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00:00This is not the typical content that his subscribers are watching.
00:19The authorities are looking for the American man who was kidnapped by armed men who introduced him to the police.
00:26This foreign vlogger is now in the news because of what happened to him.
00:37The American vlogger, Elliot Eastman, was taken to his house in Cebuco, Zamboanga del Norte.
00:48Almost two months after he was kidnapped,
00:52this Sunday, PNP reported that there was an update on the real kidnapper of Elliot Eastman.
00:59We got a witness.
01:03Where is the American vlogger now?
01:06There's people that wanted to kidnap me.
01:11In 2023, the Vermont resident in the USA, Elliot Eastman, who lived in Cebuco, went to the Philippines.
01:21It's good.
01:23Where did he marry the Filipino, Carisha?
01:39Their life in the province was captured by two people in their vlogs.
01:51Yeah.
01:53But in one of his last vlogs, Elliot expressed his concern.
01:59People come in here to tell my family that there's people that wanted to kidnap me.
02:04Until the night of October 17, Elliot was kidnapped by unknown men.
02:11I was about to go to sleep and I heard my mom.
02:15I heard my mom.
02:33When we came out, they were already shooting at us.
02:37The men pretended to be policemen.
02:41They said to us, drop.
02:43They said they were going to greet us.
02:44Then they started talking.
02:46Where are you from?
02:47He's the one who brings shabu here.
03:00Until the kidnappers became more violent.
03:11They kicked him twice.
03:15When he looked like that, it was positive.
03:18They punched him right here.
03:20Inside their house, Elliot's blood was still left from his wound when he was shot.
03:28They were dragging him like that.
03:29I ran.
03:30I couldn't reach him.
03:31When they came out, they dragged him.
03:33They dragged him until he reached here.
03:37Elliot was injured.
03:38He was beaten up by armed men.
03:41He was riding a motorized boat.
03:44And then, they kicked him.
03:47He was parking there.
03:49On the boat.
03:53The PNP in Cebuco suspected that they were involved in Elliot's kidnapping.
03:59It was already cleared that upon verification,
04:02there was no legitimate operations from any government or any law enforcement in the area against Elliot.
04:10And they immediately conducted an investigation.
04:14Until October 27,
04:16two of the suspects submitted to the authorities
04:20as a way to surrender one of their accomplices.
04:25The mouths of the suspects tasted where Elliot was and if he was still alive.
04:32Until this Sunday, the PNP spread the news to the public
04:36that they were looking for a witness to clarify the case.
04:41We were able to get a witness relative of one of our suspects in the abduction case of Elliot Eastman.
04:49According to the witness' testimony,
04:51when the suspects dumped Elliot,
04:54on the night of October 17,
04:56he jumped.
04:58He resisted his captors and he was shot.
05:04He was hit on the forehead and on the chin.
05:10And according to these,
05:11before they were able to ride Elliot on the boat,
05:14they used a getaway vehicle.
05:17They realized that Elliot Eastman was already dead.
05:21This testimony of the witness
05:23was confirmed by one of the suspects
05:26who was caught just last month.
05:28The boatman who used a motorized boat to go around Elliot.
05:33He was the one who confirmed the information we got from the first witness.
05:39They said the same thing.
05:41A gunshot wound, when it hits a large organ in the body,
05:45can cause massive bleeding.
05:47At least a person has 5 to 6 liters of blood.
05:50If half of it is lost,
05:52at least 50% to 75%,
05:54if not caught,
05:55he can die.
05:56But the question now is,
05:58where are Elliot's remains?
06:00What they did,
06:02they decided to drop his body in the sea.
06:06My husband is dead.
06:08Until I saw his body,
06:10I can't say that my husband is dead.
06:13He's like my son.
06:15It really hurts me, ma'am.
06:17I can't accept this.
06:22The authorities immediately conducted a follow-up investigation.
06:26We were brought by a suspect
06:28where they said that Elliot Eastman's body was dropped.
06:32It's a bit open sea,
06:34it's in Labuan, Zamboanga City,
06:36but it's very proximate to Cebuco.
06:39Here, they found the boat used by the suspects.
06:44We couldn't find any traces of blood on the boat
06:48because after they buried it,
06:50they cleaned it and painted it again.
06:52There was not a single day that I didn't think of him.
06:55Look at his face.
06:57He's so very clean and bright.
06:59I was traumatized that we couldn't go out
07:02because we were scared.
07:04I was scared.
07:06The people who took my belongings,
07:09they might come back to us.
07:12Karisha also talked to Elliot's family in America
07:16even though they didn't want to be interviewed by the media.
07:20Of course, it hurts me, ma'am,
07:22because their son was here in my house.
07:25I also consented.
07:27I said, let's just pray, mother,
07:29because the body hasn't been found yet.
07:31Maybe there's a chance he'll come back to us.
07:34He's strengthening my heart.
07:36They're not blaming me.
07:39The police are still not giving up.
07:43We alerted all the police stations in our area.
07:47We also coordinated with the neighboring island.
07:50Unfortunately, no one has reported
07:53that a dead body has been found in Zamboanga, Peninsula.
07:58As of now, there are 10 suspects in the PNP.
08:01Five of them are already in the custody of the police.
08:08The list was added to the custody of another suspect
08:12after a bloody encounter in Cebuco.
08:16From among the three people who died in the encounter,
08:20we learned that one of the three dead
08:23is one of the four suspects who actually abducted Elliot Eastman.
08:27The authorities are still looking for four more suspects.
08:33It was already confirmed that he also doesn't have any drugs record.
08:37We believe that they started with ransom in mind.
08:41Because of the abduction of Elliot,
08:43the other suspects in the province are still worried about their safety.
08:49I'm retired. I was a United States Marine.
08:52I chose to live here to be with my wife.
08:55I've been here in this area for two months.
08:58When I heard about it, I was like, well, it's a terrible thing.
09:01So I stayed home.
09:03I'm also worried.
09:04He's always alert. He doesn't sleep at night.
09:06We coordinate with the police and our soldiers here
09:10to ensure the safety of our locals and the tourists who come in.
09:16This incident is an isolated case.
09:19It has been the first for several years now.
09:22Meanwhile, Krisha, even in the darkest of times,
09:27continues to hold on,
09:29hoping for a glimpse of her husband.
09:35I don't want to lose hope.
09:37I will pray for him.
09:39I will pray for him.
09:40I hope my husband will come home and return to me.
09:51I couldn't accept it because I didn't see the body.
09:54They didn't show us the evidence.
09:57But in my heart,
10:00my son is alive.
10:04Ma'am, please help us.
10:10If I could just call him,
10:12I hope he will come home and be safe wherever he is.
10:18I want to see him and I want to be with him again.
10:22Look, I'm looks like older than him.
10:28I really need help from people.
10:33I hope he will come home and we will be able to see each other again.
10:40Please come back, my son.
10:43Who knows what will happen to him.
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