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By NITZ ARANCON
Correspondent

POLICE yesterday pressed murder charges against the cannibal of Talisayan in connection with the gruesome killing of a woman in the eastern Misamis Oriental town on Thursday morning.

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Bagtong

Talisayan police chief Capt. Maribeth Ramoga said the suspect, 21-year-old Lloyd Bagtong, was brought to the provincial prosecutor’s office for inquest proceedings.

Bagtong was arrested hours after he clobbered a woman to death, mutilated and beheaded her at a cemetery before feasting on her head in his home in Sitio Cabulogan, Barangay Casiboli in Talisayan.

Ramoga said the provincial prosecutor’s office received the information about the murder yesterday afternoon.

Bagtong has been inconsistent about his statements on the circumstances surrounding the grisly murder.

For instance, she said: “Ingon siya, ang maong babayi iya kunong gikoyog padulong sa sementeryo. Unya human, ingon na pud siya didto kuno sila sa sementeryo nagkita sa babayi.”

Ramoga, however, said Bagtong was consistent in his admission that he killed the woman whose identity has remained a mystery to investigators until now.

“Iya kunong gipatay kay ang maong babayi nagsigi kuno og ininglis. Dili kuno siya kasabot,” Ramoga said.

Bagtong said he took the woman’s head home because he was hungry and he had no food in his house.

He cracked the head open, devoured the brain on top of a plate of rice, gouged her eyes out and ate them. Not yet contented, he skinned the head and feasted on her nose and ears, too. Some parts, he cooked; others, he ate raw. 

Ramoga said Bagtong denied that he and the victim were lovers or that he was courting her.

“Wala man daw siya manguyab kay ayha pa man daw sila nagkita,” she said.

Meanwhile, no one has come forward to claim to be related to Bagtong or the victim.

Ramoga said this made it difficult for the police to conduct a profile investigation because of limited information.

She said not one relative came to see Bagtong or to provide investigators with useful information.

Ramoga said all the police got from Bagtong’s neighbors was that he is “buang” (madman).

Ramoga said this of Bagtong: “Kon amo siyang pangotan-on, usahay makatunong man pud sa iyang tubag; usahay sab mag-usab-usab ang iyang storya.”

She said the Talisayan police were expecting people with missing relatives to come to check the woman’s body but no one came at press time.

“Gipa-broadcast na namo, gipa-social media na, wala man gihapoy mi-claim,” Ramoga said.

She said the Talisayan police have no record of any missing person.

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