Businessman sought over wife's murder

Businessman sought over wife's murder

TANGERANG (JP): Police detectives here are looking for a 33-
year-old businessman in connection with the murder of his wife
and her sister, both of whom were found dead floating in a river
in Serang on Tuesday.

"After preliminary investigations and interviewing the
family's two servants, we believe that Aryani, who runs a cafe
and owns a fish pond, killed his wife Yulianti, 32, and
sister-in-law Aliuh, 30, and dumped their bodies," Tangerang
Police Detectives chief Capt. Krisnadi said on Friday.

Krisnadi said the motive and chronology of events surrounding
the killing remained a mystery, as did Aryani's whereabouts.

But police believe that the suspect murdered the two women in
front of his five-month old child at the family's house on Jl.
Prabu Siliwangi Raya, Perumnas, on Tuesday.

"It appeared that Aryani then took the child to his parents
house, who live nearby, before disappearing," the officer said.

The swollen bodies of Yulianti and her younger sister Aliuh
were found by residents of Teratai village in Serang, about 65
kilometers west of here.

Krisnadi said it was difficult to identify the two bodies
because they had no documents on their presence. It was only
after the dead women's parents read of the discovery and went to
Serang general hospital that the identity of two women was
finally revealed.

Blood stains

Police found blood stains at several places in the family's
home. A knife, dumbbell, bedsheet and Yulianti's nightgown were
taken away as evidence. All the items were bloodstained, he said.

After identifying the bodies, Tangerang detectives summoned
the family's housemaid Yumi and servant Jayadi for questioning.

Yumi told ANteve on Thursday that Aryani had asked her to help
carry the bodies to his car after the killing and warned her not
to tell anybody about what had just taken place.

Jayadi told police investigators that Aryani had asked him to
kill Yulianti last Saturday.

"I refused because I was scared to commit a crime," Jayadi
said as quoted by Krisnadi.

The next morning, Aryani asked Jayadi to accompany him to his
fish pond in Serang.

The servant again refused, saying that he was helping to
prepare for a family party, Krisnadi said.

On Tuesday, Jayadi went to the house but found it locked and
deserted. "The house was locked so I just went back to my home,"
he recalled.

Krisnadi did not disclose Aliuh's marital status and whether
or not she lived together with her sister and Aryani. (41/bsr)