RARE, YET BRUTAL. The lifeless bodies
of Helmut Malinka and wife Eutiquia found in their respective
rooms while probers and neighbors were shock of the incident
right at the couple's home in Baclayon town last Thursday.
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A
German national and his wife were brutally murdered
inside their house in barangay Laya, Baclayon town in
an apparent robbery early Friday morning.
The
victims were identified as one Helmut Malinka, 64 years
old, a native of Hamburg, Germany and his Boholana wife
Eutiquia Missiona Malinka, 59, a native of Loboc town.
Helmut
was found by police who responded to the crime scene
hogtied in his bedroom using a tie-wire with eight stab
wounds to the chest with a deep laceration on the back
portion of his head evidently hit by a blunt object.
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The
wife, found in her separate bedroom, suffered two stab wounds,
one on her chest and the other to the base of the victim's
neck.
Police
said two still unidentified men broke into the couple's house
in Laya, at around 2 a.m. Judging from the wounds sustained
by the couple, the suspects were allegedly armed with a knife
or an icepick.
The
intruders also hogtied the maid, one Virginia Saluta, 34,
who was in the servants' quarters, before going for the couple.
Baclayon
police said they received the report of the incident around
7 o'clock Friday morning from the couple's househelp who managed
to untie herself after the killers left.
According
to Saluta, the two assailants, who wore bonnets and gloves,
likely entered the victims' house through the front door with
no signs of a forced break-in.
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During
an interview with the Chronicle, it was learned that
Saluta had been hired by the couple just a day before
the incident. However, she claimed to have previously
worked for the couple back in February but quit after
four days.
The
househelp said she was called up by Eutiquia two days
before the incident asking her to start reporting back
for work.
Police
said the bloodstains they found splattered on the walls
bore no fingerprints of the suspects as they were also
reported to be wearing gloves.
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Based
on the helper's account, the suspects allegedly identified
themselves as "Akyat Bahay" (house burglars).
TASK
FORCE MALINKA
Bohol
PNP Director SSupt. Edgardo Ingking created Task Force Malinka
last Friday headed by Bohol Police Provincial Office (BPPO)
investigation officer Insp. John Gilbert Basalo to coordinate
the speedy resolution of the crime.
The
task force is composed of elements from the Provincial Intelligence
and Detection Management Branch, CIDG, PNP crime laboratory
and the Baclayon PNP. The National Bureau of Investigation
(NBI) was asked to step into the investigation.
Yesterday,
Saluta was subjected to a polygraph examination at the NBI
Bohol Field Office in barangay Dao, this city.
The
results of the lie detector test (polygraph exam) would be
released early this week, the NBI said.
Basalo
is hopeful that findings of the polygraph exam would help
the task force in the course of their investigation.
He
disclosed that the way the suspects carried out the crime
indicates that they were not "amateurs."
Until
presstime yesterday, Basalo said even relatives of the victims
could not yet determine what the robbers carted away from
the couple's house.
Saluta
is currently being held at Camp Dagohoy.
Helmut
was a retired chief engineer of Lufthansa Airlines in Germany,
who decided to reside here in Bohol for several years now.
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