Shadows of Siam: Where Smiles Meet Shadows

In the early evening of October 7, 2025, respected Nakhon Pathom businessman Rawi “Sia Piak” Arayawattanawech was ambushed outside his wife’s restaurant, Krua Dokmai Pa.Two close-range shots—one to the torso, one to the head—left him in critical condition and launched one of the most intense provincial investigations in recent Thai history.Police Region 7 quickly identified the attack as a contract hit tied to a 130-million-baht business conflict, a financial web involving quarry operations, heavy machinery, trucking, and long-standing networks of influence.Within days, investigators traced the shooter, uncovered a former police officer allegedly involved in arranging the hit, and connected the attack to a deeper financial dispute.But the true financier—the person who ordered the shooting—remains publicly unnamed.This episode examines the events leading up to the ambush, the forensic trail left behind, the suspects identified, and the shifting power dynamics inside Nakhon Pathom’s business community.A rare look into how money, reputation, and power collide in Thailand’s provincial underworld—and how a single act of violence can ripple across an entire city.SOURCES– Thairath Crime Desk (Oct 7 & 8, 2025) – reporting on the shooting, injuries, and early investigation.– Manager Online – surveillance details, weapon evidence, and procedural updates.– INN News – coverage of the 130-million-baht debt conflict and suspects linked to the case.#ThailandCrime #ThaiTrueCrime #NakhonPathom #SiaPiak #ContractKilling #ThailandNews #UnsolvedThailand #ThaiPolice #OrganizedCrimeThailand #AttemptedMurder #TrueCrimePodcast #SoutheastAsiaCrime #ThaiInvestigation #BeneathThePalms #CrimePodcastAsia #RawiArayawattanawech #ThaiBusinessConflict

Two women.Two suitcases.Two bodies pulled from the quiet waters between Rayong and Chon Buri.In early 2025, a fisherman in Rayong found a water-logged suitcase—inside, the decomposed remains of an unidentified woman. Seven months later, another case surfaced along the same stretch of coast, packed with dumbbells, iron chains, and another unnamed victim.Were they both victims of one killer—or a pattern repeating itself?This episode follows the real investigation, the verified facts, and the chilling precision that ties both murders together.Based on reports from Khaosod English, Thai PBS World, The Pattaya News, and The Thai Examiner, along with statements from the Royal Thai Police.If you have any information, contact the Royal Thai Police tip line.Follow @ShadowsOfSiam for updates and case visuals.🎧 Where the land remembers what others try to forget.#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimeThailand #Rayong #ChonBuri #SuitcaseMurders #ThaiTrueCrime #UnsolvedCases #SoutheastAsiaCrime #PodcastThailand

He stood for his people, and vanished into the forest he tried to protect.In 2014, Karen activist Porlajee “Billy” Rakchongcharoen was detained by park officials inside Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park—and never came home.What followed would expose the country’s deepest fault line: the fight between conservation, corruption, and the right to exist.This episode traces Billy’s disappearance, the discovery of burned remains in a hidden oil drum, and a courtroom battle that redefined Thailand’s human-rights landscape.🎧 This story contains references to disappearance and state violence. Listener discretion is advised.Sources: Department of Special Investigation (DSI), Human Rights Watch, Bangkok Post, Khaosod English, The Nation Thailand, Amnesty International, and UN archives.Follow @ShadowsOfSiam on Instagram for updates and visuals from each case.#ShadowsOfSiam #PorlajeeRakchongcharoen #Thailand #KaengKrachan #TrueCrime #HumanRights #KarenPeople #DSI #Podcast

