Two domestic helpers have admitted to killing an 86-year-old woman in Paranaque City — the sister of a public relations practitioner — last May 4 and taking her ATM card to get her money, then framing another house helper for the crime.
Agents of the National Bureau of Investigation filed charges of robbery with homicide against the two suspects, named “Ken” and “Juliet”, after they owned up to the killing of Noemi Dacuycuy.
A month after leaving their employer bloodied and lifeless at her home, the two were caught on CCTV video withdrawing money from a bank using the victim’s ATM card. They later pointed to their fellow helper, a man, as the suspect to the Paranaque police.
But invited for questioning by the NBI after the video was discovered, the suspects admitted tearfully to the slaying, then agreed to reenact the crime for investigators.
Authorities also learned that the two suspects had stolen jewelry and other items from the suspect before, but had forgiven them for it.
The Dacuycuy family also asked the police to free the framed house helper, which the NBI said they would coordinate with the local authorities.
“We will talk to (the Philippine National Police) to withdraw the case filed against the houseboy who was innocent,” said Jerome Bomediano, chief of the NBI Anti-Organized and Transnational Crimes Division, in an ABS-CBN report.