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New DNA tests for 3 orchard skeletons

Decision on murder charges awaits results

Police have sent three human skeletons dug up from the Phetchaburi orchard of murder suspect Supat Laohawattana to Chulalongkorn Hospital to conduct a second round of DNA tests.

Forensic officers at the Police General Hospital's Institute of Forensic Medicine gave the three skeletons to Chulalongkorn Hospital's Forensic Medicine Division yesterday.

They want scientists there to match the DNA from the skeletons with samples provided by Lek Hengsuwan, the mother of Samart Noomjui, and of Uean Kerdsap, the mother of Orasa Kerdsap.

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    Discussion 1 : 02 Oct 2012 at 17.241

    I don't understand. 3 bodies were found in the guys orchard with bullet holes in them. In his house they found 40 plus guns. They have victims (even if nameless), they have weapons (surely they have heard of ballistics tests), they have proximity, they have witnesses who say they buried bodies of people this guy murdered. What more do they need to charge this guy with murder? Most prosecutors would be ecstatic to have that much to work with. Are they suggesting these people walked into his orchard, borrowed one of his guns, shot themselves in the head and then buried themselves?

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