'Spook for fun' - US man probed in Bangkok over parcels containing human parts

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"SPOOK FOR FUN"
US man probed over parcels containing human parts
The Nation


Ryan Edward McPherson

Leaves for Cambodia, vows to return; says he found the parts in Bangkok and was sending them to "spook for fun"

BANGKOK: -- A heavily-tattooed California man has been questioned and temporarily released after the grisly discovery of a part of a baby's head, a baby's foot, a heart and other human body parts in express shipments bound for Nevada in the US.

Bang Phongphang police, who were alerted by DHL Express International's Thailand unit, apprehended Ryan Edward McPherson and interrogated him for four hours starting at 10pm on Saturday, with US Embassy officials present, before taking his fingerprints and letting him leave without filing charges against him.

A police source said yesterday that the suspect, aged 31, had left for Cambodia but promised to return to Thailand on November 25 and cooperate with police.

Police learned from him that he was visiting Thailand for the first time and a tuk-tuk took him from Siam Centre for a ride. He said he was taken to a place he could not remember where he found the human fragments and sent them to some people based in the US "just to spook them for fun".

Another foreign man was reportedly also detained and interviewed together with McPherson, but Bang Phongphang police did not mention a second person.

Case officer Pol Lieutenant Suphoj Kaewcharoen said the five human objects were contained in five acrylic boxes filled with formalin that were packed into three cardboard boxes.

An infant's head with its scalp and lower part sliced off was in one box, while a box had an infant's right foot sliced into three parts. A box had a piece of human skin with a tiger tattoo and a tear on it and Thai lettering saying "a stab wound". One box had a piece of human skin with a tattoo and the last box had a human heart. Anirut Nilla, a package sorter, said the three parcels were sent from a DHL service depot near MBK Centre with a label identifying them as toys, but an X-ray showed acrylic boxes with an orange fluid inside, prompting him to open them. He then notified police.

Chananyarak Petcharat, managing director of DHL Express Thailand and Indochina, said the company was fully cooperating with police and providing them with information.

She said that even though the shipment was paid for in cash, it could be traced back to the sender.

The company has installed X-ray equipment at all of its service stations. Every shipment from its service points or drop boxes nationwide would be scanned at the service centre before forwarding to its destination, she said.

Asst Prof Udomsak Hunwijit, a senior Chulalongkorn University coroner, confirmed that the parts were human but DNA tests were pending to determine whether the infant parts were from the same individual, and likewise with the pieces of skin and heart.

The heart had hole where it had been pierced, he said.

Whoever had dissected the body appeared to possess the skills of a medical professional, he said.

The DNA identification might fail if the body parts had been immersed in the formalin for too long. A working committee on the DNA probe would be set up today, he added.

The three parcels were addressed to three people in Las Vegas - Stk Media, c/o Eugene Johnson, 3070 W Post Road; R Jene, 2697 Ruthe Duarte Avenue; and Ryan Edward McPherson, 2913 Benrado Lane.

Details emerged that the sender of the three packages was a Eugene Johnson residing at 865 Wang Mai, Rama I Road, Pathum Wan district in Bangkok.

Police are searching areas around Pathum Wan reachable by tuk-tuk in 30 minutes.

The source said the most likely place where the parts were bought was the Khlong Thom wholesale market.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/US-man-probed-over-parcels-containing-human-parts-30247904.html


-- The Nation 2014-11-17

[HeijoshinCool]

I remember this guy, recognize his tats, too. He was arrested a few times in L.A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights

[eeeya]

what a douche bag. Seriously, how did he think this would go?

now the whole world will know him as the guy who tried to fedex a babies head

[Prbkk]

They struck gold with this guy in the plan for the quality end of the tourist market...

[fritzzz25]

"for fun". I am wondering who his friends are? Charles Manson?

[cgphuket]

Guy is caught shipping body parts and they let him go??? <deleted> Thailand?

[Jack Mountain]

I remember this guy, recognize his tats, too. He was arrested a few times in L.A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights

After reading this, he maybe wanted to use the material in one of his movies ...

[BSJ]

"A police source said yesterday that the suspect, aged 31, had left for Cambodia but promised to return to Thailand on November 25 and cooperate with police." If he had to pay larn baht it would be: Yes, yes, yes! I will return! But seeing he didn't maybe the flight out of Phnom Penh he takes on the 25th will be heading in the wrong direction....like direct to LA!

[HeijoshinCool]

I remember this guy, recognize his tats, too. He was arrested a few times in L.A.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumfights

After reading this, he maybe wanted to use the material in one of his movies ...

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Can also be used in satanic rituals.

[The stuttering parrot]

He caught a tuk tuk to some where unknown and found the body parts and then shipped them to the states and this is his first trip to Thailand

Things have changed since my first trip I was doing the touristy things and never thought of popping into a wholesale market to by some body parts.

Thought he might stick around and help the police a bit more but hey he's free and promises to come back.

[Bluespunk]

"Another foreign man was reportedly also detained and interviewed together with McPherson, but Bang Phongphang police did not mention a second person."

However, as a clue as to who he is we will publish a picture of him sat next to the suspect.

