BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN – A German suspected of raping and killing an entertainer on this island is seeking bail, claiming that he had been falsely and unjustly accused of involvement in the crime.

“I am not guilty. I am not a killer or a maniac,” Christian Wintterer told the Inquirer in an interview in his cell at the Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office on Monday.

Wintterer, a computer programmer and website developer from Munich, lamented that the police and media had portrayed him as guilty. “They need (to present and arrest) a murderer to save Boracay’s image. They judged me already as guilty and portrayed me as a monster,” he said.

Police have a pending rape and homicide complaint at the Provincial Prosecutors Office against Wintterer for the killing of Mylene de la Rosa, 29, an entertainer from Libacao town in Aklan and mother of five children.

Dela Rosa was found dead at dawn on March 7 on the beach in Barangay Yapak. Her body bore signs of rape, beatings on the head, and cigarette burns.

Police arrested Wintterer after a Boracay resident, Bobby Alonzo, testified that he saw Wintterer and the victim at Cocomangas Bar and Disco the night before she was found dead.

Alonzo said he saw the German slap the victim and heard him say, “I will kill you later.”
In a separate affidavit, fisherman Carlito Bernaldo said he saw Wintterer drag the body of a woman and throw it to the sea at around 2:45 a.m. on March 7.

Police also recovered a bloodstained shirt owned by Wintterer when they arrested him in his room at Paradise Bay Resort hours after the remains were discovered.

Wintterer denied killing the woman but admitted that he found her body. He said he was then with another woman and that he took a closer look and stained his shirt with blood from the body.

He said he panicked and fled. “What would people think if they see a foreigner, intoxicated, with blood on his shirt next to a dead woman,” he said.

“I want to be granted bail and set free. I will not leave this country until I clear my name. The real killer is still out there,” he said.