Progress made in investigation of brutal killing<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): City Police Chief Maj. Gen. Dibyo Widodo proudly
\nannounced yesterday that the investigation of Monday's brutal
\nkilling has made remarkable progress, but he declined to reveal
\nthe identities of any suspects.<\/p>\n
Police determined two strong possible motives: a love affair
\nor a land dispute, one of which led to the brutal killing of a
\n31-year-old housewife and her three young children, he said here
\nyesterday.<\/p>\n
\"We've come to a provisional conclusion that the motive for
\nthe murder is not robbery.\"<\/p>\n
The two-star general, however, declined to go into detail,
\nsaying that the police are still collecting valuable information.
\nHe made the statements after a meeting on the murder case with
\nhis staff.<\/p>\n
The police are also studying the possible role of the Rohadi,
\nwho was the woman's husband and a teacher at several high
\nschools, in the killing.<\/p>\n
\"As police officers we have to suspect everybody,\" he said.
\n\"Later, we'll cross the suspected persons off the list if we find
\nthey are innocent.\"<\/p>\n
Housewife Eli and three of her children, aged two, four and
\neight, were found dead with severe stab wounds. Their bodies were
\ndiscovered by Eli's eldest daughter at their small house in the
\nBambu Apus subdistrict of Ciracas, East Jakarta, on Monday
\nafternoon.<\/p>\n
Dibyo said that the police have not yet arrested or named
\nanyone as the suspect in the killing.<\/p>\n
\"We're still questioning a number of people but no single
\narrest has been made so far,\" he said.<\/p>\n
However, it is strongly believed that some of the suspected
\nkillers and the alleged mastermind have been identified and are
\nnow under police surveillance.<\/p>\n
\"What we badly need now is strong material evidence to name
\nthem as the suspects,\" said a police detective.<\/p>\n
Apart from fingerprints and blood, police found no valuable
\nmaterial evidence at the scene of crime.<\/p>\n
Police are also waiting for the post-mortem examination of the
\nfour bodies from the hospital, and the results of fingerprints
\nexaminations from the National Police Forensic Laboratory.<\/p>\n
But Dibyo guaranteed: \"This case will be solved in a matter of
\ndays.\"<\/p>\n
According to several detectives, the original target of the
\nmurderers was Eli. However, the killers had no choice due to the
\npresence of the three innocent children.<\/p>\n
Eli's husband, Rohadi, was informed by the police of the
\ndeaths while teaching at a high school in West Jakarta at around
\n5 p.m. on the day of the killing.<\/p>\n
A colleague of his at a school in Tangerang said that Rohadi
\nwas not in good health that Monday morning and later decided to
\ncancel a test scheduled for his students.<\/p>\n
Rohadi left the school half an hour before the police arrived
\nand told his friend that he was going to teach at another school
\nin Cibinong.<\/p>\n
One of his students, however, said that his teaching schedule
\nat that school was not on Monday but Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Despite going to Cipto Mangunkusumo General Hospital on
\nTuesday, Rohadi left the hospital without seeing the remains of
\nhis wife and three children.<\/p>\n
Rohadi teaches economics, Arabic and Pancasila ideology at
\nfour different schools.<\/p>\n
His colleagues said that Rohadi is a nice and friendly man,
\nthough his neighbors said they knew nothing of his family as they
\njust moved to the neighborhood eight months ago.<\/p>\n
According to the neighbors, Rohadi usually left home early in
\nthe morning and returned home after 7 p.m. in the evening.<\/p>\n
Eli, they said, was a housewife who was busy looking after her
\nfive children. (bsr)<\/p>",
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