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National Bureau of Investigation Director Jaime Santiago confirmed that the bodies discovered in Capas, Tarlac, are those of missing beauty pageant contestant Geneva Lopez and her Israeli fiancé Yitzhak Cohen, according to a Saturday evening tweet by GMA Integrated News' Jonathan Andal. Authorities unearthed the cadavers in a vacant lot within a quarry site in Capas town earlier in the day. According to Santiago, the bodies were taken for an autopsy and a DNA test.
The search for the victims was launched after the Tarlac City Regional Trial Court-Branch 111 issued a warrant dated July 5, 2024.GMA Integrated News has reached out to the Lopez and Cohen families about the matter.Interior Secretary Benjamin Abalos told Super Radyo dzBB that the two suspects, police officers who took absences without leave, are now under police custody. Lopez and Cohen were last seen going to Capas on June 21 to check on the property they were planning to purchase.
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