The suspect in the double murder case in General Trias City, Cavite, confessed killing the wife and daughter of a seaman who was working in the United Arab Emirates.
Ruel Galvan Cabatingan surrendered to the police Thursday morning, said spot report from Eastern Samar Police Provincial Office.
“[The] said suspect confesses that he was the suspect in killing Ruby Gamos and Shaniah Nicole Gamos in Imus, Cavite,” stated in the spot report.
A double murder charge was filed at the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office against him.
Senior Superintendent William M. Segun, Cavite Police Provincial Office acting director, said Cabatingan surrendered to police in Eastern Samar as accompanied by his brother, a resident of Borongan.
Interviewed over DzMM radio, Senior Supt. Tranquilino Araral III, Eastern Samar police director, said Cabatingan has admitted to the crime.
“Ang sinabi niya, he did it, pinatay niya iyung dalawa by choking,” Araral said.
The 36-year-old suspect surrendered a day after the police filed charges against him at the Cavite Provincial Prosecutor’s Office.
According to police investigation, Cabatingan was Ruby’s alleged “lover”.
Cabatingan was reportedly a high school batchmate of Ruby’s husband who was in the United Arab Emirates working as a seaman. He went home a day after he was informed by relatives about the tragedy.
The bodies of Ruby and Shaniah Nicole were found by police in a state of decomposition in a room of an apartment unit in Kensington Subdivision-Phase I, Dec. 11.
Karen Gamos Bongalos, a relative, sought the assistance of subdivision security guards in opening the unit, following a request from her brother-in-law to check up on his wife and daughter.
No sign of forced entry into the unit. Some valuables, however, including the family car, were said to be missing.
