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Check under the bed at your hotel - You never know what you might find

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I'm half surprised the hotel didn't try to charge them for having an extra guest in their room.
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Pattaya hotel guests unaware of dead body under bed

by Chaiyot Pupattanapong and online reporters

20 Aug 2016

PATTAYA: Two guests spent a night in a Pattaya hotel unaware that there was a dead body under their bed, according to local reports.

The body of the slain transgender woman was only discovered after the guests had checked out, when a maid noticed blood near the bed.

Pattaya police and rescue workers were alerted to the incident at the five-storey hotel on Soi Buakhao in tambon Nong Phrue of Bang Lamung district around 11.30am on Saturday.

Rescue workers found the unidentified body after lifting up the bed in the room on the roof deck of the hotel. Police believe the victim had been dead for three or four days. The body was sent to a forensic institute for an autopsy to find out the cause of the death.

Thai media reported that two men had checked into the room on Aug 16. They took a transgender guest to the room at 1.35am on Aug 18 before checking out later that morning.

On Friday evening, a man and woman checked into the room and reported a bad smell. They asked the hotel staff to spray the room before spending the night there.

On Saturday morning, a hotel maid came to clean the room, discovered blood coming from under the bed and a foul smell. She alerted the hotel manager, who immediately called police to investigate.

Pol Col Apichai Kropphet, the Pattaya poice chief, said officers had already obtained the identification of the two male suspects and footage from closed-circuit television. He declined to reveal further details.

Police are now looking for the suspects, he said.

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Teens charged over Pattaya body-under-bed murder

by Chaiyot Pupattanapong

21 Aug 2016

CHON BURI — Two teenage boys, one 17 and the other 14, were arrested on Sunday on charges of murdering a transgender woman in a Pattaya hotel and stuffing the body inside a bed frame.

Police apprehended the teens, both from Nakhon Ratchasima, at a bus terminal in Muang Chon Buri district around noon and took them for questioning at Muang Pattaya police station.

The body of Amphon Kongsong was found in a room of a five-storey hotel on Soi Buakhao in tambon Nong Phrue of Bang Lamung district on Saturday morning. The hotel alerted police after a maid noticed blood oozing out from underneath the bed accompanied by a foul stench.

Police officers lifted up the mattress and found Amphon’s body underneath. Two guests had left the room earlier that morning but apparently were unaware that there was a dead body under their bed.

Pol Col Apichai Kropphet, the Muang Pattaya poice chief, said the two boys were questioned by investigators and admitted to murdering the transgender women.

He alleged the 17-year-old admitted to killing Amphon with the help of the 14-year-old after she asked to have sex with him.

The older teen got to know Amphon through recent Facebook conversations. After their friendship grew, Amphon, who worked at a beer bar in Pattaya, persuaded him to find a job in Pattaya. The teenager, who was looking for work, asked his younger friend to accompany him.

Amphon checked into the hotel room on behalf of the teens on Aug 16. She then spent the first few nights with them and bought them food.

The older boy claimed he thought Amphon sincerely wanted to help without wanting anything from him. That was until she asked if she could have sex with him on Thursday night.

The 17-year-old rejected Amphon's advances. He said the rejection angered the transgender woman and they had an argument that escalated into a physical fight. He then strangled her with his hands in a fit of rage while the 14-year-old held Amphon’s legs. The two hid the body under the mattress and fled the hotel.

On Friday evening, a couple checked into the room and asked the hotel staff to get rid of a bad odour before spending the night there.

Pol Col Apichai said police tracked the suspects from the hotel’s CCTV footage and Amphon’s personal details during the check-in process. He said they were still in the Chon Buri area because they had no idea where they could go to hide.

The teens had a record of assault-related cases which were still before the court. Police have initially charged them with premeditated murder and body concealment. Robbery or theft would be considered if there is evidence, he added.

Story and photos: http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/crime/1 ... bed-murder
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