The Questionable Death of Andres Bonifacio.

A hero, one of the greatest leaders who strived for the freedom of the Philippines during the Spaniard
colonization--Supremo Andres Bonifacio y de Castrowas of Kataastaasang, Kagalang-galangan, Katipunan
ng mga Anak ng Bayan, born November 30, 1863 in Calle Azcarraga. Son of Santiago Bonifacio and
Catalina de Castro, eldest of five; Ciriaco, Procopio, Troadio, Esperiodiona and Maxima. Married to his
first wife Monica of Palomar, but died of leprosy, later, Bonifacio got married again to Gregoria Alvarez
de Jesus.

Emilio Aguinaldo accused Andres Bonifacio of infidelity for starting a faction. The death sentence to
Bonifacio was declared on a trial; Bonifacio’s lawyer then was Placido Martinez, who seemed like he did
not help Bonifacio win the trial for he believed that Andres deserved the verdict. Emilio Aguinaldo is
blamed for the killing of Bonifacio, for he has ordered the execution of Andres and his brother, Procopio,
but is then proven for he, himself confessed in his memoir that he ordered the killing of Bonifacio. In
Maragondon, Cavite is where Bonifacio was believed to be buried and where he was also sentenced to
death. However, the information written in his marker also confuses the people, for it did not match
when he died and when he was buried. How Bonifacio died continuously being wrangled, whether he
was stabbed or shot. In the middle of an election for president, Manuel L. Quezon commanded the
digging of Bonifacio’s bones to display to the museum, believed is for political purposes. The digging of
the bones has also been questioned; it is believed to not belong to Bonifacio.

Among the number of heroes, Andres Bonifacio is one of the heroes whose death remains controversial
and this mystifying reason for his death still haunts Filipinos. Theories are written, several accounts have
been published, but none has answered the question “Where is the body of Andres Bonifacio?” and
“How did he die?”.