The widow of a police officer killed in an ambush last September told the Senators that Supt. Marcos of CIDG-8 wanted her husband dead.
Mylene Son, the widow of slain Police Chief Insp. Jesus Son, appeared at the Senate probe on the death of Albuera, Leyte Mayor Rolando Espinosa, claiming that her husband’s death was after he turned down a ‘special project’.
Chief Insp. Son was killed in an ambush last September 16 and his widow believes it was because of that ‘special project’ that Police Supt. Marvin Marcos, the director of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) Region 8, asked him to do.
In a prepared statement read by Mrs. Son, she said that Supt. Marcos asked the slain police officer to look for an asset who would be paid half a million pesos to kill Mayor Espinosa.
The widow claimed that Supt. Marcos was furious when her husband refused to do the project.
On September 15, a day before Chief Insp. Son was killed in an ambush, he posted in his Facebook account a status meant to the CIDG-8 director, and it wrote: “Subukan mo akong hamunin nang harapan, I’m sure may mamamatay sa atin (Try to challenge me face to face, I am sure one of us will die)”.
“What I told you today was all according to my husband and all true”, Chief Inspector Son’s widow said and added that coming out meant putting her and their family’s lives in danger.
“I fear for the lives of my loved ones. My husband, who was known to many as brave, was killed. How much more for us?”.
Marcos was the head of the CIDG unit that issued a search warrant to Mayor Espinosa who was detained at the Baybay, Leyte sub-provincial jail in early morning November 5.
Espinosa was killed along with another detainee who was on the adjacent cell, Raul Yap.