NAKHON SRI THAMMARAT: Mystery surrounds the murder of a who was discovered overwhelmed and stabbed to demise, his penis burnt to a crisp. The grisly homicide was reported to Thung Yai District Police around dawn on November 2. Arriving at the scene, in a rubber-tapping neighborhood in Tambon Prik, police led by Duty Inspector Pol Lt Col Leuachai Thongsin discovered the body of 31-year-old Wacharakorn Krainara in front of his home in Village 2. Clad in a red shirt and black pants, the corpse was covered in deep slash marks. Mold appeared to have been crushed with a blunt object. Police discovered a lit candle caught on his forehead, together with extinguished candles in every ear and one more in his mouth. Strangest of all was the victim’s penis, or what was left of it. His killers had used a rubber boot as gasoline for a fireplace to burn the sex organ. Police didn’t need to journey far to discover a prime suspect. Right throughout the street from the murder scene was the house of Rarn Klomsuk, quiet with doors shut and apparently unoccupied. When the owner returned a while later, police asked to go looking the house. There they found bloodstained clothes belonging to Rarn’s 30-year-old son, Preuksa. He was taken in for questioning, however denied involvement in the killing. Preuksa’s younger brother, however, advised police that he was house the evening before when Preuksa returned home with three or 4 associates, all drunk. The group sat in a wong lao (“whisky circle”) and continued consuming at the house. The younger brother left the home for a quiet place to sleep. Returning the following morning, he found his neighbor’s lifeless body across the street. Pol Lt Col Nithitorn Tanserisakul, Deputy Superintendent of the Thung Yai Police, mentioned preliminary makes an attempt to track down the other members of Preuksa’s wong lao had failed. Thung Yai Police Superintendent Pol Col Prasert Reeyaphan mentioned that Preuksa and his pals were members of a gang of drug-addicted rubber tappers whose nefarious activities were well known to native police. He suspected that the group, engaged in a drug-f