University student found dead at home

University student found dead at home

The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

A 19-year-old student, Marco Imannuel Sibih, was found dead at
his home in Pasar Minggu, South Jakarta, on Monday at 8 p.m. He
died from blood loss caused by stab wounds.

Police suspect the murderer is a man but have not named a
suspect.

Police said the housemaid, identified as EM, 22, suffered a
gash to the neck but survived.

Pasar Minggu Police chief Comr. Didik has not commented on the
progress of the investigation.

Marco's relatives declined to comment, except to claim that
was a robbery gone bad.

However police sources, who requested anonymity, dismissed the
possibility of robbery, saying that nothing valuable had gone
missing except for Marco's cell phone. Marco was home on holiday from
Australia, where went to university.

The sources also said that EM had appeared to have been raped.

Police said a neighbor, Rani, heard a woman scream in the
house belonging to Romeo Sibih at about 8 p.m. Romeo owns a BMW
showroom in Cipete, South Jakarta.

Rani told her son Heri to check the neighbor's house. On the
way to the house, Heri met with neighbors Pian and Mail, who also
heard the scream.

When they arrived at the house, they saw Marco's sister Melisa
Sibih, 16, running toward the 2.5-meter high gate. She opened the
gate for the neighbors, who rushed through the open garage door.

The three men found EM lying facedown beside one of the
family's parked cars. Upon checking that EM was still breathing,
they called a 24-hour health clinic doctor.

They then checked the house and found Marco's body in the
living room. The room was covered in blood.

Marco's blood was also found in the garage, where it is
thought the killer tracked it in.

According to the neighbors, the Sibih family never received
strangers, indicating that they knew the killer.

Police sources said that the preliminary investigation pointed
to H, a childhood friend of Marco's. The sources quoted Romeo as
saying that he was with his wife Safernia when EM called them at
around 5 p.m. and informed them that H had been at the house for
an hour.

Romeo and Safernia suspected that H was on drugs and had
previously suggested that their son end his friendship with him.