GOVERNOR Juan N. Babauta on Friday appealed to the people to help the police in solving the murder of a businesswoman who was killed at her poker arcade in Chalan Piao three years ago.
Babauta said anyone who has information about the murder of Marsha Kim should contact the Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Investigation Bureau at 664-9042 to 47 or the Crime Stoppers Hotline at 234-7272.
“Again, I just want to make this appeal to the public that during this public safety month, the lt. governor and I, along with DPS, take this opportunity to encourage the entire community to come forward. Anyone who has any information that may be helpful to the police in deciphering any of the island’s unsolved murders should please call the Crime Stoppers hotline or CIB,” Babauta said.
“This administration is confident that we can crack our unsolved homicide cases in an effort to put an end to such heinous crimes,” the governor said during a press conference attended by acting Public Safety Commissioner Santiago Tudela, Deputy Commissioner Franklin Babauta and other police officers.
CIB’s homicide bulletin no. 10 states that on Feb. 5, 1999 at 5:06 a.m., a man called the police after he saw Kim lying on the floor in the cashier’s booth of KSH Poker along Beach Road.
Autopsy showed that Kim died as a result of multiple stab wounds to her upper body and back.
Det. Mark Taisacan said investigators want to talk to those who played poker at KSH on Feb. 4, 1999 at 11 p.m. until the following morning, Feb. 5, 1999, at 4 a.m.
Taisacan said investigators believe that the people playing poker at KSH between those hours were Kim’s acquaintances and that she was killed because she was robbed.
Investigators are also interested in talking to motorists, passersby or pedestrians who were on Beach Road in front of the former Sablan Enterprises/Hardware Building from Feb. 4, 1999 at 11 p.m. until the following morning at 5 a.m.
“All information are strictly confidential and you don’t have to reveal your identity,” Taisacan said.
