KHON KAEN - Police investigators have obtained arrest warrants for a man and three women for the murder and dismembering of a 22-year-old woman who worked in a karaoke bar, telling the court they feared the suspects were trying to flee the country.
Pol Maj Gen Yanyong Vej-osot, chief investigator of Provincial Police Region 4, on Monday identified the four only as Wasin, 22, Miss Jidarat, 21, Miss Preeyanuch, 24, and Miss Kawita, 25.
The police request for arrest warrants accused them of premeditated murder and concealing a body.
The Provincial Court on Monday approved the warrants.
Pol Maj Gen Yanyong refused to elaborate on the murder, but said police had enough evidence. He believed the four suspects were trying to escape, to Myanmar and Laos.
The body of Warisara Klinjui, a native of Chai Nat province, was found cut in half in two open plastic containers buried in a roadside forest in Khao Suan Kwang district, Khon Kaen, last Thursday.
It was reported the young woman had previously been involved with several "tomboys", but at her family's urging had married a 35-year-old contractor early this year. Later she had a relationship with a tomboy because her husband was often away working in other provinces and she became lonely.