Benigno Aquino Jr., actively involved in the investigation, blamed the PC for the murders, marking his first confrontations with President Ferdinand Marcos.
[141] However, on 2002, the Supreme Court lowered the death penalty sentence of three of them to four life terms each, while the fourth suspect, then sentenced to life imprisonment, was acquitted.
[142] (Rampage killing) (Family murders) (family members: from the Cascante–Gayte clan: mother & 2 children; from the Gayte–Campo clan: couple & 5 children; also 2 another Gayte relatives and an adopted daughter.
(Mass murder) (minor brothers) (Rampage killing) (travelers, including a United States Peace Corps volunteer) (Summary killing) (including a lone survivor in Jaen) (Rampage killing) (all civilians) (Rebel attack) (Rebel attack) (all Christian residents) (Rebel attack) (all civilians) (Rebel attack) (all soldiers) (Mass murder) (members of a faction of Philippine Benevolent Missionaries Association) (Family murders) (family members: father, 3 sons, his parents; also 2 family housemaids) (Family murders) (Family murders) (Family murders) (family members: 2 siblings and their parents, all in-laws of Ruben Ecleo Jr.; a neighbor) (Family murders) (family members: mother, 3 children; also 3 family helpers) (including model Scarlet Garcia and her cousin) (Family murders) (Korean family members: mother, daughter, grandchild) (Family murders) (members of the Lumenda and Aleb families) (Mass murder) (most of them were part of a convoy: family members, including E. Mangudadatu's wife and his two sisters, and supporters of a perpetrator's political rival, 32 journalists; lawyers; aides; 6 passersby that mistakenly identified as part of the convoy.
The body of one victim, journalist Reynaldo Momay, was never found, which led to only 57 counts of murder being filed against the perpetrators) (tourists) (Family murders) (family members: couple, 2 children) (Terror attack) (all civilians: Pagadian City residents) (11 soldiers, 1 civilian) (Family murders) (family members: grandfather, mother, 2 children) (Terror attack) (all civilians: including relatives of the town mayor, supporters) (Family murders) (family members: grandmother, mother, 3 children) (all farmers) (Mass killing) (Mass killing)