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Saturday, May 08, 2004
P100T reward for Boracay killing info
By Jennifer M. Depakakibo
ILOILO -- A P100,000 reward is being offered to anyone who can provide substantial information on the murder of three Westerners and a Filipina housemaid in the world-famous island resort of Boracay.
Chief Supt. George Aliņo, regional police director, told reporters that a group of people close to the foreigner victims sent him a fax message offering such amount.
"They are giving P100,000 to anyone who can give credible information that will lead us to solve the case and convict the perpetrators," he said.
Aliņo said the nine suspects are still being held by the Boracay police for further investigation.
He added that investigators continue to zero in on the robbery angle, although other possible angles are also being considered.
Investigators found Schoeni's clutch bag during the sweeping operations the Thursday. It contained his passport, plane tickets and credit card. The blood-stained clutch bag was found 10 meters away from the mansion.
German Anton Fausenhauser, who owns a three-storey villa at Barangay Balabag, was found dead inside his house late Monday afternoon. Also found dead were his friends Swiss-born Manfred Schoeni and Briton John Cowperthwaite; and Filipina househelp Erma Sarmiento.
Fausenhauser, a German property developer, is married to a Filipina named Josephine.
Schoeni is one of Asia's best-known art dealers and an owner of one of the largest vineyards in South Africa, while Cowperthwaite, a British national, is a renowned architect.
Their decomposing bodies were found by policemen inside the mansion late Monday afternoon after Faustenhauser's friend Patrick Higgs saw Sarmiento's body when he peeped into window. Higgs was requested by Fausenhauser's wife to check on him when she failed to reach him Sunday.
(May 8, 2004 issue)
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