In the murder of Adrian Peregrino and Vivian Ramos, the sole witnesses were their children. The eldest, named Lovely, is a small girl with big eyes. She was 11.
It was proof that, just the month before, drug suspects like Adrian, a tricycle driver, and herself, a manicurist, had surrendered to local officials for rehabilitation. They promised they would change for the better, and, in exchange, they would be given immunity from execution – or so they thought.
“We don’t need that, what we need is both of you,” the man answered. What the man meant was they needed her partner and herself dead. Over a week later, police knocked on their doors with news. Good news, they said. The police found Adrian and Vivian’s killer. Then, they killed him. Investigator Rhyan Rodriguez remembered that night. It was already over when he arrived, the killer already cold. His job mostly involved writing down what he saw.
Rodriguez’s reasoning was simple: Manding matched the description of witnesses in the killing of Adrian and Vivian – a man clad in black riding a motorcycle – and the victims’ names appeared on his kill list. Who else would kill the couple? “Even if we wanted to probe more, we couldn’t do it, given the number of cases there were. It was the peak of the killings,” Rodriguez said in Filipino.
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