Suspect confessed to killing 18-year-old student in Camarines Sur, police say

A pedicab driver has admitted to the killing of an 18-year-old student in Camarines Sur, Provincial Police Office director Police Colonel Julius Caesar Domingo said on Wednesday.

Domingo told GMA News Online that complaints of rape, murder, and robbery are set to be filed against the arrested suspect identified as Reymark Belleza, who gave an extrajudicial confession to the police on November 1.

“'Yung murder, 'yung rape, saka 'yung robbery,” he said in a phone interview, adding that these were included in the confession of the suspect.

The complaints were filed Wednesday noon.

On October 28, victim Irish Mae Payonga left her home in Barangay Marupit in Camaligan to attend a church event at the Capitol Convention Center in Pili, Domingo said in a press conference on Tuesday.

CCTV footage showed Payonga boarding Belleza’s pedicab, along with another female passenger, on her way to the venue.

But, the victim did not make it to the event.

On October 29, Camaligan Police sent a flash alarm for the missing girl after her parents reported that she failed to return home.

On October 31, Payonga’s body was found inside a sack by two kids in Barangay Cadlan in Pili.

On November 1, the police were able to locate the pedicab and its driver Belleza and conducted a walkthrough at the crime scene.

According to Domingo, the statement of Belleza matched the evidence in the investigation and the doctor’s findings that Payonga died due to suffocation.

Aside from the clothes and belongings of the victim, the police also found two condoms around the area where the body was found.

Police said Belleza also took Payonga's phone.

In an interview with Super Radyo dzBB late Wednesday afternoon, Camarines Sur PPO spokesperson Police Major Maria Victoria Abalaing said they already established enough evidence to file the complaint of murder, robbery, and rape against the suspect.

She said the victim did not know the suspect.

“According po sa witness nung nakasabay nung biktima sa pedicab that time tinanong daw po niya 'yung suspect kung kaya pa raw po magdrive kasi nga po amoy alak ito,” Abalaing said.

(According to the witness, when she was with the victim in the pedicab at that time, she asked the suspect if he could still drive because he reeked of alcohol.)

“Based sa statement ng suspect, iniwan daw po niya (ang biktima) na nakahiga at buhay pa, 'yun po 'yung statement niya. And then binalikan daw niya po ng kinaumagahan mga bandang 5 a.m. nakita raw po niya mayroon nang nakatambak doon sa katawan ng victim na sako ng semento na may lamang lupa,” she said.

(Based on the suspect's statement, he left the victim lying there and she was still alive. And then he returned the next morning around 5 a.m and saw there was already a pile of cement sacks on the victim's body.)

Abalaing said they conducted a physical examination on the suspect and found that he had scratches and wounds which could be possible signs that the victim tried to fight back.

“According sa report po ng Pili, magdi-dig deeper pa po sila sa background ng suspect. Kasi po pati birth certificate wala maipakita nasunog daw po according sa father,” she said.

(According to the Pili police report, they will dig deeper into the suspect's background. Even the birth certificate could not be presented because it was allegedly burned according to the suspect’s father.)—AOL, GMA News