Mystery murder of young man just back from Germany - he left birthday party and was found dead and burnt in school

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A baffling murder has shocked relatives in Buriram in north eastern Thailand and created fear in a village.

 

A young man just back from Germany the night before walked out of a birthday party for his wife before he was found dead and burnt at a school nearby that he attended as a child. 

 

Police said they do not yet have a clear picture of what happened or a motive for the murder  reported Thai Rath..

 

At 8.30 pm last night Pol Lt-Col Sakonnat Pattathesa of the Prakhonchai police received word from the janitor of Ban Salaengthon school that he had found a body behind the school.

 

Dead at the scene was 23 year old Thanathat Jankae whose forehead had been smashed in with a blunt object. His shirt and pants were almost burnt off. He was lying face down.

 

His shoes were by the body along with a lighter.

 

There was evidence of gasoline and candle wax. His sky blue bag was on a metal grate in an area for recycling plastic bottles.

 

Inside was a brown wallet containing 280 baht, a phone and two packets of cigarettes. 

 

Villagers and relatives expressed their fear and shock at the murder. The school is closed for a break between semesters.

 

CCTV showed the victim passing by a grocer's next to his house at 6.55pm before he disappeared into the darkness. No one saw him after that.

 

Banyat Wonma, the janitor, said he found the body at 8.30 pm after seeing flames and smelling burning behind the school when he arrived for his shift.

 

Yuphaporn or "Koi", 22, the victim's wife said that he had just returned with his family from Germany at 11 pm on Sunday night. 

 

The family were celebrating her birthday on Monday evening. About ten family members were present in the house for the party that started at 5 pm. After 6pm Thanathat went out seemingly to buy something.

 

When he didn't return half an our later they looked at the CCTV from the grocer's. 

 

She said her husband was a quiet guy who spoke little.

 

Suwan, Thanathat's uncle, said that he considered the victim as a son as he raised him since he was little.

 

His mother had taken him to live in Germany and had just got back. He said that the victim went to that school as a child and called on the police to solve the mysterious crime quickly.

 

Local and provincial police were unable to say yet whether the motive was theft or some personal conflict.

 

But everyone said that Thanathat had no enemies and was in no trouble. 

 

Investigations continue. ASEAN NOW will attempt to follow up on this mystery. 

 

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[Mickmouse1]

From what has been reported it is obvious, is not a case of theft.

It seems jealousy.

[steven100]

 

It would appear jealousy could be a motive here .....   better see who the wife has been hanging around the last few weeks while he was away. 

 

" There was evidence of gasoline and candle wax"      so the murderer was trying to destroy any evidence by burning the body .....  find the gasoline container then check all the local servos cctv ...

 

Very sad and very tragic as he was only 23yrs old.

RIP poor boy.

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

I wonder if articles like this exist to have soon lots of comments about what possibly, probably, might have happened.

 

The answer is simply: Currently we don't know. There could be many reasons. Just wait a day or two and by then there will be more evidence.

 

 

[alation]

Please ???? just find the murder ???? and then you  have them to get the motive but the murderer needs to be caught and quickly. Rest in peace young man 

[tubby johnson]

3 hours ago, Mickmouse1 said:

From what has been reported it is obvious, is not a case of theft.

It seems jealousy.

Jealousy it is, then.

 

OK, case closed. CSI AseanNow has solved another crime.

[kamahele]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

 

It would appear jealousy could be a motive here .....   better see who the wife has been hanging around the last few weeks while he was away. 

 

" There was evidence of gasoline and candle wax"      so the murderer was trying to destroy any evidence by burning the body .....  find the gasoline container then check all the local servos cctv ...

 

Very sad and very tragic as he was only 23yrs old.

RIP poor boy.

 

 

There are savages in every country. Why must you make it out like Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people? 

[steven100]

22 minutes ago, kamahele said:

There are savages in every country. Why must you make it out like Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people? 

history speaks for itself.

[RichardColeman]

1 hour ago, alation said:

Please ???? just find the murder ???? and then you  have them to get the motive but the murderer needs to be caught and quickly. Rest in peace young man 

I'd look at who he owed money to start with. Maybe a shark coming for the money for a trip to Germany !

[Arthur Mullard]

29 minutes ago, kamahele said:

There are savages in every country. Why must you make it out like Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people? 

