Disappearance of Catherine Camilon

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Catherine Camilon
Born
Catherine Manguerra Camilon

January 4, 1997
Tuy, Batangas, Philippines
DisappearedOctober 12, 2023 (aged 26)
Lemery, Batangas, Philippines
Status Missing for 8 months and 17 days
Nationality Filipino
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Beauty pageant titleholder
TitleMiss FIT Philippines 2023
Miss Grand Tuy 2023
Hair colorBlack
Eye colorBlack
Major
competition(s)

Catherine Manguerra Camilon (born January 4, 1997) is a Filipino model, schoolteacher, and beauty pageant titleholder. [1]

Camilon went missing while driving her car from her hometown Tuy to Batangas City for a meeting. She was last seen on October 12, 2023 at XentroMall Lemery in Lemery, Batangas. [2] [3] She also phoned her mother to inform her that she was already at a gasoline station in Bauan. [4]

Police are treating her disappearance as a kidnapping, as witnesses have reported her bloody, unconscious body being removed from her car and transferred to another vehicle. [5] [6] [7]

The Philippine Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs per Senator Raffy Tulfo issued a subpoena ad testificandum to main suspect Police Major Allan de Castro and his driver-bodyguard Jefrrey Magpantay who were accused of kidnapping and illegal detention. De Castro was dismissed from service on January 16, 2024. [8]

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