PHICHIT: A Frenchman has confessed to the love-triangle murder of an elderly Italian man, and that the victim's wife then helped dismember and burn the body, according to police.
Pol Col Chaisathian Maneejak, chief of the Bung Na Rang police, said on Tuesday that Amaury Rigaud, 34, who was arrested in Kamphaeng Phet province on Sunday, confessed to assaulting and stabbing Giuseppe De Stefani, 62, to death.
According to the confession, the two men and the Thai wife, Rujira Iamlamai, 37, met to settle their love triangle in her Toyota Yaris car near her house in Bung Na Rang district on Jan 19.
Mr Rigaud confessed that was when he killed him, according to police.
Ms Rujira then helped him dispose of the body. They cut it in two parts, which they cast into a funeral pyre made of car tyres in a remote area in tambon Laem Rang of the same district.
On Tuesday police took both suspects for re-enactments at the places where the murder happened, and where they bought fuel and washed blood stains from the car.
Ms Rujira was arrested on Monday in a longan orchard in Tak province, not far from where Mr Rigaud was arrested at their forest campsite in adjoining Kamphaeng Phet province on Sunday. They had been on the run for 10 days.