Buckle up for a weird one, folks.
A Bangkok DJ is at the center of a highly unusual case being looked at by police, one in which an animal rights group has accused her of killing a cat she adopted — mostly likely within hours of picking it up — and returning a corpse they say was missing its internal organs.
Watchdog Thailand on Saturday filed a police report against Wararat Krasae, 30, after a kitten she adopted from a donor on Facebook turned up dead and her explanations were found deeply wanting.
On Friday, the cat’s original owner, Issaraporn Samutgalin, 29, took to Facebook to allege suspicious behavior by Wararat, a post that quickly went viral.
Issaraporn wrote that she handed the kitten over to the DJ at a pet clinic on Wednesday, but when she reached out to inquire about the cat’s welfare later that night, Wararat failed to respond to phone calls or messages on LINE and Facebook.
When Issaraporn reached Wararat the next day, the DJ then allegedly claimed she had never adopted the cat. When confronted with the fact that the clinic had security cameras, Wararat finally acknowledged the adoption, Issaraporn said, saying she had already given the cat to a friend because she was allergic.
“This means she did not have good intention towards the kitten,” Issaraporn wrote.
Wararat is reportedly a freelance DJ who goes by the stage name “DJ Sun.” After the alleged animal abuse received media attention, several photos of Wararat campaigning at pro-democracy events circulated the web.
Both women agreed to settle their problems at Phetkasem police station on Saturday. To the horror of Issaraporn, Wararat came to the police station with the corpse of the kitten. During the interrogation, the DJ could not provide police with a legit reason of how or why the cat was dead, saying she had simply lost the animal and later found its corpse, according to Daily News.
Nothing suspicious turned up during the search of her condo that day and police have thus far not pressed charges.
The body of the kitten, meanwhile, is currently in the possession of Watchdog Thailand, the organization assisting Issaraporn with the case. And this is where the story gets truly strange.
Watchdog Thailand conducted its own autopsy of the cat and on Saturday took their findings to Facebook, claiming that the kitten was missing all of its internal organs and showed signs of being beaten severely in the head and chest area. There were also numerous cuts cuts along its body.
In a post that accompanied their autopsy findings, the group included a line saying that “followers of the case online” suspected that the cat’s killing had been videotaped and circulated on the “dark web” — a point widely picked up by Thai media outlets.
However, Coconuts Bangkok spoke directly with Watchdog Thailand this afternoon, who said they had zero evidence supporting that conclusion and that “followers of the case online” essentially means nothing more than “netizen theories” at this point.
The group is expected to meet with the police again today.
Pol. Lt. Col. Soontorn Malavej, deputy chief of Phetkasem Police, said today there is not sufficient evidence at this point to charge Wararat under the Animal Cruelty Crime law, since it’s not clear how or where the kitten died.
He said he will assign a government animal hospital to conduct an autopsy of its own before deciding how to precede, Thai PBS reported.
