Husband, brother, tagged in wife’s slay

CAMP SANTOS, Bulacan – A husband and his brother were tagged by homicide investigators Monday as suspected killer and accomplice, respectively, of the principal suspect’s 34-year-old wife whose body was found dumped in the boundary of Calumpit and Pulilan, this province last May 12.

Senior Supt. Fernando S. Villanueva, acting Bulacan police director, said Enrico D.C. de Jesus, and his brother Roberto, 35, a driver, both of Meycauayan City, have been arrested.

Parricide charges are now being prepared for filing against the two for the alleged murder of Lilibeth Gutierrez de Jesus, wife of Enrico and native of Barangay Duhat, Bocaue, Villanueva said.

The victim’s body was found dumped on the roadside linking Calumpit and Pulilan in Barangay Caniogan.

Quoting homicide investigators, Villanueva said a witness had come forward to testify that Enrico allegedly strangled Lilibeth to death with an electrical cord while inside a Toyota Revo in Sta. Rita, Guiguinto, Bulacan, last May 11.

Villanueva said the prior to the killing, neighbors have overheard the couple fighting over Enrico’s accusations that Lilibeth had been seeing another man.