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Police have filed homicide and robbery charges against the maid of a German and his Boholana wife, who were killed last week at their house in barangay Laya, Baclayon town.

SSupt Eduardo Ingking, provincial police chief, told the Chronicle that Virginia Saluta, 34, failed in a lie-detector test conducted by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).

A live-out gardener and driver also took the lie-detector test and passed it, Ingking said.

Saluta is currently detained at the Bohol Police Provincial Office (BPPO) in Camp Dagohoy, this city while Provincial Prosecutor Macario Delusa set the preliminary hearing on May 2.

Ingking said evidence so far gathered by police indicated that other persons might have helped the suspect in killing her employers, Helmut Malinka, 64, a retired airline engineer from Hamburg, Germany and his wife Eutiquia Missiona, 59, a native of Loboc town.

The bodies of the couple were found in separate bedrooms of their house in Laya in the morning of April 13 after Saluta reported to police that armed men had broken into the house more than five hours earlier.

Saluta told police that robbers broke into the house at around 2 a.m. on April 13 and tied her up at the servants' quarters before killing the couple. She said she was able to free herself later and ask for help.

Malinka was hogtied and stabbed eight times in the chest and was hit in the head. His wife suffered two stab wounds.

Police said however they found no signs of forced entry into the house. They also found it "unusual" for Saluta to call for help in the neighborhood, wearing fresh clothes, while they also recovered bloodstained clothes from the maid's quarters.

This piece of evidence, according to Ingking, is now being examined at the PNP crime laboratory in Cebu City.

Blood sample was also taken from the murdered couple's pet dog to check if intervention has been made, Inking said.

Meanwhile, the first secretary of the German Embassy, Ina Duehring Patel, lauded the Bohol police and the NBI for being "unusually efficient and prompt action" in their investigations and the filing of charges against the suspect.

Ingking immediately established a contact with the German embassy last week to report their findings of their investigations while creating Task Force Malinka, a joint probe team of the provincial PNP, CIDG and NBI.

The Bohol PNP chief have assured the German embassy that investigations are ongoing to arrest the cohorts of the maid.

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