ANGELES CITY – A daughter of a retired US serviceman and his Filipino wife will act as complainant against the suspected serial killer who had once reportedly courted her before he went on a killing spree that victimized her parents, and seven others in separate incidents this month here.
Senior Supt. Danny Bautista, director of the Angeles police, said the police failed to file last Monday multiple murder and robbery cases against suspect Mark Dizon, 28, who, as a computer technician and reflexologist, had befriended many foreigners, including his victims, in this city.
This, even as Bautista backtracked on his suspicion that the suspect’s motive was to gain access to the bank accounts and financial dealings of the foreigners by stealing their laptops after killing them.
“I don’t think he is capable of such complex operations. He operated on his own,” he said, amid allegations the suspect had been emotionally disturbed before the murders.
Bautista said the murder and robbery cases are to be filed today as this city commemorated the Iglesia ni Cristo anniversary as a non-working holiday yesterday.
He said that Czarina Mitchell, daughter of Dizon’s latest victims, will be the complainant in the case. She was reportedly once courted by the suspect before she left for the US after marrying a Filipino-American.
“The case of the Mitchells will be the first, since it was in their case that Dizon was identified as the suspect,” he said. Czarina, who is married to a Filipino-American based in the US, arrived recently after the murder of her parents retired US air force MSgt. Albert Mitchell, 70, and her mother Janet, 53, and their househelps Isabel Fajardo, Marissa Prado, and Yulberto Catli in their home in Hensonville Court subdivision in Barangay Malabanias last July 22.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said Dizon is also the suspect in the killing of South African national Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and his live-in partner, Abegail Helina, 20, whose decomposing bodies were found inside their house at Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound in Barangay Anunas here last July 12.
Dizon was also tagged as suspect in the murders last July 16 of British James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner, Melissa Madarang, 22, in their house at 4-11A Nicolas St. in Sta. Maria subdivision in Barangay Balibago here.
Bautista said that in all cases, laptops of the victims seemed to have been the main target of the suspect and that ballistic tests on slugs taken from all the incidents indicated that only one .9 mm. pistol was used by the suspect.
Bautista clarified that while a local court had issued a warrant of arrest against Dizon and one named Edgar Bognot for carnapping and robbery sometime in 2005, the case was eventually archived because of the failure of the complainant to show up in court.
“Bognot was arrested while Dizon went into hiding. But sometime the following year, the case was archived,” he said.
Senior Supt. Danny Bautista, director of the Angeles police, said the police failed to file last Monday multiple murder and robbery cases against suspect Mark Dizon, 28, who, as a computer technician and reflexologist, had befriended many foreigners, including his victims, in this city.
This, even as Bautista backtracked on his suspicion that the suspect’s motive was to gain access to the bank accounts and financial dealings of the foreigners by stealing their laptops after killing them.
“I don’t think he is capable of such complex operations. He operated on his own,” he said, amid allegations the suspect had been emotionally disturbed before the murders.
Bautista said the murder and robbery cases are to be filed today as this city commemorated the Iglesia ni Cristo anniversary as a non-working holiday yesterday.
He said that Czarina Mitchell, daughter of Dizon’s latest victims, will be the complainant in the case. She was reportedly once courted by the suspect before she left for the US after marrying a Filipino-American.
“The case of the Mitchells will be the first, since it was in their case that Dizon was identified as the suspect,” he said. Czarina, who is married to a Filipino-American based in the US, arrived recently after the murder of her parents retired US air force MSgt. Albert Mitchell, 70, and her mother Janet, 53, and their househelps Isabel Fajardo, Marissa Prado, and Yulberto Catli in their home in Hensonville Court subdivision in Barangay Malabanias last July 22.
Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said Dizon is also the suspect in the killing of South African national Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and his live-in partner, Abegail Helina, 20, whose decomposing bodies were found inside their house at Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound in Barangay Anunas here last July 12.
Dizon was also tagged as suspect in the murders last July 16 of British James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner, Melissa Madarang, 22, in their house at 4-11A Nicolas St. in Sta. Maria subdivision in Barangay Balibago here.
Bautista said that in all cases, laptops of the victims seemed to have been the main target of the suspect and that ballistic tests on slugs taken from all the incidents indicated that only one .9 mm. pistol was used by the suspect.
Bautista clarified that while a local court had issued a warrant of arrest against Dizon and one named Edgar Bognot for carnapping and robbery sometime in 2005, the case was eventually archived because of the failure of the complainant to show up in court.
“Bognot was arrested while Dizon went into hiding. But sometime the following year, the case was archived,” he said.
