Published By Sunday Post
The rise and fall of this hotel magnate is a textbook story of legends that makes good copy for interesting news stories.
Rising from poverty to own a hotel and other money-making enterprises, it was indeed a rags-to-riches saga for this poor boy from Antequera who then made good in this city.
The intrepid life story of Taray dated back to his school days as a working student at the University of Bohol. He then completed his Bachelor of Commerce degree, a course he used as his ticket to a promising career in business entrepreneurship.
It was not until he earned his pile when his marriage was headed to splitville after a supposed third party came into the picture.
This was the sordid spectacle of the life and times of Victorino Taray who was killed Thursday morning after attending mass at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Ubujan district this city.
Considering his prominence in the city’s hotel circuit, his murder immediately became the subject of radio talk shows.
The big question: who has the motive to kill Taray.
At first, the account of the killing purely centered on allegations that he has no known enemies in business. Business rivalry was then ruled out with dispatch.
As the circumstances of the murder started to trickle in, lawyer Nereo Zamora II bared a sketchy report of a marital break-up between the couple. He stopped short of telling DYTR News that he was the lawyer of at least three cases-one criminal and two civil with Taray as the respondent.
WIFE DENIES HAND IN HUBBY SLAY
Speaking through her lawyer Esther Gertrude Biliran, the wife Aurelia Taray dispelled rumors circulating around that she might be behind the killing of her husband.
Saying that she was still in a state of emotional shock, Mrs. Taray said she came out with the statement as prepared by her lawyer “to clear her nameâ€.
Estranged since last year, their relationship turned sour, after it was reported that her husband had maintained another woman.
Mrs. Taray also said that even if they were no longer living under one roof, she denied having a role in his husband’s murder. She said she does not use violence to seek justice adding she allowed the wheels of justice to turn through the cases she has filed in court.
The hotelier was supposed to appear during Thursday hearing where he was the respondent of a criminal filed by his wife for marital infidelity. Taray was supposed to be arraigned that day before the sala of Presiding Judge Achilles Melicor.
Two civil cases also filed by his wife against the victim was for violation of Section (1) of Republic Act 9262 otherwise known as Violence Against Women and their Children Act. The two civil cases are pending before Judge Melicor after the family court Judge Venancio Amila inhibited from handling the two civil cases.
THIRD PARTY
As a result of the case of marital infidelity, it was gathered that police were looking into the possibility of a third party being involved in the slaying of the hotel owner. Taray was reported living at the Via Bohol Tourist Inn along Graham Avenue when he was still alive while his wife was residing at their conjugal abode in Basak, Taloto.
As to Taray having kept an alleged paramour, it was learned that the lady is working in the Taray-owned tourist inn.
A reliable source revealed that the other woman earned her keeps while working in the United States. Right now, she is said to have managed a school for the deaf and the blind.
The same report said that the other woman has a husband who is hooked into drugs and this was the reason that their marriage was also on the rocks.
URGENT MOTION
As the wife was nursing the pain of losing her husband, reports reaching the Post indicated that only the other day, she filed an urgent motion for immediate closure of Via Bohol Tourist Inn and Immediate Stoppage of Business with Judicial Separation of Properties and Businesses with Application for Receivership and Prayer for Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction.
In her urgent petition, Taray’s estranged wife mentioned of the couple’s properties that included the tourist inn, a boarding house along Torero St., the Relvic Enterprises Native Products in Taloto district and the Relvic Nino Oishimanju Food House at the Island City Mall.
During happier days, the Tarays built around their fortune selling Antequera-made native products and sold them in wholesale basis to buyers. They then constructed the four-storey pension house along Graham Avenue. The Tarays have two children.
WIFE BARRED FROM SEEING DEAD BODY
Another sad episode of their broken marriage was when the wife pleaded to relatives to see the remains of his estranged husband while at the hospital morgue.
According to Mrs. Taray, she went to the Ramiro morgue to request the parents and siblings of her husband that she be allowed to view the remains of her dead partner.
When Mrs.Taray and her lawyer made the request to the husband’s relatives they were told that it would be better if they would not show up at the morgue and even during the vigil.
Given the negative response of the Taray family, the wife and her counsel have no other recourse but to heed to their request not to show themselves there.
Meanwhile, City Mayor Dan Neri Lim called on the local National Bureau of Investigation to look into the Taray murder and ferret out the perpetrator as early as possible.
At the same time, the city mayor Also ordered the dismantling of a makeshift hut located just across the murder scene. He said the hut was used by the suspect in waiting for his target before morning murder took place.
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