Breast implant’s serial number, fingerprints shed light to bodies in Korat

Police say two murdered bodies found in a forested area in Nakhon Ratchasima province on July 28, 2022, belong to Nguyen Thi Van, left, and Anabon Chka Hen. (Photo supplied)
Police say two murdered bodies found in a forested area in Nakhon Ratchasima state on July 28, 2022, belong to Nguyen Thi Van, remaining, and Anabon Chka Hen. (Photo supplied)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Police have identified two killed bodies found hidden in a grave in Chok Chai area last week as a Vietnamese woman and a Nigerian man.

The serial quantity of the woman’s silicon breast implants as well as the man’s fingerprint experienced helped with the id of the victims.

Following a meeting of investigation teams in Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday to follow along with up on the case, Pol Gen Suchart Teerasawat, the deputy nationwide police chief, informed investigators to check the particular implants’ serial amount against a producer database.  

After the researchers found that the implant was sent to Vietnam, they later coordinated with the Vietnamese embassy in Bangkok to help examine the woman’s fingerprints. The results matched up with that of a 33-year-old Vietnamese woman named Nguyen Thi Vehicle.

Police also checked the man’s fingerprints, and the results showed how the body belonged to Anabon Chka Hen, the 38-year-old man from Nigeria.  

With this details, police are looking into to determine what resulted in the murder of the two people.

An official gathers evidence at a clean grave where the body of a man plus a woman are found buried in Nakhon Ratchasima on July twenty-eight. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

At night of July twenty-eight, the mushroom collector discovered the two bodies after noticing a fresh pile associated with earth covered along with branches at a community forest in tambon Thung Arun within Chok Chai area, about 500 metre distances off Highway 224. Their bodies were nude and covered with a layer of concrete.

The woman had distinctive tattoos — a diamond-studded crown tattoo on her back, a flower tattoo on her right wrist, a Ganesha tattoo and a Japanese-style cat tattoo on her behalf legs.

Police were expecting that the tattoos plus microchips in the silicon breast implants would assist them identify the murdered woman, initially reported as a Thai.

Officers have also recovered a few cartridges and bullets less than two metres from the grave where the bodies were found.