Pageant contestant Geneva Lopez, Yitshak Cohen laid to rest

Beauty pageant contestant Geneva Lopez and her Israeli fiancé Yitshak Cohen were finally laid to rest, according to Balitanghali report on Friday. 

The urn containing Lopez's ashes was placed in a columbarium in Minalin, Pampanga, on Thursday evening. A worship service and testimonial were held in the viewing chapel before the inurnment. 

Meanwhile, the body of Cohen was also buried in Israel, the report added. 

The bodies of the two were found in a vacant lot within a quarry site in Capas, Tarlac, on July 6, days after they were reported missing. 

Lopez and Cohen were last seen going to Capas on June 21 to check the property they were planning to purchase.

Lopez's belongings were found partially burned inside an abandoned sports utility vehicle in Tarlac the following day.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) earlier said that it is looking at a former policeman, identified as Michael Guiang, as the “brains” behind the killing. 

The PNP said other suspects were offered money for their participation in the crime. 

Five "persons of interest" in the killings are now in police custody. —Vince Angelo Ferreras/KBK, GMA Integrated News