00:00A sailor and a fisherman went missing in Bataraza, Palawan.
00:09A few days later, the main suspect in their disappearance appeared.
00:17What or who is the serial killer of Bataraza?
00:25Grandparents are limited.
00:28Since they are old, they have to stay at home.
00:31They are not that strong anymore.
00:34But the grandfather of Bataraza in Palawan,
00:38is getting closer.
00:41He is so strong, he can kill.
00:46In fact, just last week,
00:49he was attacked twice, both of which suddenly disappeared.
00:55Many people were attacked.
00:56We noticed that the victim's foot was old.
01:00The victims were already injured when they were found.
01:04He was old.
01:06He was dead.
01:08He was stabbed.
01:10All of this was done by the grandfather.
01:15It was done by the grandfather.
01:17But the grandfather was not a human being.
01:20We call the grandfather, ma'am, Buaya.
01:30One of the last victims of the grandfather,
01:33is 60-year-old Monelba.
01:36Around 11 in the morning,
01:38Han Bran was on his way home from Laot when he was spotted in the river.
01:43We noticed that he was old.
01:46He was not screaming anymore.
01:47He was not conscious anymore.
01:48He was stabbed by the grandfather.
01:50We also saw that he was really injured.
01:53He stabbed the foot of the person who was being stabbed.
01:56I also did not recognize his face, ma'am,
01:58because this is the only foot that we saw.
02:02Han Bran did not know that the victim of Buaya
02:06was his own daughter-in-law.
02:08At that time, his son was already looking for his daughter-in-law.
02:12I left my mother at our brother's house.
02:15I asked my mother where my son was.
02:18She said that my son was just there a while ago.
02:20He was swimming in the river.
02:22I looked at the river, ma'am, but there was no one there.
02:26That was the only thing that Noria was worried about
02:28when she did not see her mother.
02:29It was even more painful in her mind.
02:33I talked to my mother.
02:34If possible, I could tie her up
02:37because I might be able to save her and not be able to take care of her.
02:40She did not allow me to tie her up,
02:43but I could not do anything.
02:47Until someone came to their house.
02:50He said that there was a boat near Tagdaridi
02:54that was being towed by a boatman.
02:59Noria was so angry that she swam to the side of the river
03:02where she saw the boat,
03:04but only in the middle of the river.
03:06My son saw my mother's clothes.
03:09That's when I started crying.
03:11I couldn't take it anymore.
03:15I saw my son's clothes.
03:17He was covered in his clothes.
03:21We can see, ma'am, in their bodies
03:23that the clothes were stained.
03:27He did not spare my mother.
03:29He gave us his whole body.
03:34But not all of Lolo's victims
03:36immediately drowned.
03:38Just like the fisherman, Menandro,
03:40who was found a few days later
03:42after being taken by a boatman.
03:46One of Menandro's accomplices
03:48was his nephew, Prudensho,
03:50who was taken by a boatman that night.
03:52On June 5,
03:54we left our house
03:56to go fishing.
03:59The fishermen headed to Taganak Island
04:02where they usually fish.
04:04We were just one boat,
04:05but he told us
04:07that he was separated from his wife.
04:09Two hours later,
04:11when we brought him back
04:13to the area where he was killed,
04:17we saw his light in the depths of the sea.
04:19This is where Prudensho was buried.
04:21We immediately thought,
04:23ma'am, that he was really alive.
04:27We searched for him.
04:29We also went to the area
04:31where the big river is located.
04:33And here, they found something.
04:36This is the evidence of his murder.
04:40And this morning, on June 7,
04:42almost two days after Menandro's disappearance,
04:45we saw that he was buried
04:47inside a boat.
04:50I saw my nephew's body
04:52under the boat.
04:53He was only three days old.
04:55We talked to his family.
04:57His wife also had a baby.
04:59And we found his nephew.
05:03He was angry and pitied his nephew.
05:07According to the initial investigation,
05:09it is possible that
05:11Monelva and Menandro are hiding
05:13in different villages.
05:15The possibility that
05:17they are in the same village
05:19for different barangays is very low.
05:21Because if we look at the biology
05:23of a village,
05:25it is impossible for them to share the territory.
05:27Especially this season,
05:29when the villagers are very aggressive.
05:31The villages where the victims were found
05:34are the saltwater crocodiles.
05:36They are huge.
05:38They usually reach up to 17 feet.
05:40According to the PNP in Bataraza,
05:43from January,
05:45there were four crocodile attacks
05:47that were reported to their office.
05:49The unreported ones are not included here.
05:52And it is not only the residents
05:54who are being attacked by the old man
05:56or the villagers in Bataraza.
05:58Even the animals.
06:04This April,
06:05a dog barked
06:07when it encountered
06:09a crocodile
06:11that was caught on video.
06:18On April 8,
06:20there were about 10 of them
06:22in front of our house.
06:24I felt that the dogs were barking.
06:26So I went out.
06:28And this is where he found
06:30the crocodile.
06:42It's gone.
06:44The dog was barely saved.
06:46But it was badly injured
06:48on its back and legs.
06:50It went home to its owner, Lucy.
06:52This is where the crocodile bit it.
06:54Here.
06:56This is the deep part where the crocodile bit it.
06:58Here.
06:59It was all swollen.
07:01It was badly injured.
07:03I am thankful.
07:04Of course, I feel sorry for it.
07:05Because I really took care of it.
07:09If it was deliberately bitten,
07:11then that's animal cruelty.
07:13I will ask again,
07:15if it happened to a child,
07:17should we just video it?
07:19At the same time,
07:21if there is a plan to bite the dog.
07:24Although, of course,
07:27we should also be concerned
07:29about the safety of people.
07:31We should avoid the situation
07:33that could put us
07:35and our pet
07:37in danger.
07:39In this case,
07:41assuming that the area is known
07:43as crocodile infested,
07:45so preventive more than wait and see,
07:47as much as possible,
07:49our pet should be secured
07:51in our home.
07:53I didn't do anything
07:55to feed the dog to the crocodile.
07:57For content.
07:58It's not true.
07:59Why would you feed the dog to the crocodile?
08:01It's a pet.
08:03And the dog is looking for food.
08:05The crocodile is also looking for food.
08:07Maybe that's why it happened.
08:09When the dog passed by the crocodile,
08:11it bit it.
08:19Meanwhile,
08:21the search and rescue operation
08:23of the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development
08:26is underway
08:28to find the possible inhabitants
08:30of Minandro and Monelva.
08:32Based on the night spotting activities we conducted,
08:34we were able to prove
08:36that there is an existing population
08:38of crocodiles in the area.
08:40We are following a protocol
08:42when it comes to the extraction
08:44or removal of a threat
08:46that lives in a place.
08:48The office plans to conduct
08:50a more extensive information
08:52campaign in the area
08:54as well as the installation
08:56of signage
08:58to inform the residents
09:00that there are crocodiles in their river.
09:02When it comes to their biology,
09:04it triggers their instinct
09:06to protect their pets.
09:08It's natural for them
09:10to be aggressive at this time.
09:12I hope they catch those crocodiles
09:14so that we won't be in danger.
09:16We are really afraid to walk around now
09:18because of what happened to my uncle.
09:20I didn't expect this to happen.
09:22I didn't go to the road.
09:24I went to the river instead.
09:28In the eyes of some of the residents,
09:30crocodiles are perverts.
09:32They are monsters
09:34that steal their loved ones' lives.
09:36But crocodiles,
09:38in the territory they believe in,
09:40where they divide people,
09:42they also fight
09:44to keep them alive
09:46in a way that is natural
09:48for them.
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