DEATH ISLAND RIDDLE: Koh Tao mystery deepens as ‘healthy’ dad becomes TENTH Westerner to die in suspicious circumstances

[Kieran00001]

44 minutes ago, maximillian said:

 

Easy, if only you want.

or

Heart attack from snake bite.

 

Well, that could be what they meant, it could be a bad translation as the cause of death from a snake bite would be heart failure. 

[Nice Boyd]

12 years here, I would never go there...

[FitnessHealthTravel]

Yes I am sure they could easily tell if it was a snake bite. He looks like a fit and healthy guy but I guess heart attack is possible.  It's so dodgy on that Island.

[mdmayes]

Its the wild west on Death Island. The law is paid off by the wealthy landowners and mafia. Stay away from this island. There are many more good locations in Thailand to spend your tourist dollars.

[Jai Dee]

A couple of off-topic troll baiting posts and replies have been removed from this thread.

[geriatrickid]

58 minutes ago, H1w4yR1da said:

Why do tourists still flock to this island given its reputation?

1. They are unaware because they most likely occupy the part of the  Bell curve that is to the left of the median.

2. They  believe that bad things won't happen to them because they are too smart or too cool.

3. They are the same type of people who  rent jet skis, take photos with a terrified slow loris, go to Tiger Temple, think that a bar girl or  beach boy who talks to them  does so because she/he really likes them. 

[joebrown]

49 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

Why? Because I lived through the 'Son of Sam' serial murders in New York City 1976-77 when a city of millions of people were scared silly to go outside at night lest they get their heads blown off with a high-powered hand gun. Anyone who lived through anything like that knows that what is called 'serial killings' here is a mockery to anyone who lived through the real thing.

I doubt that a 'serial killer' is about on KT. It's common knowledge that there is at least one  'influencial' Head Man there with very strong political connections. With so many unexplained/barely investigated deaths one might wonder why the Military haven't been called in to control the island. To me it's a rhetorical question, because in LOS money talks, and the people of influence on KT can consequently act with  impunity.

[whaleboneman]

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

So from 2012 to 2018 there have been 10 deaths of foreigners on this island, I don't think it would take much to work out who did it, just see who was on the island on the those dates and go from there, but then again, do they want to expose who did it, that is the question, money talks, corruption walks.

 

RIP, gone far too early

My guess is that 99% of the inhabitants of the island were on the island on those dates. So that makes it easy???

[LomSak27]

1 hour ago, shillhater said:

1 hour ago, JLCrab said:

... All of whom known to have consumed large amounts of alcohol and drugs.

really?..soon as anything shady happens you are the 1st to defend the place..why?

It's a job.

[smedly]

3 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Welcome to the enclave of the unexplained within the land of unexplained while playing with a cobra also unexplained.

It does get explained every time, if people want to believe then up to them I for one believe none of it

 

I am 100% with the family on this, the channels the local Thai police use to investigate and examine evidence are extremely suspect in all these cases, I have no confidence in any of them, IMO they can manipulate and falsify to what ever suits the narrative and IMO this has happened over and over

 

 

RIP 

 

[Surasak]

What Koh Tao needs it will never get, while incompetence rules the roost.

[lanista]

Never heard of a farang being bitten by a land snake in LOS . Anti venom is readily available even in remote provinces. As for actually dying ????? Could be suicide by harrassing and encouraging a snake to bite him.

 

I would definitely be following the Germans money trail and see who benefits from any Thai assets.

Alot of healthy and  cashed up  farangs die here suddenly and cops always say heart disease or suicide.

KohTao is a bad arse island controlled by gangsters and corrupt cops.Over on the mainland is a very powerful gangster family with the highest political connections in Bangkok.

[LomSak27]

35 minutes ago, geriatrickid said:

1 hour ago, H1w4yR1da said:

Why do tourists still flock to this island given its reputation?

1. They are unaware because they most likely occupy the part of the  Bell curve that is to the left of the median.

Knowledge of Koh Tao, has little to do with ‘left of the Median’, or Bell curves. It gets publicized in direct relation to the number of people who tourist Thailand form a given country. I imagine in England and Europe it is high. In the North American not so much.

Now what happened with the Quebec sister on another island and  Jill St Onge on that same island has raised awareness … still most just don’t know. One defect with guide books telling about dangers leads to reduced sales of guide books so  Guess What Happens

[JLCrab]

15 minutes ago, LomSak27 said:

It's a job.

Nah it's entertaining to to see people come up with a conclusion and then work backwards to justify it.

[AGareth2]

2 hours ago, JLCrab said:

And for anybody new on the scene, "suspicious" is the code word for a murder at the hands of the blood-thirsty serial killer still roaming at large and with impunity on the island.

I knew he was a snake

[bannork]

Just now, Samui Bodoh said:

Why the hell would anyone, ever, visit the god-forsaken place!

 

Haven't enough people died there under unusual circumstances to trigger a response? What more do people need?

 

"...The father-of-one’s family in Ingolstadt, Germany, said authorities told them he died of “heart failure” or had been “bitten by a snake” - but they don't believe a word of it.

They claim they have still not received an autopsy report and say his body was sent against their wishes to the same Bangkok hospital that carried out botched reports on the bodies of two Brits murdered on the same island in 2014..."

 

Yet more discrepancies...

 

"...The father-of-one’s family in Ingolstadt, Germany, said authorities told them he died of “heart failure” or had been “bitten by a snake” - but they don't believe a word of it.

They claim they have still not received an autopsy report and say his body was sent against their wishes to the same Bangkok hospital that carried out botched reports on the bodies of two Brits murdered on the same island in 2014.,,"

 

Yet more...

