Canal body parts murder: Lao butcher confesses

After marriage proposal rejected, strangled her, cut her up & threw her in canal. Body parts then floated to different locations.

CRIME

Lao butcher held in grisly murder, mutilation

Lao man reportedly confesses to killing
9/11/2015
Post Reporters

Police have charged a Lao man with killing and dismembering a woman whose body parts were found in widely separated Bangkok khlongs during the day on Sunday.

Hua Mark police late Sunday arrested and charged Jai Kenwankham, 39, with killing and mutilating a woman identified only as Mali, who they described as a Shan (Thai Yai).

The body parts of a woman were found at five different locations in Bangkok khlongs (canals) by people on Sunday.

Police believe currents scattered the body parts after they were initially disposed of at one location.

MISSING FROM KARAOKE SHOP FOR A WEEK

Mr Jai was arrested at his apartment at Soi Ramkhamhaeng 35 of Bang Kapi district.

Police said after questioning him that Mr Jai admitted knowing the woman for a year.

She had been missing since last Thursday from the karaoke shop where she worked.

Her boyfriend reported her disappearance to police after hearing news reports of the body parts.

Police said Mr Jai confessed that the murdered woman had called him about 6am last Thursday, asking if she could rest at his apartment.

When she arrived, he said he asked her to marry him but she refused, sparking an argument.

Mr Jai allegedly told police he strangled the woman to death with his bare hands.

An experienced butcher once employed in a pork abattoir (slaughterhouse), he then cut up her body, put the parts in a fertiliser sack, and dumped it in the Saen Saep canal near his home.

DISCOVERY OF BODY PARTS

The abdomen and pelvis of the victim was found tied to a pier in a Phra Khanong canal (Phakamat village in Soi Pridi Banomyong 14) about 11am.d used a rope to tie the body part to the pier and called police.

A boat operator had spotted the first human body part floating along the canal an

A head and a right leg were discovered in the Rama IX water pumping station in Huai Khwang.

A left leg was found at a pier (at Wat Tuek Ramkhamhaeng community pier, Soi Ramkhamhaeng 39).

A right arm with a tattoo in Thai language reading, "Jod", on the shoulder was retrieved from the Mall Bang Kapi's pier in Soi Ramkhamhaeng 15 in Bang Kapi district. The victim's fingernails were polished pink.

Police believed the arm had been severed five to seven days before as the limb was in a state of decomposition.

POLICE INVESTIGATION

The body parts and identifying marks, along with the belated missing-person report, helped police to identify the body, which in turn led them to Mr Jai, who quickly became the chief suspect.

DNA samples showed that the dead person was an Asian woman with a white complexion, aged about 30.

People who had missing relatives or acquaintances were asked to notify the police as soon as possible, particularly those who lived in Makkasan and Khlong Tan areas including communities along Khlong Saen Saep.

That led to the information from the victim's boyfriend.

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