She is alleged to have swindled thousands of dollars out of her victims before poisoning them. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANGKOK - A Thai woman accused of a spate of poisonings has been charged with 14 counts of murder, police said on Wednesday, in one of the kingdom’s worst suspected serial killing cases.
Her husband, a high-ranking policeman, is also facing fraud and embezzlement charges related to the murders, deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said on Wednesday. “She asked people she knows for money because she has a lot of credit card debt... and if they asked her for their money back she started killing them,” General Surachate told reporters.Last week, he indicated the sums involved in each case ran into hundreds of thousands of baht – the equivalent of thousands of US dollars.
Last week, officers expanded the geographic area they were investigating to five provinces, most to the west of Bangkok.
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