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A WOMAN has admitted to killing her sister and Japanese niece who were initially reported missing but whose bodies were found buried last week in Tayabas, Quezon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Three more suspects are being hunted by the police.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Tayabas police said they have in their custody the sister of the eldest victim, an overseas Filipino worker, and a resident of Japan. <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The sister is now in a hospital in Quezon after she attempted to commit suicide after the police discovered the body of the victims in her backyard.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n She reportedly admitted that the crime was planned in December.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The suspect told police she and three more suspects, among them her husband, killed the victims by beating and stabbing them to death.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Litada, 54, and her daughter, Mai Motegi, 26, a Japanese citizen, arrived in the Philippines last month and stayed at the suspects residence in Tayabas, Quezon.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Police said a nephew of the sisters said Litada and Motegi were planning to make transactions over a property during their trip and were carrying P5 million ($90,000) in cash for it.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims were reported missing since February 21, 2024 by Litada’s other sister, Saylee Oliva Olbis.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Police found the victims’ remains in a shallow grave near the suspects home in Tayabas on March 14.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Litada had a puncture wound on the chest while Motegi had suffered a broken jaw, police said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The victims\u2019 luggage were first seen floating in a river.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Initial investigation points to money as possible motive for the crime.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A WOMAN has admitted to killing her sister and Japanese niece who were initially reported missing but whose bodies were found buried last week in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4555,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/4555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}