Missing Canadian found buried on cebuano farm.

[Tawi2]

Missing Canadian found dead in Philippines

By Jay Directo | AFP News – 21 hours agotweet0EmailPrint
Philippine police said Saturday they had found the body of a missing retired Canadian missionary and arrested a family-of-three who owned the farm where the corpse was buried.

The decomposed remains, thought to be of Darcy Hans Rentenberg, 53, were sent for a post mortem examination to determine the cause of death, said Michael Codaste, a murder squad detective in the central city of Cebu.

Rentenberg's landlord reported him missing on July 5, 10 days after he left his flat in nearby Mandaue city on his motorbike and failed to return, Codaste said, reading from a police report.

"We have three suspects in custody," Codaste said, identifying them as Rentenberg's 46-year-old Filipino former assistant during his missionary work, the ex-aide's wife and their 17-year-old son.

Police looking for the missing Canadian visited the former aide's farm on the outskirts of Cebu on Thursday and found a concealed grave beneath a pig pen, Codaste said.

The family fled the property during the search but were arrested at a nearby village a few hours later, he said, adding that they were being held on suspicion of causing the Canadian's death and concealing his body.

Police said Rentenberg had been involved in missionary work in the Philippines from the 1980s and chose to live in the area at the end of his assignment. They said they did not have the name of his mission.

Canadian Foreign Affairs and International Trade ministry spokesman Alain Cacchione said: "The Canadian Embassy in Manila is in contact with the local police authorities to gather additional information."

"Due to the Privacy Act, no further information can be provided," he added.

The Canadian embassy in Manila was closed for the weekend.

[Tawi2]

I found one of the comments posted about the missing Canadian interesting,anyone who has spent time in Pinas will have read at times or seen news reports about "stings" on foreigners,always keep on the ball

Thank you to all the filipnos that have expressed dismay at what is happening all to often here in the Philippines. However, there is still to much anti-foreigner behaviour here. As a foreigner lawyer here I have become aware of just how widespread the abuse is, especially when it involves money. Cagayan de Oro in Mindanao is competing with Manila as the worst city in Philippines. In the last six months there have been over a dozen false cases of 9262 Violence Against Women & Children brought against foreigers here. It is always the same scam, live with a foreign boyfriend or husband, kick him out the house, accuse him of 9262 and take over the property he bought in her name. If he goes back to his own country without any fuss it's ok, but if he stays to fight through the courts he has to cope with crooked lawyers, prosecutors and judges + it will cost him even more money and he will most surely lose. With respect to the decent filipinos out there, your injustice system sucks.

[Moy]

sad news

[Terpe]

It always amazes me how many versions of the same story get reported.
Which version is true is anyones guess

Here's another version, which I can more easily relate too since it involves a drinking session, money and firearms.

A Canadian national who was reported missing since June 25 was found buried under a piggery on Thursday in Sitio Sapa, Barangay Adlaon, Cebu City.

The body of Darcy Hanz Rentenberg, 53, was exhumed from below an improvised kiln for making charcoal.

SPO3 Ruth Violango said Rentenberg was reported missing by his landlady, Evelyn Rebuscit, to the Mandaue City Police Station 3 after he left the morning of June 25 and did not return.

A man who was reported Rentenberg’s trusted aide, Rolando Aburot, later surrendered to the Cebu City Police Office and admitted responsibility for the crime.

His wife was also detained by police as accessory to crime.

Before he was killed, Rentenberg reportedly went to sitio Sapa to have a drinking session with Aburot.

In an interview, Aburot told The FREEMAN that while they were drinking at 11 p.m. on June 26, he asked Rentenberg to pay him for his work in constructing the Canadian’s small rest house for 14 days.

But Rentenberg shouted at Aburot in Cebuano, “di ko bayad sa balay, wala ko dinhi.”

This angered Aburot who immediately shot Rentenberg in the back of his head using Rentenberg’s own Frontier revolver.

The suspect said he immediately wrapped Rentenberg’s body with a blanket and buried it under a kiln few feet away from the rest house.

After burying Rentenberg, he then cemented the grave and turned it into a pig fence.

Aburot said he took Canadian’s P50,000 cash which he used to purchase a buffalo and pigs.

Aburot’s wife, Marilyn, reportedly sold Rentenberg’s laptop for P8,000 and cell phone for P1,000. The police, however, retrieved those items after the suspects’ surrender.

The Canadian Embassy got worried of Rentenberg’s disappearance and commissioned a policeman to look for him.

The police officer and barangay officials went to Sitio Sapa to investigate Aburot’s couple who were the last persons to have seen Rentenberg.

During their investigation, they noticed an odd piggery 300 feet away from the couple’s house cramped with seven pigs.

After seeking permission from the barangay and landowner, the police and barangay officials started digging beside the piggery and found a body of a man later.

When the body was identified to be that of the missing Canadian, Aburot, his wife and 17-year-old son immediately fled the area.

But fearing for their lives, the Aburot couple later surrendered to the police.

Aburot, who is facing a murder charge, has known Rentenberg for 20 years. It was the Canadian who took him from the streets and gave him a new life.

A former missionary, Rentenberg has been helping street kids since arriving in the Philippine in the 1980s

Source:-
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx...CategoryId=107

[Tawi2]

Robbery seems the most likely motive,and it doesnt sound like spur-of-the-moment Not with handy cement just waiting for that new pig-pen Sadly they didnt have enough pigs to dispose of a corpse properly

And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pi**head. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig sh*t, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

[Terpe]

Tawi2, you of all people will be well versed in the way of "Filipino Journalism".
Whatever is reported will always make perfect nonsense.

Facts are extremely rare and logical sequences don't exist.

[Tawi2]

Facts

Why let facts get in the way of a good story Pinoy hyperbolic journalese.