Here is a very strange story involving a pair of ugly Americans.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1065895/2-americans-nabbed-for-dumping-dead-woman-in-pasig-river |
Two citizens of the United States were caught after transporting a dead woman in box using a transport network vehicle service provider and dumping the box into the Pasig River in Manila on Sunday morning.
The Manila Police District (MPD) identified the suspects as Troy Woody Jr., 21, currently living in a condominium unit in Barangay Highway Hills, Mandaluyong City, and Mir Islam, 22, currently living in a condominium in Ermita, Manila.
According to the driver, the suspects loaded a huge brown box in his car’s trunk and asked to be transported to a mall in Ermita.
Along the way, the suspects asked the driver to first go to the Baseco Compound in Tondo, Manila, near the Pasig River, where they threw the box.
Then they asked to be taken to the original drop-off point.
Finding the incident weird, the driver reported it to the Manila Police General Assignment and Investigation Section and and they were referred to the Ermita Police Station.
Authorities eventually recovered the box and were able to identify the victim as Tomi Michelle Masters, 23, also a US citizen from Indiana, who lived in the same condo unit with Woody.
These two geniuses murdered their roommate and then called a Grab taxi to transport the body so they could toss it in the Pasig River. From another report we learn:
Within the box, her remains were stuffed into a garbage bag and wrapped in duct tape. According to a report on Super Radyo dzBB, one of the men was the victim’s boyfriend.
http://philippineslifestyle.com/americans-arrested-indiana-woman/
Maybe the boyfriend got jealous? Perhaps if they had deposed of her One Piece at a Time they would have gotten away with their dastardly deed.
This case echoes that of the chopped-up Chinese woman from just a few weeks ago.
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| https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1056672/love-triangle-eyed-in-chop-chop-murder-of-chinese-woman-in-makati-condo |
Police were looking into love triangle as the motive behind the gruesome murder of a Chinese woman by her fellow Chinese friends inside their condominium unit in Makati City.
Authorities found the chopped up body parts of 26-year-old Wang Yalei in different plastic bags at a unit on the 11th floor of The Lerato Residence Tower 1 along Malugay Street in Barangay Bel-Air around 6 p.m. on Thursday.
Her severed head and three limbs were found in separate shopping bags, while her torso and her right leg were placed in a suitcase in the toilet.
According to National Capital Region Police office chief, Director Guillermo Eleazar, the security of the condo was notified by the housekeeping that a bag containing “pieces of flesh and blood-soaked” clothes, underwear, tissues and kitchen knife were disposed of into the material recovery facility.
What is with that headline? A chop-chop murder? I want to see the headline "Former Mayor killed in bang-bang murder" the next time a mayor is shot!
Back in August an American was charged with the murder of an Australian.
Back in August an American was charged with the murder of an Australian.
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| http://philippineslifestyle.com/australian-businessman-stabbed-american/ |
An Australian businessman has been found stabbed to death dead with his head in a plastic garbage bag at his Pasig City home office.
Lambros Zervas, who ran Lily Carpet Cleaning Services in Manila and Cebu, was discovered dead at 4.45pm on Tuesday (August 28).
Pasig City police chief, Senior Superintendent Rizalito Gapas, has identified the prime suspect as 58-year-old American Kenneth Damell Bethea, a resident of the same building.
Many of these crimes appear to be happening in condominiums. Is there a connection? Why are foreigners killing each other?
While there has been a few instances of foreigners killing foreigners such a crime is pretty rare compared to Filipinos killing foreigners. Here are two instances from 2018:
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| http://philippineslifestyle.com/canadian-murdered-batangas-dispute/ |
A Canadian gunned down in Batangas City was preparing to flee the Philippines following an ugly property dispute.
As we reported last month, Barry Gammon and his wife Luzviminda were outside their garage when two gunmen approached and shot them at about 7.45pm on Sunday, June 24.
Supt. Celedio said the murder had left him “very concerned”.
“We want all the foreign tourists and even those who are residents in the city and elsewhere to be secured and protected by the local police,” he said.
“We would like to see it as an isolated incident.”
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| http://philippineslifestyle.com/bludgeoned-us-air-force-veteran/ |
According to police figures, Mr Nalapo is the 47th foreigner to be murdered so far this year.
