German suspected of killing entertainer in Boracay seeks bail
BORACAY ISLAND, AKLAN—A German national suspected of raping and killing an entertainer on this island is seeking bail, claiming he has been falsely and unjustly accused of involvement in the crime.
"I am not guilty. I am not a killer or a maniac," Christian Wintterer said in an interview at his cell at the Boracay Special Tourist Protection Office on Monday.
Wintterer lamented that he has already been portrayed by the police and the media as guilty.
"They need (to present and arrest) a murderer to save Boracay's image. They judged me already as guilty and portrayed me as a monster," said Wintterer, computer programmer and website developer from Munich City in Germany.
Police have a pending rape and homicide complaint before the Aklan Provincial Prosecutors Office against Wintterer for the killing of 29-year-old entertainer Mylene de la Rosa, a resident of Libacao town in Aklan and a mother of five children.
Dela Rosa's remains was found dead at dawn on March 7 along the beach in Barangay Yapak on this island. Her body bore signs of rape, beating wounds mostly on the head and cigarette burns.
Police arrested Wintterer after a Boracay resident, Bobby Alonzo, testified that he saw the victim and the Wintterer at the Cocomangas Bar and Disco the night before she was found dead. Alonzo said in his affidavit that he saw the suspect slapped the victim and overheard him saying: "I will kill you later."
Another witness, fisherman Carlito Bernaldo, said in a separate affidavit that he saw Wintterer dragged a body of the woman and threw it towards the sea around 2:45 a.m. on March 7.
Police have also recovered a blood-stained shirt owned by Wintterer when they arrested him at his room at the Paradise Bay Resort hours after the victim's remains was discovered. They also presented as evidence a medical certificate showing that the suspect had scratches and wounds on his face, arm and hand.
Wintterer denied killing the victim but admitted that he found her remains. He also denied knowing her and being together in the bar.
He claimed that he was with a commercial sex worker he identified only as "Shayra or Sharina" when they found the remains. His companion allegedly panic and fled after they found the victim's remains and after Wintterer examined the body to see if it was still alive.
The suspect said he also panicked and fled upon seeing the victim's blood on his shirt. "What would people think if they see a foreigner, intoxicated, with blood on his shirt next to a dead woman?"
He also claimed that he got the scratches and bruises when he fell on his motorcycle after he hurriedly left the place where he found Dela Rosa's remains.
Wintterer said he has already lost many of his customers after he was implicated in the crime.
I want to be granted bail and set free. I will not leave this country until a I clear my name. The real killer is still out there."
But Senior Insp. Auxilio Dador, BSTPO chief, said the testimonies of the witnesses and the evidence they have gathered point to Wintterer as the victim's killer.
"Of course he will deny it. But the pieces of evidence show otherwise," said Dador.