A group of robbers murdered a Filipino woman and her German husband and later threw their bodies into a sea in Barangay Maño, San Remigio, Northern Cebu, police have said.
The police are looking for six men who were allegedly responsible for the crime.
According to Police Major Ian Macatangay, San Remigio police chief, the six suspects were known robbers in the town. Of them two were identified by police after securing testimony from witnesses.
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Earlier police recovered the corpses of Joseph Hanz Wind, 62, and his Filipina wife, Zenaida, 62, at the coastline of Barangay Maño, San Remigio on Thursday morning, November 25, 2021. Following this a manhunt was launched,
Both bodies were heavily decomposed while their feet were tied when police recovered them.
Police have said the couple was robbed and tortured before they were killed and a fisherman was able to uncover the bodies while looking for shellfish at the coastline of the barangay.
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Torture signs were found on the body of Wind’s wife and it appeared the woman was tortured so that she would divulge the combination of their safe, which contained some of their money.
Wind appared to have been immediately murdered after he attempted to fight back against the suspect, police said.
Footage from the couple’s CCTV camera installed inside their house was lost and is believed to have been removed by the suspects. (AW)
