Thai Woman Linked to 14 Cyanide Murders Sentenced to Death

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Posted on 11/20/2024 10:52:18 PM PST by nickcarraway

A Thai woman believed to be among the worst serial killers in the kingdom's history was convicted and sentenced to death Wednesday (Nov 20) for poisoning a friend with cyanide, in the first of her 14 murder trials. Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn, 36, an online gambling addict, is accused of swindling thousands of dollars from her victims before killing them with the chemical.

A court in Bangkok convicted her Wednesday for fatally poisoning her friend Siriporn Kanwong. The two met up near Bangkok in April last year to release fish into the Mae Klong river as part of a Buddhist ritual. Police were then able to link Sararat to previously unsolved cyanide poisonings going back as far as 2015, officers said.

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She lured 15 people - one of whom survived - to take poisoned "herb capsules", they said. Sararat faces 13 more separate murder trials, and has been charged with around 80 offences in total. Her ex-husband - a police lieutenant-colonel - was given 16 months in prison and her former lawyer two years for complicity in Siriporn's killing, the lawyer for the victim's family said.

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