 

"...Bernd is the tenth known foreigner to die in suspicious circumstances on the notoriously corrupt island in recent years.

Brits Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were bludgeoned to death on the beach in September 2014.

And last year, Belgian backpacker Elise Dallemagne was found dead and half-eaten by lizards having apparently hanged herself on the island - an explanation rejected by her family.

Other unexplained deaths include Brits Ben Harrington, 32, in 2012; Nick Pearson, 25, in 2014; Luke Miller, 26, in 2016; and Christina Annesley, 23, in 2015.

Russians Dimiti Povse, 29, and Valentina Novozhyonova, 23, also died mysteriously in 2015 and 2017..."

 

How many more?

 

Boycott the place.

 

Today!

 

Get it right journalist. Dimiti Povse was a Frenchman who left a suicide note in French, he wasn't Russian, and as for Valentina Novozhyonova, who said she is dead??

Christina was taking a combination of drugs and drinking, Luke Miller was drinking and living it up.

Elise Dallemagne had psychological problems.

there is not a grain of evidence these folks were murdered.

Trash tabloid writing.

[holy cow cm]

My friend from US was just there 2 months ago with his family and said it is still nice after years, although built up since we went over 25 yrs ago. I plan on taking my kids in December for their first time. I may think twice again now and look at other options.

[toofarnorth]

He could well have died from a snake bite , he also could have been held down while the local heavy mob dropped a King Cobra on him.  If I was offered an all free trip to KT I wouldn't go.

[THE REVERAND]

Their MISSION STATEMENT IS "PEOPLE ARE DYING TO BE HERE  IN KOH TAO YOU CAN STAY FOREVER"

[Lucky mike]

4 hours ago, tagalong said:

Those learned above surmising about a snake bite...As I know very well, snakes have 2 teeth to inject venom...

Did they find 2 snake teeth marks on the body?  NO!...So why say it without proof first...

Maybe truth a victim also ?

[TheFishman1]

No Tourist should be allowed there let the islanders kill each other TIT

[Kieran00001]

1 hour ago, bannork said:

Get it right journalist. Dimiti Povse was a Frenchman who left a suicide note in French, he wasn't Russian, and as for Valentina Novozhyonova, who said she is dead??

Christina was taking a combination of drugs and drinking, Luke Miller was drinking and living it up.

Elise Dallemagne had psychological problems.

there is not a grain of evidence these folks were murdered.

Trash tabloid writing.

 

Dimiti was reported to be in high spirits when he left his friends and went home, be was later found with his hands tied behind his back hanged from his balcony.

 

Valentina left her belongings behind and disappeared without taking a boat from the island, has not accessed her banks accounts or contacted anyone, she is missing and presumed dead.

 

Christina is reported by the police to have died from drinking while on antibiotics, but how they know this is a mystery as no toxicology report was made.

 

Luke was found at the bottom of the pool with a head wound and bruises all over his body, however no one knows how he was injured.

 

Elise did have problems, it very much looks like a suicide.

[Vacuum]

4 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

So from 2012 to 2018 there have been 10 deaths of foreigners on this island, I don't think it would take much to work out who did it, just see who was on the island on the those dates and go from there, but then again, do they want to expose who did it, that is the question, money talks, corruption walks.

 

RIP, gone far too early

I can understand getting rid of 'competition', but that would not include normal tourists. What could they possibly gain from this?

[JLCrab]

36 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

I can understand getting rid of 'competition', but that would not include normal tourists. What could they possibly gain from this?

Revenge.

[GSFGSF]

So people still die on Koh tao and nobody will do anything about it ?

As I read the police is more interested to kidnap and rob innocent foreigners who smoke weed ?

 

 

[frank83628]

another article pushed by the samui times, twisted and sensationalised it to suit their 'suspicious' theme and the TV posse are off on their Tao bashing!

He kept snakes, he wanted an king cobra and got 1.

 

He had come back to tao during the low season in Koh Pyam, he brought the cobra with him.

He phoned his sister and said the snake had got him, I don't see this written anywhere though,
seems some would prefer to believe that he was held down by gangsters and the snake dropped on him than it biting him while feeding or handling it...because that logical!!

 

it was a shock to many that knew him......but as seen many times already....the samui times doesnt care about truth, facts or peoples feelings as long as they can get clicks and interest in their BS!

 

all the KT articles come from the same source and her little group of idiots that are all hiding away overseas.

[bannork]

2 hours ago, Kieran00001 said:

 

Dimiti was reported to be in high spirits when he left his friends and went home, be was later found with his hands tied behind his back hanged from his balcony.

 

Valentina left her belongings behind and disappeared without taking a boat from the island, has not accessed her banks accounts or contacted anyone, she is missing and presumed dead.

 

Christina is reported by the police to have died from drinking while on antibiotics, but how they know this is a mystery as no toxicology report was made.

 

Luke was found at the bottom of the pool with a head wound and bruises all over his body, however no one knows how he was injured.

 

Elise did have problems, it very much looks like a suicide.

Dimiti also wrote a suicide note in French.

If Valentina is dead, which we cannot presume, it is almost certainly from diving.

Christina's Facebook account described the dangerous mixtures of drinks and alcohol she was taking.

Luke believed in yolo- you only live once. Pictures on his facebook showed him living life to the full and dangerously.

[oldrunner]

Snake bite, heart attack what the hell difference does it make once you're dead. I agree with other contributers, DON'T GO THERE.

 

[atyclb]

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-snake-bites-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks

[tifino]

5 minutes ago, atyclb said:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/how-snake-bites-could-help-prevent-heart-attacks

more likely as research into antidotes