In October 2016, Bangkok woke to fear.Three bodies in two days—bound, stabbed, and left in the dark corners of the city.Police soon realized someone was hunting the homeless.His name was “Jimmy,” a 20-year-old drifter from Myanmar whose quiet existence hid a brutal truth.Across Bangkok and Pathum Thani, five people would die—four confirmed by DNA, one never officially named.No motive. No confession. Only a trail of blood, a bicycle, and a city that barely noticed its own victims.This episode follows the investigation that revealed one of Thailand’s most haunting modern crimes—when violence struck those already invisible.🎧 Shadows of Siam tells the stories Thailand tries to forget—real cases of murder, mystery, and memory.Sources:Bangkok Post • Khaosod • MGR Online • Nation TV • Matichon Online • Royal Thai Police archives (2016).Follow on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube for new episodes every Thursday.Instagram: @shadowsofsiam#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimeThailand #Bangkok #PathumThani #JimmyTheSerialKiller #ThailandCrime #Unsolved #TrueCrimePodcasts

In 2004, hikers in the Yorkshire Dales discovered the body of a woman lying beneath the cold English sky.No identification. No witnesses. No one who came forward to claim her.For fifteen years, she was known only as The Lady of the Hills.In 2019, a DNA match would finally reveal her name — Lamduan Armitage, a 33-year-old woman from Udon Thani, Thailand.A wife. A mother. A daughter who vanished far from home.This episode follows the investigation that crossed continents — from Lancashire to the fields of northeast Thailand — and the unanswered questions that still linger:How did Lamduan end up seventy miles from home, barefoot in the moors?And why did her silence last so long?Sources:BBC News, The Guardian, The Independent, Bangkok Post, Thai PBS, official statements from North Yorkshire Police, and Wikipedia – Death of Lamduan Armitage.Hashtags:#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimeThailand #LamduanArmitage #LadyOfTheHills #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimePodcast #Thailand #UKMystery #ColdCase #MissingPersons

A six-year-old girl vanished from a concert near Bangkok’s BTS Bearing station.Her name was Cartoon. The search that followed exposed one of Thailand’s darkest cases—a drifter named Nui who confessed to attacking at least ten children across several provinces.This episode retraces the December 2013 killings that horrified the country, the police chase that ended in Nong Khai, and the questions that remain about how a convicted predator was ever free to roam again.Listener discretion advised: contains descriptions of sexual assault and child homicide.Sources spoken: Bangkok Post (Dec 15–19 2013; Mar 28 2014; Nov 2015; Jan 2016; Nov 2016); The Nation Thailand (Dec 16–18 2013); Thai PBS World (2014); Ministry of Justice court records; Bangkok Metropolitan Police press releases.#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimeThailand #ThaiCrime #NuiCase #ThailandPodcast #TrueCrimeAsia #MorLam #Bangkok #PrachinBuri #Loei #KhonKaen #Podcast #TrueCrimeCommunity #AsianTrueCrime #CriminalPsychology #JusticeInThailand

In 1918, a heavy iron chest washed ashore near Bangkok. Inside was the body of a young woman named Prik — and the beginning of one of Thailand’s darkest stories. Her killer, Boonpeng, was a monk who used black-magic rituals and love potions to seduce and destroy. Known today as Thailand’s first serial killer, he confessed to sealing his victims in iron chests and sending them into the river. His execution — Thailand’s last public beheading — marked the end of one era and the birth of a haunting legend.Sources:Historical records from Bangkok police and 1918 news reports; Expique Bangkok’s historical archives;Executed Today’s documentation of Thailand’s final public beheading; and the Wikipedia entry on Boonpeng Heep Lek (The Iron Chest Killer).Listen to Shadows of Siam on Spotify, Apple, or Amazon — where the land remembers what others try to forget.#ShadowsOfSiam #ThailandTrueCrime #IronChestKiller #BoonpengHeepLek #BangkokHistory #TrueCrimePodcast #ThaiTrueCrime #AsianTrueCrime #DarkHistory #SoutheastAsiaCrime #OccultThailand #HistoricalCrime #BangkokMysteries

