As thousands of western retiree’s and a growing number of westerners, men and women – settle in places like the Philippine Angeles City about an hour north of Manila.
Where many have moved escape the global economy’s dolldrums and live a comfortable life on pensions or put up small businesses.
For others driven by hard times in American and Europe work available to them as consultants or technical staff in the growing Philippine outsource industry in export zones like Angeles City’s Clark Economic Zone offer a a bit of hope amidst hash times elsewhere.
Fear has gripped the over fifty thousand expats who call the area home.
A killer is loose, targeting foreigners married or living with Filipino women.
The man police call a principal suspect, is believed to be hunting for couples – other killings and attacks on foreigners that local media reports as similar still remain unsolved, leading some expatriate residents to fear more than one suspect or group may be at work.
Violence versus those who enter into relationships with local women is rare in Asia’s most racially tollerent society – where mixed race or paratage is foten seen as a plus rather than a hindrance in a society where over ten per cent of the population works overseas.
has been reported in many forms. Most are isolated cased, some based
But the rare cases where resentment – of locals upset over their own former partners
leaving them for foreign men who they perceive as having more to offer in terms stability and
opportunity than them.
Have sometimes taken a violent turn, but normally its angry words or a fistfight.
It is rare for violence at this level, At least nine dead – five in one massacre – and two other separate shootings.

For the first time, Police now admit it has taken on the trappings
of a Hollywood action thriller,
the targets Western men being sought out and killed – along with their spouses or girlfriends in a outburst of rage.

Police are pointing to a man, they have named as Mark Dizon, his parents, according to news reports have not seen him since Thursday, he had been distruaght over the breakup of his relationship with a girlfriend who left him for a foreigner.
Dizon, police say, is allegedly responsible for a four week serial killing spree versus ‘inter-racial couples’, Police say evidence recovered at the suspects home include a ‘a bloody shirt” motive they say is based on his own failed relationship and expressed rage towards women who have foreign partners.

Last week a long time retired american air force veteran was brutally
slain along with his Filipino wife and three others, police say the 9mm pistol used is also the weapon that killed also a British man and his wife along with a canadian – filipino couple.

Philippine Police have established that the same 9mm pistol, apparently with a silencer, that was used in the crime was the same
one used in the killing of a Canadian national and a UK man and his live-in partner, based on spent shells found in the residence of the
American and his wife.

However, local expat’s fear Dizon may not be alone in the spree of violence, news reports show more killings and targeted
attacks on mixed couples some say Dizon may not be working alone raising concerns on ‘other attacks’ that are unresolved – they fear these attacks may be part of a group of men who may be working in tandem.
Police in Pampamga’s main city have yet to solve a number of other non-robbery
related violent attacks on inter-racial couples.
included a attack on women traveling with foreign men.
As thousands of western retiree’s and a growing number of westerners
move to places like the Angeles to escape the global economy’s hard
times and serve the growing outsource industry’s increased demand for western ‘coaches and experts’ in places like the Philippines the crimes – though rare in a racially tolerant Philippines has shocked expats and locals.
Overall Authorities say the cases are isolated – crimes versus foreigners in the past mostly have involved criminal gangs engaged in kidnapping or extortion related acts – as well as rare cases of terrorism.
The Angeles murders, and serial nature of it – has brought about a new concern that has caused foreign embassies to issue warnings to local resident ‘wardens or honorary consuls’ in the area to cooperate fully with police and report any acts of racial related hate-crimes to their embassies.
US and UK law enforcement officers based in embassies in Manila are looking into the cases and have offered assistance in investigation.
Dizon, now the subject of a manhunt and rewards offered by local expat groups to Police have also raised fears of copycat like attacks.
Angeles City, which has been moving away from its past status as a center for human trafficking and more towards more stable economic development in the KPO and BPO outsourcing sectors is now the center of global media attention anew – as the hunt for the ‘jealousy killer’ as local media has named Dizon begins.

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