One of the three suspects in the double murder of PSMS Diane Marie Mollenido and her son John Ysmael incriminated the two other suspects and detailed how the event unfolded.
According to Gil Valdemoro Dy Jr., 41, he voluntarily surrendered himself to give his testimony.
Based on Dy’s account, the killing happened inside the home of the two other suspects: 29-year-old car dealer Pia Katrina Panganiban and 44-year-old ex-policeman Christian Suarez Panganiban in Novaliches, Quezon City.
"On the night of the 16th, they called me. I asked them to go to the place where it happened," he explained.
"At around 12 o'clock in the evening, I went inside the house," he continued.
Upon entering, he went to the garage, and the former policeman then asked him to stay there. Shortly after, he heard gunshots from inside the house.
Confused, Dy asked questions about what was happening, but Suarez Panganiban just asked him for help in accomplishing something—wrapping John Ysmael's body.
“It was a kid, he was being wrapped. He was put inside a warehouse,” Dy detailed.
“He was dead. It was hard for me to do it,” he added.
After the testimony, Dy reiterated that his conscience is clean and that he did not do anything wrong, saying that he has a child too.
Last seen on 16 January, the mother and child allegedly met with a car agent regarding the sale of a vehicle, and they were declared missing on 19 January.
The policewoman’s and her son’s remains were found in two different locations, with Mollenido’s body discovered on 24 January along the Pulilan Bypass Road in Bulacan, while her son’s body was found five days later at a calamansi farm in Victoria, Tarlac.
Earlier today, police also confirmed the arrest of PSMS John Mollenido, who is the husband of the slain policewoman. He is considered a suspect and will be facing inquest proceedings.
