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4 years since Luhk sisters disappeared
DPS chief: Every passing day, a day of agony for the sisters, family or both
Today, Monday, marks the fourth year of the mysterious disappearance of Faloma and Maleina Luhk near a public school bus pavilion in As Teo, with still no trace of the sisters.
When asked for an update on the case, Department of Public Safety Commissioner James C. Deleon Guerrero said yesterday that DPS continues to investigate the Luhk sisters’ disappearance.
Meleina Luhk
Faloma Luhk
“While the case has gone cold over the years, we are constantly reminding ourselves that someone, somewhere out there knows of what happened to them,” Deleon Guerrero said.
He said they are appealing to anyone with information regarding the sisters’ disappearance to have the courage to come forward and share it with the authorities.
“With every passing day that information is withheld is another day of agony for the Luhk sisters and their family or both,” the commissioner said.
Saipan Tribune repeatedly contacted yesterday afternoon Elbert Quitugua, the grandfather of the Luhk sisters, but no one answered their phone.
Every year in the past three years, the families of the Luhk sisters had offered a special Mass at Santa Soledad Church in Kagman during the same day, May 25, when the sisters were last seen.
Last October, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released computer-generated age progression images of how the sisters would possibly look then, three years after their disappearance.
Then-10-year-old Faloma and 9-year-old Maleina Luhk were last seen on May 25, 2011, near a bus stop pavilion in As Teo.
Their disappearance triggered the most extensive searches of persons in CNMI history, with FBI agents and DPS officers combing a landfill, caves, jungles, villages, abandoned buildings, and other areas on Saipan for several months.
Many civilians also volunteered their time for the searches. A tracking dog from Hawaii was even sent to the island to join the searches.
