THE body of an unidentified woman was found stuffed in a cardboard box by the side of the road in South Veranda Subdivision in Sitio Mohon, Barangay Tisa, Cebu City past 1 p.m. Monday, July 17, 2023.
Major Angelito Valleser, chief of the Labangon Police Station, called on members of the public with missing relatives to see if they could identify her.
Valleser described the manner in which the woman was killed as gruesome.
He said the body was wrapped in packaging tape and covered in a white blanket. The face could hardly be recognized. The hands and feet were bound by wire.
He said some parts of the body were bruised which indicated that the victim was tortured before she was placed inside the cardboard box and dumped.
Valleser said the woman looked to be in her 30s, and wore black shorts and a white hoodie jacket.
He said she had some kind of a tattoo on her left hand but they couldn’t figure out what it was.
The police chief said their first order of business is to identify the body. Only then can they proceed with the investigation, he said.
One of the security guards at the subdivision told police he saw the cardboard box past 7 a.m. when he reported for duty, but he just ignored it.
A man by the name of Celso Palomares was in the area past 1 p.m. when he caught sight of the cardboard box.
He told police it was emitting a foul smell and flies were swarming around it.
He flagged several barangay tanods who were on patrol, and they went to check only to find a hand protruding from inside. (BBT / PJB)