Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 23:33:00 04/17/2009 AFTER watching the way the police have been handling the investigation of the death of Trinidad Arteche Etong, ABS-CBN news anchor Ted Failon’s wife, Filipinos have reason to be afraid -- very afraid -- of their so-called protectors. From the time the Quezon City police began working on the case, it was clear they wanted to pin down Failon in a murder charge. With little to go on but a fertile imagination, Superintendent Frank Mabanag, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit, theorized that Etong could have been killed in their Pajero and brought up to the bathroom where Failon claimed to have found her lying in a pool of blood. Right in his own house, Failon was made to undergo a paraffin test as police investigators gleefully posed behind him for souvenir photos. Even as Etong was undergoing emergency treatment for a bullet wound to her head, the police “invited” Failon to submit t...