The bodies of 64-year-old Alberto Alcular, grandfather of rescued kidnap victim Ralph Ashley Alcular, and Queden Lim were found at a grassy lot in Barangay Midpandakan, S.K. Pendatun, Maguindanao.

The two had worked for the release of Ralph Ashley.

Last Oct. 8, the child was abandoned at a place in Pikit, North Cotabato after some members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) pressured the kidnappers into releasing thevictim.

On the same day, he was turned over to military authorities and later to the International Monitoring Team of the government and MILF peace panels.

When Ralph Ashley was handed over to authorities, the old Alcular and Lim were no where in sight.

Also, Hazel Tuala, Ralph’s nanny, and her boyfriend identified as Robert Carbon, alias "Kamarudin," were also feared dead.

"Our investigations indicated that it was Carbon who killed the two," Reyes said in a radio interview.

But MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu had earlier said that Carbon and Tuala were already dead.

"The Pentagon kidnap-for-ransom group that had kept the kidnap victim could have killed Tuala and Carbon.

"They were also the ones who killed Alcular and Lim," said Kabalu.

Kabalu belied reports that Carbon was one of MILF recruits and that it was the MILF that masterminded the kidnapping of Ralph Ashley.

"Carbon is not, in anyway, connected to us. He was a ‘Balik-Islam’ (Islam convert) but he has not joined the MILF," Kabalu said.