Missing teacher found dead in pond
published : 10 Jun 2022 at 15:53
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chaiwat Satyaem and Online Reporters
A 40-year-old teacher was found dead, her weighted body dumped in a pond, in Phetchaburi on Thursday night, about two weeks after she was reported missing.
A 38-year-old soldier, her close friend, has been charged with her murder.
Sgt Maj 1st Class Surin Pramnoi admitted to having strangled Wanida Omthet, police said on Friday.
Wanida was a teacher at a school in Kaeng Krachan district. She and her pickup truck had not been seen since the night of May 26. Relatives filed a missing person report with local police.
Police said that after questioning her relatives and friends, investigators focused their attention on Sgt Maj Surin.
He admitted to having quarrelled with her in a fit of jealousy. Investigators later found the teacher’s vehicle at another person's house. The house owner said the soldier pawned it for money.
He did not know what to do with the body, so he dumped it in the pond in a banana field behind his house.
Forensic police and rescue workers retrieved the body from the pond around 10.30pm on Thursday. The body was weighted down with bricks and railway steel, Thai media reported.
The body had partially decomposed in the water, but forensic examiners found signs of knife wounds to her chest, stomach and back, police said.
Vocabulary
- charged (verb): accused officially of committing a crime - ถูกตั้งข้อกล่าวหา
- decompose: to be destroyed gradually by natural chemical processes - ทำให้เน่าเปื่อย
- forensic: relating to the use of scientific methods to solve crimes or to find out why something happened - เกี่ยวกับนิติวิทยาศาสตร์
- jealousy: a feeling of unhappiness and anger because someone has something or someone that you want - ความขี้หึง, ความหึงหวง
- pawn (verb): to leave an object with a pawn shop in exchange for money. The object is returned to the owner if he or she pays back the money within an agreed period of time. If not, it can be sold. - จำนำ
- pond: a small area of still water, especially one that is artificial - บ่อน้ำ, สระน้ำ
- quarrelled: argued, disagreed noisily - โต้เถียง
- questioning: when the police asks a person questions in the investigation of a crime -
- steel (noun): a strong hard metal that is made of a mixture of iron and carbon - เหล็ก
- strangle: to kill somebody by squeezing or pressing on their throat and neck - ฆ่าโดยการบีบคอ
