Probers looking for hubby, kin of teacher in child slay and suicide case

MANILA, Philippines - Quezon City policemen are looking for the relatives and the engineer husband of an Iligan-based teacher – who journeyed to Manila with their five-year-old son but ended up killing the boy and committing suicide at a hotel – in the hopes of getting information that would shed light on the incident.   Superintendent Marcelino Pedrozo, chief of the city police’s Homicide Investigation Section, said they intend to get the statements once the relatives and the husband of teacher Ve Cheryl Buhion-Casan turn up to claim the remains of the unfortunate duo from a funeral parlor.   Pedrozo said both the relatives and the engineer husband have already contacted the parlor to say they will claim the bodies.   Pedrozo said that Casan, 32, went to Manila from Iligan city in northern Mindanao with her five-year-old son to confirm rumors that her husband, Bolanting Casan, was cheating on her and was keeping a mistress in Manila. Police said the victims were also planning on spending the Christmas with Bolanting in Manila.   Upon tracing his husband’s house in Manila, the female Casan was denied entry into the residence because her husband’s mistress was allegedly there.   Casan and her son, Brylle, then decided to just check in at a Sogo Hotel in Novaliches, Quezon City on Tuesday morning. The next day, at about 12:45 p.m., the hotel management decided to force open the room’s door when nobody answered their knocks. Workers found the lifeless boy lying on the bed and the mother hanging from the shower with a nylon rope tied around her neck. Investigators have said that the boy could have died either by poisoning or medicine overdose.   A suicide note - written by the mother - was retrieved in the room and indicated that Casan decided to end her and her son’s lives after plunging into depression due to the rumors about his husband’s infidelity.   Investigators said they need to talk with the husband and the victims’ relatives to ensure no foul play happened and to confirm that the wife indeed committed suicide and that it was her handwriting that was on the suicide note. – GMANews.TV