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PEOPLE. Vs. Wilfredo Rojas, etal.

PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, plaintiff-appellee, vs. WILFREDO ROJAS, TEODORO VILLARIN, SOLOMON TOTOY, GREGORIO TUNDAG and SINFROSO MASONG, defendants-appellants.

G.R. Nos. L-46960-62 | 1987-01-08

D E C I S I O N


PER CURIAM:

The people of Digon in Margosatubig, Zamboanga del Sur must still be talking every now and then of the strange killings that shook their barrio on that tragic morning of May 23, 1973, when three girls were slain, the youngest only five years old, under the most mystifying and shocking circumstances. Even now the townsfolk are probably still asking, not without a tinge of superstitious fear, the nagging, unanswered questions in this macabre case: Why? Why the blameless victims? And why the ruthless manner of their slaying?

Consider the carnage and the girls who fell before the bloodied knife: Zenaida Nastae,...