Man accused of killing Thai wife prosecuted for abuse in US
Chalida Ekvitthayavechnukul And Grant Peck
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In this Thursday, May 6, 2021, photo released by the Thai Provincial Police Region 5, police arrest and interrogate American citizen Jason Matthew Balzer, center, in Chiang Mai province northern Thailand before charging him for intentionally murdering his pregnant wife in Nan province. (Thai Provincial Police Region 5 via AP)
(AP) – A U.S. 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.
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.
Authorities charged a Colorado man for the murder of his pregnant wife in Thailand Friday.
The New York Daily News reports Jason Matthew Balzer confessed to authorities for the murder of Pitchaporn Kidchob.
The couple married in 2017.
According to Newsweek, the couple got into an argument and Kidchop tried to chase Balzer out of the house.
He allegedly stabbed his wife with a knife in a moment of anger and did not know she was three months pregnant.
The couple moved into their home in Nan and got married because Balzer said Kidchob gave him hope.
If convicted, he could get the death penalty.
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Authorities in Thailand said Friday that they’ve arrested and charged a Colorado man with murder after police found his young, pregnant wife brutally murdered and stuffed inside a trash bin. CBS 4 reports that police arrested Jason Matthew Balzer, 32, and charged him in connection with the death of Pitchaporn Kidchob, 32. The victim was …
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