American Resident Dies - Suicide Suspected

[george]

American resident dies - suicide suspected

Police treating case as suspicious

PATTAYA: -- Local photographer Howard Greene, 56, from the USA, died last week, the result of an apparent suicide.

Police were called to the Niran Condominium complex at 2 p.m. on Monday after receiving a report of a foreign resident falling from his 12th floor rented apartment.

Police arrived at the scene to find Greene’s body on the concrete. No blood was found at the impact site, which led police to suspect something was amiss.

An inspection of Greene’s room led to further suspicion, as it was immaculately clean, there was no evidence of a struggle and Greene’s personal belongings, including passport and wallet were missing.

However, a signed suicide note was found on the coffee table.

Police and a doctor from Banglamung inspected the body and suspect that Greene may have died at least one hour prior to his body landing on the concrete.

Greene’s body was sent to the police forensic institute for further examination, which is standard procedure for deaths of foreigners, while officers investigate the case.

Howard Greene was known among the community as a pro photographer and worked on a number of charity and high profile projects during his years in Pattaya.

--Pattaya Mail 2004-07-23

[cobra]

.. may one of these "high profile projects" gotten him killed ? ...

[astral]

A suspicious suicide.

That makes a change!!

[MadFrankie]

this was Mr. Make Belive Copper Howard? He cant say he wasnt warned, well he wouldnt be able to if he could

[simon43]

This sounds mad!! The doctors say he died about 1 hour before his body hit the concrete, and they think it was suicide!!??

So maybe the maid chucked him over when she was cleaning the room because his body was getting in the way??

[kenk3z]

Seems to me that someone could easily bribe their way to obtain the master key to your condo unit. They wait until you're asleep, then sneak in and off you. Later, you commit suicide by being thrown off your balcony. Hopefully you are high up enough in the building to make it look good.

Then you leave a suicide note. "He have money problems, kill self."

Not sure where I'd retire in Thailand but I don't think a high-rise condo is under consideration.....

kenk3z

[george]

It looks like that we have to lock news topics in the future. I am spending a lot of time getting them, and the resulting conversation is not very encouraging.

Thanks for your support anyway!

/George

Thread closed. Sad.