Family of cop killed, chopped, and buried in Baguio by fellow police said the suspects’ confession is a lie

Baguio City, Philippines - The family of the cop whose dismembered body was found buried in Baguio City last week claims that the ‘extrajudicial confession’ of the suspects, who were the victim’s fellow police officers, was false.

“For the past few days, there was malicious news spreading that my father and a certain demonic woman were caught in the act of sexual activity that resulted in the shooting of my father committed by her demonic husband,” the victim's family stated in a Facebook post.

“This report was mere basely on the ‘FALSE’ extrajudicial confession made by these two demonic individuals who killed my father," added in the statement, calling the incident a massacre.

It can be recalled that the victim, Police Executive Master Sergeant Emmanuel Ballos De Asis, was killed on November 28 by the suspect, Police Lieutenant Colonel Roderick Pascua, inside an apartment in Taguig City.

Through an 'extrajudicial confession’, Pascua admitted to the investigators that he shot De Asis after he caught him doing intimate things with his wife, Rosemarie, also a police officer, inside the apartment.

He added that he ordered Rosemarie to get a hacksaw to cut De Asis’s body into pieces. After that, they brought the dismembered body in Barangay Pucsusan, Baguio City, and buried there. It was only unearthed by the authorities on December 5, 2024.

However, the family of the victim did not believe the statement of the husband and wife, claiming that the killing was planned by the married couple and involved around 10 to 20 more perpetrators.

“For clarity, it was a set up that started with a forcible abduction and merciless tortures that resulted in the tragic death of my father. It was planned and prepared since March 2024 up to the present to kill my father once he visits Manila, perpetrated by these two demonic individuals,” the family further wrote in their post.

"Yes, their cohorts, this demonic crime was not only committed by these two but more or less 10 to 20 other demonic individuals,” they added.

With the statement of the victim’s family, the Southern Police District in NCR is now looking into the angle of “crime of passion” in their investigations, according to a report of Unang Balita on Monday, December 9.

Charges of murder may be filed against the suspects, Pascua and Rosemarie, who are currently under inquest proceedings.