Her case was highly sensationalized, and hers was abnormally scary. Lucila Lalu, 28, came to Manila from Candaba, Pampanga to seek fortune in 1961 (some say 1957). She actually did find fortune. She had two flourishing businesses: the Pagoda Soda Fountain, a cocktail lounge along Rizal Avenue, and Lucy's House of Beauty, a beauty parlor along Mayhaligue Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the same time, she became a common-law wife of a married policeman, Aniano Vera, whom she had a son as reported. However, she also had a lover, Florante Relos, a 19-year old waiter of the Pagoda Soda Fountain.
They found her legs first, chopped expertly into four pieces and wrapped in a newspaper, in a garbage can on Malabon St., Sta. Cruz. A day later, her body, headless and legless, was found on a vacant lot along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue.
The suspects of the case included her 19-year-old lover, Florante Relos, Patrolman Aniano de Vera, and Jose Luis Santiano, a 28-year-old dental student.
On the 15th of June 1967, Santiano, the 28-year old dental student surfaced and confessed to the crime. He recounted and detailed the events that led to the brutal killing. However, a few days later, he retracted and repudiated his confession and insisted on his innocence. But the authorities were firmed on their decision to pursue the case against the new suspect.
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