Was Lacson Behind the 8 Year Dacer- Corbito Murder?

Who killed publicist Salvador “Buddy” DACER and his driver Emmanuel CORBITO? Why is it that the crime remains unresolved for almost eight years? Could the deportation of former Police Colonel Glen DUMLAO help the government resolve the case? And Why Sen LACSON called the deportation of DUMLAO a vindication? Was he behind the murder?

The DACER-CORBITOdouble murder case was one of the sensational cases due to the alleged involvements of several top officials of the Philippine National Police and known political figures including former Pres Fidel RAMOS and Joseph ESTRADA. Insinuations were then spreading that DACER’s killing was stemmed from his alleged utilization by then Pres Fidel RAMOS to destabilize former Pres Joseph ESTRADA whose administration was then taunted with corruption. At the time of his death, DACER was working with former PNP Chief Roberto LASTIMOSO, a known enemy of LACSON.

Despite the suspects’ denials, the family of DACER remains firm in claiming that LACSON was the brain in the killing of their kin because DACER at the time of the murder had evidences for the crimes against LACSON. Of course, the family will not speak unless they have evidences to support their claims. But, giving the benefit of the doubt, why were AQUINO, MANCAO, and DUMLAO left the country and abscond to the US if they had no hand in the killings? Under the Rules of Evidence “flight is evidence of guilt”. So, their flight to the US indicates that they were indeed guilty of the horrible killings.

But, the implications and the impending trial of AQUINO, MANCAO, and DUMLAO will not end the story because the trio seems to have no personal motive in killing DACER and CORBITO. Possibly, they were induced by somebody who was superior from them and that was no other than Sen Ping LACSON, the then Chief of the famous anti-crime body, the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF). Suspicion could have then that LACSON ordered the killing of DACER to prevent him from exposing LACSON’s crimes in the public because politics at that time might have already at the mind of LACSON.

Yet, LACSON could have been right in silencing DACER because otherwise he is not at the Senate right now. The Senate seems to be not enough for LACSON as he has now started using the institution for his ambition for a higher and even to the highest political position in the country – the presidency. Since LACSON is aspiring to become the next president.