By Allan I. Varquez and Garry A. Cabotaje
Sun.Star Cebu, Thursday, April 15, 2010
GERALDINE Gella, 27, sent off at the airport last Tuesday night an American man who used to be her boyfriend. About six hours later, she strangled his current girlfriend.
Gella told police investigators it was self-defense.
She tried to cover her tracks by stuffing the victim, Marylyn Zacal, 22, inside a suitcase and dumping the body in a grassy lot in Talisay City.
But her brother, who refused to help her get rid of the body, called the police while she was away.
When the single mon returned to her home in Barangay Buaya, Lapu-Lapu City, a police team was waiting.
Homicide investigator SPO1 Rolito Jumao-as hasn’t ruled out the possibility the attack was planned.
“Siya mao’y akong nakita nga dunay motibo sa pagpatay (She seems to have a motive for attacking),†he said.
Police have yet to decide whether to file a case for obstruction of justice against taxi driver Jay Blanco, who picked up Gella in Lapu-Lapu, placed her heavy suitcase inside the car and drove her to Talisay City.
Blanco said he had no idea the bag contained a dead woman—until Gella asked her to dump its contents.
“Oy, tawo man lagi na, day,†Blanco recalled his reaction.
Zacal’s older sister Mary Joy said in a televised report that she is convinced the killing was premeditated, because the suspect was jealous.
She said she told Marylyn not to see Zacal, who called her up invited her to go out Tuesday night.
“Akong gibadlong akong manghod kay dili ko mosugot nga magkita sila pero akong manghod ang wala magpapugong ka’y amiga ra kuno sila (I told her I wouldn’t let her see Zacal but she insisted. She said they were friends),†she said.
Gella sent off her ex-boyfriend Mark Mosley, 48, at the Mactan airport where he had a 9 p.m. flight last Tuesday.
In an interview, Gella said she and Mosley broke up two years ago because of Zacal, but that she and the new girlfriend stayed friends.
She called up Zacal and invited her to go out dancing. They meet at a bar in Lahug, where they drank some tequila and Tanduay rum.
Gella said she brought Zacal to her house in Buaya because the latter wanted to see what appliances the American national had bought for her.
Gella, who hails from Tabango, Leyte, said she told Zacal she received P16,000 to P20,000 a month from Mosley. Zacal reportedly said she received only P4,000 to P6,000.
Zacal, according to Gella, clenched her fists and tried to grab her hair twice. They grappled until Zacal fell on the bed. That’s when, Gella said, she grabbed an electrical cord and tied it around Zacal’s neck.
“Wala na siya makasukol nako kay iyang usang kamot nadat-ugan man sa unlan og ang usa natabonan sa habol (She couldn’t fight back because one of her hands was under a pillow, while the other was under a blanket),†said Gella.
But PO2 Epifanio Comedido, a homicide investigator with the Talisay City police, said the victim had no other bruises or marks except for those on her neck.
There were no signs of a fight. He said Zacal, who was bigger and taller than Gella, could have been killed in her sleep.
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