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Spouse seeks help for wife's killer Cebu Daily News Posted date: January 09, 2009 THE overseas Filipino worker husband of the murdered housewife in barangay Cabancalan, Mandaue City has appealed to his neighbors to help them get justice for his wife's death. Elmer Mendoza, who arrived yesterday from New Zealand, appealed to their neighbors because they have been uncooperative to the police investigation. “Please help my wife get justice,” said a grieving Mendoza yesterday calling for his neighbors to speak out about what they know of the murder. But Insp. George Aniñon of the Mandaue police homicide section, who visited the area yesterday, said the neighbors still remained mum about the incident. Aniñon said the neigbors seem to fear for their lives. “Please help us. I appeal to you all our neighbors please take pity on our family. We have been neighbors for quite a while and my family had not had any trouble with anybody in the neighborhood,” he said. “To those neighbors who will help. I thank you in advance.” Jocelyn was found soaked in blood with five stab wounds in the neck, inside their house in Cabancalan last Sunday morning in what appeared to be a robbery incident. The assailant is still unknown because no one would help in the investigation. Meanwhile, police said that at least P50,000 was lost and three mobile phones were taken by the assailant. Aniñon said Elmer told him that it was their family's savings. After a lengthy flight from New Zealand where he works as an overseas Filipino worker, Elmer said he still was not able to accept the fate of his wife because everything happened so quickly. In fact, he said he still do not know the plans for his family now that his wife is gone. He said he already with his three children who are still scared about what happened to their mother. They are even afraid to return to their home because the killer is still on the loose. He again appealed for the neighbors to help. He said that there are many ways to help in the investigation and there's no need for them to give their identity. The grandparents of the children, however, have seen a marked improvement of the children's behavior since Sunday's incident. The grandparents said that the children had been silent a few days after their mother's death. saw the two younger children running around with their playmates yesterday afternoon. The youngest daughter was playing yo-yo. Elmer, along with his sister, arrived around 11:45 AM in Cebu from a connecting flight from New Zealand to Hong Kong. Elmer left the country last November 9 to become a skilled worker in New Zealand for about nine months. His stint was cut short because of the murder of his wife. /Reporter Dale G. Israel