On Killers Who Sing at Their Victims' Funerals

I chanced upon this passage from Sef Gonzales's Wikipedia page:

He claimed to police that he had discovered the bodies when he arrived home, and that he had chased off intruders. Gonzales sang "One Sweet Day" at the funeral, and appeared on television asking for the killers to come forward, saying that he wanted justice and offering a reward for information.

Sef Gonzales, you might recall, was the 21-year old Baguio-born immigrant to Australia who was later convicted of killing his father, mother and younger sister. The details from Wikipedia and the court decision convicting him are much more heinous than I had realized. But offering a song number during the funeral of your victims just adds an extra layer of evil. There may be a rational reason for doing so -- to evade suspicion -- but the gall, the cold-hearted compunction it must for take for the killer not just to speak, but to sing, to convey to the grieving through art a fraudulent sense of loss that you yourself are responsible for. Simply incomprehensible.

In a similar vein, seemingly taken out of the Regal Films playbook, is what happened during the wake of an 11-year old Cebuano boy who was raped and killed in 1996. Taken from the Supreme Court decision convicting the killer:

On 9 December 1996 at around 1:00 o'clock in the morning a person acting suspiciously but unknown to the [the victim's parents] went to the wake. There he created a spectacle of himself by reciting poems for [the boy] and singing the theme song from the movie "The Lion King," and giving emphasis to the word "surrender." [The boy's father] reported to the authorities the unusual behavior of their "uninvited guest." The police immediately went to the [family] residence to observe the person. They invited him to their headquarters for further observation and questioning. He went with them voluntarily. He was identified later as herein accused-appellant Ralph Velez Diaz.

Ralph Velez Diaz was convicted for the murder, escaping the death penalty only because of a defect in the information.