Police investigators are looking into old grudges as the motive for the brutal killing of a couple in Brgy. Atipulohan, Bago City, on Tuesday.

Supt. Alex Belonio, Bago police chief, yesterday said they have invited two tuba gatherers who used to be employed by victims Antonio Jalandoni and his wife, Daisy, for investigation.

Belonio, however, said they released the two persons yesterday, but not the two scythes recovered from them, which they submitted for laboratory examinations at the police Crime Laboratory.

Bago police probers also eyed another person who reportedly got mad at the couple for their failure to lend him money, as among the possible suspect.

The bodies of Jalandoni, 56, and his wife, Daisy, 53, with slash wounds in their throats, were found in the backyard and inside their house at about 12 noon Tuesday. Aside from slash wounds in her throat, Belonio said there were indications that Daisy was also hit with a hammer in the forehead.

The couple was also employed as caretakers of the rice farm owned by Fe Pedreso in Brgy. Atipulohan, Bago City.

Belonio said there are at least two suspects involved in the commission of the crime, but ruled out robbery as motive.*GPB

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