12 Victims In Total, Mbah Slamet A Money-Multiplier Shaman Remembers The Last 2 Bodies Found By Police Today

CENTRAL JAVA - Banjarnegara Police Chief AKBP Hendri Yulianto said that the bodies of 12 victims of premeditated murder by a money-multiplier shaman with the initials TH alias Mbah Slamet (45) have been found.

"Today (April 4) two more bodies were found, bringing a total of 12 bodies," he said during a press conference at the victim's burial site, Balun Village, Wanayasa District, Banjarnegara Regency, Central Java, Tuesday, April 4 afternoon.

During the press conference, the suspect Mbah Slamet was also presented and the Police Chief asked him to remember the identities of the victims who were buried at every point the officers had dug up.

From a number of holes where the bodies of the victims were buried, Mbah Slamet could only remember one point, namely the two bodies that had just been found on Tuesday 4 April, while the others did not remember.

"Earlier Slamet was asked whose name this hole was, he forgot, and the other holes also forgot. But the one (location) at the top, the last one today, he still remembers," explained the police chief.

Based on the suspect's statement, he said, the bodies in the hole belonged to Erzat and his wife whose name was unknown and they were known to be from Lampung.

Nevertheless, he admitted that he could not be sure because the suspect's statement during interrogation sometimes changed.

"But for today (April 4) he said that it was in the name of Erzat and the other one was his wife, but he didn't know him. So today we found two bodies, bringing a total of 12 bodies," he explained.

Thus, he said, his party would automatically carry out autopsies on the two bodies that had just been found.

Regarding the results of the autopsies on the 10 bodies previously found, he said that his party had not yet received the results because this was part of the investigation and filing process which had to be included in the case files.

"So that later we will study it because in the trial the results of the autopsy will also be disclosed," he said.

Furthermore, the Police Chief said that the execution of the victims was carried out by the suspect Mbah Slamet himself.

Even before the victim was executed using a drink that had been mixed with sedatives and potash (potassium cyanide), he said, the hole that would be used to bury the victim's body had not been prepared.

According to him, the suspect dug the hole himself after it was confirmed that the victim had died.

While the other suspect with the initials BS, he continued, only played the role of intermediary or the person who brought the victim together with Mbah Slamet because he happened to upload information to Facebook that TH had the ability to multiply money.

"So BS's role is only to bring it together. So in our opinion, he (BS)'s role is to bring the victim together with the suspect Slamet, so automatically the article also participates," he said.

Asked about the 10 bodies previously found, the Police Chief said that one body with the initials PO, who was first found and was the last victim before the case was uncovered, had been brought by his family to Sukabumi, West Java, while nine other bodies were found on Monday 3 April.

Because they had finished undergoing autopsies, the nine bodies were buried at the Balun Village Public Cemetery on Tuesday 4 April.

"If we really need it later, we can dismantle it again. As for these two (the bodies that were just found, ed.), we will do an autopsy tonight," he said.

On this occasion, the suspect Slamet recounted the chronology of the murders, starting from leaving the house, rituals, to the execution and burial processes.

The execution is always carried out by the suspect at 19.30 WIB after a ritual in the form of chatting with the victim while being given a drink mixed with sedatives and potash.

After being confirmed dead, the suspect immediately prepared a hole to bury the victim's body.

Regarding the role of the suspect BS, Slamet confirmed that the person concerned did not know about the murder.