‘Someone bigger’ seen in Nueva Ecija slay

CABANATUAN CITY—-Police investigating the recent killing of the wife of a government official here are looking into “someone bigger” behind the crime, a police official in Nueva Ecija said.

This information surfaced as the police sought to defer the raffling of the robbery with homicide case against a woman, the lone suspect in the June 16 killing of Florida Cuevas-Linsangan.

Senior Supt. Roberto Aliggayu, Nueva Ecija police director, said while they consider the killing of Cuevas-Linsangan solved with the identification of a certain Maryjane, the family’s maid, as a suspect, investigators found loopholes in the testimony they gathered.

Cuevas-Linsangan was the wife of lawyer Teodoro Linsangan, chief of the Register of Deeds in the province.

Police said Linsangan found the body of his wife inside a bathroom in their bedroom when he arrived from work on June 16.

The victim was found with a bruise in the right shoulder and a wound in the head. She was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital here but doctors failed to revive her, police said.

Aliggayu said while a medico-legal report showed that the victim, a retired employee of Land Bank of the Philippines (LBP) and resident of Barangay Aduas here, was killed through strangulation, investigation showed that she was also hit with an iron crowbar.

Maryjane, who supposedly worked for 10 months as a maid in the Linsangan household, was originally charged with murder at the city prosecutor’s office.

The charge was downgraded to robbery with homicide, owing to Linsangan’s testimony that there was money missing from the house. Armand Galang, Inquirer Central Luzon