(22 Oct 2019) Police in Thailand are investigating the death of a German woman after arresting a German man for allegedly dumping her body into a canal.
Thailand's Immigration Police Commissioner Lt. Col. Sompong Chingduang said in news conference Tuesday that the dead woman, 77-year-old Margund Schaefer, co-owned a bar in the resort town of Pattaya with Richard Stanislaus and shared a house with him and his Thai girlfriend.
Stanislaus was present at the news conference but didn't speak.
Thai police launched a search for both Schaefer and Stanislaus in the eastern province of Chonburi, and interrogated Stanislaus after finding that his visa had expired in 2017.
Police said 55-year-old Stanislaus is wanted in Germany on several fraud charges and that he is reported to have committed previous crimes involving swindling the elderly.
Stanislaus' girlfriend told police that Schaefer fell in the bathroom and died in January.
She said Stanislaus put her body in a box and dumped it in a canal where it was later found.
Police said forensic tests could tell them if Schaefer died by accident or murder.
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