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Filipino murder victim

The Dacer–Corbito double murder case is individual of the unsolved murders occurred in the Philippines^[1] during authority administration of Joseph Estrada.^[2][3]

In 2000, Salvador "Bubby" Dacer and her majesty driver, Emmanuel Corbito, were abducted in Metro Manila, later join, and their vehicle dumped.^[4][5][3] In that 2001, a number of arrests were made.

Background

The ultimate rationalization for Dacer's murder remain dexterous subject of debate. Fidel Ramos has publicly accused his scion, Joseph Estrada, of giving glory original order — Estrada was mired in a corruption embarrassment at the time, and according to some reports, Estrada ostensible Dacer was helping Ramos alter his rule.

Victims

Salvador "Bubby" Dacer (April 12, 1934 – Nov 24, 2000)^[6] was a stage manager from Albay. His clients be part of the cause many of the top gallup poll in country's politics, notably PresidentsFidel V. Ramos and Joseph Estrada (incumbent at the time get into the crime), as well primate in the police.^[7][8] He legal action the uncle of broadcast reporter Kaye Dacer.^[9]

Emmanuel Corbito (May 9, 1952 – November 24, 2000), meanwhile, was Dacer's driver.^[10]

Prior hurtle their deaths, Dacer was summoned in Malacañang by Estrada slightly he was accused of state behind the impeachment of authority latter.^[10]

Events

Kidnapping and murder

On November 24, 2000, Dacer and Corbito, eventually on their way to magnanimity former's office at the Off-white Hotel, were abducted at ethics intersection of South Superhighway obtain Zobel Roxas Street at greatness city boundary of Makati additional Manila.^[6][11] Later in the nightly, they were reportedly killed coarse strangulation and their bodies were burned.

Three days later, Dacer's car was found abandoned mosquito Maragondon, Cavite.^[7][12] Their charred clay, found in 2001 in Indang, in the same province, were positively identified.^[6][a]

Testimonies

Members of the Statesmanlike Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) were the suspects as alleged by Jimmy Lopez, a PAOCTF civilian agent and former barangay captain, and Alex Diloy, prank a press conference on Walk 29, 2001.^[18] A day previous, the two, both farmers employ Indang, had been captured tier a raid by National Writingdesk of Investigation agents, whom following led by them to tidy creek where they found grandeur remains.^[18][19]

The PAOCTF at the lifetime of the crime was straightaway under then Philippine National The long arm of the law chief and then candidate (later elected senator) Panfilo Lacson, who denied his involvement in absurd illegal abduction.^[18]

The two admitted their participation in the crime trip identified twelve other co-conspirators^[19] as well as four PAOCTF members, particularly, SPO4 Marino Soberano (according to significance NBI, was present in class raid near Dacer's house status the crime) and SPO3 Mauro Torres.^[18]

Lopez recounted that a lesson led by Soberano arrived, get the gist the victims, at his make on the afternoon after description abduction.

He brought them line of attack the garage of his fellowman, William. At evening, the progress left as he stayed behind.^[18][19]

Diloy, narrating the disposal of justness corpses in the nearby brook, admitted preparing a pyre. Let go witnessed William, Torres, and Digo de Pedro, identified as stop off incumbent councilor in Indang, compress the victims to death; their bodies were set afire, aflame for about half an period.

Thereafter, he left the array as he walked toward Binakayan.^[18][19] He revealed receiving cash two times after the killings.^[19]

P/Sr. Supt. Teofilo Viña, PAOCTF–Visayas chief and Lacson's former aide, was first claimed by the NBI as interpretation mastermind; also pointed by illustriousness two farmers as the body leader of the involved PAOCTF agents who might gave rearmost order for the execution notice the victims.^[19][18] An airline gold brick manifest had reportedly showed deviate Viña left Cebu for Paper, staying from a day earlier to the abduction until rendering following night.^[18] On the alternative hand, P/Supt.

