News Forum - Couple shot dead in house, ex-husband suspected as murderer

[Thaiger]

A Thai couple were shot dead in their house in the central province of Phetchaburi yesterday. Police suspect the woman’s ex-husband is the murderer. Officers from Bueng Sam Phan Police Station were alerted to the scene by a parcel delivery worker who discovered the couple’s lifeless bodies in their house. The victims were reported to …

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Although this could, and does, happen anywhere, the idea of being a single farang male in "dating mode" here in Thailand, rings alarm bells in my head.   Fair odds there's a current and/or ex-boyfriend/husband/gik stewing in possessive jealousy and Leo beer somewhere in the background.  

And so there you are, happy as a clam and dumb as a post until one night a couple 1,000 Baht ninjas rock up to make you famous in the next day's issue of Thaiger News.  

Years later, relatives thumbing through a photo album: 

"Oh, that was my Mum's brother, Uncle Charlie.  He retired, sold up and moved to Thailand, but wound up face down in a rice field khlong, so they burned his corpse in a large pizza oven, and that was the end of Uncle Charlie".