The case involved police personnel and the late Antonio Sanchez, the former mayor of Calauan, who were tried and convicted of the crime.

[2][3][4] On the night of June 28, 1993, Eileen Sarmenta and Allan Gomez, both students of the University of the Philippines in Los Baños, were abducted by men of the late Calauan mayor Antonio Sanchez and forcibly shoved into a white vehicle.

After that, Sanchez ordered the two men to bring Sarmenta and Gomez to the Toyota Tamaraw FX; the suspects also boarded the vehicle.

Aurelio Centeno, who eventually became a star witness, joined Sanchez's personal aides Edwin Cosico and Raul Alorico to watch television at the adjacent resthouse.

At around 1:00 a.m. of the next day, a crying Eileen was dragged out of the resthouse by Luis and Medialdea, her hair disheveled, mouth covered by a handkerchief, hands still tied, and stripped of her shorts.

The men then stopped at a sugarcane field in Sitio Paputok, Kilometro 74 of Barangay Mabacan, and gang-raped Eileen.

Her face bears the fatal gunshot wound, her mouth stuffed with a handkerchief, her melon orange Giordano Classic t-shirt rolled up to her shoulders exposing her chest and her underwear pushed down near her white Tretorn rubber-shoed feet.

Clara Sarmenta, received a phone call from someone else, they arrive at the site where they found a lifeless body of Eileen inside a white van.

On August 29, 1999, Sanchez was given a double life term by the Supreme Court for a different case (Murders of Nelson & Rickson Peñalosa in 1991).

[17] A report by GMA News showed that Sanchez could have walked free in August 2019, according to a document bearing the signature of then-Bureau of Corrections director Nicanor Faeldon.

[18] The document said the release order was for one Antonio Leyza Sanchez, "who was found to have served 40 years upon retroactive application of RA No.

[20][21] On March 27, 2021, Mayor Sanchez was pronounced dead on arrival at the New Bilibid Prison Hospital, his cause of death is still unknown, he was 72.