Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, a 36-year-old Thai woman, is known as Am Cianuro for allegedly having murdered 14 friends with this poison and tried one more. This Wednesday, a court in the Asian country sentenced her to the death penalty for premeditatedly ending the life of Siriporn Kanwong in the first of the trials.
According to the ruling, the convicted woman – described by the media as Thailand’s first female serial killer– deliberately poisoned Siriporn Khanwong, 32, with cyanide during a trip between them in April 2023 to the western province of Ratchaburi to participate in a religious ceremony, according to the public channel Thai PBS and EFE.
Addicted to online gambling and also accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims before killing them with the poison, Rangsiwuthaporn met Kanwong near Bangkok in April last year to release fish into the Mae Klong River as part of a Buddhist ritual. At a certain moment, the victim collapsed and died shortly afteras reported by the AFP news agency.
The researchers They found traces of cyanide in his body and they were able to link Rangsiwuthaporn to unsolved poisonings with this same substance dating back to 2015, according to agents. If her responsibility in the 14 cases is confirmed, she would become one of the worst serial killers in the history of Thailand.
“The court’s decision is fair”Khanwong’s mother, Tongpin Kiatchanasiri, told the press after the verdict. And he added: “I want to tell my daughter that I miss her deeply and that today justice has been done for her.”
The Police declared that Rangsiwuthaporn financed his gambling addiction with the money he borrowed from his victims – in one case up to 300,000 baht (almost $9,000) – before killing them and stealing their jewelry and mobile phones.
According to investigators, Rangsiwuthaporn lured 15 people, one of whom survived, to take cyanide-poisoned ‘herbal capsules’. The convicted woman faces 13 other murder trials and is accused of about 80 crimes in total.
Her ex-husband, a police lieutenant colonel, He was sentenced to 16 months in prison and his former lawyer to two years for complicity in Khanwong’s murder, according to the victim’s family lawyer.
Thailand has been the scene of several sordid and high-profile criminal cases. Earlier this year, six foreigners were found dead in a luxurious Bangkok hotel after cyanide poisoning believed to be linked to debts running into millions of baht.
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