Inside the Prison Cell Where Thai Police Chief 'Joe Ferrari' Died

[webfact]

Pictures courtesy of Thai Rath

 

On 11th March, the mystery surrounding the death of former Police Colonel Thitisan Utthanaphon, also known as Joe Ferrari, was further explored through a media tour of his prison cell.

 

Chief Joe, a detainee at Khlong Prem Central Prison, was found dead with a towel around his neck in cell number 50 of the 5th prison block on the night of 7th March.

 

Officials from the Department of Corrections maintain there was no foul play involved, attributing his death to self-inflicted asphyxiation. However, his family has requested a secondary autopsy at Chulalongkorn Hospital to investigate further.

 

The Department of Corrections allowed reporters access to cell number 50, where they could observe the conditions and items left untouched since Chief Joe's death.

 

The cell contained personal belongings, including two blankets, a pair of shoes, and toiletries. Reporters were only permitted to view the interior from the doorway, noting the location where the incident occurred near the metal door frame.

 

Adjacent to this was cell number 51, previously housing an LGBTQ inmate involved in a drug case, who had been relocated prior to the media visit. Inside, the room was equipped with a toilet and a ventilation fan and contained three towels.

 

 

Police Lieutenant Colonel Chan Kanjanapat, Deputy Director-General of the Department of Corrections, clarified that the three towels served various purposes: as a sleeping mat, a pillow, and a blanket, with one additional towel allowed for bathing.

 

He explained that this media access aimed to dispel speculation about the solitary confinement conditions. Chief Joe had been moved to the 5th block at his request following an incident involving a guard's camera at the 7th block, which led to his transfer, reported Thai Rath.

 

 

-- 2025-03-12

 

 

[Taboo2]

Looks VIP to me.  No major loss for this dude.  

[Tidal wave]

Come in number 50 your time is up.

[Joseph98765]

50..... next lucky lotto number? 🤑🤑

[bendejo]

The schmuck should have sold off a few cars and took it on the lam, living off of the dosh in to old age.  He should have been smart enough to keep a lower profile, rather than be Mr Ferrari, and understand that luck has a tendency to run out at times.

 

[Gottfrid]

Just too much! 3 Joe F stories today. Why is this guy more important than innocent people being beaten, robbed and raped?

[Zack61]

The world is a better place. He gave plastic bags a bad name. 

[Rickman66]

Who gets the Fararri.....asking for a friend 

[Iron Tongue]

Hellhole.  

If I was locked in that, I'd start looking at the towel in a different way.

[Toby1947]

21 minutes ago, Rickman66 said:

Who gets the Fararri.....asking for a friend 

Don't worry that share out has already been sorted. Good riddance 

[TheFishman1]

What attracts me is how come Joe Ferrari didn’t have like $1 million stash in case of some problem or had some of his car sold so we had a big stash in case the <deleted> hit the fan he’d get out of Dodge seems like most of these high officials They’d like to leave the country and like maybe a day before their sentencing they just meet somebody in a foreign country adjacent to Thailand that happens to own a jet and they fly away some people even after 15 years can come back and become Prime Minister and never spend an hour really in jail I’m just saying go figure TIT

[crazykopite]

So he had his own private room most unusual as most cells house 30 or more prisoner I know the prison on Koh Samui does 

[twizzian]

5 hours ago, bendejo said:

The schmuck should have sold off a few cars and took it on the lam, living off of the dosh in to old age.  He should have been smart enough to keep a lower profile, rather than be Mr Ferrari, and understand that luck has a tendency to run out at times.

 

It wasn’t luck, it would have been insatiable greed that drove him to his own death.

Probably dwelled all day every day on his lost wealth, cars and all other material things he no longer has. (had)

[spidermike007]

There really is very little mystery here, just like there was very little mystery with the so-called suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. Both were surely taken out, as both had way too much information to spill, and perhaps somebody was coming uncomfortably close to the truth. 

[steven100]

good riddance to bad rubbish, rot in hell JF. 

[ignore it]

Jeeze, 

 

What is this world come to?

 

The guy has only been dead for a couple of days and his fan gets ripped off !!

[gargamon]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Chief Joe had been moved to the 5th block at his request following an incident involving a guard's camera at the 7th block, which led to his transfer, reported Thai Rath.

I guess the guard's camera in the 7th block was working so they had to move him to where it wasn't.

[smew]

He is alive and well, under another name.

Soon we will discovered that there always was an identical third cousin of his living in Tak, and will get to see him soon.

 

Will believe it in his suicide, if: I personally take his DNA sample, and conduct analysis and personally compare it to his mothers DNA all performed outside of Thailand.

Yes, I am a Thai law sceptic:  after ~~ 20 yrs in Thailand     

[kuzmabruk]

11 hours ago, webfact said:

previously housing an LGBTQ inmate

In Thai news my wife said blood was found outside the Joe’s cell. The warden replied to journalists that this came from the LGBTQ inmate having a period (menstruation).  He was later made aware that lady boy’s can’t menstruate.  The level of ignorance in Thailand is funny.  

[blaze master]

3 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There really is very little mystery here, just like there was very little mystery with the so-called suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. Both were surely taken out, as both had way too much information to spill, and perhaps somebody was coming uncomfortably close to the truth. 

 

Agreed. I just don't see how you could hang yourself on that door as was reported. 

[kiwikeith]

10 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There really is very little mystery here, just like there was very little mystery with the so-called suicide of Jeffrey Epstein. Both were surely taken out, as both had way too much information to spill, and perhaps somebody was coming uncomfortably close to the truth. 

Agree totally 

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, Taboo2 said:

Looks VIP to me.  No major loss for this dude.  

Just like home comforts

[smew]

gents, gents, gents: he decided to share all his hidden treasures resulting in this masquerade: he is alive and well and soon to re-surface as an identical fourth cousin no one new existed ... arrogance and corruption has no boundaries  

[Thumbs]

This looks very prestigious compared to pictures of typical inmate accommodation I have seen 50 to a cell all crammed together. This must be the vip section for those contributing to the prison service benevolent fund

[twizzian]

On 3/12/2025 at 6:06 PM, smew said:

He is alive and well, under another name.

Soon we will discovered that there always was an identical third cousin of his living in Tak, and will get to see him soon.

 

Will believe it in his suicide, if: I personally take his DNA sample, and conduct analysis and personally compare it to his mothers DNA all performed outside of Thailand.

Yes, I am a Thai law sceptic:  after ~~ 20 yrs in Thailand     

They said the same thing with Bruce Lee & Elvis, but I’ve heard nothing since