Vizconde murders

Vizconde murders
The victims of the massacre (from left to right): Jennifer, Carmela, and Estrellita Vizconde
Location	Banco Filipino Homes – Parañaque, Philippines
Date	June 30, 1991; 33 years ago (1991-06-30)
Target	Vizconde family
Attack type	Murder, stabbing, rape
Deaths	3
Accused	Hubert Webb
Verdict	Inconclusive[1]

The Vizconde murder case, colloquially known as the Vizconde massacre, was the multiple homicide of members of the Vizconde family on June 30, 1991, at their residence at 80 Vinzons Street, Banco Filipino Homes – Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.^[2][3] Estrellita Vizconde, 49, suffered thirteen stab wounds; Carmela Vizconde, 19, suffered seventeen stab wounds and had been raped before she was killed; and Anne Marie Jennifer, 6, had nineteen stab wounds.^[2] Lauro Vizconde, Estrellita's husband and the father of Carmela and Jennifer, was in the United States on business when the murders took place.

The lead suspect was Hubert Webb whose father, Freddie Webb, was famous as an actor, former basketball player and Parañaque congressman at the time of the murders. The other defendants were Antonio Lejano II, Hospicio Fernandez, Michael Gatchalian, Miguel Rodriguez, Peter Estrada, Joey Filart and Artemio Ventura.^[4] In the Trial Court (People of the Philippines vs. Hubert Webb, et al., G.R. No. 176864), it became one of the most sensational cases in the Philippines, being described as a "trial of the century".^[5] The other defendants were convicted by the Parañaque Regional Trial Court, which the Court of Appeals affirmed. With the exception of Filart and Ventura who had been convicted in absentia the men were acquitted by the Supreme Court on December 14, 2010, for failure of the prosecution to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt.