Police are being asked to re-investigate the disappearance a 48-year-old woman believed to have been murdered after going missing in Udon Thani seven years ago.
Prompted by the recent discovery of human bones apparently left after an attempt to burn corpses using car tyres in Kud Chap National Reserve Forest in Ban Phue district, the daughter and younger brother of Kularb Inthasri now want police to look into the case again.
Kusuma Inthasri, 31, the daughter, on Friday petitioned Pol Gen Chaloemkiat Sriworakhan, deputy national police chief, to re-investigate the disappearance as the discovered bones may possibly be those of her mother.
Police collected DNA samples from her to compare with the bones to determine if there is a match.
Pol Maj Gen Peerapong Wongsaman, Udon Thani provincial police chief, also met Ms Kusuma on Friday at the Royal Thai Police office, and said that if her DNA matches that from any of the discovered bones, police will then be able to begin a new probe into the old case.
Kularb went missing from a police welfare house in Udon Thani on Nov 17, 2009, leaving only bloodstains in a bed and her car, said Pol Maj Gen Peerapong.
Local police later arrested Yaowalak Kosit, 48, in 2010 who was the wife of a police officer at Ban Thueam police station who stayed at the house where the bloodstains were found. Ms Yaowalak confessed to hiring some police officers for 60,000 baht to kill Kularb and destroy her corpse.
Ms Yaowalak told police investigators at that time that she wanted Kularb dead because she was very angry after finding out that the woman had an affair with her husband.
But since the corpse was never found, the court had to give the confessed mastermind and two police officers charged in connection with the murder the benefit of the doubt.
In Udon Thani, Surichai Chomphuwiset, 53, the brother of Kularb, also had police take DNA samples from him.
So far, relatives of at least 20 missing people whom they suspect of having been killed and whose remains were possibly among those left at the Udon Thani forest reserve have contacted police and requested to have the bones DNA tested, said Pol Maj Gen Peerapong.
Police believe the same people are behind the incomplete destruction of all the human remains found in 23 separate spots in the forest reserve.
