National Police First Lieutenant Rita Abreu Marmolejos and her husband Miguel Yaport have experienced a sequence of tragedies that has moved Dominicans. Only one year ago, they lost their nine-year-old daughter in a traffic accident at the Villa Altagracia crossing of the Duarte Highway. Now, press reports carry the distressing story of how the couple was brutally murdered in their home. The main suspects are two Haitian construction workers, known only by the names of Jibenzo and Cocobe, one of whom worked as night watchman. The two were employed by the deceased couple for an ongoing construction project at their home. The bodies were found amidst cement block pieces and Abreu’s corpse showed evidence of having been brutalized with a pick used in the construction. The bodies were found by their four-year-old son who told an aunt who happened to call that his parents were bathed in blood and would not respond to his calls. Abreu’s sister said that there had recently been a discussion with the watchman of the house because he had tightened the collar of a dog to the point where the dog choked. The murder occurred on Saturday, the watchman’s day off. A police report says that missing from the couple’s home are two guns that were the property of the police lieutenant.