Alleged Thai serial killer fed ‘herb capsules’ to people she swindled: police
- Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is believed to have borrowed money from people ‘because she has a lot of credit card debt’, police said
- When the lenders started asking for their money back, the wife of a high-ranking policeman allegedly fed them poison
A Thai woman accused of a spate of poisonings has been charged with 14 counts of murder, police said on Wednesday, in one of the kingdom’s worst suspected serial killing cases.
Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn is alleged to have swindled thousands of dollars out of her victims before poisoning them with cyanide.
She was arrested last week over nine suspicious deaths that took place over several years, but the police swiftly widened their probe.
Her husband, a high-ranking policeman, is also facing fraud and embezzlement charges related to the murders, deputy national police chief Surachate Hakparn said Wednesday.
Surachate said Sararat lured 15 people – one of whom survived – to take poisoned “herb capsules”.
“She asked people she knows for money because she has a lot of credit card debt ... and if they asked her for their money back she started killing them,” Surachate told reporters. “We are investigating the amount of money that she got from victims.”