Freed serial killer Somkid Pumpuang has confessed to murdering a 51-year-old woman at her home in Khon Kaen province, but refused to re-enact the crime, saying it would be too stressful.
Police said Somkid was interrogated all night after his arrest on Wednesday. He confessed to the murder of Ratsami Mulichan, and then said he was stressed and asked to be examined by a doctor.
He was given a pill to relieve stress and then exercised his right not to re-enact the murder at the victim's house.
The suspect agreed to a re-enactment of his escape from the house.
Police said Somkid claimed a re-enactment at the house would cause him too much stress. Police instead had him re-enact the murder, using a dummy, in the interrogation room.
Hundreds of local people gathered at the police station on Thursday morning, condemning Somkid and calling for the death sentence. They loudly referred to his conviction for the murder of five women in 2005 and his parole from jail in May despite having been sentenced to life imprisonment.
Somkid, dubbed Jack the Ripper of Thailand by the media in 2005, was arrested on a train late Wednesday morning.
He is accused of strangling Ratsami at her house last Sunday. The victim's son said Somkid claimed to be a lawyer when he got to know Ratsami via Facebook.
