Jocelyn Dulnuan was laid to rest this afternoon.
Following a five-day wake in her home province of Ifugao in the Philippines in which close to 1,000 people attended the family home to pay their final respects to the slain 27-year-old woman, a funeral was held this afternoon and Dulnuan was buried.
Peel Regional Police have yet to make an arrest in the murder. Dulnuan, a live-in maid, was found dead in her living quarters in the basement of a mansion on Doulton Place in Mississauga, back on Oct. 1.
Police say the family that lived there, which includes a family doctor, a financial executive and three adult children, has been cooperating.
Dulnuan's body was repatriated back to her native Philippines last week, thanks to some financial help from Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General and tireless fundraising efforts by family and friends in the GTA.
Dulnuan, a wife and mother, was in Canada for about a year. She left her immediate family, including mother Godeliva, husband Sandy Kinnud and four-year-old daughter Kristine Angelique, back home so that she could come here and earn money for them.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports from news media out of the Philippines this evening suggest that Dulnuan was stabbed and beaten to death.
Peel Regional Police have refused to reveal the cause of death or any specific injuries sustained to Dulnuan's body in order to protect the integrity of the homicide investigation. But Bulatlat, a weekly online news magazine, is reporting that her body "bore several stab wounds" and contained "bruises in many parts of the body," according to a worker with Migrante International who witnessed the woman's remains being prepared for the funeral. When contacted this evening in Hong Kong , Dulnuan family spokesperson Bruce Shu had no comment on the reports.

lrosella@mississauga.net