VACC: Cops bungled Bulacan massacre probe, should’ve investigated widowed pa early

Police investigators may have committed lapses in their investigation of the Bulacan massacre case, the Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption said on Wednesday.

The VACC pointed out that two weeks had gone by before the police turned their attention to the widowed father, Dexter Carlos. 

"Sino ang unang nasa crime scene? Si Dexter, yung padre de pamilya, just to establish kung ano 'yung motibo," VACC spokesperson Boy Evangelista told Susan Enriquez on a "24 Oras" report.

"Kasi po, sa ibang bansa, tsaka 'yung proper crime investigation, nag-uumpisa sa pamilya, sa neighbors," he pointed out.

"'Yung sympathy goes with the family,  pero hindi 'yun exemption sa investigation," Evangelista said.

Carlos initially claimed he was at work as a bank's security guard when five individuals murdered five members of his family in his San Jose Del Monte home.

The VACC also hit the police for pronouncing the case solved within 30 hours after the crime.

On their part, town's police chief Superintendent Fitz Macariola said investigators had included Carlos in their elimination process in identifying possible suspects. —Claire Layug/NB, GMA News