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Shadows of Siam: Where Smiles Meet Shadows

Beneath the golden temples and bustling night markets of Thailand lies a darker truth—one hidden in alleys, abandoned buildings, and quiet countryside homes. Shadows of Siam is a true crime podcast that uncovers the forgotten, the unsolved, and the terrifyingly real stories that lurk within Thailand’s past and present.

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00:33:06

S3:E2 | Two Suitcases in Two Provinces: Unidentified...

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2026/01/13

Two unidentified women. Two suitcases. Two Thai provinces—Rayong and Chonburi—seven months apart. In February 2025, a suitcase containing a woman’s remains was reported recovered from water near a golf course in Ban Chang, Rayong. In September 2025, a second suitcase was reported floating in a reservoir near a golf course in Huai Yai, Bang Lamung District, Chonburi—described in reporting as weighed down and secured with items like dumbbell plates, chains, zip ties, and a padlock.This episode follows

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00:21:20

S3:E1 | The Koh Tao Dive-Boat Fire: The Disappearance...

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2026/01/08

After a short New Year break, Shadows of Siam returns with an episode set inside Thailand’s year-end corridor—when the country doesn’t “shut down” the way it does elsewhere. Most people are still working. Banks and offices stay open. But the rhythm still changes, because the calendar compresses, travel stacks up, and New Year’s time off can expand with additional special holidays officially recognized in published holiday schedules.In this episode, we step into the in-between space where movement is

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00:24:37

S2:E16 | Silent Nights in Siam: Year-End Travel,...

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2025/12/17

December in Thailand isn’t a national season of ritual the way it is elsewhere. Most people are still working. Banks and offices stay open. But the country’s rhythm shifts—because the calendar compresses, travel stacks up, and New Year’s time off can expand with additional special holidays officially recognized in published holiday schedules. In this episode of Shadows of Siam, we step into that in-between space: late-night transit corridors, long highways, overwritten CCTV, and the quiet cultural

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00:25:44

S2:E15 | The Dismemberment on Koh Pha-ngan: Inside...

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2025/12/09

In August 2023, 44-year-old Colombian plastic surgeon Dr. Edwin Miguel Arrieta Arteaga traveled to Koh Pha-ngan expecting a short holiday with someone he had been in close contact with for months: Spanish chef and influencer Daniel Sancho Bronchalo. Within days of their arrival, workers at the island’s landfill discovered body parts sealed in plastic bags—remains later identified as Dr. Arrieta through DNA testing.What followed became one of Thailand’s most high-profile international murder cases: a

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00:42:17

S2:E14 | The Freezer Murder of Hans-Peter Mack: How a...

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2025/12/01

In July 2023, 62-year-old German real-estate broker Hans-Peter Mack left his home in Pattaya for what should have been a routine land-deal meeting. A week later, Thai police discovered his dismembered body sealed inside a freezer in a rented house in Nong Prue. What followed became one of Thailand’s most shocking expat murder investigations—an orchestrated plot involving financial motive, digital footprints, and three suspects whose movements were traced across CCTV, bank transfers, and rental

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00:17:38

S2:E13 | The Nurse Who Never Came Home – The Murder...

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2025/11/25

A 35-year-old nurse on Ko Samui finished her shift, walked back to her dorm, and vanished into silence. Hours later, colleagues found her beaten to death in the same room where she rested between saving lives. Her abandoned car appeared miles away. A coworker disappeared. And a murder investigation spread from a quiet island hospital to the mainland of Thailand.This episode examines the final hours of Anchulee Wongmuang, the evidence inside her dorm room, the movements of the prime suspect on CCTV,

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S2:E012 | The Attempted Killing of Sia Piak: Debt,...

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2025/11/18

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

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00:15:02

S2:E011 – The Suitcase Murders: Bodies Beneath the...

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2025/11/12

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

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00:38:36

S2:E010 – The Vanished Voice of Kaeng Krachan: The...

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2025/11/04

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

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00:24:06

S2:E9 | Jimmy the Serial Killer – The Homeless...

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2025/10/28

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

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00:15:22

S2:E8 | The Lady of the Hills – The Unfinished...

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2025/10/23

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

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00:19:20

S2:E7 | Nui: The Child Predator Who Terrorized...

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2025/10/14

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:

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S2:E6 | The Iron Chest Killer: Boonpeng’s Deadly...

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2025/10/07

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

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S2:E5 | The Vanished Monk of Tham Luang Nang Non:...

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2025/09/30

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

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S2:E4 | Nirut Sonkhamhan, The Pickup Truck Killer –...

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2025/09/23

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,

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00:27:15

S2:E3 | Am Cyanide – The Pregnant Poisoner Who Shook...

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2025/09/16

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

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00:22:28

S2:E2 | Eat Your Liver: The True Story of Si Quey,...

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2025/09/09

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

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00:22:00

S2·E1 | Thailand’s Jack the Ripper: How a Serial...

Shadows of Siam: Where Smiles Meet Shadows ·

2025/09/08

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

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00:16:00

014 | Never Sleep Facing the Mirror: The Haunting of...

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2025/05/01

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

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013 | The Room Number They Erased – Bangkok’s Haunted...

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2025/04/24

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

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