Baddie bag

Law enforcers have a way of catching crooks on the loose.

When American Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer, 29, went missing and her body bearing a bullet wound in the chest was found outside the ski resort of Breckenridge, Colorado on 7 January 1982, police were unable to quickly find a suspect. All they had were crime scene evidence, namely a blood-stained glove and tissue strewn on the snow-covered side of a highway. There was also a sock found in a parking lot in Hoosier Pass.

Another woman, Annette Schnee, was reported missing in the same area a day after Oberholtzer's body was discovered. Schnee's body was found six months later at Sacramento Creek about 23 miles outside Breckenridge. Her orange sock matched the one found by police earlier, linking the two crimes.

Thirty-eight years passed before the DNA on the glove and tissue paper's blood stains was run on acriminal database and matched with the DNA of a suspect, ex-convict Alan Lee Phillips, 69. To confirm that the DNA belonged to him, investigators followed Phillips and obtained his saliva sample on a napkin that he threw in a trash can in January 2021.

The following month, the DNA analysis results concluded it was Phillip's blood that was on the glove and the tissue, CBS News reported. DNA on the sock also belonged to the two victims leading to the arrest and prosecution of Phillips.

A Park County jury found Phillips guilty of two counts each of first-degree murder, felony murder, and kidnapping on 15 September and he was given two consecutive life sentences for the murders of Schnee and Oberholtzer last month, according to CBS News.

Meanwhile, some clumsy criminals made their own arrest quick.

A knife-wielding robber recently held up a call center agent in Barangay Kaunlaran, Quezon City. The victim tried to fight off the thief and got the latter's bag in the scuffle but his smartphone worth P20,000 was taken away, according to GMA News.

The victim reported the holdup and turned over the bag to the police who found inside it a paper. Soon, suspect Teody Cayubit's house was raided and he was arrested by police after the victim positively identified him as the holdupper.

The court subpoena document found inside Cayubit's bag indicated his address allowing cops to track him down. Police learned that he had been arrested six times for theft and illegal drug possession.

The stolen cellphone was not recovered but Cayubit was charged with robbery despite his denial of the crime.