True crime in the news

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The Ecleo story filled news media sites and pages across two decades.

Pachico A. Seares

[1]. Murdering girls in Cebu: media focus on children victims and cruelty in the killing. [2]. Complications in solving Christine Silawan and Ella Joy Pique murders. [3]. How the Lapu-Lapu fiscal got out of a fix in Silawan murder. Media covered police, NBI interest in three suspects.

Pachico A. Seares

Author-journalist Lilette Chan-Santos tells how she came to write the book about Fr. Romano’s abduction in 1985. In 2024, almost 30 years after publication, she says, ‘I still stand by every word in it.’

Cebu’s widely known ‘Desaparecido’ was Fr. Rudy Romano, a Redemptorist priest whose unsolved abduction would be 40 years old in July 2025.

Lorenzo P. Ninal, Anol Mongaya

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