Man face murder charge for beheading sister-in-law

• 8-year old daughter witnesses crime

CARMEN – A 37-year old man who beheaded his sister-in-law on Saturday in Carmen town is being charged with murder at the Office of the Provincial Prosecutor (OPP).

Raymundo Cario, 37, of barangay La Salvacion in Carmen, was formally charged for the murder of one Criselda Cario, 31, also a resident of said barangay and wife of his elder brother.

Carmen PNP criminal investigator PO3 Reynaldo Aradaza told dyRD Balita that the suspect was positively identified by the 8-year old daughter of the victim who saw his uncle decapitating her mother’s head with a farming scythe around 4 p.m. last Saturday just a few meters away from their house.

Police investigation bared that the relatives had a long-standing dispute on inherited land from the parents of the suspect. According to PO3 Aradaza, the victim tried to kill the suspect sometime last year by shooting him using a handgun. The victim and suspect were neighbors.

According to the daughter’s testimony, her mother was herding a goat when her uncle (suspect) accosted the former and cut-off the victim’s head using his farming scythe.

Police who responded to the incident recovered the said bladed weapon at the house of the suspect which still bore bloodstains.

The suspect’s slippers were also found by investigators at the scene of the crime. Based on the daughter’s account , the suspect apparently planned the killing which could aggravate the crime.