Kin marks Gisela’s 3rd death anniversary with appeal to suspect to confess

Rosalie O. Abatayo 06/08/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Three years after the disappearance of former Bien Unido, Bohol Mayor Gisela Bendong-Boniel, who is also presumed dead, her family continues to fight for justice. As the family marked her third death anniversary…

Prosecution: Angela Leyson’s testimony strengthens kidnapping case vs. Niño Boniel

Rosalie O. Abatayo 08/01/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Angela Leyson broke into tears at least thrice as she recalled her last moments with former Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Boniel. Leyson, the “slain” mayor’s best friend, took the witness stand on Thursday…

Niño Rey Boniel’s camp to file motion for recon on denied bail petition

Futch Anthony Inso 06/28/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The camp of former Bohol Provincial Board Member Niño Rey Boniel plans to file a motion for reconsideration after his petition for bail was denied by the Regional Trial Court (RTC) in Lapu-lapu…

Slain Bien Unido mayor’s friend, witness to crime, gets online threats

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 06/07/2019

MANDAUE CITY, Cebu, Philippines — The best friend of slain Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Boniel who was one of the key witnesses to her kidnapping and eventual death on June 7, 2017 said that even after two…

Judge recuses from hearing parricide, murder cases for death of Gisela Boniel

Rosalie Abatayo 04/24/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines —The proceedings on the parricide case against former Bohol Provincial Board Member Niño Rey Boniel and the murder charges against six other co-accused in the killing of Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Boniel may be…

Gisela Boniel’s case: Witness recounts role in crime

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 11/09/2018

FOR the amount of P10, 000, the pump boat operator’s life turned upside down after helping his cousin who allegedly killed Bien Unido, Bohol Mayor Gisela Boniel in June 2017. Riolito Boniel, witness and one of the…

Gisela’s family: Boniel’s lawyers using delaying tactics to stall proceedings

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/03/2017

  The family of slain Bien Unido mayor Gisela Bendong Boniel accused the camp of Bohol Provincial Board Member Niño Rey Boniel of resorting to “delaying tactics” in the proceedings conducted by the trial courts. Gisela’s older…

GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 11/02/2017

The five-year-old son of mayor Gisela Bendong Boniel of Bien Unido town in Bohol did what he was told. He threw white chrysanthemums into the sea in between the islands of Olango and Caubian in Lapu-Lapu City…

Team’s last dive? Search for Gisela shifts to Camotes

Norman V. Mendoza, USJ-R Intern Patricia Erlaine N. Luardo 07/13/2017

ONE more day. The search for Gisela’s body will move to Camotes Island area where it will probably be their last dive. Senior Supt. Rommel Cabagnot, Lapu-Lapu Police Station chief and the head of the search and…

‘We are here to help’

Agnes Alpuerto 07/08/2017

Divers share why they temporarily left their jobs, risk their lives to find Mayor Gisela Complete with rash guards, masks, fins, dive computers and regulators, five men took a deep breath and jumped to the turquoise waters…

No Gisela, but divers find blasted fish

Norman Mendoza 07/04/2017

THE search for body of Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Bendong-Boniel has entered its 17th day and volunteer divers, who continued to scour the seawaters of Olango Channel, had still come out of the water empty-handed. They instead…

Friends offer prayers at sea; spirit warriors ‘talk to Gisela’

Fe Marie Dumaboc 07/01/2017

Friends who consider themselves family of Gisela held a memorial service and a spiritual activity at the area where Bien Unido Mayor Gisela Bendong-Boniel was reportedly thrown at sea off the waters of Caubian Island in Lapu-Lapu…

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