The suspect allegedly caught inside his mother's house in Bulacan days after the killing.
POLICE arrested on Thursday the suspect in the killing of a 24-year-old engineer whose decomposing body was found in a grassy portion in Guiguinto, Bulacan.
Col. Charlie Cabradilla, Bulacan police director, said they were already interrogating the suspect, who was identified as Darwin de Jesus, also known as “Darwin Hernandez,” a resident of Barangay Tabang.
Guiguinto police arrested the suspect inside his mother’s house in Tabang around 3:45 p.m.
Barangay Chairman Darsee Alvarez of Ilang-ilang said he received information that De Jesus was hiding in that house. De Jesus was tagged as the prime suspect in killing Princess Dianne Dayor, also a resident of Tabang, based on witnesses’ accounts.
The body of Dayor, who worked at a shoe company in Pulilan town, was found by village officials and residents near a creek on the boundary of Barangay Tikay and Tabang in Guiguinto.
Dayor was on her way to work around 5:30 a.m. on July 2 when the suspect robbed and strangled her to death.
Police is still awaiting the autopsy report to know if the victim had been raped.
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