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span class="caption">Scene of the crime: Suspect M. Prio Santoso follows a reconstruction of the murder of 25-year-old Deudeuh Avisah Rini in Tebet, South Jakarta, on Wednesday. Deudeuh, also known as Tata Chubby, was believed to have worked as a sex worker when she was allegedly killed by Prio, her customer, on April 10. JP/Awo
The Jakarta Police staged a reenactment on Wednesday, in two locations in Tebet and Cawang, South Jakarta, of the murder of an alleged sex worker, using the suspect M. Prio Santoso, 24, and a model acting as the victim, 25-year-old Deudeuh 'Tata' Avisah Rini.
Violent Crimes Detective Unit 1 chief Comr. Buddy Towoliu said the reenactment was held to complete the case dossier.
'We are now preparing the dossier, which we plan to submit to the prosecutor's office next week,' he told The Jakarta Post on Wednesday.
Buddy said after further investigation, Santoso had also been charged with violating Article 340 of the Criminal Code on premeditated murder in addition to Article 338 on murder and Article 365 on theft with violence. The charges carry the sentence of life imprisonment or death.
'We've found out that the suspect, Santoso, contacted the victim, Tata, on a different mobile number from the previous one he used when he first availed of her services. He also sent a text message, asking her which room was hers as if he had never met her before,' he said.
Tata is reported to have been a sex worker who advertised on Twitter. Santoso first met her in March before contacting her again in April. The police found her body in her rented room in a boarding house in Tebet on April 11 and arrested the suspect at his Bogor residence several days later on April 15.
Santoso admitted to police that he killed her after she told him during sex that he smelled bad.
Before the reconstruction, police found the missing key of the victim's room in a drain near Cawang Station where the suspect said he had thrown it after fleeing the boarding room.
From the reenactment, the police were able to piece together a more detailed chronology of the killing, which is believed to have happened on April 10. 'Santoso went to the boarding house after he finished work as an extra-curricular teacher in Kedoya, West Jakarta. He took the train from Kedoya to Tebet Station and walked to the nearby boarding house.
After meeting the victim in her room at 7 p.m., Santoso said he went to take a bath, but decided against it as the towel was wet. 'During intercourse, she told him, in rude terms, that he smelled bad,' Buddy said.
He added that, according to the reenactment, the suspect throttled the victim from behind and gagged her with his hands. She bit his fingers and he pushed her onto the corner of the bed before strangling her with a cable. When he saw that she was no longer moving, and she was bleeding from the mouth, he stuffed his sock into her mouth to stop the bleeding.
Before leaving the room at 8 p.m., Santoso took four Samsung mobile phones, an iPad, a Macbook Air and cash amounting to Rp 2.8 million (US$215) from her room and turned on the TV. He then took a taxi to Cawang Station and went to his home in Bogor by train.
The murder and online prostitution case has prompted a number of raids on boarding houses across the capital. (rbk)