He wasn’t supposed to disappear. Not him. Not a monk whose life was built on presence. In June 1993, Luang Pi Anan entered Tham Luang Nang Non — the cave beneath the Sleeping Lady Mountain in Chiang Rai — carrying a candle, water, and a book of chants. He had gone there many times before on silent retreats. This time, he never returned.No body. No robe. No signs of struggle. Just a candle stub, an empty flask, and silence.For villagers, the cave had claimed him. For monks, he may have crossed into the great release — maha-vimutti. For others, he became part of the mountain’s living legend. Decades later, when the world watched the 2018 rescue of twelve boys and their coach from the same cave system, locals said it was no coincidence: the cave had once taken a life, and now it returned thirteen.This episode retraces Luang Pi Anan’s story — his life, his devotion, and the enduring mystery of his disappearance. From whispered legends of naga guardians to the ritual candles still lit each June, this is a story where fact and faith, silence and presence, meet in the dark.Sources: Chiang Rai oral history, testimony from monks and villagers, local newspaper archives, and coverage of the 2018 Tham Luang rescue. Our thanks to those who keep his memory alive and shared their accounts so this story could be retold.#TrueCrime #Thailand #UnsolvedMystery #ThamLuang #LuangPiAnan #SleepingLadyMountain #ShadowsOfSiam #SpiritualMystery #BuddhistMonk #CaveMystery #ChiangRai #ThaiLegends

Between 2011 and 2012, Thailand’s southern highways carried more than just goods. They carried death—one poisoned cup of coffee at a time. Nirut Sonkhamhan, known as The Pickup Truck Killer, preyed on drivers, turning roadside rituals into traps. This episode unspools the method, the victims, and the poison trail he left in his wake, through the words of survivors, investigators, and the land itself.This story draws from the reports of the Royal Thai Police, archival coverage in the Bangkok Post, Thai PBS, and Khaosod English, as well as local southern Thai press at the time. Survivor testimony from Montree Kalam, Charoen Daranoi, and Paitoon Pattalapho provided the most haunting details.#TrueCrime #Thailand #SerialKiller #Poison #SurvivorStories #PickupTruckKiller #SouthernThailand #CriminalPsychology #ShadowsOfSiam

April 2023.At a quiet river in Samut Songkhram, two friends release fish into the current, a Buddhist ritual meant to bring life and merit. But moments later, forty-four-year-old Siriporn Kanwong collapses. By the time medics arrive, she is gone.At first, it looks like fate. A tragic heart attack during prayer. But the autopsy finds cyanide in her blood. And the bottles of poison discovered in her friend’s car reveal something darker.Her name was Sararat Rangsiwuthaporn. But the world would come to know her as Am Cyanide.Over nearly a decade, police tied her to fourteen deaths—friends, lovers, even a police officer—people who trusted her, lent her money, or stood too close. She borrowed. She smiled. And when the debts came due, she offered something else: a drink, a capsule, a bite of food.In November 2024, a Thai court sentenced her to death in the first of fourteen trials. Pregnant when she was arrested, Am Cyanide shattered every expectation of what a killer in Thailand could look like.This is her story—the betrayals, the poison, and the cultural shock that still lingers.Our telling comes from reporting in The Bangkok Post, Thai PBS, ABC News, CBS News, People, The Guardian, The Sun, the New York Post, and archives gathered on Wikipedia’s Am Cyanide case.#ShadowsOfSiam #AmCyanide #TrueCrime #ThailandCrime #SerialKillers #Poison #DarkHistory #CrimePodcast

Every Thai child grew up hearing the warning:“If you misbehave, Si Quey will come. And he’ll eat your liver.”For decades, Si Quey Sae-Ung was more than a name — he was Thailand’s bogeyman. A poor migrant from China accused of murdering children, condemned as a cannibal, and executed in 1959. His body was embalmed and displayed in a glass case at Siriraj Hospital for over sixty years, a permanent reminder that monsters walk among us.But was Si Quey truly a killer who ate the organs of his victims? Or was he a scapegoat, caught in the fear and prejudice of Cold War–era Thailand?In this episode, we step into the shadows of a story where fact and folklore blur. From the arrest in Rayong, to lurid tabloid headlines, to the museum case that turned him into a cultural warning for generations of Thai children — and finally, to the quiet cremation in 2020 that forced the country to reconsider the myth.Some truths remain certain. Others remain disputed. And the warning still echoes today.—Sources for this episode include: Bangkok Post, Thai PBS, Khaosod English, Coconuts Bangkok, Associated Press, and South China Morning Post.Follow Shadows of Siam on Spotify, Apple, and Amazon for new episodes every Tuesday at 7 AM Thailand time.#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimePodcast #ThailandTrueCrime #SiQuey #CannibalKiller #ThailandHistory #TrueCrimeCommunity #PodcastLife #ColdWarHistory #UrbanLegends

