‘CSI Manila’

FORMER Rep. Henry Lanot was shot dead in a restaurant in  Mandaluyong City on April 13. The diplomat and former ambassador Alicia Ramos was strangled in her house in Makati on April 24. A day after, on April 25, Dr. Nicolo Echiverri, a member of the Abalos family in Mandaluyong and of the Echiverri clan of Caloocan City, was shot dead near his house in Mandaluyong.

Their deaths join scores of others that shocked Metro Manila last month, and hundreds of other murders in 2005 and the previous year that collectively stamped “Murder Capital” on the country. What made these killings remarkable is that they remained unsolved, weeks, months and years after they were committed.