On Thailand’s Full Moon Party island, a young YouTube chef allegedly admitted to killing and dismembering his gay partner.
The son of Spanish actor Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre and actress Silvia Bronchalo, Daniel Sancho Bronchalo, is suspected of killing Colombian plastic surgeon Edwin Arrieta Arteaga last Wednesday on Koh Pha Ngnan.
Shocked villagers discovered the 44-year-old’s body parts, including his hips and thighs, at a landfill on Thursday, August 3.
According to local police, social media sensation Sancho, 29, who traveled to Thailand on July 31 as a tourist, confessed to killing Mr. Arrieta over a dispute over “sex and money” to the authorities.
According to reports, the chef dismembered the body into 14 parts and dumped them in the water and other locations around the island before reporting the victim missing.
The two, who had been dating for a year, allegedly knew one another before traveling to the island to attend a party together last week.
The Spaniard was seen this morning walking around the island with police, when he allegedly gave them directions to a location on the beach where he used to kayak to dispose of other body parts. The victim’s hands and head were eventually discovered by police divers.
Prior to his court hearing in Thailand on Monday, he has been kept in jail and placed on suicide watch.
Police Lieutenant General Surapong Thanomjit said the chef would be charged with ‘premeditated murder and secretly moving or destroying a corpse to conceal a death or the cause of death’.
He said: ‘The suspect has confessed to being the one who killed Edwin Arrieta Arteaga and dismembered the body. He put the parts in a suitcase and left them in the sea.
‘He claimed that the victim was angry when he refused to sleep with him. Then he punched him in the head, causing him to fall over and hit the bathtub, so he cut the body to disguise the death.
‘Investigators found traces of the victim’s body in the hotel room the suspect booked.’
‘He admitted it,’ Koh Pha Ngan’s police chief Panya Niratimanon, told AFP, adding the investigation is ongoing.
‘The victim and the suspect knew each other before they came to Thailand, and his dubious activities indicate that he might murder the victim,’ Panya said.