Even the Cebu police were shocked by the brutality of the crime.With the arrest yesterday of a taxi driver from Talisay City and two companions, confessions of murder described a rage that tore apart a household receiving dollars from family members abroad. Taxi driver, Richard Gudelosao, 27, was arrested and admitted to strangling and stabbing his brother’s fiancée Ma. Eva Mae Peligro, 24, and her cousin Gwendolyn Balasta, 26, on Thursday afternoon. He said he later chopped up their bodies with a kitchen knife, placed them in 13 plastic garbage bags to hide the evidence and dumped them in several sites while driving his taxi south down to Naga City. Police recovered eight of the trash bags so far after townfolk alerted them of the bizarre appearance of human body parts by the road and at the bottom of a cliff in Minglanila town, and other sites in Talisay and Naga City. The heads of two women were found in separate bags. The nose had been cut off Peligro’s face. “The murder was perpetrated by wicked men whose motive is beyond our purview,” said Sr. Supt. Carmelo Valmoria, Cebu provincial police chief. He said double murder charges would be filed against the taxi driver and his two cohorts on Monday. Police arrested Gudelosao’s girlfriend Jean Antonette Medalle, 26, and a neighbor’s helper, Joseph Cellar. Gudelosao told reporters he acted because he was fed up with “intrigues” passed on to clan members in the United States, where his brother and mother reside. He blamed the victim, Peligro, who had moved in last year to occupy the ground floor of the two-storey house his brother Felix had bought in Azienda Ferinza subdivision, Lawaan, Talisay City. Gudelosao lived on the second floor with his girlfriend and daughter. The animosity between Gudelosao and his brother’s fiancée grew over the months. The last straw was an instruction a week ago from his mother, Adelita, to move out of the house. Financial help from abroad was also cut off. The P4,000 to P5,000 he used to receive every 15th of the month stopped. The attack took place past 3 p.m. Thursday in the house, according to the 23-year-old helper, Cellar.
Police were able to draw a confession from both men by telling the driver that the helper had already spilled the beans. Police took Cellar back to the house where he reenacted the killing. Cellar said he taped the victims’ mouth with packing tape and held their limbs to keep them from moving. He said Gudelusao first slammed Peligro’s head on the wall and floor, then dragger her to the toilet and slashed her throat with a knife. Then they killed Balaste, to make there were no witnesses. “Lisod nato siya og ginhawa kay apil ang ilong gitabunan pod”, said Cellar. (It was difficult for her to breathe because the tape covered her nose as well.) Cellar said the driver’s girlfriend, Medalle, later came to help clean the blood stains in the floor and the rest of the house. The two men then boarded Gudelusao's taxi and drove off about 3 am. to dispose of the trash bags.
"Ang pagkaputol-putol adto, ako'y nagunit pero siya'y naghiwa. Akoy tigsulod sa cellophane pero siya maoy nanggulgul gyud,” Cellar said. (I held the victims, but (Gudelusao) cut up the bodies. I packed them in the plastic but he was the one who attacked them.) Cellar told police he was first invited to the house by the driver, where they ate and had a drinking session.He said Gedulusao took some marijuana before the killing. The driver allegedly cut off an electric cord for the Internet connection to draw Peligro out of her room where she was using the computer. The woman’s cousin Gwendolyn was outside the house doing laundry. "Paggawas sa kwarto, gipugngan dayon niya, iyang gilayog ug gituok, ako gigunitan nako ang kamot. Pagkakuyap ni Mae, mao tong gisaka namo sa kwarto sa taas,” said Cellar. (When she came out of the room, he choked her. I held her hand. When she collapsed, we took her upstairs to a room.) The men later called Gwendolyn, the helper, into the house, pretending there was a phone call for her. "Pagsulod, gidakop dayon niya ug gidritso og tuok. Gikuptan nako ang kamot ug giyak-an nako. Mao ra'y buhat nako," Cellon said. Peligro is the fiancée of Richard's younger brother Felix Gudelosao III, who had bought the house in Talisay City. Since the couple planned to marry, Peligro was asked to move in to stay with the family starting September last year. Felix had to return to his job in California with his mother Adelita. While Felix was abroad, Peligro brought in her cousin Gwendolyn to help her with chores in the house. Yesterday, the driver’s girlfriend, Medalle, in an interview, said her live-in partner Richard Gudelusao was angry because his mother had stopped sending them financial aid after getting negative reports about them from the fiancée. Medalle and Gudelosao had moved into the house with their three-year-old daughter in June last year. Peligro joined the household in September. Conflicts erupted between the occupants over domestic matters – scattered toys of the little girl, the drunken behavior of Richard, disagreements over house matters. "Sige og sumbong-sumbong ngadto ni Felix ug sa mama sa akong bana, mao na to didto nagsugod.
Nagkasunodsunod na, gamay lang kaayong katag sa mga duwaan, wa hipusa nga pagkaon sa lamesa, iyang picturan, ibutang sa internet, ipadala sa igsoon ug mama sa akong bana," Medalle said. She said the fiancée would send photos as “evidence” to the family in the US over the Internet. Medalle said by this time, the mother, Adelita, became very angry and asked them to leave the house. Medalle said Richard had planned to kill his brother’s fiancé and that she tried to advise him not to do it. She said she even went home to Lahug with their daughter before Richard could execute his plans. Medalle said Richard threatened to kill her if she would tell anyone what he intended to do. A total of 10 garbage bags were found by the police in Campo 5, Minglanilla town then a few kilometers further near the river of Campo 8 . Trash bags containing the victims' undergarments were found in barangay Lutak, Naga City. With a report from Correspondent Justin A.K. Vestil | 
