Friday, September 05, 2008 Probers: No love notes in text messages By Annabelle L. Ricalde
POLICE investigators looking into the jealousy angle in the Lagamon slay and suicide case said they found no love notes in the text messages of the three cell phones owned by the couple.
Dr. Joe Martin Fuentes, medico legal officer of the PNP Crime Lab Scene of the Crime Operatives (Soco), said they have examined the three phones they got from the crime scene at the Roa Apartments in Ramiroville, Macanhan, Barangay Carmen Tuesday evening but found no incriminating text messages.
Police are investigating the jealousy motive that led Stephen Lagamon to kill his wife, Diana Rose Lagamon, 31, the niece-in-law of Cagayan de Oro 1st District Representative Rolando Uy inside their rented apartment n Ramiroville, Macanhan, Barangay Carmen Tuesday evening.
After killing his wife, Lagamon took his own life using the same murder weapon, a caliber .38 paltik revolver.
Senior Police Officer 3 Edmund Leyros of the Carmen Police Station 4 said Lagamon owned the gun, a replica of the famous Smith & Wesson snub nose revolver, which he carried with him when he came down to Cagayan de Oro City from Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon where he owned a cell phone repair shop Tuesday afternoon.
Leyson said they found three empty shells from the five-round revolver bolstering claims by neighbors that they heard three successive shots as the couple quarreled inside their apartment.
He said the gun had no serial numbers etched in its barrel.
Fuentes said they will conduct ballistic tests on the murder weapon and compare them to the slugs found in the bodies of the couple.
