Imee Marcos to be autopsied

By Teddy Molina

LAOAG CITY – The body of 15-year-old Imee Leah Marcos who was mercilessly stabbed to death along with another girl here will be subjected to autopsy as police investigators continue to uncover the mystery behind her death. Also stabbed to death together with Marcos was Christine Joy Barroga, 18. Their bodies were found by fishermen on Aug. 2 along the banks of Padsan River in Barangays Uno and La Paz.

Fernando Marcos, Imee’s father, gave his family’s approval to the autopsy request when members of the Laoag City Police Office visited him Monday in his house at Barangay Buttong.

He set the date for the autopsy yesterday before her daughter will be taken to the Aglipayan cemetery for interment.

Barroga’s family however, was undecided on the police request to have her remains autopsied as of press time.

The body is scheduled to be interred today also at the local Aglipayan church.

This developed as residents continued to call for the immediate arrest and identification of the perpetrators of the slayings which shocked the province.

Local radio stations have been receiving a daily barrage of calls from irate residents asking authorities to collar the suspects and place them behind bars.

Imee was stabbed 26 times (not 18 as earlier reported) 18 of which were “fatal” according to his father while Barroga received six stabbings. Among Imee’s 18 “fatal” stabbings were six at her back, six on her breast, two below her breast, two at her side, and two in the belly, it was learned.