While the most recent suspect caught in the Robert Ellis murder case was not wielding machetes and poison arrows like some of his fellow suspected perps caught before him, he was apparently drunk when police detained him.
After months of hunting down the seventh suspect in the grisly murder of Australian businessman Robert Ellis, Indonesian police finally arrested Adolf Maolo Rangga, 34, on Saturday night, who turned out to be inebriated, reports news.com.AU.
Rangga joins the ranks of Ellis’ wife Julaikah Noor Aini and five others charged with participating in the grisly murder that saw Ellis’ body turn up in a rice field in October 2014, wrapped in plastic with the throat slashed. Julaikah Noor Aini aka Noor Ellis allegedly ordered a hit through her maid’s boyfriend on her husband after supposed years of marital problems. The five other people with charges include two maids accused of abetting the murder, one of the maids’ boyfriend, and two other men who collaborated in the murder.
Rangga was arrested in his home in Sumba, an island to the east of Bali. Reports say police had him surrounded on all sides, so his escape to flee through his house’s kitchen was unsuccessful.
Rangga is reportedly in custody awaiting transfer to Bali.
