On June 5, 1999, Mohamed Elsayed Ghanam, an Egyptian tour guide was arrested in connection with the murder of six foreign tourists who vanished after arriving at Bangkok's Don Muang airport over the past eight months. Police say the killings were carried out between August 17, 1999 and April 6 and followed a similar pattern. [ReadOn]
PHUMPUANG Somkid
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aka
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Bangkok
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SCRIPPS John Martin
1996/04/19
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4+
Tourist from Hell
1994
1995
Verdict/Urteil:
After escaping from prison in 1994, British convict John Martin Scripps went on a globe-trotting, three-nation murder rampage. Johnny was arrested in March, 1995, in Singapore for killing and dismembering a South African tourist. He was also charged with the murder of a Canadian mother and son in Thailand. [ReadOn]
SOBHRAJ Charles Gumurkh
1944
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16+
The Serpent
1972
1976
NP TH
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Born Hotchand Bhawnani Gurmukh Sobhraj, in April 1944, Asia's premier serial slayer was the illegitimate son of a Vietnamese peasant girl and a wealthy Indian merchant living in Saigon. Soon after his birth, Sobhraj's father married an Indian woman in Pooma, and his mother retaliated by wedding a French military officer when Sobhraj was four years old. [ReadOn]
WONGSIN Sila
1959/06/26
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5
1958
1959
Verdict/Urteil: Death
On June 26, 1959, authorities in Bangkok announced that Sila Wongsin, leader of a devil-worship cult at Korat, in northeastern Thailand, had been executed without trial on charges of multiple murder. The summary action was taken after Thailand's premier, Marshal Sarit Thanarat, informed a cabinet meeting that Wongsin had slain five provincial officials, chosen as human, sacrifices to his deity. No other members of the cult were publicly identified.