The crime investigators in the Percy Lapid case are at it again in their vexing attitude and errant demeanor of not keeping their mouths shut while undergoing this particular criminal investigation.

In the course of the sleuthing, they have acquired knowledge of certain facts and information which are vital to the solution of the murder of the radio commentator and necessary to the successful prosecution of the case.

They cannot, however, stop themselves from blurting these particulars and specifics to the mass media and necessarily to the public, thereby not only jeopardizing their case against the perpetrators but helping the latter escape from the clutches of the law, or putting the lives of the players and witnesses at risk. More importantly, the brain behind the radioman's brutal slay most likely will remain unidentified and go scot-free resulting in the case being added to the list of unsolved crimes as consequence thereof.

If they were not extremely zealous in presenting the confessed gunman and made him reveal the names of his accomplices and the place where they contract to kill, then they could have already bagged the other partners in crime and most probably, even certainly, collared the mastermind.

Why did not the probers, following the surrender of the triggerman, keep him momentarily from the view of the public and worked on his revelations as to his participation and the identities of the other culprits? That would have been the easiest, most effective, and most competent way of getting to the other already identified suspects that would have led them to the identity of the principal suspect.

Through the confessed gunman, they could have either traced the whereabouts of the four other named suspects or they could have devised a way to lure them and meet with the former. They could have made the confessed killer call them and enticed them into meeting them by a bogus additional contract price, or whatever believable excuse they could think of that would compel the other conspirators to see him thereby setting them up for the arrest.

Having known the identity of the middleman, they could have secured his safety by getting him out of his detention cell. With the latter in a safe place, he could have, without hesitance and fear, pointed to the mastermind.

As it is now, the harebrained move of displaying the man who shot the victim led to the expected, if not mysterious death, of the man who brokered the hit on the radio commentator.

Expectedly too, the other perpetrators pointed to by him have made themselves scarce and the police operatives are now at a loss at — or having difficulty — finding them. That is if they ever find them.
A new witness has surfaced. Incredulously her identity was prematurely revealed again! And assuming that this witness, who was identified as the sister of the dead middleman, indeed received a text message containing the information as to the identity of her brother's killers and of the person who conceived of the killing, she is now in peril of following her sibling to a permanent resting place.

One police general was quoted as saying that this crime has been solved and a government official could be the brains behind the heinous crime. In the first place, it's fatuous to say that the murder is solved. If indeed, a government official is involved, then that public revelation is dunderheaded, for it is telling the mastermind that the police are zeroing in on him and necessarily he will make his grand escape.

He will naturally cover his tracks, which means all potential witnesses will be banished to the grave.

What's adding to this tragedy of errors is that some personalities cannot resist poking their fingers into this unwanted and pathetic drama.