A man in Madiun, Dwi Bagus Martono, also known as Bagus or DBM, 40,\nwho is suspected of brutally murdering his unregistered wife, Dini\nHardiyanti, 30, and her child, AGF, four, allegedly devised an elaborate\nplot to conceal his crime.<\/p>\n
Bagus, a graduate of a well-known polytechnic in Bandung, is said to\nhave pretended that a family member had gone missing. This led to a\nmissing-person report being filed with police on 5 October 2026.<\/p>\n
The plot began to unravel when Dini\u2019s family in Bogor became\nsuspicious. She usually kept in frequent contact with them, but\ncommunication abruptly and mysteriously stopped on 20 September\n2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictim always communicated with her family in Bogor. The\ncommunication was intensive: she would regularly tell them where she was\nand how she was doing. But the last communication was on 20 September,\u201d\nsaid East Java Police Criminal Investigation Directorate chief Roy H M\nSihombing at East Java Police headquarters in Surabaya on Tuesday (27\nOctober).<\/p>\n
The worried family tried to find out where Dini was by contacting the\nsuspect. However, Bagus deliberately ignored their attempts to reach\nhim, prompting further suspicion.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe family also contacted the perpetrator to ask where she was. But\nhe was unresponsive, which increased the family\u2019s suspicions,\u201d Roy\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Dini\u2019s family then travelled from Bogor to Madiun and reported her\nmissing to Madiun City Police on 5 October 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was when her family in Bogor felt that something was unusual:\nthere was no communication. So they took the initiative to file a\nmissing-person report with Madiun City Police,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
To bolster his alibi, the suspect calmly went to the Madiun City\nPolice station when the family filed the report. His presence was meant\nto look like a husband concerned about finding his wife and child.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the report was made to Madiun City Police, the perpetrator also\nattended. It was part of the responsibility he was trying to stage,\u201d Roy\nsaid.<\/p>\n
In front of local police, the suspect told a fabricated story to\nmislead the investigation. He claimed that after an argument, his wife\nhad left him, getting out at an unknown place and taking the child with\nher.<\/p>\n
\u201cFollowing an argument at the hotel, a scenario was created in which\nthe victim left the suspect. She got out somewhere and left with her\nchild,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
The incident began when DBM invited Dini and AGF on a trip to Lake\nSarangan in Magetan to celebrate the child\u2019s birthday on 19 September\n2026. The plan was suddenly cancelled because the suspect chose instead\nto collect his legally married wife from a railway station.<\/p>\n
That night, DBM left Dini and AGF at a hotel on Jalan Dr Soetomo in\nMadiun, while he went to collect his wife and returned home.<\/p>\n
DBM returned to the hotel the next morning, on 20 September. The pair\nargued over their relationship, with Dini reportedly jealous of the\nsuspect\u2019s legally married wife. They pushed each other before he\nallegedly strangled Dini until she was unconscious.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was killed by her unregistered husband after an argument at a\nhotel in Madiun City. She was strangled,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
After finding Dini dead, the suspect put her body in a sleeping bag\nhe had kept in his vehicle. He then left the hotel in his Mitsubishi\nPajero, carrying Dini\u2019s body and AGF, who was still alive.<\/p>\n
The suspect took Dini\u2019s body and the child to his parents\u2019 home in\nGang Tentrem, Jalan Doho, Winongo subdistrict, Manguharjo district,\nMadiun. There, he transferred the child to another car, a Suzuki\nKarimun, and allegedly strangled the four-year-old in the passenger\nseat.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe body was taken out of the hotel, and her own child was treated\nthe same way, but in a different place, inside a car,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n
DBM then took both bodies to his home on Jalan Kunir, Ngegong\nsubdistrict, Manguharjo district, Madiun. He concealed them in the\ngarden behind the house, wrapped in a sleeping bag and covered with a\ntarpaulin. The suspect ordered a saw and a meat grinder.<\/p>\n
On 22 and 23 September 2026, the suspect allegedly mutilated the\nbodies of his unregistered wife and child in an attempt to cover up the\ncrime.<\/p>\n
The murders were uncovered through an examination of CCTV footage\nfrom a hotel in Madiun, where the victims were last detected on 19\u201320\nSeptember.<\/p>\n
Investigators also searched around the suspect\u2019s parents\u2019 home in\nWinongo, Manguharjo, where they found five suspicious bone\nfragments.<\/p>\n
The five bone samples were sent to a forensic laboratory, which\nconfirmed they were human remains.<\/p>\n
Based on the forensic findings and evidence gathered at the scene,\npolice concluded that the victims\u2019 disappearance was the result of\nmurder. Officers arrested DBM while he was on the run at a house in\nMejoyolosari village, Gudo district, Jombang regency, on Sunday (25\nOctober).<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/madiun-murder-suspect-allegedly-devised-elaborate-plot-to-conceal-killing-of-partner-and-child-1793091203", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }