PHILIPPINES HIGH PROFILE CASES
JANUARY 18, 1961: COP KILLS DAUGHTER, SON-IN-LAW, HIMSELF
(This was the front page of most newspaper in Jan 1961 as this killing turns out one of the most high profile case in the country, especially in Manila. The lack of motive of the killer seems to puzzle the policemen. This incident was adopted by the movie KISAPMAT.)
A Manila police detective, driven to a fit of madness during
a family quarrel, killed his only daughter and son-in-law, shot and wounded his
wife and then blew his brains out with the same gun at their plush residence in
Makati, Rizal, shortly before 5:45 p.m. yesterday.
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The amok was Pablo Cabading, 48, a plainclothesman assigned with the criminal
investigation laboratory of the Manila Police Department. He herded the three
into his room at the second floor of their lavishly-furnished house at 1074
Zapote, Makati to settle a domestic dispute. At the heat of the argument, he
shot them one after, and then presses the muzzle of his .45 caliber pistol
against his right temple and shot himself to death. The .45 caliber slug plowed
through his skull. His victims were: 1. Mrs. Asuncion Cabading, 45, his wife,
who sustained multiple gunshot wounds. Mrs. Cabading, up to press time last
night,
was in serious condition at the Philippine General Hospital. She sustained
eight wounds --- five in both feet, two in the left shoulder and one in the
body. She was taken to the operating room. 2. Mrs. Lydia Cabading-Quitangon,
24, his lone daughter, a doctor by profession. 3. Leonardo Quitangon, 36,
professor at the University of Santo Tomas College of Medicine, Lydia’s
husband.
Quintangon and Lydia died in each other’s embrace in a corner of the room.
Their bodies were riddled with bullets. Cabading fell on his back on a bed.
Mrs. Cabading was found writhing in pain on the floor near the feet of
Quitangon and Lydia. Makati policemen rushed her to the PGH. The death gun,
Cabading’s service pistol was found on the floor below the feet of Cabading.
The four were found in the blood-soaked room on the second floor of their
newly-constructed house. Police investigators had to break the lock of the door
to get into the room. They said the room was locked from inside.
Four other persons were in the house during the shooting orgy. They were Nonilo
Quitangon, 27, a lawyer of 3996 Dangal, Sta. Mesa, brother of Leonardo; Eduardo
Cabading, 8, adopted son of the Cabadings; Normalinda Gapuz, 15, and Corazon
Verzosa, 12, housemaids. A Makati policeman was passing by and the maids sought
his aid, Gapuz said. Nonilo said he was in the house during the rampage but got
frightened and rushed out to call for policemen. He said he was summoned by
Cabading to their house to discuss “something important.” When he arrived at
the house, Cabading engaged him in a lively conversation, Nonilo said. Minutes
later, Cabading told him to wait downstairs as the family was going to discuss
something upstairs. Five minutes later, Nonilo said, he heard a succession of
shots. Nonilo told policemen Cabading might have been angered by their
children’s refusal to stay with them. He said the Quintangons wanted to live
separately. Quintangon and Lydia were married only last October 1960. Lydia was
an only child of the Cabadings.
Rodrigo Narvaez, 18, of 176 Arellano Avenue, cousin of Quintangon, rushed to
the house after he got word of the shooting. He said that Cabading once told
him that it was his wish that Lydia would not live separately with them.
Narvaez said he learned Cabading treated Quintangon coldly because he married
his daughter without their blessing. Nonilo told Makati police investigators
that last Sunday, Lydia and Quintangon left for Marogondon, Cavite, without the
permission of their father. He said that shortly before Sunday noon, Cabading
went to his house in Sta. Mesa brandishing a Thompson submachine gun, looking
for Quintangon and Lydia. Nonilo said he told Cabading that the couple was
still in Cavite. Yesterday morning, Nonilo said, the couple who slept in his
house received a phone call from Cabading telling them that Mrs. Cabading was
“very ill.” Worried, Nonilo said, the couple left for their house in Makati but
much to their surprise they found Mrs. Cabading well. Nonilo said Cabading then
called him up telling him also to go to his house as they were going to discuss
“something important.” When he arrived, Nonilo said, Cabading told him to wait
downstairs as he wanted to talk to their children upstairs. A few minutes
later, Nonilo said, he heard gunshots.
Policemen who rushed to the place, surmised that the couple stood pat on thei
plan tp live separately. Police conjectured that when the father sense it the
futility of having them live with them, he got his .45 caliber pistol, locked
the room, and shot them one by one. Initial findings showed that Mrs. Cabading
had prevented her husband from shooting the two or tried to shield the young
couple from Cabading’s gun. Lydia was also covering her husband when they were
hit by the first volley of shots, police surmised.
Mayor Maximo Estrella and several Makati homicide investigators dug deeper into
the case. They wanted to know the real motive behind the killing. They were
trying to find out why the gun was found far from Cabading.