Calabarzon cops see robbery in jeweler’s slay
ROBBERY appears to be the primary motive in the killing of a businesswoman and wife of a telecommunications executive, whose body was found inside her own car in Biñan City, Laguna province, in June.
But nearly a month since victim Gloria Gonzales went missing, police have not yet named any suspect in the slay.
“We already have some personalities in mind but there still isn’t enough evidence to pin them down,” said Supt. Chitadel Gaoiran on Thursday.
Gaoiran is the spokesperson of Task Force Gloria, which the Calabarzon police has formed to handle the case.
In a phone interview, Gaoiran said Gloria, 47, was carrying pieces of jewelry and was supposed to meet someone when she left their home in Parañaque City on June 25.
John Gonzales, Gloria’s husband and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PLDT) vice president, later told the police that the signal from his wife’s phone was last traced in Silang, Cavite province, also on that same day.
Gloria’s body was found on June 28 inside her own vehicle abandoned in Biñan City with all her cash and jewelry gone.
The police could not give an exact amount of the cash and jewelry stolen, “but we would say it was that much because her business transactions usually amounted to millions,” Gaoiran said.
What the police also found out was that her attackers had wiped their fingerprints off the car, a Toyota Innova, leaving no trace of their identities for the investigators.
Gaoiran said they have not yet completed the victim’s possible route from the day she was last seen alive.
“We still do not know if she really made it to Silang or where she was taken,” she said.
The police are looking at three suspects, based on the account of a Biñan resident who noticed suspicious men in the area where the car was found.
