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Panglao Murder-Rape Witness Retracts Testimony
« on: December 02, 2007, 08:42:54 AM »
The so-called star witness in the rape and murder of a 15-year old girl in Panglao three years ago has come out in the open but is retracting his testimony that would have pinned down the main suspect of the brutal crime.

George Marceli, alias Bono, resurfaced last Wednesday, a month after he executed an affidavit implicating one Pingmay Dumaluan, brother of former Mayor Doloreich Dumaluan, as the mastermind in the rape-slay case.

Marceli was presented to the media Wednesday at the Dumaluan Beach Resort in Panglao.

According to Marceli, he was threatened by the police investigator who made him sign “a prepared affidavit” admitting he was among the workers of Dumaluan Beach Resort instructed to throw away the body of Vivian Dumaluan, the rape and murder victim.

The police investigator, Marceli said, who extracted the statements in his affidavit, identified as SPO4 Dominic Ragusta, allegedly threatened to kill him if he will not incriminate Dumaluan.

The witness said he was given P22,000 as initial payment for executing the affidavit but was promised another P500,000. He did not know where the amount came from.

However, Marceli who had returned to his hometown in Zamboanga del Norte, said armed men came to his residence saying that they were looking for him as former mayor Dumaluan wants him killed.

Marceli said he fled to his hometown and sought refuge at his relatives in Kabangkalan, Negros Occidental.
However, according to Marceli, his elder brother Ricky, a worker at the Dumaluan Beach Resort came to their home last month in Zamboanga.

It was then that Ricky discovered armed men whom he said were just pretending to be instructed by the former mayor to kill his brother.

According to the Ricky, he went immediately to Negros Occidental and explain to his younger brother that it was not Dumaluan who wanted him dead but those who paid for him to execute the affidavit implicating the former mayor’s brother in the rape-slay.

George agreed to come with his brother to Bohol and talk to Dumaluan.

The cry for justice for the victim Vivian Dumaluan has been a major issue during the 2004 and 2007 elections.

Vivian, poor relative of Dumaluan, was an incoming high school senior and temporarily worked for the former mayor’s brother as a nanny.

Her dead body was found lifeless about 50 meters from the Dumaluan Beach Resort last April 27, 2004.

-- The Bohol Chronicle


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