Quezon City Police Arrest Husband, Others in Officer-Son Slay

Quezon City police have arrested the husband of a slain police officer and three other suspects in connection with the killings of Senior Master Sgt. Diane Marie Mollenido and her eight-year-old son, John Ysmael, authorities confirmed this weekend.

The 38-year-old Mollenido, assigned to the National Capital Region Police Office's Personnel and Records Management Division in Taguig City, and her son were reported missing on January 19 after leaving their home that day to meet a car agent in Novaliches, Quezon City, for the sale of their Toyota Innova sport utility vehicle. They were last seen alive on January 16 at the agent's residence in Barangay San Agustin. Mollenido's body was discovered on January 24 in a creek along a roadside in Pulilan, Bulacan, with a gunshot wound to the head. Her son's decomposing remains were found on January 29 in a calamansi farm in Barangay Maluid, Victoria, Tarlac, wrapped in tape inside a plastic garbage bag. An autopsy determined the boy died from asphyxia due to suffocation.

On Friday, January 30, Quezon City Police District operatives arrested Pia Katrina Chua Panganiban, a 29-year-old car agent and Mollenido's godchild; her husband,...