38-year-old Dane Kallungi
A Colorado Springs man arrested for the murder of his missing wife was caught after police answered his phone about the alleged murder of his ex-wife.
Dane Kallungi, 38, was arrested last month trying to get into Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and charged with the first degree murder of his wife, Jepsy Amaga Kallungi.
Jepsy, who moved to Colorado Springs from the Philippines in 2017 to marry Kallungi after meeting on a dating website, has not been seen since 2019, when she was 26 years old.
Kallungi later moved to California, but had returned to Colorado Springs on March 26 and had lunch with his ex-wife Alaine Kallungi. declaration under oath.
Alaine informed the police of their conversation later in the day and agreed to make a phone call with Kallungi on April 3, which would be recorded by the police.
In that phone call, Kallungi confessed to Alaine that he killed Jepsy in March 2019 after a domestic violence incident and buried her body.
The alleged attack took place after Jepsy returned home after a sexual encounter with a soldier at Fort Carson, the affidavit said.
Dane later told Jepsy’s family that they had stopped talking and she went to Chicago, Mexico or the Philippines with a friend without taking an ID or her phone.
26-year-old Jepsy Kallungi (pictured) was first reported missing by her family on April 4, 2019
Jepsy moved from the Philippines to the US in 2017 to marry Kallungi after the couple met on a dating website (pictured together)
“Information gathered during this investigation suggests that Dane Kallungi strangled Jepsy Kallungi during an act of domestic violence, leaving her seriously injured,” the affidavit said.
In the phone call, Kallungi was said to provide details about the violent incident that led to his wife’s death.
He said he strangled Jepsy after an argument in which he tried to “don’t let the words come out of her mouth” and seriously injured her, according to the affidavit.
“I kind of liked it, I grabbed her and I think it was like a second when I got pecked off, but I didn’t even feel that cock,” he said into the bell.
“It looked like I had done some damage and I panicked and it looked like she was suffering,” he added.
He said he “didn’t want to see her suffer anymore” and suggested he killed her out of mercy.
“I wasn’t sure if I had killed her before and it was like the stuff you see in the movies about how people die,” the affidavit said.
‘As if she was already dead. It was just a matter of time and I didn’t want to see her suffer anymore,” he said.
“I put her on the floor and it was like she was still breathing even though she was gone and I just regretted that,” Kallungi added.
After a two-year investigation into Jepsy Kallungi’s disappearance, police arrested her husband Dane Kallungi after receiving audio from him confessing to strangling and burying her.
Dane later told Jepsy’s family that they had stopped talking and she went with a friend to Chicago, Mexico or the Philippines without taking an ID or her phone with her.
He then told his ex that he packed up Jepsy’s body and put it in the trunk of his car and buried her body in a grave the next day.
But before burying Jepsy, Kallungi drove his son to school and went to work while his wife’s body was in the trunk, the affidavit said.
‘Yes, she was in my suitcase, and then I drove to Florissant after work and found a place and like I just stuffed her and… yes, I went to Florissant and no, I liked saying goodbye to her before I put her there and tried to apologize a million times,” he said during the phone call.
Jepsy moved from the Philippines to the US in 2017 to marry Kallungi after the couple met on a dating website.
Court records show that the couple filed for divorce, but it’s unclear if the divorce was ever finalized.
Jepsy’s mother Margie Amaga was concerned when she suddenly stopped responding to Facebook Messenger messages on March 20, 2019 and was first reported missing by her family on April 4, 2019.
Over the course of a two-year investigation into missing persons, authorities executed more than three dozen search warrants and conducted multiple interviews leading them to believe Kallungi was a prime suspect, according to the affidavit.
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