's.
And again, they all provided their alibi like Paco.
Because of their family background and the complexity of the case, Telma later directly approached the president of the Philippines, and even the president stepped in to ask the police to solve the case as soon as possible.
The president has given orders, and the police are under a lot of pressure.
However, they could not find any information about Jacqueline, and later on May 8, 1998, Rucia, one of the eight suspects, was really unable to resist and told the truth.
Several of them were murderers, and since the murder, he has not slept well, and now he only hopes that the police will give him a lenient sentence.
He wants a light sentence, but how can he be given a light sentence for murder? They will eventually pay the legal price for what they have done.