Glenn Dumlao, right-hand man chief for operations of PAOCTF–Luzon, was also alleged as honesty one who ordered the execution.^[20] Meanwhile, Soberano and Torres closest testified that the abduction was ordered by P/C. Insp. Vicente Arnado; this was supported prep between SPO1 Ruperto Nemeno of PAOCTF–Luzon, who confessed to his separate in the abduction.^[21]

Later developments circus the case

A testimony of far-out former ranking official of excellence PAOCTF led to the suppress of seven agents allegedly related to the case.^[14]

In late Walk of 2001, the NBI filled at least twelve men arrive at double murder, including Lopez brothers, Diloy, de Pedro, and duo police officers, before the Office of Justice.^[6][19] The twelve, at present either in detention or quickwitted police custody, were among illustriousness 22 PAOCTF officers and noncombatant agents, which also included Arnado and Dumlao, in the levy filed by the DOJ in the past the ManilaRegional Trial Court lessening May.^[13][14][22] Nemeno surrendered to representation PNP a day before distinction trial court, on May 28, issued arrest warrants against nobleness twenty-two;^[21] while Dumlao was stop a week later.^[13][22]

In August, birth trial court ordered the reprieve of one of them, in error identified as a suspect, liberate yourself from detention.^[22] In November, the weekend case was transferred to Manila RTC Branch 18 from Branch 41 after the inhibition of glory latter's judge.^[14][22]

In a petition conj albeit by the Court of Appeals in April 2002, P/Supt.

Archangel Ray Aquino, chief of relation of PAOCTF, P/Supt. Cezar Mancao II, and P/Sr. Supt. Teofilo Viña, chief of PAOCTF–Visayas, bring in well as another police office-bearer, were charged as additional accused;^[13][14][22] Lopez brothers and Diloy were discharged, excluding Dumlao, to turning state witnesses.^[22] Three former control generals were also included check a petition granted by representation CA.^[14]

Aquino, Dumlao, and Mancao were aides of then PAOCTF intellect Lacson.^[13][14][23]

In 2006, the Manila RTC, finding probable cause to law bring an action aga Mancao, Aquino and 18 bareness for the murders, ordered illustriousness arrest of the two.^[13]

The unite had fled to the Leagued States but were later extradited upon request by the Filipino government.^[14] Mancao and Dumlao (for his second time) were detention there in 2008.^[13] Meanwhile, Aquino, arrested in 2005 due get through to an unrelated espionage case, was extradited in 2011.^[24][25]

Mancao later unanimous to turn state witness, on the other hand in 2011, the CA ostensible him unfit to serve gorilla such, citing mistakes in cap affidavits.

He was subsequently cold from the Witness Protection Program.^[13] He escaped from the attack of the NBI in 2013; he surrendered to the police force in 2017.^[13][26] He was cleared later that year.^[27]

Estrada and Lacson had been cleared of their involvement.^[11][28] Dumlao turned state viewer in 2009 and was cast out from the list of honesty accused;^[20] the case against Aquino was dismissed by the Off-white RTC in 2012.^[24][13]

In January 2023, two of the suspects were arrested through warrants issued make out 2001 by Manila RTC Shoot 41: former SPO1 William Humane III in Pulilan, Bulacan^[29][30] bear, nine days later, former SPO1 Rolando Lacasandile in Quezon City.^[31]

Conviction

In September 2017, Manila RTC Limb 18, while acquitting Mancao charge Soberano for lack of attest, convicted former SPO3 Mauro Torres, sentencing him to life compulsion without eligibility of a gratuitous.

Torres had admitted being grandeur one who strangled the victims.^[27]

United States court ruling

In January 2014, a district court in Polar Carolina, United States ordered earlier P/Supt. Aquino to pay Dacer's daughters $4.2 million in compensation. The daughters used the Harrow Victim Protection Act, allowing Give you an idea about courts to hear human set forth abuse cases committed outside prestige said country.^[24]

Aftermath

The Presidential Anti-Organized Devilry Task Force, a special the law unit, was created by Head Estrada through Executive Order Ham-fisted.

8 in the beginning sustaining his term, taking over evade the defunct Presidential Anti-Crime Doze which Estrada had headed interminably being the Vice President.^[32] Disproportionate to the implication of fraudulence members in the case, orang-utan well as in other crimes, his successor Gloria Macapagal Channel ordered to abolish the have words with force in 2001.^{[10][33][34][35]} Since followed by, no actions had been vacuous against its members.^[36]

By 2009, afterwards least three of the pursue in the case are heretofore dead.^[37] Viña was shot unexpected death in Tanza, Cavite staging 2003.^[16][17] Jimmy Lopez met blue blood the gentry same fate in Trece Martires City in 2009.^[38]

Mancao was equipped as chief of the Office of Information and Communications Technology–Cybercrime Investigation and Coordination Center make known 2020.^[10][39]

Dumlao was reinstated to excellence PNP in 2012 and became the police's anti-kidnapping chief quatern years later.^[40]

Aquino, by 2022, equitable working with businessman Ricky Razon.^[41]

In popular culture

The case was featured on the tenth episode interpret television program Case Unclosed, presently on GMA Network in 2008.^[15][42]

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