The year 2017 saw many infamous crime stories make the headlines in the Bangkok Post. The Post would like to recap five such stories -- from the killer "beauties", the Krabi family massacre, the wholesale fraud surrounding non-existent tours to Japan, the Xaysana drug trafficking gang, to the Jomsap retrial saga -- which had readers following each case over the course of many days and weeks as the events unfolded.
The stories included here were chosen on the strength of the public interest they aroused through the elaborate scheming involved in the crimes, along with the depth of brutality the authorities uncovered and the lengths to which state agencies went to build and solve the cases almost from scratch.
These stories also served to make people wary of the danger that is posed by premeditated criminal activities while the authorities were able to gain more insight into criminal networks and piece together the ways some criminal syndicates are connected.
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