The killing comes just weeks after Canadian retiree Barry Gammon was shot and killed in Batangas City.
Isolated incident? Sadly no. The murder of foreigners in the Philippines is no isolated incident and some of those incidents have famously involved the PNP. This 47th murder of a foreigner in 2018 was recorded in July. How many more victims have there been since then?
Even more sadly is that local officials do not care about the murder of foreigners except insofar as it affects tourism and foreign investment.
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| https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1760263 |
FOLLOWING the fatal shooting of two foreign nationals last week, Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale urged the police to solve these crimes so these won’t affect tourist arrivals in Cebu.
Mayor Tomas Osmeña, for his part, vowed to do something to address the current concern on the city’s peace and order situation, but won’t divulge the specifics yet.
“We cannot stand for a police that still insists that Cebu is safe when there are murders taking place almost every day. I cannot mention specifics yet, but I am going to do something about this, and I will do it as soon as I can,” the mayor said in his Facebook page.
Osmeña raised concern over the killing of the Japanese businesswoman, saying it might have an effect on Japanese investors in Cebu.
“I have no doubt that the news of the Japanese company president being killed has reached her counterparts abroad. I am very worried that people in Cebu will lose their jobs,” he said.
The Philippines is so desperate for tourists and foreign business that they will gladly sweep the murder of foreigners under the rug and vow to vaguely "do something", which they never do, just as long as tourists and investors keep coming. "It's an isolated incident." "The Philippines is safe." No. These are not isolated incidents. Tourists, businessmen, politicians, regular guys, everyone is on the target list. No one is safe. Just because you can ride a jeepney to the mall or go for a walk at night does not mean you are safe in the Philippines. Everyone in this country lives behind a wall of some sort. Many of those walls are topped with barbed wire precisely because the Philippines is not safe.
So why are foreigners killing each other in horrific ways? Is this an epidemic? Should foreigners be banned from the Philippines? There is enough murder here without them. Or should the Philippines do a heck of a lot more to stop criminals from entering the country?
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| https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/12/serial-swatter-and-stalker-mir-islam-arrested-for-allegedly-dumping-body-in-river/ |
A 22-year-old man convicted of cyberstalking and carrying out numerous bomb threats and swatting attacks — including a 2013 swatting incident at my home — was arrested Sunday morning in the Philippines after allegedly helping his best friend dump the body of a housemate into a local river.
Brooklyn, NY native Islam, a.k.a. “Josh the God,” has a long rap sheet for computer-related crimes. He briefly rose to Internet infamy as one of the core members of UGNazi, an online mischief-making group that claimed credit for hacking and attacking a number of high-profile Web sites.
On June 25, 2012, Islam and nearly two-dozen others were caught up in an FBI dragnet dubbed Operation Card Shop. The government accused Islam of being a founding member of carders[dot]org — a credit card fraud forum — trafficking in stolen credit card information, and possessing information for more than 50,000 credit cards.
In June 2016, Islam was sentenced to a year in prison for an impressive array of crimes, including stalking people online and posting their personal data on the Internet. Islam also pleaded guilty to reporting phony bomb threats and fake hostage situations at the homes of celebrities and public officials (as well as this author).
At that 2016 sentencing, Islam’s lawyer argued that his client suffered from multiple psychological disorders, and that he and his co-conspirators orchestrated the swattings of a sense of “anarchic libertarianism.”
A man with an FBI record and a long rap sheet was able to waltz right into the country with no problems. How was he even able to get past immigration? Perhaps authorities were not aware of his criminal background. Maybe if foreign governments alerted Philippine officials about criminals making their way to the Philippines they would be prevented from entering the country.
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| http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-04-09/afp-250-australians-child-sex-convictions-travelled-philippines/6379794 |
About 250 Australians with child sex convictions have travelled to the Philippines in the last four years, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) has revealed.
Filipino police are currently pursuing a case against Australian man Peter Gerard Scully for what they allege are some of the worst child sex offences in the nation's history.
The AFP was involved in the investigation and arrest and says 250 known Australian child sex offenders travelled to the Philippines in the past four years.
A spokesman has told the ABC that Australia alerts Filipino authorities when a sex offender boards a flight, but it is up to them whether to refuse entry.
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