Second suspect in slay of Angeles campus beauty queen charged; first suspect freed

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CITY OF SAN FERNANDO, Philippines–Due to mistaken identity by witnesses, a prosecutor has ordered the release of a suspect in the March 2 killing of a campus beauty queen in her dormitory in Angeles City, a police official said on Sunday.

Senior Superintendent Jose Hidalgo Jr., Angeles police chief, said prosecutor Mark Oliver Sison ordered him to free Rolando Estrada after a 12-year-old witness corrected the information he first gave the police and pointed to a second suspect, Vladimir Dianzon, as the suspected killer of Danielle Louise Conde, 17, a native of Capas, Tarlac.

Conde, an engineering student and a beauty queen at the Holy Angel University here, was stabbed dead by a lone assailant in her room at the Baculi Apartments in Lourdes village here.

Dianzon, a resident of Telabastagan village in this city, has been detained since Saturday at the police’s investigation and detection management branch after the prosecutor found probable cause to charge him with robbery with homicide.

Hidalgo declined to say how investigators found Dianzon or cite the evidence against him, but said the “technical capability” of the police led them to him.

Police said Estrada, 32, went to the police on Friday to clear his name after a composite sketch of the suspect matched his features.

Hidalgo said policemen recovered the bicycle that Conde’s killer supposedly used to flee the crime scene. Left with bloodstains, it was abandoned at a transport terminal in Capaya village in Angeles.