If you set aside the brutal murder of his children’s mother, Wisut Boonkasemsanti is a real sport and all-around great guy, they say. So much that the gynecologist, sentenced to death for cutting up his wife and flushing her pieces down various toilets, was released yesterday from prison
After spening just over 10 years in jail for the grisly 2001 murder, Wisut Boonkasemsanti was released from Bangkok’s Bang Khwang prison for his wonderful behavior while behind bars.
Wisut already received two royal pardons and satisfied enough of his sentence to be eligible for release. He’ll have to check in and will be banned from traveling for another three years.
Corrections Department’s director general Witthaya Suriyawongse said Wisut is still under observation and he has to report to parole officials every month. He is prohibited from travelling overseas.
In February, 2001, Wisut murdered his wife, also a doctor, and cut her into little pieces which he then flushed down toilets at a hotel and at Chulalongkorn University Hospital.
On Feb. 20, Wisut made an appointment to dine with his estranged wife, Phassaporn Boonkasemsanti, at Siam Discovery Centre, according to a The Nation timeline. The next day, he forged documents claiming she would be meditating in Chantaburi for the next week. Police arrested him on March 23. Searching his room in the Withayaniwet building of Chulalongkorn Hospital, they found blood and 3.3 kilograms of human meat. A few days later they found more human meat in the septic tank of the Sofitel Central Hotel in Lat Phrao. The meat matched Phassaporn’s DNA.
The story of Wisut’s murder inspired the 2007 movie “Body No. 19” starring Arak Amornsupasiri.
Photo: Still from “Body No. 19”
