A capture from a CCTV camera inside Nana Entertainment Plaza shows Laxami Manochat leaving with the man who last saw her alive as they leave the Bangkok bar complex just before midnight Nov 1.
BANGKOK – Police in Thailand are hunting a foreign man after the discovery of dead woman found stuffed in a suitcase floating in the Mae Klong River in Kanchanaburi on Nov 6, and said she was last seen alive with a male foreigner leaving Bangkok in a taxi for Kanchanaburi
Investigators have since used security footage to establish the movements of the wanted man and Laxami Nanochart, 31.
She was identified by relatives from the diamond embedded in an eye tooth, a navel piercing and distinctive clothing.
Security camera footage shows her leaving the Bangkok bar zone with a male foreigner about 11pm on November 1, and getting in a taxi that headed to Kanchanaburi.
Her body was found in the suitcase floating in the Mae Klong River in Kanchanaburi on November 6.
The victim’s mother, Sad Manochart, 60, of Si Sa Ket province, was last in touch with her daughter on November 1, when she promised to send more money.
Khun Sad said Luxami had previously stayed in the US with a former husband. She later returned to Thailand and worked to support the family.
Pol Maj Gen Kamolsanti Klanbut, chief of Kanchanaburi police, said investigators would try to track down the foreigner who had accompanied her.
Thai media reported that the taxi driver who took the couple to Kanchanaburi had already met with police and given them information.
Police laid out the victim’s clothes in hopes someone can help identify her
The body of a still-unidentified woman was found stuffed in this suitcase Nov 6 in Kanchanaburi. (Photos by Piyarach Chongcharoen)