Jessica Alfaro is gone.

The star witness in the Vizconde massacre case may have fled the area where she works abroad upon learning that the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s conviction of Hubert Webb and six others, a male relative of Lauro Vizconde said Tuesday night.

“The last time I talked to her was Monday night. She sounded jubilant because we were confident that with all the testimonies, the Supreme Court would support the guilty verdict,” said the relative, who refused to be identified for security concerns.

“We agreed to call each other again between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. (yesterday) once the decision is issued, but she did not call,” he added.

Instead, the relative received an e-mail from Alfaro’s neighbor. It said: “Jessica is gone.”

Lauro Vizconde, whose wife Estrellita and daughters, Carmela and Jennifer, were killed in 1991, had earlier told the Inquirer that Alfaro “works in another country and continuously changes addresses” to avoid detection.

She has been placed in the government’s witness protection program after undergoing a grueling two months of intensive direct and cross-examination during her testimony in the sala of then Parañaque judge Amelita Tolentino.

Now a justice of the Court of Appeals, Tolentino meted out life sentences to Webb and his co-accused for inflicting multiple stab wounds that led to the deaths of Estrellita and her daughters on June 30, 1991.

The court also established that Carmela was raped.

News source: Inquirer
Photo credit: Google Image

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