The DOJ said the mutilated remains found in Capas, Tarlac more than a month ago belonged to former Court of Appeals Associate Justice Normandie Pizzaro. | MRamosINQ
Associate Justice Normandie Pizzaro, who had been reported missing a week before his body was found last Oct. 30.
“Yes, based on DNA test result,” Justice Undersecretary Adrian Sugay told reporters when asked to confirm reports that the remains were that of Pizarro.Eric Distor, director of the National Bureau of Investigation , said the NBI’s forensic team conducted a DNA test on the recovered body to determine identity since its fingers, which could have offered a set of prints, and hands had been cut off.
Sugay said the former justice, who retired in 2019, was last seen alive at a casino in Clark Freeport, Pampanga, last Oct. 23.