17-year-old Erwin Rodriguez was reported missing on August 24th, and 52 days later on October 14th, the mystery of his disappearance was solved with a bitter ending the family had come to expect: at around 2:40 pm on Saturday, his skeletal remains were found buried in a shallow grave.
A search party, along with the police found the remains near the SeaShore area, west of his neighborhood in the Jane Usher Boulevard.
The search had been going on intensively for weeks, and some of his belongings had already been found.
Jose Espat who was the leader of the search party said that on Saturday Erwin's mom got a tip as to where her son's body was.
Jose Espat, Leader of Search Party
"We search all the way up to the seashore and we divided the search party into tow; one went to the left, one went to the right. Myself, Erwin's sister and one of his brother's, his aunt and we all went to the right. I found a body bag, a transparent body bag that was folded with some blood on it. So O knew the body was close. We passed nearby where the body was about 3-4 times that day, but where it was located there is a big tree trunk and it's branched off like mangroves type. So there is no way you could have seen it if you didn't know exactly where it was."
"That day Friday we didn't find anything and then the following day on Saturday I got a call from Erwin's mom, she said that someone had given in a tip to the exact location and that the police had call her so that we could all go out to locate the body and that's how the body was found. Someone gave in that exact location. It was in an advanced state of decomposition. His upper torso, head, hands were mostly bones. He had some muscle left on the interior part of his body. There were also obvious gunshot wounds to the skull and as the post mortem confirms today he died from a gunshot to the head, head trauma. He also had another gunshot by the neck that came out close to the eye. He was tied up. Those were the only apparent injuries that he had."
Police say that postmortem certified the cause of death as multiple facial gunshot wound.
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