inp.polri.go.id – Investigators of Sub-directorate III Jatanras of the Directorate of General Criminal Investigation (Ditreskrimum) of the East Java Police (Polda Jatim) succeeded in arresting the suspected murderer of BPL (25 years), a resident of Jalan Letjen Suprapto, Tulungagung Regency. In one of the statements from the Head of Public Relations (Kabid Humas) of Polda Jatim, Commissioner Dirmanto, S.H., S.I.K., said that the victim was a student of the Faculty of Medicine of Brawijaya University (FKUB) Malang. The victim was killed by the suspect using a blunt object on the chest. The police managed to secure one suspect with the initials ZI (38), a resident of Malang City, who is known to be the step-parent of TS, the victim's lover. "The victim’s body was already rotted when we found him in the vacant land of Krajan Hamlet, Purwodadi, Pasuruan Regency," said Kabid Humas Polda Jabar, on Monday (18/04/22) Kabid Humas Polda Jabar added that the motive for the murder was that ZI was jealous of the TS’s boyfriend because his stepdaughter was dating the victim. The perpetrator himself had feelings for his stepdaughter. The Deputy Director of Ditreskrimum Polda Jabar, AKBP Ronald A. Purba explained that the cause of death of the victim was due to a hit by a blunt object on the victim's chest, causing his lungs to collapse. "The victim was killed by ZI by smothering him with a plastic bag, after that he was tortured to death, then the perpetrator took the victim's car away. To eliminate the traces, the perpetrator dumped the victim's body in the bushes on the Surabaya-Malang Highway, Purwodadi District, Pasuruan Regency," explained Ronald. In addition to securing the suspect, the officers also managed to secure evidence, which is a unit of R2, a unit of R4, four cellphones, a bag, a toy gun, a Hammer, a knife, and one helmet.