The Killer Who Dumped His Victim Into Abyss In Tasikmalaya Arrested, Claims To Be Hurt

ANTARA/HO-Polres Tasikmalaya City

TASIKMALAYA - Tasikmalaya City Resort Police (Polres) revealed the perpetrator of the murder case against a woman from Sleman, Central Java who dumped her body into a ravine in the Tasikmalaya City area, West Java, with a criminal threat to the perpetrators of the death penalty.

"The perpetrator did not only commit premeditated murder, but even sold some valuables belonging to the victim," said Tasikmalaya City Police Chief AKBP Joko Sulistiono as reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, December 3.

He said the suspect's initials SK alias Iwan Doggy (35), a resident of Ciawi District, Tasikmalaya Regency, who killed the Paryatun victim (49) a resident of Sleman by strangling him and suffering a broken neck.

The perpetrator, who already knew each other, said he, committed an act of murder because he was hurt by strangling until he was helpless, which was carried out at the victim's house in Sleman. After that the perpetrator took the victim to the Tasikmalaya area.

"The victim lost consciousness after being strangled by the perpetrator at his residence while sleeping in the living room of his house," said the Police Chief.

However, while in the middle of the road in the Kebumen area, Central Java, said the police chief, the victim snoring, so that the suspect strangled again until he could not breathe anymore, which was then carried and thrown into a ravine in the Urug Village area, Kawalu District, Tasikmalaya City on November 18, 2024 in the early hours of the morning.

He conveyed that the Police, who received information on the discovery of the body, then conducted a crime scene, then coordinated with the West Java Regional Police and the Yogyakarta DI Regional Police until the suspect was finally identified, then arrested while trying to escape in Bandung, West Java.

"The motive was because he was hurt by the victim, and for the evidence that was secured, a white Suzuki Ertiga car, and a victim's'mobile phone' were sold by the perpetrators in the Bandung area," he said.

The police chief said that the suspect is currently languishing in the Tasikmalaya City Police Detention Center for further legal examination and for his actions he was charged with Article 340 subsidiary Article 338 and Article 365 of the Criminal Code with the maximum threat of the death penalty.

"The threat of death or life imprisonment or imprisonment for 20 years," he said.