Body of missing bank teller found in shallow grave in Angeles

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• Sunday, June 28, 2015 1:44 pm

By Jun Malig (Inquirer Central Luzon)

ANGELES CITY — A week after 33-year-old Tania Camille Dee, a bank teller in Binondo, Manila, went missing, her body was found in a shallow grave in the backyard of a house in Barangay Balibago here before dawn Sunday.

Photos of Dee, a mother of two, have been circulating in social media since June 21, a day after she went to this city to meet with former husband, Fidel Sheldon Arcenas. She never returned home.

At 9 p.m. on Saturday, Regina Dychioco told the Pampanga Criminal Investigation and Detection Team (CIDT) that her daughter, Angela, had informed her that Dee could already be dead.

Angela, the girlfriend of Arcenas, reportedly told her mother that Dee could be buried in the backyard of the house Dychioco had been renting on Lilian Street, Sta. Maria Subdivision.

Dychioco told police that her daughter and Arcenas borrowed the keys to the house a few weeks ago. The mother said Arcenas returned the keys to her on June 26.

On Saturday night, after getting Dychioco’s permission, CIDT personnel, Scene of Crime Operatives (Soco) and the Angeles City crime laboratory office went to the house to conduct a search.

At 1 a.m. on Sunday, they exhumed the body of a woman, buried in a grave about a meter deep, at the back of the house. The woman was wearing denim pants and a striped shirt. Her head was wrapped in a towel and a plastic garbage bag.

Dee’s relatives, who went to this city on Sunday, identified the body.

They told the police that Dee had agreed to meet Arcenas here on June 20 after the latter told her that he would give her a car.

After the exhumation, CIDT personnel went to the house of Arcenas at Carmenville Subdivision in Barangay Cutcut here to invite him for questioning. They were told that he was not home.