Two naked bodies found in shallow grave in Chokchai district, Korat

[webfact]

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath reported that a forager for mushrooms came across some freshly dug earth about 400 meters off the Ban Don Plai road in Rung Arun sub-district of Nakhon Ratchasima.

 

It was a grave and part of a human body was showing despite the grave being covered in branches.

 

The Phu Yai Ban was informed and then the police who discovered two naked bodies, a man and a woman.

 

The bodies were facing away from each other.

 

There have been no reports of missing persons in the area so police concluded they were murdered elsewhere and brought to that spot and buried in the 1.5 meter deep grave.

 

The bodies were taken to Chokchai Hospital for autopsy but it's believed they had been dead at least 3 days.

 

The only clue so far is a tattoo on the hip of the female body. 

 

Chokchai police are investigating. 

 

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[SAFETY FIRST]

4 minutes ago, webfact said:

The only clue so far is a tattoo on the hip of the female body. 

 

Oh dear. 

 

Lovers triangle 

[Excel]

Should take about 1 day and the posters here will have this case solved

[gk10012001]

42 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Oh dear. 

 

Lovers triangle 

 

48 minutes ago, webfact said:

The only clue so far is a tattoo on the hip of the female body. 

Well, post a picture of the darn thing on the media. Somebody is likely to recognize it, Either a friend or relative or co worker or the tattoo artist itself.

[blackshadow]

58 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Oh dear. 

 

Lovers triangle 

need COLOMBO IN ON THS one........

[steven100]

plenty of that sort of thing throughout Thailand that's for sure .... 

[Iamfalang]

49 minutes ago, Excel said:

Should take about 1 day and the posters here will have this case solved

I solved it in 19 seconds................

 

Woman, Husband and "BF".   Woman and BF in grave, done by husband.

 

It was a cold and gloomy night, the trees swayed back and forth as the two embraced on the floor of their shed.   Hubby comes home and sees the lovemaking, and in an act of rage takes a machete to the two.   Hubby inflicted wounds to his cheek, left.   Blunt trauma, brain hemorrhage, cause of death.  Hubby had the floor covered in industrial plastic, since the plan was actually derived by his wife.  Unfortunately, hubby killed her as well.

 

Billy-bob, the falang who lives down in the mooban, heard the commotion and is now hiding in an undisclosed mountain location.  Unfortunately for Billy-bob, he was bitten by a snake 4 minutes ago and will die in 38 minutes.   

[SAFETY FIRST]

1 hour ago, Excel said:

Should take about 1 day and the posters here will have this case solved

Omg, so funny and so true. 

 

 

[phetphet]

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

plenty of that sort of thing throughout Thailand that's for sure .... 

Everywhere. Not just Thailand.

 

Have you seen the reports of several bodies turning up as Lake Mead's water level drops due to drought? More expected to be found  as it drops further.

[steven100]

20 minutes ago, phetphet said:

Everywhere. Not just Thailand.

 

Have you seen the reports of several bodies turning up as Lake Mead's water level drops due to drought? More expected to be found  as it drops further.

3 so far ....    but Thailand would have dozens I would imagine .   

[Tropicalevo]

4 hours ago, gk10012001 said:

Well, post a picture of the darn thing on the media. Somebody is likely to recognize it, Either a friend or relative or co worker or the tattoo artist itself

There is a photo of a tattoo on the girls back in the BP

[cardinalblue]

Good God - with all the detective and CSI shows on TV these days, people always revert back to Colombo…

 

Can I speculate and say the majority of the readership is 70 and over?

 

I rather hear that Jack Lord is investigating the case….best theme song of all of them.

[Skeptic7]

8 hours ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Oh dear. 

 

Lovers triangle 

One-sided triangle now. 

[PETERTHEEATER]

2 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

Good God - with all the detective and CSI shows on TV these days, people always revert back to Colombo…

 

Can I speculate and say the majority of the readership is 70 and over?

 

I rather hear that Jack Lord is investigating the case….best theme song of all of them.

"Book 'em Danno"

[blackshadow]

10 hours ago, Iamfalang said:

I solved it in 19 seconds................

 

Woman, Husband and "BF".   Woman and BF in grave, done by husband.

 

It was a cold and gloomy night, the trees swayed back and forth as the two embraced on the floor of their shed.   Hubby comes home and sees the lovemaking, and in an act of rage takes a machete to the two.   Hubby inflicted wounds to his cheek, left.   Blunt trauma, brain hemorrhage, cause of death.  Hubby had the floor covered in industrial plastic, since the plan was actually derived by his wife.  Unfortunately, hubby killed her as well.

 

Billy-bob, the falang who lives down in the mooban, heard the commotion and is now hiding in an undisclosed mountain location.  Unfortunately for Billy-bob, he was bitten by a snake 4 minutes ago and will die in 38 minutes.   

get a high ranking job with the R T P !!!!

Is your middle name sherlock.......????

[RanongCat]

RIP victims as yet not known. The commnt above invite no praise !

[Gecko123]

 

Sorry about being a little late. Been busy working another case.

 

Article says grave was 1.5 meters deep, but from photo looks much shallower, maybe less than 1 meter deep, at best. Nevertheless, it would have required at least two people to dig such a grave. If grave was 400 meters (1/4 mile) from nearest road, transporting two bodies from road to grave site would also have required at least two people. When you consider the combined labor needed to dig the grave and transport the bodies from the crime scene to the burial site, this has me thinking more like 3-4 people were involved.