He was supposed to be gone forever.Sentenced for the murders of five women in 2005, Somkid Pumpuang — known as Thailand’s Jack the Ripper — charmed his way into reduced sentences, convinced officials he was a model prisoner, and walked free in 2019.Within six months, another woman was dead.This is a remastered and retold version of our very first episode. With new research, updated production, and deeper storytelling, we revisit the case that shocked Thailand — and ask how a system meant to deliver justice instead handed a serial killer back his freedom.SourcesThai PBSBangkok PostThe NationMatichonArchived police and court reports from 2005 and 2019#ShadowsOfSiam #ThailandTrueCrime #ThaiCrimeStories #TrueCrimePodcast #SomkidPumpuang #JackTheRipperThailand #SerialKillerStories #TrueCrimeCommunity #CrimePodcast

After moving her bed to face the closet mirror, a 23-year-old student in Chiang Mai began to notice strange things—whispers at night, shadows that only appeared in the glass, and a reflection that blinked... wrong.In Thai culture, mirrors aren’t just reflective surfaces. They’re thresholds—especially dangerous when placed across from the bed.This episode explores the chilling true account of Lila, a Thai-German exchange student, and the supernatural descent that followed a simple shift in furniture.With insights from spiritual forums, Buddhist monks, and Thai real estate discussions, we uncover a belief rooted deep in Southeast Asian tradition—and what happens when it’s ignored.—📚 Sources:– Thai Paranormal Forums (Pantip, 2014–2023)– Informal interviews with monks at Wat Suan Dok– Chiang Mai rental groups– Spirit Mediums in Modern Thailand by Pattana Kitiarsa🎧 New episodes weekly.📍 Follow Shadows of Siam for true stories, haunted legends, and the hidden histories Thailand won’t forget.

There’s a room in Bangkok that doesn’t exist.Not on the elevator. Not on the emergency exit map.But locals know. And they warn you: “Don’t ask for Room 313.”In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we uncover the urban legend and spiritual dread behind Room 313—a space erased from hotel records but never forgotten by those who survived a night inside.We’ll explore:The backpacker’s eerie journal found in a Sukhumvit alleyThai numerology and why the numbers 3 and 13 are fearedThe maid who left barefoot and never came backHidden hotel architecture and the theory of “ghost rooms”Spiritual sealing rituals, mirrored gateways, and a psychic’s warningThe vlogger whose footage glitched… and later suffered a strokeThis isn’t just a haunting.It’s a place where reality warps—and something else waits.🔗 Sources & ReferencesThis episode draws from:📚 Thai folklore archives, anonymous staff testimonies, travel forums, and spiritual practitioner interviews📲 Follow us for updates: @ShadowsOfSiam🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts.#ShadowsOfSiam #ThaiGhostStories #HauntedHotels #Room313 #ParanormalThailand #TrueAsianHorror #BangkokMysteries #SpiritualHaunting #GhostRoom #UrbanLegendsAsia

