Bangkok: Squid vendor held for slaying girlfriend, 43

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Squid vendor held for slaying girlfriend, 43
The Nation



BANG NA police in Bangkok have arrested a grilled-squid vendor for allegedly killing his girlfriend and dismembering her body.

The victim has been identified as Somyos Manassakorn, 43, whose relatives filed a missing person complaint with Bang Na police a few days ago.

Her body was found discarded a day later near a petrol station in Samut Prakan.

Suspect Thanee Phorkaew, 28, has been charged with murder and hiding or defiling a dead body, after making a confession.

Thanee said he was angry with his girlfriend of two years after learning that she was planning to leave him for another man.

He said he kicked her unconscious in their Bang Na apartment and dismembered the body when he returned to find her dead.

He said he mutilated the body at the apartment off Sukhumvit Soi 70/5.

Police found bloodstains in the toilet and a bloodstained knife, and determined through DNA verification that it was the victim's blood.

Police arrested Thanee on Sunday evening at a restaurant in Chom Thong district.

Police said there were no immediate details about Thanee having a mental illness, but he served prison time twice - a year and a half on both occasions for thievery.

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Squid-vendor-held-for-slaying-girlfriend-43-30249914.html


-- The Nation 2014-12-16

[Fiddlesticks]

Note to self: Refrain from eating grilled squid in Bang Na area for at least one more week.

[jaltsc]

"BANG NA police in Bangkok have arrested a grilled-squid vendor for allegedly killing his girlfriend and dismembering her body."

I hope all the body parts were accounted for. "What's that strange looking grilled squid?"... "Special squid. Tastes like chicken."

[WhamBam]

^^^ A strange smell of pork during the cooking - a dead giveaway LOL

[Squeegee]

I fail to see any reason why this nutcase should ever see the sunshine again, other than to perhaps roast over his own grill pans in front of her family.

[JeremyBowskill]

Thailand does produce some absolute charmers!! Never seem so many dismembering's until I moved here, sure murder is common enough anywhere but this is something different.

[Rumble]

There seems to be a lot of murders and beatings lately because of anger and jealously. which leaves one the opinion that life has no value in our country.

[Commerce]

Thailand does produce some absolute charmers!! Never seem so many dismembering's until I moved here, sure murder is common enough anywhere but this is something different.

I was thinking only the same a few days ago. Dismemberings here are common place, but in the West they are big news. Is that the difference between a gun and a machete, sign of the times?

[cup-O-coffee]

Another murder over a breakup for another.

Thailand should be required reading for all Psychiatry students.

[iReason]

No Thai could possibly commit such a crime.

[mercman24]

totaly agree, why the need to dismember a body, it seems to be common practice in Thailand, is it to defile the body even more, ? its very sad, so much rage, in their innermost being, yes the old cliche, i will not say it, but someone will be along in a minute. it starts "but no Thai"

[JohnThailandJohn]

Sad story, feel for the victims family

[geronimo]

But no Thai would marry a woman 15 years his senior, would he?

[FangFerang]

Since squid is dried and cured until leathery and chewy...

Do his customers really know what they have been eating?

Ewwwwwwwwwwww.

[FangFerang]

Thailand does produce some absolute charmers!! Never seem so many dismembering's until I moved here, sure murder is common enough anywhere but this is something different.

I was thinking only the same a few days ago. Dismemberings here are common place, but in the West they are big news. Is that the difference between a gun and a machete, sign of the times?

Well, I promise I am not pontificating, but in Tibet there is actually an agent of the Buddhist temple (here a wat) who dismembers bodies. They do not consider the corpse sacrosanct, nor bury a body. They inter ashes. In the Buddhist/Thai mindset, dismemberment of a corpse is nothing special, but how the person died is important. They do not believe the body must be intact for the Great Resurrection. They believe in no such Resurrection, no such "Rapture" (and because of that they have less prime real estate dedicated to dead people).

It has been said that we are so culturally programmed to view things a certain way that we are blind to what we are watching.

Actually, it was said by me (and now I am apologizing for pontificating -- a word based on the Pontiff, the Pope). There simply is no escape from the world view of our upbringing.

[Tham1]

Is he pointing at her ghost in the picture? Seems like another nice lad....another walking brain donor

[greenchair]

What happened to the girl in the suitcase case. Did they let the foreign guy go.