Angeles City serial killer falls

Chief Inspector Fernando Bandola presents some of the items recovered from murder suspect Mark Dizon to (l-r) Chief Supt. Arthur Cacdac, regional police direction; Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan of Angeles City, Sr. Supt. Danilo Bautista, Angeles City Police Director, and Rey Malig of the Citizen Watch Group. Most of the recovered items from the alleged serial killer were from his nine victims, including the three foreigners, in separate occasions. Eric Jimenez

A suspected serial killer taking the lives of a British national, a US war veteran, a Canadian and six other Filipinos in strings of killing incidents occurred in a span of ten days from July 12 to 22 in Angeles City, finally fell into the hands of authorities.

Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan said that the prime suspect identified as Mark Zamora Dizon, 28, computer technician, a resident of Barangay Salapungan, Angeles City was nabbed by Angeles police operatives led by P/Supt. Elvis Diaz.

“I commend the Angeles City police for the swift resolution of this heinous crime. A job well done,” Pamintuan said.

Angeles City Police director Senior Supt. Danilo Bautista in his report to Central Luzon Police regional director Chief Supt. Arturo G. Cacdac Jr., said that Dizon was arrested around 4:30 in the afternoon on Tuesday at the San Fernando, La Union Plaza by his men and operatives dispatched from Camp Olivas.

Bautista reported that he ordered his men to conduct a massive manhunt operation against the suspect who was positively described by several witnesses of the gruesome killing incidents.

The July 22 crime took placed inside the house of the victims identified as Albert Mitchell, 70, a member of the Veteran of Foreign War (VFW), his wife Janet, 53; and household help Isabel Fajardo, Marissa Prado, and Yulberto Vergara located at Manuela St., Hensonville Court, Barangay Malabanias.

Police investigation showed that Dizon, armed with 9mm caliber pistol, entered Mitchell’s house around noon on Thursday and believed that robbery may have been the motive behind the killings.

The victims were shot at point-blank range by the suspect as he fled away taking several valuable items from the victim’s house.

Scene of the Crime Operatives (SOCO) gathered all the pieces of evidence from the crime scene as the cartographic sketches of the perpetrator were prepared by the Composite Investigation Unit of the Philippine National Police in Camp Crame, Quezon City.

Police also said that Dizon has a standing warrant of arrest for robbery and carnapping issued by Hon. Judge Philbert Iturralde of RTC Branch 58 on January 13, 2005, docketed under Criminal Case No. 04-887-888.

Dizon is also the suspect in the robbery and killing of Briton James Bolton Porter, 51, and his live-in partner Melissa Madarang, 22, in Sta. Maria subdivision here on July 16, and the robbery and murder of Canadian Geoffrey Allan Bennun, 60, and live-in partner Abegail Helina, 20, at the Oasis Hotel and Villas in Clarkville Compound on July 12.

Appropriate criminal charges are now being readied to be filed against the suspect before the Angeles City Prosecutors Office.