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LAGIM: After Hours on The Disappearance of Catherine Camilon

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Police found an abandoned red Honda CR-V with 17 hair strands, fingerprints, and blood swabs.

1. LAGIM: After Hours on the disappearance of Catherine Camilon centers on Catherine Camilon and the events after her October 12 disappearance. 2. Christine, a Filipino-German true crime podcaster, hosts the segment and says Lagim After Hours covers rapidly developing cases with little information online. 3. The episode asks what is known so far about Catherine Camilon, a 26-year-old Batangueña from Tuy, Batangas who worked as a teacher and joined Miss Grand Philippines 2023. 4. Christine says Catherine last spoke to her mother Rosa at around 8:00 p.m. on October 12 while saying she would meet someone at a gasoline station in Bauan, Batangas. 5. Catherine also told Rosa that she would go on to Batangas City to visit her former talent agency, Balisong Channel. 6. Christine notes that Balisong Channel later said Catherine had not visited them since December 2021. 7. Catherine left Barangay Rilio in Tuy in a metallic gray Nissan Juke SUV with plate number NE1 2990. 8. Christine says the last public sighting she found was at a mall in Lemery, Batangas, around 7:00 p.m., about 30 kilometers from Tuy. 9. Rosa and Catherine's sister Chin Chin later posted Catherine's photo, height, weight, and appearance details on social media to ask for help. 10. Police in Batangas were instructed to coordinate with the Tuy Municipal Police Station as the search widened across the province. 11. On October 18, the Batangas Police Provincial Office said it was intensifying efforts to trace Catherine's last whereabouts and her final 24 to 48 hours. 12. Christine says the Nissan Juke was not registered in Catherine's name, so police sought the registered owner and checked whether the vehicle had GPS. 13. On October 20, Brigadier General Paul Kenneth Lucas said police had obtained CCTV footage of Catherine but did not disclose what it showed. 14. Batangas Vice Governor Mark Leviste offered a reward, and the Philippine Coast Guard joined the search efforts because Batangas has a port. 15. By October 24, police said they believed Catherine was still alive and still in the Philippines. 16. On October 26, police identified a person of interest as a police officer, later named Alan de Castro, and initial reports linked him to Catherine as a boyfriend and the man who gave her the car. 17. Christine says a further report on October 28 described CCTV from Lemery showing Catherine in a car with another person, which intensified attention on de Castro. 18. On November 8, police found an abandoned red Honda CR-V in Barangay Dumuklay and collected hair strands, fingerprints, and blood swabs for forensic work. 19. On November 15, police charged de Castro with kidnapping and illegal detention, along with three other men, and named Jeffrey Magpantay as one of the men seen in the case. 20. Christine closes with questions about the missing DNA test, the possible conflict of interest in Batangas police investigating one of their own, and why the NBI has not taken over.

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