American kills Thai wife

Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, was interrogated yesterday in the northern city of Nan where he had lived with Pitchaporn Kidchob, said police Lt-Col Somkiat Ruam-ngern.Balzer was arrested on Thursday in Chiang Mai and confessed to killing his 32-year-old wife, said Maj-Gen Weerachon Boontawee, chief of Provincial Police Region 5’s Detective Department.According to Weerachon, Balzer said Pitchaporn had “given him hope”, so he married her and bought her a house in Nan.

Balzer said he became enraged when she tried to chase him out, so he stabbed her with a knife, the police officer said. He said Balzer put her body in a rubbish bin that he sealed and buried in the woods about 5km from their home. Balzer then rode a motorbike to Chiang Mai, where he was arrested, Weerachon said.

Police had been alerted to a possible crime when Pitchaporn’s mother, who was unable to reach her daughter by phone, went to the couple’s house and found bloodstains.Balzer, a programmer, met Pitchaporn in Thailand in 2017 and they were married in the US, after which Balzer quit his job, sold all his property and moved to Nan, the newspaper Thai Rath reported.

It said he had originally been charged with attempted murder, but his victim would not testify in court. — AP

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