The prime suspect in the murder of a wealthy woman whose body was found in a refrigerator at a house in Chiang Mai has been arrested in Nakhon Sawan province.
Crime Suppression Division police detained Withun Sitabut around 2pm on Thursday while he was riding a motorcycle with no licence plates.
Withun, 39, from Lampang, was wanted on charges of robbery resulting in the death of Ms Wannee Jiracharoenying in Chiang Mai.
Police seized 1.2 million baht cash and a 5-baht weight gold necklace found in his possession, and the motorcycle, as evidence.
CSD investigators initially learned that Mr Withun was heading for Kanchanaburi province. They also found out the suspect had spent 160,000 baht buying a motorcycle at a shop in Nakhon Pathom.
They reported it to the CSD chief, who sent a team to hunt him down.
On Wednesday night, CSD police were told Mr Withun had travelled to Muang district of Kanchanaburi and then to Lao Khwan district of the western province. The suspect then took a road through Dan Chang district in Suphan Buri to Chai Nat, and then on to Nakhon Sawan, where he was caught on Thursday.
Ms Wannee, 58, a wealthy woman from Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan, was found dead by police on Sunday in a refrigerator in Chiang Mai’s Chom Thong district after her relatives filed a missing person report.
The woman’s hands and legs were bound and her body was placed in the fridge and covered with cement with the fridge still running.
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