Explore 25 documented cases from Thailand. Each file separates established findings from allegations and unresolved questions, with a focus on investigation rather than graphic detail.
Canadian traveler Leo Del Pinto was shot dead in Pai in January 2008 and Carly Reisig survived a second gunshot. Off-duty police sergeant Uthai Dechawiwat ultimately pleaded guilty and received a 37½-year prison sentence in 2013.
Open case file →Karen rights activist Porlajee ‘Billy’ Rakchongcharoen disappeared in 2014 after being detained by park officials. Four officials were acquitted of abduction and murder in 2023; one received a lesser duty-related conviction, leaving Billy’s fate and criminal responsibility unresolved.
Open case file →Warisara Klinjui was killed in Khon Kaen in 2017. Multiple defendants were convicted, and Thailand's Appeal Court upheld the principal murder findings in 2019.
Open case file →Paweena Namuangrak and Anantachai Jaritram were killed at Khao Chi Chan in 2018. Panya Yingdang and five accomplices were convicted the following year, with life and lengthy prison sentences imposed.
Open case file →Thai national-team shooter Jakkrit Panichpatikum was killed in Bangkok in 2013. Appeals ultimately acquitted his widow and established his mother-in-law's role in arranging the contract killing.
Open case file →Sherry Ann Duncan was abducted and murdered in 1986. Four men were wrongly sentenced to death before Thailand's courts cleared them, turning the case into a landmark miscarriage-of-justice example.
Open case file →David Bernat was kidnapped and murdered in Bangkok in 2016. Artur Segarra's conviction became final in Thailand's Supreme Court before his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
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Songkhla mayor Peera Tantiseranee was assassinated in 2012. Thailand's Supreme Court ultimately upheld convictions against the alleged mastermind, two gunmen and two accomplices.
Open case file →Three people were killed and four others wounded during a January 2020 robbery at a Lopburi shopping mall. Former school director Prasittichai Khaokaew was convicted, and Thailand's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence in April 2023.
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Thirty-six victims, including 24 children, were killed in Nong Bua Lamphu; the identified former police officer responsible died the same day, leaving no criminal trial.
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Eighty-five people died during and after the Tak Bai crackdown. No state official was convicted before the 20-year criminal limitation period expired in October 2024.
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Twenty people were killed in Bangkok in 2015; two defendants were convicted and sentenced to death in June 2026 and announced plans to appeal.
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Twenty-nine people were killed in Nakhon Ratchasima before security forces killed the identified perpetrator after an overnight standoff.
Open case file →Sixty-seven people died in the 2009 Bangkok nightclub fire; Thailand's Supreme Court ultimately imposed negligence convictions on the principal defendants.
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Human-rights lawyer Somchai Neelapaijit disappeared in Bangkok in 2004; his fate remains unknown and no one has been finally convicted for causing his disappearance.
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Somkid Pumpuang was convicted of killing five women in different Thai provinces in 2005 and became notorious again after committing another murder following his early release.
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Si Quey was convicted of killing a child and was later portrayed for decades as responsible for additional killings that remain contested.
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Charles Sobhraj became associated with murders and poisonings of Western travelers in Asia during the 1970s, including victims found in Thailand.
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Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones was murdered in a guesthouse in Chiang Mai in 2000 while traveling through Thailand.
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Boonpeng was accused of killing people who came to him for spiritual or religious guidance in the late 1910s.
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Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn was accused in a series of deaths involving people in her social and financial circles.
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Australian travel agent Michelle Smith was killed in Phuket in 2012 during an attempted bag theft.
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American Marine veteran Dashawn Longfellow was killed in Phuket in 2010 after a confrontation involving British kickboxer Lee Aldhouse.
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