A man whose wife had recently given birth was arrested on Sunday on charges of attempted rape and the murder of a woman who lived in the same condominium building in Samut Prakan.
A 23-year-old woman from Phichit province, was found dead in front of an elevator door on the seventh floor of B2 Building in Muang Thong condominium complex in Bang Phli about 11pm on Saturday.
She had a stab wound to her thigh which had caused a lot of bleeding.
On Sunday morning police found a blood-stained blue T-shirt in the toilet of an empty room on the fifth floor. The toilet room was wet and police believed the woman's assailant had taken off the blue shirt, attempted to wash himself clean and put on a yellow T-shirt he stole from a rack on the third floor. Police also found a knife holder in the toilet.
Police said officers later arrested a suspect, a man who lived in a room on the third floor.
According to police, the suspect had seen the victim on the ground floor, returned to his room and changed his shirt, from white to the blue T-shirt found on the fifth floor.
The suspect then entered the victim's room and hid in the closet, waiting for her.
Investigators said the woman fought off the man as he stabbed her once in the thigh. He then ran from her room leaving bloody footprints behind him.
The suspect allegedly confessed to the crime and told police he was drunk and sexually frustrated because his wife had given birth only 15 days ago.
