Julia CampbellMANILA (Mindanao Examiner / 21) – Philippine police on Saturday suspect that U.S. Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell may have been bludgeoned to death, bolstering earlier reports that she was murdered in Ifugao province, north of Manila.
Campbell was autopsied by Filipino authorities to determine the cause of her death. Government soldiers discovered the decomposing body of the 40-year old Campbell in a shallow grave in the mountain village of Batad in Banaue town.
Ifugao police chief Supt. Pedro Genir earlier said Campbell may have been murdered. “It is (a) homicide (case). The culprits even covered her body with earth and rocks to hide the crime,” he said.
Campbell, a former journalist, was 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. (Mindanao Examiner)
It is really sad that someone like Julia Campbell, who helped filipinos in many ways and had done things unselfishly would be killed in a senseless way. I pray for her loved ones. I am truly sorry because there are only a few who would willingly leave their comfort zone and their country to serve third world countries and just end up like this.My prayers are with you.
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