Body in the freezer gang: FBI confirm all three are Americans and "Peter" is really "Herbert"

[Bluespunk]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

He was said to be involved with three Thai women two of whom had no criminal background though the INN report was not clear in this regard.

Nothing is clear in that sentence.

[Paul944]

5 years in the freezer? Must be a good brand and never had a long time power outage.

[ClutchClark]

If my given name was "Herbert", I would change it too.

[Basil B]

4 hours ago, Wilsonandson said:

So what about this Robert Grundy fellow? Is he the cut-up body?

 

 

Is he from Ambridge by any chance??? 

[oldlakey]

3 hours ago, Junkyarddog said:

I absolutely agree. Or should the Americans sue for being falsely accussed of hanging out with a Brit. Its complicated.

You just cant beat a bit of banter

[webfact]

Alleged leader of passport forgery gang confirmed as US citizen

The Nation 

 

 

BANGKOK: -- THE ALLEGED leader of a passport forgery gang, who was arrested along with two other Americans during a police raid in Bangkok on Friday, has been identified as Herbert Grey Lefron, 63, from Baltimore, Maryland, Tourist police chief Pol Maj-General Surachet Hakpan said yesterday.

 

Surachet said, however, that although the US Federal Bureau of Investigation provided a lot of useful information on the suspects, it is still not known if the men committed any crimes in the US. 

 

Full story: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Alleged-leader-of-passport-forgery-gang-confirmed--30296459.html

 

-- © Copyright The Nation 2016-09-29

[masuk]

13 hours ago, Familyonthemove said:

Do you need a work permit to chop someone up and store them in a freezer?

of course you do.  It deprives a Thai from working.

[Wilsonandson]

Sanit added that though the time of death cannot be determined yet, the deceased was wearing a pair of sports shoes that were manufactured in 2008, around the time the freezer was bought. Asked if there might be any romantic reasons behind the death and storage of the body, Sanit said anything was possible, though police would first focus on the man's identity, nationality and cause of death before piecing the information together to determine what might have happened. 

Sanit added that police have also identified a woman who took care of a 65-year-old man who was Lefron's friend. Lefron claims this man owned the freezer. The man apparently died of cancer and was cremated at a temple in Huai Kwang area in March.

Or the friend who died of cancer wasn't cremated and is the body in the freezer!

[amykat]

They seem to be spending a lot time trying to figure out where the freezer came from (at least in the news reports).  

 

And the reason they held on to the body would be because they didn't want anyone to find the body.  Duh!! If you are living in the body's house, (maybe attempting to sell his house to someone else), cashing his checks, selling his car, emptying his bank accounts, etc, you really don't want someone to find and identify his body ...and bring your whole world crashing down.

 

For a criminal who has years of history with financial fraud and fake passports and everything you can see on the day they got arrested as well as in the FBI flyer ...doesn't this make much more sense then a gay lover keeping a dead body he can't stand to part with?

Edited September 29, 2016 by amykat