May 9, 2021
BANGKOK (AP) – A United States (US) citizen charged with killing his pregnant Thai wife in Thailand was accused of attempting to kill what appears to be the same woman while living in Colorado in 2019.
Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, was arrested on Thursday in the northern city of Chiang Mai and confessed to killing Pitchaporn Kidchob, 32, Chief of Provincial Police Region 5’s Detective Department Major General Weerachon Boontawee said on Friday. It is not clear whether he had a lawyer representing him.
The name of the woman Balzer was accused of attempting to kill while living in Longmont, Colorado, was redacted from court records.