TABUK CITY, Kalinga - The relatives of a mentally ill young woman who had been missing buried the wrong body believing it to be that of their missing kin.
This came to light after the relatives of the missing woman in Artacho, Sison, Pangasinan informed the family that Lailanie Lucena, 36, arrived there on May 28 after wandering around that province for almost two months.
Brenda Ravelo, the sister of the victim with whom she was staying in Magsaysay, this city, then went to see the missing woman for herself and announced to the local media on June 8 that indeed, Lucena is alive and is with their aunt Conchita Macusi in Artacho.
Ravelo said that the information they received while looking for Lucena after she went missing on April 6 that she was seen taking a jeepney bound for Roxas, Isabela at Bulanao, this city, was true.
“She told me that the two men she was seen boarding the jeepney with left her at a restaurant in Roxas giving her P200.00 which she used as fare to Pangasinan. She intended to go to Artacho but boarded the wrong bus which took her to Dagupan City instead. From there she walked and found herself in San Fabian, Pangasinan. She said she went to the police to request that I be informed but apparently the police did not heed her request as I did not receive any communication. They gave her P100.00 which she used to buy food and after that she resumed her wandering and later arrived at Alaminos, Pangasinan. There, she was taken in by a videoke owner for whom she washed clothes and attended to young children to earn her keep. After sometime, she asked the videoke owner directions for Artacho and the latter gave her P150.00 which she used for her fare. Upon seeing her, our relatives thought she was a ghost,” Ravelo said.
Ravelo said that her sister appears to be in one of her sane episodes and is now ashamed to come home to Tabuk due to what happened.
Asked about the body they buried, Ravelo said that the body had the same fair complexion, the nails and arms looked the same and it also had a protrusion on her left foot.
“The body also had an earring on her left ear and we thought that the silver ring on her finger was that of Lailanie,” Ravelo said.
The decomposing body of the unidentified woman was fished out of the Cagayan River in Abaryongan Ruar, Santo Nino, Cagayan on April 30,2009 and buried the same day by the local police and barangay officials.
Learning of the recovered body from the radio, Ravelo went to Santo Nino on May 7 and from the photos of the missing woman she brought, the local police declared they were 90 percent sure the body they buried was that of Lucena.
The Santo Nino police says that according to the medico legal examination conducted, the victim was strangled to death.
The body was exhumed and brought home to Tabuk City on May 11 and buried two days later. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr., ZZW
This came to light after the relatives of the missing woman in Artacho, Sison, Pangasinan informed the family that Lailanie Lucena, 36, arrived there on May 28 after wandering around that province for almost two months.
Brenda Ravelo, the sister of the victim with whom she was staying in Magsaysay, this city, then went to see the missing woman for herself and announced to the local media on June 8 that indeed, Lucena is alive and is with their aunt Conchita Macusi in Artacho.
Ravelo said that the information they received while looking for Lucena after she went missing on April 6 that she was seen taking a jeepney bound for Roxas, Isabela at Bulanao, this city, was true.
“She told me that the two men she was seen boarding the jeepney with left her at a restaurant in Roxas giving her P200.00 which she used as fare to Pangasinan. She intended to go to Artacho but boarded the wrong bus which took her to Dagupan City instead. From there she walked and found herself in San Fabian, Pangasinan. She said she went to the police to request that I be informed but apparently the police did not heed her request as I did not receive any communication. They gave her P100.00 which she used to buy food and after that she resumed her wandering and later arrived at Alaminos, Pangasinan. There, she was taken in by a videoke owner for whom she washed clothes and attended to young children to earn her keep. After sometime, she asked the videoke owner directions for Artacho and the latter gave her P150.00 which she used for her fare. Upon seeing her, our relatives thought she was a ghost,” Ravelo said.
Ravelo said that her sister appears to be in one of her sane episodes and is now ashamed to come home to Tabuk due to what happened.
Asked about the body they buried, Ravelo said that the body had the same fair complexion, the nails and arms looked the same and it also had a protrusion on her left foot.
“The body also had an earring on her left ear and we thought that the silver ring on her finger was that of Lailanie,” Ravelo said.
The decomposing body of the unidentified woman was fished out of the Cagayan River in Abaryongan Ruar, Santo Nino, Cagayan on April 30,2009 and buried the same day by the local police and barangay officials.
Learning of the recovered body from the radio, Ravelo went to Santo Nino on May 7 and from the photos of the missing woman she brought, the local police declared they were 90 percent sure the body they buried was that of Lucena.
The Santo Nino police says that according to the medico legal examination conducted, the victim was strangled to death.
The body was exhumed and brought home to Tabuk City on May 11 and buried two days later. **By Estanislao Albano, Jr., ZZW
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