In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we travel to Chiang Mai’s Old City, where in June 2006, a French energy healer named Séverine Charbonnier vanished after a late-night appointment at a home rumored to be cursed.No struggle. No blood. No body.Just her journal. Her crystals. A cassette recorder.And one final line—“The house resists.”We’ll explore:Who Séverine was, and why her healing work drew clients from all over the worldHow she became entangled with a powerful Thai businessmanThe dark reputation of the house on Soi 7Her chilling journal entries—and the last words ever foundThe theories ranging from cover-up to spiritual retributionThis isn’t just a disappearance.It’s a collision between belief and power.Between energy and resistance.Between a healer… and something that didn’t want to be healed.🔗 Sources & ReferencesThis episode draws from:📚 Chiang Mai City Life archives, Le Monde’s 2008 feature on Séverine, and French24 Asia reports🎤 Anonymous interviews with spiritual practitioners in northern Thailand📓 Translated excerpts from Séverine’s scanned journals📲 Follow the Podcast for Updates & Behind-the-Scenes:📸 Instagram: @ShadowsOfSiam🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.#ThailandTrueCrime #ShadowsOfSiam #SéverineCharbonnier #ChiangMaiMystery #HauntedThailand #MissingHealer #TrueCrimePodcast #ThaiSpirits #Animism #CursedHouse #UnsolvedMystery #EnergyHealing #SpiritualDisappearance #SoutheastAsiaMystery

In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we travel to the misty hills of Chiang Rai, where in June 1993, a forest monk named Luang Pi Anan stepped into Wat Luang Cave for a silent meditation retreat—and was never seen again.No body. No signs of struggle. Just a candle. A folded robe. And a silence that still hums through the cave today.We’ll explore:Who Luang Pi Anan was, and why he was revered across northern ThailandWhat happened during his final tudong meditation retreatThe mysterious findings inside Wat Luang CaveThe local beliefs about naga spirits, sacred cave energy, and “the great disappearance”Why villagers believe the monk didn’t vanish—he transcendedThis isn’t just an unsolved case. It’s a spiritual enigma that blends ancient beliefs, sound phenomena, and the boundary between life and enlightenment.🔗 Sources & ReferencesThis episode draws from:📚 Thai monastic oral history and field notes from a 2001 Chulalongkorn University cave acoustics study📰 Chiang Rai newspaper archives and ThaiPBS spiritual travel interviews🎤 Eyewitness accounts from monks, villagers, and spiritual pilgrims📲 Follow the Podcast for Updates & Behind-the-Scenes:📸 Instagram: @ShadowsOfSiam🎧 Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.#ThailandTrueCrime #ShadowsOfSiam #LuangPiAnan #ChiangRai #WatLuangCave #UnsolvedMystery #ThaiFolklore #MonkDisappearance #TrueCrimePodcast #NagaSpirits #CaveMystery #SpiritualMystery #BuddhistTradition #ForestMonk #Tudong #SoutheastAsiaMystery

In August 2000, 23-year-old Kirsty Jones set out on the adventure of a lifetime—a solo journey through Southeast Asia. Intelligent, compassionate, full of life, she arrived in Chiang Mai hoping to soak in the calm beauty of northern Thailand. But within days, she was dead.Raped. Strangled. Left in her guesthouse room with no witnesses… and no answers.For nearly 25 years, the murder of Kirsty Jones has haunted investigators across two continents. Promising leads vanished. DNA sat unmatched. And key evidence—including the guesthouse logbook—mysteriously disappeared. Was this a random attack by a stranger? Or did the killer walk those narrow halls unnoticed… and trusted?In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we return to Room 4 at the Aree Guesthouse, retracing the final hours of Kirsty’s life, the investigation that unraveled in real time, and the haunting question that still lingers:🔹 Why was her case mishandled so badly?🔹 Who had access to her locked room?🔹 And why, decades later, has no one been held accountable?Step back into the shadows of Chiang Mai—and into one of Thailand’s most chilling unsolved murders.🎙 Follow Shadows of Siam on Instagram: @ShadowsOfSiam💬 Share this episode & leave a review—it helps more people find these stories and keeps the truth alive.#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimePodcast #KirstyJones #ChiangMaiMurder #UnsolvedThailand #AreeGuesthouse #ColdCaseFiles #JusticeForKirsty #UnsolvedMystery #TrueCrimeCommunity #ThailandCrime #FemaleTravelers #DarkTourism #TrueCrimeAddict #WhoKilledKirstyJones

