Tattoos, implants offer clues in Korat body discovery

Police seeking to identify murdered guy and woman found naked in clean grave

Workers cover the bodies a man and a woman found in a fresh grave in Chok Chai district of Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday. The woman had tattoos and silicon breast implants that could help in her identification. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)
Workers include the bodies a guy and a woman present in a fresh grave within Chok Chai district of Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday. The girl had tattoos plus silicon breast implants that could help in her identification. (Photo: Prasit Tangprasert)

NAKHON RATCHASIMA: Police are hoping that will tattoos and microchips in silicon breast implants will help them identify a murdered woman whose body was found smothered two days ago with that of a man.

The bodies were available on Thursday evening after a mushroom collector observed a fresh pile associated with earth covered with branches at a community forest in tambon Thung Arun within Chok Chai region, about 500 metre distances off Highway 224.

Town head Thepbancha Saikrathok and other residents who went to investigate dug into the soil and uncovered part of the human body. At that point they called police.

Police plus rescue workers dug deeper, uncovering the bodies of a man and a woman smothered less than one metre down. The bodies were naked and covered with a level of cement.

Police said it was likely they had been murdered elsewhere and their bodies brought to the forest plus buried.

Pol Col Boonpot Prasertsak, superintendent from the Chok Chai police station, met with investigators on Fri evening to review the evidence and possible clues.  

One team has been assigned to examine closed-circuit cameras in places near the grove plus along routes towards the site. Another team was examining proof at the scene such as the cement covering the physiques, in hopes of finding where it was bought.

Photos of the tattoos have been dispersed via various stations in hopes that somebody would recognise them and could assist with id.

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

There was higher possibility that the lifeless man might be foreign people because he had a large-built body. Initial forensic results showed the body was that of a non-Asian man.

Investigators were asking people in local communities to find out is usually any families had a foreign son-in-law in between 170 and 180cm tall who choose to go missing at least three days ago.

Meanwhile, the particular brand name and microchips in the woman’s breast implants will allow investigators to determine where they came from. They intend to question cosmetic surgery centers to help with the identification.

The skin icon on the dead female’s back (Photo supplied/Prasit Tangprasert)

The flower skin icon on the woman’s correct wrist. (Photo supplied/Prasit Tangprasert)

The Ganesha skin icon on the woman’s body. (Photo supplied/Prasit Tangprasert)