Peter Turiano is pictured with members of his family, right, and in a photograph of the scene of his death in April. Turiano was killed in an armed robbery while driving the Bench family in the Philippines.
Travis J. Bench Jr. But on Aug. Then Bench fled on his motorcycle and veered into a bus on an expressway. He stood up and was struck and killed by an oncoming car. The year-old sailor with an impeccable service record was carrying on an illicit affair with a woman in the Philippines, the woman herself confirms.
Moreover, Bench appears to have plotted to have his wife, Agnes, killed on two separate trips to Manila earlier this year, according to the mistress.
One of those aborted plots led to the death of a Filipino taxi driver, but records show that investigators from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service conducted only a cursory review of the incident. NCIS officials refused to comment on their investigation of Bench and his connections in the Philippines.
The unmarried mother of five had worked as a bar hostess in South Korea and Japan and had a child by an American airman, according to her mother and an American friend who knew her in South Korea. But Eniceo, 31, said she fell in love with Bench, a handsome sailor who lavished her with money and promises, after meeting him on the social networking site MySpace in We talked every day until 10 p.
