Teerarak Suthathiwong
An allegedly jealous American boyfriend is wanted for questioning in
the murder of a Buriram teenager whose decomposed body was found in a
garbage bag atop a South Pattaya restaurant.
19-year-old
Anusra Paja was found dead atop a restaurant after she went missing over a
month ago.
Identified by police only as “Tim,” the suspect, in his mid-40s, is accused
of murdering 19-year-old Anusra Paja, who disappeared from her room above
the Sita Lanna hair-extension shop near Tukcom Feb. 15. The half-naked
remains of body believed to be hers was found March 18 stuffed in a black
plastic bag and hidden on the roof of the Le Petit Planete restaurant two
doors down.
Police forensics experts were testing the remains to confirm, but aunt Dao
Bunsawat, 35, tentatively identified the body from an ankle bracelet
belonging to Anusra. Restaurant owner Virawan Yiewsae, 40, discovered the
body while investigating the smell.
Pattaya Police Superintendent Col. Supachai Puikaewkam said the girl was
reported missing when failing to join a group of friends on a February trip
to Koh Larn. Anusra had gone back to her apartment to get clothing, but
witnesses said her boyfriend was waiting for her outside the room.
Dao told police that Anusra had been seeing “Tim” for several months, but
recently had begun distancing herself and seeing other men. This, she
claimed, enraged the American man twice her age, causing numerous serious
fights. In their last reported meeting, the two had spent time alone in the
apartment before Tim was seen leaving the building in a hurry. When a friend
went to the apartment to fetch Anusra, she was gone.
Supachai alleged that Tim killed the teen after having sex by knocking her
out then taping her mouth with purple tape and tying her into a blanket with
a belt before stuffing her in the garbage bag. She surmises he then went out
a window and over a low wall to hide the girl on the restaurant’s roof,
where she likely suffocated to death, the police chief claimed.
Authorities are checking with immigration sources to determine if he already
has left the kingdom.