Oh please.... "every country"? Every country in Asia maybe. You just have to look at its neighbour and scratch away the surface, to see how savagery lurks beneath so many Buddhist countries, on an incomparable scale. "Every country" yeah sure.

[0815]

And why is it important that he just came back from Germany ?

[Mac Mickmanus]

1 minute ago, 0815 said:

And why is it important that he just came back from Germany ?

 Because IF he hadn't have just come back from Germany , he wouldn't have been killed !!!!!!!!!!

[NeoDinosaw]

33 minutes ago, Arthur Mullard said:

Oh please.... "every country"? Every country in Asia maybe. You just have to look at its neighbour and scratch away the surface, to see how savagery lurks beneath so many Buddhist countries, on an incomparable scale. "Every country" yeah sure.

I think "every country"  is correct

[Bangkok Barry]

1 hour ago, kamahele said:

There are savages in every country. Why must you make it out like Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people? 

Why? He didn't suggest only in Thailand. And this is a site and forum about Thailand. There - another mystery solved.

[smew]

RIP young man.
My guess: while he was in Germany his wife had a boyfriend and now wanted to end bcs husband is back. Boyfriend decides to eliminate husband. 

[moogradod]

24 minutes ago, 0815 said:

And why is it important that he just came back from Germany ?

Maybe the country is not of importance but some believe maybe that being abroad at all is suspicious in this case. There are thousands of people believing thousands of abstruse things - that the world is flat, the Orange One a perfect president, Russia is only defending itself, beans for breakfast are more a must than an emetic, legalizing pot the beginning of the apocalypse and that religions are fundamentally bad plus plus plus.

 

I believe that the only thing of importance here is that again someone has lost his life, regardless of where he did travel and what nationality the killer might have.

[Gecko123]

Sounds like only the husband was in Germany, with the wife still here. Red-flag #1.

 

Feeble attempt to burn the body and gasoline and wax at scene suggests how to dispose of the body was only considered after the murder, further suggesting a crime of passion. or somebody either extremely criminally unsophisticated, inebriated at the time of the crime, or very young. As this behavior points to the possibility that the assailant was younger, and both the victim and wife were both in early 20's, this too points to possible love triangle.

 

My first questions would be: why did he go to the grocery store and was he running an errand for someone, perhaps his wife?

 

My guess is either the wife was fooling around while hubby was out of the country and together they conspired to kill the hubby. Or, unbeknownst to the wife, lover boy boyfriend who was uninvited to the party, watched from the shadows, and impulsively decided to eliminate his rival when the opportunity arose, stalking him to the grocery store when he saw him leave the party. Hubby may have recognized the assailant, but being clueless that he was having an affair with his wife, willingly accompanied him into the park where he was brained with blunt object. After the murder, and possibly high at the time, he maybe frantically improvised and siphoned some gasoline out of his motorcycle, or quickly returned home to get some gas, thinking this would destroy the evidence, but quickly realizing this was futile, fled the scene.

 

Question for the "Go for it, Sherlock" crowd:

Do you realize that the above is merely formulating an initial theory of the case, which is exactly what police and many members of the news media and public do all over the world? It's an initial assessment of the facts of the case in an effort to try and figure out what may have happened.

 

Speculation can be defined as the pursuit of truth through conjecture or thinking. Is this thought process so objectionable to some forum member that they feel compelled to clog up every crime thread with asinine, unoriginal, and repetitive comments about ASEANNOW armchair detectives? Are you so lacking in intellectual curiosity that your only reaction to those wanting to share their speculative thoughts on the matter is to try and ridicule and disrupt the discourse? Since you're so convinced that this process adds no value, do you ever stop to consider the value - or the lack thereof - YOU add to a thread?

[thailand49]

Revenge?

He was 23 years old already married to a Thai. 

Raise by the Uncle but Thai mother living in Germany wanted him to live in Germany which he did inspite of being married I assume this to be recent?  

He leaves come back? Less that 24hrs he is dead people don't get string up and burn for nothing. 

His mother after all these years in spite of being married wanted him to leave. Came back like so many at that age unable to cope or fit in so took a chance to return in spite of why he needed to leave. 

The Uncle and Wife have the answers. 

[NanLaew]

35 minutes ago, Gecko123 said:

Sounds like only the husband was in Germany, with the wife still here. Red-flag #1.

