Missing Thai Teen Girl, Last Seen with Murdered British Teen, Also Found Deceased in North Thailand

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By Adam Judd

 

Lampang – A missing teen female who was last seen accompanying a murdered British/Thai boy to meet with an older Thai man was found deceased and buried in a forest in Lampang, Northern Thailand.

 

On Saturday (May 13th) Region 5 Police revealed to Thai media that police received a clue that something smelled very badly in a forest grove near the Mae Tan – Sobprab Road in Sandon Kaew, Mae Tha. A search was launched by police, local residents, and the female teenager’s relatives.

 

The young woman’s body was found buried in the grove and her relatives confirmed she was the missing teen, identified due to her age only by her Thai nickname of Ping Pong, 16.

 

A severe wound was found on the back of her head. However, her body was taken to a hospital to find the exact cause of death and to scientifically confirm her identity.

 

The main suspect, Chaiwat Boonkarin, 44, in the death of Ben, also 16, had previously refused to speak about Ping Pong, although he admitted to murdering Ben. Chaiwat claimed he had met the teens in the forest to discuss a drug deal, although this is still being investigated by Thai police. Chaiwat stated that he murdered Ben in a fit of rage after the two got into a verbal argument regarding the deal.

 

Full story: https://thepattayanews.com/2023/05/13/missing-thai-teen-girl-last-seen-with-murdered-british-teen-also-found-deceased-in-north-thailand/

 

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Body of a missing teenage girl found in bushes in Lampang province

 

 

Police in Thailand’s Lampang province have found the body of a 16-year-old girl who went missing on May 7th, when her Thai-English boyfriend was killed.

 

Police and about 100 villagers searched a forest bordering Kho Kha and Sop Prap districts after the police received a tipoff from an individual who claimed to have seen the girl, known as “Pingpong”, being led into the forest by a man.

 

At about 11am, the search team found traces of two holes in the ground, about 50 metres apart in the bushes. In one of them they found the body of a dead girl.

 

The remains were removed from the shallow grave while the search team waited for the arrival of forensics officers.

 

Police have already arrested a 44-year-old man, who is suspected of having killed a 17-year-old Thai-English boy.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/body-of-a-missing-teenage-girl-found-in-bushes-in-lampang-province/

 

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Body of missing teen found buried in northern Thailand forest
by leah

 

 

The body of 16 year old “Ping Pong” was found buried in the forest in Lampang province, northern Thailand, this morning after a week-long search.

 

Ping Pong went missing on Saturday, May 6, after she did not return from a motorbike ride with 17 year old Woramet “Ben” Taota, a dual Thai-British national, whose body was found in the forest the next day.

 

A local man with a criminal history, 44 year old Chaiwat, confessed to murdering Ben but would not reveal the whereabouts of Ping Pong despite being subject to interrogation.

 

Until yesterday, police found “important” evidence that the killer had dumped Ping Pong’s body in the forest in the area near the checkpoint at Ban Had Pu Dai village in Na Saeng subdistrict, Kha Tha district, reports KhaoSod.

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/hot-news/crime/body-of-missing-teen-found-buried-in-northern-thailand-forest

 

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[NanLaew]

1 hour ago, webfact said:

The young woman’s body was found buried in the grove and her relatives confirmed she was the missing teen, identified due to her age only by her Thai nickname of Ping Pong, 16.

I was unaware that a Thai minor's identity, deceased or otherwise, is age protected. Is it a legal exclusion or a local media protocol?

 

Her name is Suraphltchaya Khamsa.

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/05/13/woramet-ben-taota-murdered-british-teenager-thailand/

[ChaiyaTH]

As expected of course, didn't think a second she would still be alive.

[Tropicalevo]

RIP young lady.

Wrong place at the wrong time.

[bendejo]

This Chaiwat sounds like a real prince.  No sale on the story, double homicide.

 

 

[jaideedave]

51 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

As expected of course, didn't think a second she would still be alive.

Sadly nor did I. When this broke I held no hope for her survival especially given this bastards history. Hopefully some fellow prisoners will provide extreme justice for both families sake.

[connda]

They should let the fathers have a hour together with the murderer.

[richard_smith237]

1 hour ago, jaideedave said:

Sadly nor did I. When this broke I held no hope for her survival especially given this bastards history. Hopefully some fellow prisoners will provide extreme justice for both families sake.

Sadly, the same here... Although we can sometimes be surprised, under slightly different circumstances I recall the Thai boys stuck in the cave thinking they’ve all been lost to the cave... thus, miracles and incredible things can happen... But in this case, all so very very upsetting. 

 

 

Death Penalty is clearly the option here (IMO) if there is unequivocal proof of the murderer who has proven himself sub-human and has lost all of his ‘rights as a human’....

The only thing that concerns me about the death penalty is the honesty of the Thai Legal system (i.e. the Burmese two and Koh Tao killings - where public doubt remains), so this is always a concern.

 

 

 

 

[Liverpool Lou]

4 hours ago, ChaiyaTH said:

As expected of course, didn't think a second she would still be alive.