Edited November 16, 2014 by Bluespunk

[fritzzz25]

Same guy in this video

[daoyai]

Get over it people, you can buy a damaru drum made from skulls in India, amulets made from burnt still birth ash in Thailand, and practice ritualistic cannibalism on any sunday in a catholic church.... These parts he sent are long dead, while I don't think they should be allowed to be imported to the U.S. he bought them at a public market so there should be no legal penalties involved.

[Bluespunk]

Get over it people, you can buy a damaru drum made from skulls in India, amulets made from burnt still birth ash in Thailand, and practice ritualistic cannibalism on any sunday in a catholic church.... These parts he sent are long dead, while I don't think they should be allowed to be imported to the U.S. he bought them at a public market so there should be no legal penalties involved.

I think you'll find that the Catholic Church experience is all about the spiritual aspect of the body and blood of Christ [nonsense in my thinking but each to their own] whereas these are possibly stolen or at least illegally sold items.

One involves bread and wine and words, the other body parts

One is a crime, the other is not.

[finnomick]

......so it's OK to sell these items at Khlong Thom wholesale market ? <deleted> !

[johnh869]

Another "Nut Case" in the World!!!!!!!

[captspectre]

They struck gold with this guy in the plan for the quality end of the tourist market...

who was the idiot who released him before finding out the DNA or investigatinbg where the parts came from? this is assinine! no where in the free world would they let a pervert like this go before finding out the basic questions, who, what, where, when? sometime the thai police even make the three stooges look intelligent! and going to cambodia?

[Jack Mountain]

Are these bodyparts leftovers from abortions?

[frank0424]

What about the families of the deceased and the dignity of those deceased?

Surely their families would want to give them some sort of memorial service.

This scum of the earth cant remember where exactly he found them?

[captspectre]

Get over it people, you can buy a damaru drum made from skulls in India, amulets made from burnt still birth ash in Thailand, and practice ritualistic cannibalism on any sunday in a catholic church.... These parts he sent are long dead, while I don't think they should be allowed to be imported to the U.S. he bought them at a public market so there should be no legal penalties involved.

I think you'll find that the Catholic Church experience is all about the spiritual aspect of the body and blood of Christ [nonsense in my thinking but each to their own] whereas these are possibly stolen or at least illegally sold items.

One involves bread and wine and words, the other body parts

One is a crime, the other is not.

how would you know that he bought them in a public market? becausde he said so? <snip>

Edited November 17, 2014 by Jai Dee
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[arrowsdawdle]

What are the police thinking when they publicize information while a case is, or should be, in progress? Any chance of tracking down the seller of the body parts is highly compromised by all the publicity this has received. Unless, of course, they already know which Myanmar perps did this horrendous deed because no local could possibly do such a thing.

[NextStationBangkok]

&lt;deleted&gt;. He should be charged for Human trafficking !

[Old Croc]

His website

http://www.stabtheprincess.com/

[mike324]

one of the address he sent was to a video production company, seems like he was going to use it for video production, and perhaps spook his friends. Either way, he should not have been released, who knows if he did the killing himself and made up a story?

The other place where these body parts may have came from would be funeral homes or those "poh tae tong" emergency workers who pick up and transfers the dead / injured before hospital ambulance can get to the accident scenes.

[pjmansions]

forget about the legal aspects for a moment what about morality why would you want to buy body parts especially that of an infant

And secondly i would no longer call a person my friend if they sent me something so gruesome in the post. i love a good practical joke but this idiot has taken things too far.

[Classic Ray]

I remember seeing a pair of earrings made from two small human foetuses in the Black Museum at Scotland Yard in the UK. They had been advertised for sale in the window of an art gallery in the Kings Road, big protests when they were seized by the police for outraging public decency. So not just Americans who have a warped sense of decency.

[harrycallahan]

Can't see the big problem. In a country where body parts are openly sold he bought and posted body parts.

Posters focus on "quality tourist" rather than "quality country".

[webfact]

American questioned in human baby body parts seizure
By Digital Content



BANGKOK, Nov 17 -- Police yesterday questioned an American suspected of sending three boxes of infant body parts to the United States, police said.

Eugene Johnson was interrogated by Bang Pong Pang police after they were alerted by DHL international package delivery service that it suspected boxes Mr Johnson meant to send to the US contained human parts, police said.

They said the first box contained a baby's head and baby feet, while the second box contained four tattooed pieces of body skin and the last one contained internal organs which were again contained in transparent glass tubes.

According to police, Mr Johnson lives in a house on Rama 1 Road in Bangkok.

All three boxes are addressed to persons Las Vegas, Nevada, police said, including one addressed to Mr Johnson himself.

In addition to the box addressed to himself, the second box was to a Mr R Jene and the last Ryan Edward McPerson. (MCOT online news)


-- TNA 2014-11-17

[rickirs]

"... interrogated him for four hours starting at 10pm on Saturday, with US Embassy officials present ..."

Kudos to the USA - 10pm to 2am! Not the usual embassy working hours on even a weekend and several US officials present. I wonder if the notoriety of the alleged RTP mistreatment of the two Burmese accused of the Koh Tao murders has motivated foreign embassies to be more proactive for their citizens.

[globalmedia8]

why print addresses of where parcels were going? seems very weird