MALOLOS CITY—A P200,000 cash reward has been offered for any information leading to the identity of the suspects in the gruesome murder of five members of the Carlos family inside the North Ridge Royal subdivision in Barangay Sto. Cristo, City of San Jose Del Monte in Bulacan.
Dexter Carlos, a security guard, discovered the lifeless bodies of his loved ones early Tuesday morning after coming home from duty at a bank in Makati CIty.
Gov. Willy Sy-Alvarado offered a P100,000 reward as he ordered Bulacan police provincial director Sr. Supt. Romeo Caramat Jr. to step up the manhunt for the suspects and solve the death of Carlos’s wife, Estrella Dizon, 35; children Donny, 10; Ella, 7; and Dexter Jr., 1; and mother-in-law Aurora Dizon.
Earlier Wednesday, San Jose Del Monte City Mayor Arthur Robes offered P100,000 for the capture of the suspects. “Justice must be served immediately for the victims of this gruesome crime. This senseless killing must not go unpunished,” he said.
SJDM City police head Supt. Fitz Macariola said investigators have invited several persons of interest for questioning, but none has been considered a suspect as of press time.
Based on initial police investigation, Carlos arrived at his house at 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, and noticed no one was responding to his calls to open their gate.
Impatient, Carlos climbed the steel gate and from a small opening at a window saw his mother-in-law lying on the floor, lifeless and without her undergarments. Carlos went to the back of the house and was shocked to see the naked and lifeless body of his wife, full of stab wounds.
He also discovered his three children locked up in a room, all dead and with stab wounds.
Indications are strong that Carlos’ wife and mother-in-law were raped before being killed.
As of press time, police have ruled out robbery as motive in the killings, while awaiting results of the autopsy examinations and reports from Scene of the Crime Operatives from the Bulacan Police Crime Laboratory.
Probers said there was no indication of forcible entry, and theorized that the victims knew the killers.