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Ruben Ecleo Jr. was a Filipino politician who was the leader of the Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association.
Early life[edit]
Crimes[edit]
Ruben Ecleo Jr. was married to Alona Bacolod. He would strangle his wife to death in their residence in Cebu City on January 5, 2002. At the time of her death Bacolod is in her 20s and a fourth-year medical student. Bacolod's body later found three days later in a ravine in Dalaguete. Ecleo's crime was linked to his dependency on methamphetamine by a court testimony of one of Bacolod's seven siblings.[1]
On June 18, 2002 Alona's brother Ben, a key witness to Ecleo's case along with her parents and sister Evelyn were killed at their house in Mandaue.[1]
Ecleo would be detained but released on bail in March 2004 to seek treatment for his heart condition.[1]
Ecleo would be tried in absentia and convicted in 2012 for parricide.[1]
Arrest[edit]
Ecleo was arrested in Pampanga on July 30, 2020 after being a fugitive for almost a decade.[1]
Illness and death[edit]
Ecleo would contract COVID-19 and on April 25, 2021 brought to the Dr. J. Sabili General Hospital in Taguig he would recover and brought back to prison.[2] He died at the New Bilibid Prison Hospital in Muntinlupa due to cardiac arrest on May 13.[3]
- ^ a b c d e "Who is Ruben Ecleo Jr.?". Cebu Daily Inquirer. Philippine Daily Inquirer. 30 July 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
- ^ Torres-Tupas, Tetch (4 May 2021). "Ecleo brought to private hospital in April for COVID-related, pre-existing illness". Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
- ^ "Cult leader and murder convict Ruben Ecleo Jr. dies". ABS-CBN News. 13 May 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.