Tailors and maid named suspects in violent rape

JAKARTA (JP): South Jakarta Police detectives have arrested two tailors and a cleaner over the violent rape and murder of a 24-year-old woman on Tuesday last week at her rented room in Setiabudi, an officer said on Friday.

South Jakarta Police chief Lt. Col. Edward Aritonang identified the suspects as tailors Sutarman, 34, and Rusdiyanto, 28, who work for a nearby ready-made garment factory, and Dadang Hidayat, 18, a cleaning service boy at the boarding house, called Wisma Kos Super Ambassador, a two-story building which rents out 54 luxurious rooms.

"We got hold of these three men at about 3 a.m. on Thursday. We located them via the victim's cell phone, stolen from the victim's room and sold to two men," Aritonang told reporters.

"We called the cell phone, and got hold of the men who bought it. Both pointed at Dadang as having sold the phone to them.

After Dadang, we got Sutarman and Rusdiyanto, who is a father," Edward said.

The victim, Daisy Mustiko, was found dead in a pool of blood on the floor of her rented room on Jl. Pedurenan Mesjid.

At the time of the incident, all of the rooms at the building, owned by local resident Budiman Ali, were full.

According to Edward, his men were still looking for a hammer believed to have been used by the suspects to fatally injure Daisy on the back of her head.

The key to the victim's room is still missing.

From the victims, the police confiscated the Nokia 5110 cell phone, and a tape recorder, which the suspects bought from the money they got after selling the cell phone, as evidence.

Shortly after the incident, police also found a pair of slippers, the victim's bloodied top and shorts, a bloodied sheet and a water hose at the crime scene.

Dadang told reporters that a day before the incident, the three of them watched a pornographic movie which showed some violent sexual acts.

The next morning, Sutarman told Dadang that he found Monique, Daisy's friend, pretty, and Dadang told Sutarman and Rusdiyanto that he had no problem getting into Daisy's room, Dadang said.

"We saw Daisy parking her white Suzuki Katana vehicle ... and we were sure that her boyfriend (Aron Kusnadi) was not around. With a water hose and a hammer in hand, I brought Sutarman and Rusdiyanto up with me to her room.

I knocked the door," Dadang recalled.

Daisy opened the door, he said, and he told her that he wanted to fix the wash basin in her bathroom.

The lights were on in her room.

While heading toward the bathroom, he suddenly turned and grabbed her legs, while one of the other men grabbed and covered her mouth.

"She fought us really hard. She was scratching ... so I hit her mouth with a hammer. She fell. I forced her panties off her ... I was the first to rape her, then (Su)Tarman, then Rus(diyanto)."

When Sutarman and Rusdiyanto raped her, Daisy was trying to fight them off, as evident from scratch marks found on the torsos of Sutarman and Rusdiyanto, and a deep scratch on Rusdiyanto's neck.

During the rape, someone knocked on the door, evidently sensing something was wrong, Dadang said.

"So, I switched off the lights," he said.

After the rape, Rusdiyanto grabbed her hair and bashed her head on the floor several times. (ylt)