P.1-M reward up in slay of campus beauty queen

ANGELES CITY – A P100,000 cash reward awaits anyone who could help in the arrest of the killer of a local campus beauty queen and taekwondo black belter who was stabbed dead in her dormitory here March 2.

Former Capas, Tarlac mayor Reynaldo Catacutan, now the vice president for operations of the Clark International Airport Corp., said the reward was raised by prominent residents of Capas town where the family of victim Danielle HuetConde, 17, is well known.

“She was like a daughter to me since she had been a close friend of one of my children,” Catacutan said of Conde, this year’s Miss Engineering and Architecture Department of Holy Angel University and member of the school’s taekwondo team.

This, as a new suspect in the killing of Condewas arrested March 9, the same day the victim was laid to rest.

Based on new pieces of evidence and the testimonies of new witnesses, suspect Vladimir Dianzon, 32, was nabbed in his home in the City of San Fernando, said Senior Supt. Jose Santiago Hidalgo Jr., city police chief.

With Dianzon’s arrest, police released Rolando Estrada who gave himself up a day earlier after being tagged in the killing of Danielle Louise HuetConde, a student of the Holy Angel University.

In a police line-up, Estrada was identified by two witnesses, both minors, compelling the police to place him under arrest.

Despite Estrada being in their custody, police still pursued their investigation, leading them to Dianzon, who yielded a mountain bike with bloodstains.

According to Hidalgo, two more witnesses surfaced and tagged Dianzon as the man on a bicycle they saw fleeing from the crime scene with blood on his right hand.

A 12-year-old witness also confirmed that it was Dianzon, not Estrada, he saw escaping from Conde’s apartment.

About 2,000 people, including relatives and friends, attended Conde’s burial last March 9.

Conde’s father Adolfo said his daughter, was planning to take the entrance exam of the Philippine Military Academy.