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    Cayago reported finding his wife's decomposing body at an abandoned building. When police investigated, Cayago was inconsistent in his statements and reluctant to answer questions. He later confessed to a police officer that he killed his wife, and provided a full confession with a lawyer present. An autopsy found injuries on the wife's neck, including a fractured windpipe and internal bleeding, consistent with strangulation. Cayago claimed he embraced her tightly but did not mean to kill her, but the medical evidence did not support accidental death by embrace.

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    People V Cayago

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    Cayago reported finding his wife's decomposing body at an abandoned building. When police investigated, Cayago was inconsistent in his statements and reluctant to answer questions. He later confessed to a police officer that he killed his wife, and provided a full confession with a lawyer present. An autopsy found injuries on the wife's neck, including a fractured windpipe and internal bleeding, consistent with strangulation. Cayago claimed he embraced her tightly but did not mean to kill her, but the medical evidence did not support accidental death by embrace.

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    Cayago reported finding his wife's decomposing body at an abandoned building. When police investigated, Cayago was inconsistent in his statements and reluctant to answer questions. He later confessed to a police officer that he killed his wife, and provided a full confession with a lawyer present. An autopsy found injuries on the wife's neck, including a fractured windpipe and internal bleeding, consistent with strangulation. Cayago claimed he embraced her tightly but did not mean to kill her, but the medical evidence did not support accidental death by embrace.

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    Cayago reported finding his wife's decomposing body at an abandoned building. When police investigated, Cayago was inconsistent in his statements and reluctant to answer questions. He later confessed to a police officer that he killed his wife, and provided a full confession with a lawyer present. An autopsy found injuries on the wife's neck, including a fractured windpipe and internal bleeding, consistent with strangulation. Cayago claimed he embraced her tightly but did not mean to kill her, but the medical evidence did not support accidental death by embrace.

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    [ G.R. No.

    128827, August 18, 1999 ]


    PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, PLAINTIFF-APPELLEE, VS. ROLANDO CAYAGO Y REYES, ACCUSED-
    APPELLANT.

    Crime Scene Investigation

    "At about 1:25 o'clock in the afternoon of August 2, 1995, SPO2 Belino Zinampan, Jr. was at the
    police headquarters at Pasig City where he received the report of Rolando Cayago that he saw
    the decomposing body of his wife at the abandoned barangay hall of Santolan, Pasig City.

    Zinampan, SPO2 Antonio Paulite, a police photographer and Cayago proceeded to the said
    abandoned barangay hall to verify the report.

    Thereat, the group saw the dead and decomposing body of a woman. Zinampan requested
    Cayago to identify the body and on recognizing the shoes worn by the deceased, let out a loud
    cry and thereafter lost consciousness for about five minutes. Thereafter, Cayago, in answer to
    Zinampan's question, answered that he does not know who killed his wife. Zinampan and
    Cayago then returned to the police headquarters where the latter's statement was taken by the
    former.

    "At the time Cayago's statement was being taken, Police Sr. Inspector Pajota noticed Cayago's
    several inconsistent statements. Pajota subsequently instructed Zinampan, SPO2 Paulite and
    SPO2 Delos Reyes to further interrogate Cayago and, who, thereafter concluded that Cayago
    was `reluctant and inconsistent in answering our simple questions.'

    Pajota then advised Cayago to undergo a polygraph examination at Camp Crame.

    "On August 3, 1995, when Cayago was about to be brought to Camp Crame for a polygraph
    test, he requested permission to go to the nearby church. Cayago requested that he be
    accompanied by SPO2 Delos Reyes, who agreed.

    Thereat, Cayago admitted to SPO2 Delos Reyes that he killed his wife Myra Cayago and was
    willing to give his statement relative to said killing. SPO2 Delos Reyes and Cayago returned to
    the police station and upon such information, Sr. Inspector Pajota instructed Zinampan to
    secure a lawyer to assist Cayago.

    Zinampan then requested Atty. Reynario Campanilla, who agreed to assist Cayago. Atty.
    Campanilla conferred with Cayago at the Office of the Investigation Division. After apprising
    Cayago of his constitutional rights, Cayago admitted that he killed his wife. Atty. Campanilla
    then advised Cayago to personally write down his confession which Cayago did for about an
    hour in the presence of Atty. Campanilla.

    Thereafter, with the aid of a tape recorder, requested Cayago to read his admission.
    After informing Cayago of his constitutional rights against self- incrimination, SPO2 Delos Reyes
    started taking down Cayago's extra- judicial confession again in the presence of Atty.
    Campanilla and who signed said statement together with Cayago."

    In the case at bar, it is clear that appellant strangulated his wife resulting to her death. This is
    supported by appellant's own testimony, his confession to the police and the medical findings
    corroborating that she died of asphyxia by strangulation.
    In his testimony, appellant claims that he embraced his wife so tight but did not notice

    she had stopped breathing due to the tightness of the embrace. If it were true, however, that
    his intention of embracing her was to stop her from pushing him, he would have wrapped his
    arms around her body including her hands. Yet the medical findings revealed injuries on the
    neck which is shown by the presence of fracture on the victim's windpipe and hemorrhage
    inside the windpipe.

    The examining physician explained his findings on the victim's cadaver which was already in an
    advanced state of decomposition at the time it was recovered two (2) days after the killing:

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