Juan DontuganMANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 24 Apr) – Philippine police released Tuesday two photographs of a suspect in the killing of U.S. Peace Corps volunteer in Ifugao province, north of Manila.
Police said Julia Campbell may have been bludgeoned to death. Soldiers and policemen discovered the decomposing body of the 40-year old Virginia native in a shallow grave in the mountain village of Batad in Banaue town.
Regional police chief Raul Gonzales identified the suspect as Juan Dontugan, a 25-year old wood sculptor in Batad village. “He better surrender peacefully,” Gonzales said. Villagers also are helping the police track down the man., believed hiding in the neighboring Benguet province.
Police suspect that Campbell may have been raped and then robbed, but the suspect’s wife, denied all accusations against her husband, saying, he is innocent.
“He is innocent of all these charges,” the woman said. She appealed to her husband to surrender peacefully to authorities. “Please come home because we are all worried about you,” she said.
Campbell, a former journalist, was reported missing since April 8 in Ifugao province where she intended to hike alone.
There are currently 137 Peace Corps Volunteers serving in the Philippines. More than 8,000 volunteers have served in the country since 1961, making it the second oldest Peace Corps program in the world.
Campbell, from Fairfax, Virginia, had served as a college teacher in Legazpi in southern Luzon since she began her Peace Corps service in the Philippines in March 2005. (With a report from Juley Reyes)
Police said Julia Campbell may have been bludgeoned to death. Soldiers and policemen discovered the decomposing body of the 40-year old Virginia native in a shallow grave in the mountain village of Batad in Banaue town.
Regional police chief Raul Gonzales identified the suspect as Juan Dontugan, a 25-year old wood sculptor in Batad village. “He better surrender peacefully,” Gonzales said. Villagers also are helping the police track down the man., believed hiding in the neighboring Benguet province.
Police suspect that Campbell may have been raped and then robbed, but the suspect’s wife, denied all accusations against her husband, saying, he is innocent.
“He is innocent of all these charges,” the woman said. She appealed to her husband to surrender peacefully to authorities. “Please come home because we are all worried about you,” she said.
Campbell, a former journalist, was reported missing since April 8 in Ifugao province where she intended to hike alone.
There are currently 137 Peace Corps Volunteers serving in the Philippines. More than 8,000 volunteers have served in the country since 1961, making it the second oldest Peace Corps program in the world.
Campbell, from Fairfax, Virginia, had served as a college teacher in Legazpi in southern Luzon since she began her Peace Corps service in the Philippines in March 2005. (With a report from Juley Reyes)
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