BLOODY white briefs and gray boxer shorts found beside a gay television researcher are the key that could lead police to the persons who stabbed dead the staff member of Korina Sanchez 11 times. DNA analysis could link the suspects to the crime, police said.

Larry Estandarte, 27, was found wearing a pink panty and a sando when he was found dead at about 10 a.m. last Friday. He was a reasercher for the weekly current affairs program "Rated K."

"Ayon sa mga kaibigan ng biktima ay hindi naman daw nagsusuot ng brief ang biktima kaya posibleng naiwanan iyon ng mga salarin," said a policeman, who requested anonymity.

"May tinitignan kaming pattern sa insidente, katulad nu'ng mga naunang kaso ng pagpatay ay tinadtad din ng saksak ang biktima," P/Supt. Procopio Lipana, chief of the Quezon City Police District-Criminal Investigation Division, told People's Tonight.

The killing of Estandarte is similar to the previous cases of gay killings in Quezon City, he said, and may have involved one or more suspects.

Estandarte was the sixth gay brutally killed in Quezon City in 10 months.

On Oct. 29 last year, Carl Roman Santos, 28, an advertising consultant, was found dead inside his residence at Teacher's Village, QC. He was stabbed 21 T-shirt and underwear when found. The suspect is still at large.

On Dec. 3, Father Robert Tanghal, 58, was discovered dead inside his rented apartelle on Matutum St., Bgy. St. Peter St., QC.

According to Scene of the Crime Office operatives, Tanghal suffered 40 stab wounds in the body and was naked when found. His killer or killers remain at large.

On the morning of Valentine's Day, gay beautician Joel Binsali, also known as Joan, 25, had 15 stab wounds and was wearing a brief when found at the J-Sam Salon at 27 V. Luna Road corner Mapang-Akit St., Bgy. Pinyahan, QC.

Investigators said a male person was seen leaving the parlor a few hours before Binsali was found dead.

A month after, William Castro, 42, reportedly a broadcaster from DWAN AM station and a resident of Phase 2, Bldg. 6, Sikatuna Bliss, Bgy. Sikatuna, QC, was also discovered dead under the same circumstances.

On May 26, 2005, Eli Pormaran, a 52-year-old entertainment writer and publicist, was found with multiple stab wounds inside his rented condominium on Castilla St., New Manila, Quezon City.

Only the killer of Pormaran was arrested while the other cases remain unsolved.

Foul smell

Police on Friday discovered the decomposing body of Estandarte, an ABS-CBN program researcher, inside his rented room at UP Village, Bgy. Krus na Ligas, Quezon City.

Estandarte's body was discovered by landlord Francisco Ramos after he was informed by workers at a construction site about the foul smell coming from the victim's room.

Officers-on-case PO3 Jun Mortel and PO2 Jaime Jimena of the QCPD-CID said that the victim sustained 11 stab wounds in the body and, based on the stage of decomposition, was apparently dead for about two days.

Investigators said the victim's room was in disarray, with broken pieces of glass scattered on the floor.

Police theorized that the victim knew the killer because there was no sign of a forced entry in the room.

A witness told the police that at around 10:30 p.m. last Wednesday, two men entered the victim's room. "Hindi ko na pinansin iyon kasi baka bisita niya lang iyon," the witness said.

Alithea, the landlord's daughter, told police that she heard a loud shout before dawn last Wednesday but did not pay attention to it.

Investigators found the victim's empty wallet while his cellphone was missing