 

If the two people were only recently killed, it's too early to conclude that the deceased were not from the area. Some people lead transient lifestyles or do not have extensive social connections, making it entirely possible for their absence to go unnoticed for a considerable amount of time.

 

There are clear clues that that this was probably a crime of passion. Victims were of  opposite sex. The victims being naked suggests that they were in bed or undressed at the time of their death. Victims buried facing away from one another suggest the possibility that the killer did not want to accept their romantic relationship, even in death. Even though the victims were fairly quickly discovered, the killer actually went to considerable lengths to hide the bodies (distance from road, depth of grave). This suggests that the killer knew that if the victims were ever found and identified, the killer would immediately become a prime suspect. Finally, as the killer was able to enlist the help of either family members or friends to help dispose of the bodies, this suggests that in the eyes of his accomplices, the murders could be partially justified or rationalized, i.e., committed in a jealous rage triggered by infidelity.

 

The killer knew that digging the grave, especially during the rainy season, would so disturb the surrounding undergrowth that if anyone were to chance upon the burial site, the grave would likely be discovered. They were banking on rapid rainy season undergrowth quickly concealing the grave, and no one finding the grave until then. Knowledge of a remote place such as this 400 meters from a road not likely to be happened upon suggests a fairly intimate knowledge of the local terrain, which tends to further point towards both the victims and the killer being local.

Edited July 29, 2022 by Gecko123

[hotchilli]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

The Phu Yai Ban was informed and then the police who discovered two naked bodies, a man and a woman.

 

The bodies were facing away from each other.

Ultimate insult.

[webfact]

UPDATE:

 

Korat murder: Man is foreigner, not Asian, woman can be identified by chip in breast implants

 

Picture: Thai Rath

 

Thai Rath followed up with the latest developments after a naked, unidentified couple were found in a shallow grave in Chokchai district of Nakhon Ratchasima in NE Thailand.

 

Full story: https://aseannow.com/topic/1267465-korat-murder-man-is-foreigner-not-asian-woman-can-be-identified-by-chip-in-breast-implants/

 

[blackshadow]

18 hours ago, cardinalblue said:

Good God - with all the detective and CSI shows on TV these days, people always revert back to Colombo…

 

Can I speculate and say the majority of the readership is 70 and over?

 

I rather hear that Jack Lord is investigating the case….best theme song of all of them.

sherlock holmes will solve this case!!!! always does......

[gk10012001]

On 7/28/2022 at 10:42 PM, phetphet said:

Everywhere. Not just Thailand.

 

Have you seen the reports of several bodies turning up as Lake Mead's water level drops due to drought? More expected to be found  as it drops further.

yeah.  probably some innocent deaths or accidents. But 0ne was found inside a barrel, so.. choose your mafia killing movie guess

[bangon04]

"Chokchai police are investigating. "

 

on the TV they showed about 50 of them stamping all over the crime scene and hacking the grave out with various farm implements.....  CSI at its best.

[timendres]

On 7/29/2022 at 7:23 AM, webfact said:

buried in the 1.5 meter deep grave.

As someone who has dug a few holes, I would not call 1.5 meters "shallow".

 

On 7/29/2022 at 7:23 AM, webfact said:

part of a human body was showing

With 1.5m of depth, this seems so unlikely.

[Dumbfounded]

On 7/30/2022 at 6:32 AM, Gecko123 said:

 

Sorry about being a little late. Been busy working another case.

 

Article says grave was 1.5 meters deep, but from photo looks much shallower, maybe less than 1 meter deep, at best. Nevertheless, it would have required at least two people to dig such a grave. If grave was 400 meters (1/4 mile) from nearest road, transporting two bodies from road to grave site would also have required at least two people. When you consider the combined labor needed to dig the grave and transport the bodies from the crime scene to the burial site, this has me thinking more like 3-4 people were involved.

 

If the two people were only recently killed, it's too early to conclude that the deceased were not from the area. Some people lead transient lifestyles or do not have extensive social connections, making it entirely possible for their absence to go unnoticed for a considerable amount of time.

 

There are clear clues that that this was probably a crime of passion. Victims were of  opposite sex. The victims being naked suggests that they were in bed or undressed at the time of their death. Victims buried facing away from one another suggest the possibility that the killer did not want to accept their romantic relationship, even in death. Even though the victims were fairly quickly discovered, the killer actually went to considerable lengths to hide the bodies (distance from road, depth of grave). This suggests that the killer knew that if the victims were ever found and identified, the killer would immediately become a prime suspect. Finally, as the killer was able to enlist the help of either family members or friends to help dispose of the bodies, this suggests that in the eyes of his accomplices, the murders could be partially justified or rationalized, i.e., committed in a jealous rage triggered by infidelity.

 

The killer knew that digging the grave, especially during the rainy season, would so disturb the surrounding undergrowth that if anyone were to chance upon the burial site, the grave would likely be discovered. They were banking on rapid rainy season undergrowth quickly concealing the grave, and no one finding the grave until then. Knowledge of a remote place such as this 400 meters from a road not likely to be happened upon suggests a fairly intimate knowledge of the local terrain, which tends to further point towards both the victims and the killer being local.

It was the mushroom picker ????