'PSYCHOPATHIC' COUPLE

"They have psychopathic criminal tendencies because they have no conscience.

- By AARON RECUENCO

That was how Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic Remulla described the couple accused of murdering Police Senior Master Sgt. Diane Mollenido and her eight-year-old son, John Ysmael-killings carried out in the presence of the suspects’ three young children, followed by the chilling disposal of the victims’ bodies with those minors still in tow.

According to Remulla, the Panganiban couple’s three children—aged 6, 8, and 10—were inside their house in Quezon City when the husband shot Mollenido as she sat on the sofa on the night of Jan. 16.

Early the following morning, Mollenido’s eight-year-old son was suffocated to death in a room adjacent to where the suspects’ children were staying.

The worst part, Remulla said, was that the couple brought their three minor children along when they disposed of Mollenido’s body in Bulacan and that of John Ysmael in Tarlac.

He added that they all boarded a Toyota Fortuner with the wrapped cadavers of Mollenido and her son placed at the back of the vehicle.

"This is actually hard to believe. How can the parents do all these things in the presence of their children," said Remulla in a press briefing at Camp Crame in Quezon City.

He said the suspects told their children that they would go to Baguio City but instead, they went to a budget hotel in Quezon City and later in Calamba, Laguna with the cadavers at the back of the car.

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