• THERESA MAE DULMAN
Three families with missing relatives have approached Police Station 7 to check whether the skeletal remains discovered Nov. 10 in Hacienda Gonzaga, Brgy. Mansilingan, Bacolod City, belonged to their lost kin.
Station 7 commander, P/Capt. Jay-R Reyes, said Nov. 11 that of those who went to the station, a family from Bacolod presented a notable potential connection, based on a pair of shorts recovered at the scene.
According to the missing man’s live-in partner, he has been missing since September after leaving for a computer shop.
Reyes said swab samples were taken from the potential victim’s mother and sibling for DNA cross-matching.
“We already requested a skeletal remains examination from the Crime Lab to determine if it is a man or a woman,” he added.
Meanwhile, Bacolod City Police Office (BCPO) deputy director for Operations, P/Lt. Col. Albart Tare, said that the family of Carl Golez also coordinated with them regarding the newly-recovered skeletal remains.
Golez has been reported missing since March this year.
“Hindi pa natin masabi if it is really Carl Golez kasi wala pa tayong result of forensic (examination) galing sa SOCO,” Tare said.
Reyes noted that investigators are considering the possibility that the body was merely dumped in the sugarcane field, and a bone later gnawed on by a dog, and seen by a resident.
He said the witness reported no foul odor, and the surrounding sugarcane already harvested back in October. | TMD