I didn't think for a moment, either, that she would have, allegedly, been involved in the boy's death, if what his father says is true.

[onthedarkside]

A post copy and pasting a whole article from a UK media source has been removed.

 

No source link. Breaking fair use policy.

 

27. You will not post any copyrighted material except as fair use laws apply (as in the case of news articles). Only post a link, the headline and three sentences from the article. Content in the public domain is limited to the same restrictions.

[billd766]

They should have put the main suspect, Chaiwat Boonkarin back in the hole and filled it in with a backhoe.

[BangkokReady]

Any reason this wasn't posted to the main news forum?

 

Seems like a pretty high profile case.

[BangkokReady]

8 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

From the Telegraph's report quoting Ben's father, it doesn't sound as if the girl was much of a princess, either.  Apparently she was dating the accused and lured Ben to a drug deal meeting with him where he was killed...

 

“Ben was lured to meet his killer in some kind of honey trap set by this young girl,” he told Mail Online.

“She is only 15. She and Ben have known each other since they were young. They were close,” he said. “But she is believed to have been in a relationship with this man [Chaiwat].

“He had recently been released from prison and it is clear he was a prolific drug dealer. A very evil man.”

A nasty business.  It said he was in prison on sex-related charges previously.  And her, probably addicted to drugs to boot.  I wonder what her family made of it all.

 

Maybe she was seeing both the man and the boy and the man found out.

[2009]

8 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

A nasty business.  It said he was in prison on sex-related charges previously.  And her, probably addicted to drugs to boot.  I wonder what her family made of it all.

 

Maybe she was seeing both the man and the boy and the man found out.

What a horrible lack of parenting, probably all round.

 

So sad.

[dingdongrb]

Doesn't Thailand have/use any cadaver dogs?

[JeffersLos]

2 hours ago, BangkokReady said:

And her, probably addicted to drugs to boot.  I wonder what her family made of it all.

 

Maybe she was seeing both the man and the boy and the man found out.

A 16 year old girl was likely murdered by a drug addicted convicted sex offender and buried in a forest, and this 'maybe' and 'probably' is what you post about her.

 

 

Shame on you, you old gossiping woman.

 

Shame on you. 

 

[neeray]

All so very sad but as we all know, such a crime is far from exclusive to Thailand.

[bluejets]

19 hours ago, connda said:

They should let the fathers have a hour together with the murderer.

If he had spent some time showing the dangers of drugs, maybe never in this situation.

[ukrules]

25 minutes ago, bluejets said:

If he had spent some time showing the dangers of drugs, maybe never in this situation.

I don't believe this was anything to do with drugs. It's about rape and murder by a prolific sex offender.

[hotchilli]

22 hours ago, webfact said:

A severe wound was found on the back of her head. However, her body was taken to a hospital to find the exact cause of death and to scientifically confirm her identity.

After witnessing her boyfriends murder she was taken away by the man.

I shudder to think what was going through her mind in the last hours of her life.

[hotchilli]

20 hours ago, jaideedave said:

Sadly nor did I. When this broke I held no hope for her survival especially given this bastards history. Hopefully some fellow prisoners will provide extreme justice for both families sake.

They should take him to a quiet place somewhere and give all the relatives a hammer each.

Sort him out for ever, making sure he'll never hurt anyone again.

[TheFishman1]

Very sad TIT

[BangkokReady]

5 hours ago, JeffersLos said:

A 16 year old girl was likely murdered by a drug addicted convicted sex offender and buried in a forest, and this 'maybe' and 'probably' is what you post about her.

 

 

Shame on you, you old gossiping woman.

 

Shame on you. 

If she was in a relationship with a 44 year old drug addicted convicted sex offender, then it's reasonable to suppose she may have been involved in drugs.

 

I was commenting on what the father of the boy claimed, so take it up with him.

 

It's only natural to wonder where the parents were in a situation such as this.

 

Just because she has been murdered, doesn't mean one cannot discuss or speculate on the details.

 

There is nothing shameful about what I wrote.

 

Shame on you for such a stupid comment.

Edited May 14, 2023 by BangkokReady

[AndyFoxy]

No good comes from drugs

[AndyFoxy]

1 minute ago, BangkokReady said:

If she was in a relationship with a 44 year old drug addicted convicted sex offender, then it's reasonable to suppose she may have been involved in drugs.

 

It's only natural to wonder where the parents were in a situation such as this.

 

Just because she has been murdered, doesn't mean one cannot speculate on the details.

 

There is nothing shameful about what I wrote.

 

Shame on you for such a stupid comment.

I agree. Your comment was not shameful. In fact, there is a good chance that what you said was the case.

[rwill]

As everyone expected but still leaves me with a heavy heart.

[Tropposurfer]

57 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

After witnessing her boyfriends murder she was taken away by the man.

I shudder to think what was going through her mind in the last hours of her life.

Yes Hot Chilli, its terrible, horrific sad, and deeply distressing to contemplate. Poor snuffed out young lives ????

[ikke1959]

As I wrote earlier, I thought that the boy of 16 had witnessed something and that he had to be killed, afraid that someone found out what happened.. And now I know I was right.