 

Feeble attempt to burn the body and gasoline and wax at scene suggests how to dispose of the body was only considered after the murder, further suggesting a crime of passion. or somebody either extremely criminally unsophisticated, inebriated at the time of the crime, or very young. As this behavior points to the possibility that the assailant was younger, and both the victim and wife were both in early 20's, this too points to possible love triangle.

 

My first questions would be: why did he go to the grocery store and was he running an errand for someone, perhaps his wife?

 

My guess is either the wife was fooling around while hubby was out of the country and together they conspired to kill the hubby. Or, unbeknownst to the wife, lover boy boyfriend who was uninvited to the party, watched from the shadows, and impulsively decided to eliminate his rival when the opportunity arose, stalking him to the grocery store when he saw him leave the party. Hubby may have recognized the assailant, but being clueless that he was having an affair with his wife, willingly accompanied him into the park where he was brained with blunt object. After the murder, and possibly high at the time, he maybe frantically improvised and siphoned some gasoline out of his motorcycle, or quickly returned home to get some gas, thinking this would destroy the evidence, but quickly realizing this was futile, fled the scene.

 

Question for the "Go for it, Sherlock" crowd:

Do you realize that the above is merely formulating an initial theory of the case, which is exactly what police and many members of the news media and public do all over the world? It's an initial assessment of the facts of the case in an effort to try and figure out what may have happened.

 

Speculation can be defined as the pursuit of truth through conjecture or thinking. Is this thought process so objectionable to some forum member that they feel compelled to clog up every crime thread with asinine, unoriginal, and repetitive comments about ASEANNOW armchair detectives? Are you so lacking in intellectual curiosity that your only reaction to those wanting to share their speculative thoughts on the matter is to try and ridicule and disrupt the discourse? Since you're so convinced that this process adds no value, do you ever stop to consider the value - or the lack thereof - YOU add to a thread?

You sir have a simply awesome armchair.

[BangkokReady]

5 hours ago, steven100 said:

better see who the wife has been hanging around the last few weeks while he was away.

Assuming when the wife said that he returned from Germany with "his family", she meant not her, then it would be a good idea to see who has been sniffing around the wife while the victim was away.  Perhaps she had an affair, perhaps someone was simply hoping that the husband might not return, or that while the husband was away he might get closer to the wife.  Then the presumably well off husband returns and boom!

[Rimmer]

Off topic troll posts and flames have been removed also replies

[BangkokReady]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Why? He didn't suggest only in Thailand. And this is a site and forum about Thailand. There - another mystery solved.

Simple, you aren't allowed to criticise Thailand or mention anything bad that happens there on any subject where anything similar can happen anywhere else in the world.  Otherwise you are clearly "Thai-bashing".

[Liverpool Lou]

6 hours ago, Mickmouse1 said:

From what has been reported it is obvious, is not a case of theft.

It seems jealousy.

How is that "obvious"?

[BangkokReady]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Inside was a brown wallet containing 280 baht, a phone and two packets of cigarettes.

That's quite a wallet.

[Liverpool Lou]

3 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

9 hours ago, webfact said:

Inside was a brown wallet containing 280 baht, a phone and two packets of cigarettes.

That's quite a wallet.

"His sky blue bag was on a metal grate in an area for recycling plastic bottles.

Inside was a brown wallet containing 280 baht, a phone and two packets of cigarettes".

[Liverpool Lou]

2 hours ago, 0815 said:

And why is it important that he just came back from Germany ?

Who said it was important?  It was just a description of recent events that involved him.

[Andre0720]

2 hours ago, kamahele said:

There are savages in every country. Why must you make it out like Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people? 

Why must you make it out someone said that Thailand is the only place in the world with bad people?

But in fact, if contests were held about which countries rank high in dangers related to bad events, bad people, bad personalities, bad parenting,  road fatalities, lack of responsibility, lack of maturity, well, it is just that Thailand would win many prizes.

See, no Thai bashing here, just celebrating success.

 

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Bangkok Barry said:

this is a site and forum about Thailand.

No, it isn't, It's Asean Now and has international sub-forums that have no relation to Thailand.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, smew said:

RIP young man.
My guess: while he was in Germany his wife had a boyfriend and now wanted to end bcs husband is back. Boyfriend decides to eliminate husband. 

His wife had been in Germany with him.

[Liverpool Lou]

1 hour ago, Gecko123 said:

Sounds like only the husband was in Germany, with the wife still here. Red-flag #1

Only if you only read Thaivisa!  She was with him.