It began with a janitor and a vacuum cleaner bag. It ended with four dead, billions lost, and two nations torn apart.In 1989, a Thai worker pulled off the biggest jewel heist in Saudi Arabian history, stealing nearly 91 kilograms of royal gems—including a 50-carat blue diamond. But when the jewels surfaced in Thailand, what followed was a storm of corruption, murder, and an international scandal that became one of Thailand’s darkest true crime cases.In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we expose the twisted tale behind the infamous Blue Diamond Affair—where missing jewels, murdered diplomats, and crooked cops collided to spark a decades-long diplomatic war.🎧 You’ll learn:Who killed the Saudi diplomats investigating the theft?Why the case led directly to Thailand’s elite police force.And what happened to the missing blue diamond.This isn’t just a heist story. It’s a true crime mystery soaked in greed, cover-ups, and conspiracy, still unresolved over 30 years later.Listen now to uncover the scandal that shattered international relations—and the diamond that may be cursed.Sources include:• Wikipedia: Blue Diamond Affair, Saudi Arabia–Thailand relations• Secret Siam: “The True Curse of the Blue Diamond”• Penn State Journal of Law & International Affairs• Thai and international news archives (1990–2022)🔎 Follow for more: @ShadowsOfSiam on Instagram🗣 Share this episode & leave a review—it helps uncover the truth.#ShadowsOfSiam #BlueDiamondAffair #ThailandTrueCrime #UnsolvedMystery #SaudiHeist #TrueCrimePodcast #InvestigativePodcast #ThailandCorruption #MurderAndMystery #DiplomaticScandal #CrimeConspiracy #MissingDiamond #TrueCrimeThailand #PodcastsOnAmazonMusic

In 2017, 30-year-old Elise Dallemagne’s journey through Southeast Asia ended in tragedy. Found deep in the jungle of Koh Tao, her death was quickly ruled a suicide—but the details tell a different story. Mysterious movements, a fire that forced her into hiding, and a rushed investigation that left more questions than answers. Was Elise running from someone? Was she silenced? And why does Koh Tao, a so-called island paradise, have a dark reputation as Death Island?In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we unravel the enigma of Elise Dallemagne’s final days, exploring the theories, cover-ups, and eerie patterns surrounding Koh Tao’s growing list of unexplained deaths.🔹 Was Elise hiding from a dangerous truth?🔹 Why were key details of her case ignored or covered up?🔹 Is Koh Tao a paradise with a deadly secret?Listen now as we step into the shadows.🎙 Follow Shadows of Siam on Instagram: @ShadowsOfSiam💬 Share this episode & leave a review—help keep the truth from being buried.#ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimePodcast #KohTaoMystery #DeathIsland #EliseDallemagne #UnsolvedMysteries #ThailandCrime #MysteriousDeaths #TrueCrimeCommunity #ColdCase #ConspiracyTheories #TrueCrimeAddict #PodcastRecommendations #InvestigativeJournalism #CrimePodcast

🚨 A man is walking down the street. He is talking on the phone.” And then… he is gone.On June 4, 2020, Thai activist Wanchalearm Satsaksit was abducted outside his apartment in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. In broad daylight. Witnesses heard his final words—“I can’t breathe”—before he was forced into a black SUV. No body. No arrest. No answers. Authorities called it “fake news.” The Thai government? Silent. But silence speaks volumes.🕯️ Where is Wanchalearm Satsaksit? 🕯️In this episode, we dive deep into Wanchalearm’s life, his fight for democracy, and the chilling pattern of enforced disappearances that continues to haunt Southeast Asia. This isn’t just one man’s story—it’s a web of silence, corruption, and fear.🎧 Episode 7 drops Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7AM🎧 Listen on all major platforms. 💫 Love the show? Leave us a 5-star review—it helps more listeners discover Shadows of Siam. ✨ Subscribe now & be the first to hear it. 💥 @ShadowsOfSiam#WhereIsWanchalearm #ShadowsOfSiam #TrueCrimePodcast #EnforcedDisappearance #Thailand #Cambodia #HumanRights #JusticeForWanchalearm #TrueCrimeCommunity #PodcastTeaser #Disappearances #PoliticalActivism #DarkHistory #TrueCrimeStories #NewEpisode #TrueCrimeAddict