Honey Trap murders and international manhunts when 33-year-old Mario petang suddenly disappeared after a night out family and friends scrambled to find him it began with this surveillance footage and ended with this terrifying figure and several secrets that nobody knew about meanwhile and almost 5,000 miles away when 16-year-old Ben suddenly disappeared from his mother's home in Thailand investigators would find more than one terrible tragedy but what his goal friend part of an evil plot or simply another victim today we are going International by looking at two stories that originate from Thailand stories that involve the United Kingdom Australia and America good morning good afternoon or good evening folks and welcome or welcome back to Coffee House crime my name is Adrien and today we're doing something a little bit different by looking at two stories in one video now both of these stories are very recent and I can pretty much guarantee that you've not heard of either of them but for those who want to know the Tim stamp for the first video is here and for the second one here by the way if you want to see more dark stories and True Crime then please make sure you're subscribed thank you all right and now that said please pull up a seat and grab yourself a coffee let's begin with the case of Mario Pat mang good day folks and welcome to Sydney now this place once again needs no introduction with Sydney Harbor Bridge Bondi Beach and the world famous Sydney Opera house it is no wonder why this place is recognized as one of the world's most iconic cities now personally I would love to hike through the Blue Mountains which can be found west of the city and give me a few months and I'm sure I will too our first case today takes us about 10 Mi west of Sydney's CBD to the suburbs of Sydney Olympic Park formerly known as home Bush Bay Sydney Olympic Park was renamed for well you get it the Olympics which for those of you who don't remember took place in Sydney at the turn of the new Millennia with so many sports facilities it is no surprise to learn that the population is relatively small here due to the lack of housing available only 5,000 people live here and even fewer when you go back to 2018 when this case occurred most of those found in Olympic Park are merely passing through it with the A3 and M4 serving as major arteries to the city's western suburbs and was along the banks of the A3 also known as homebush Bay Drve that one of those passing by came across a horrific Discovery at around 10:30 p. m. on June the 5th 2018 a truck driver working for the Australian post encountered a mechanical failure which required him to pull over after pulling into the emergency Lane of the A3 nearby Centennial Park the driver noticed a foul smell lingering in the air and after following his nose to the folage nearby he came across a terrible sight a body was wrapped in what appeared to be a mattress protector but what really gave it away was a pair of feet poking out from the plastic sheet and judging by the smell they had been there for quite a while police officers were immediately called to the crime scene and the emergency Lane and surrounding Park were sectioned off for examination however as with most cases identification would take some time police have revealed more details about the Body Found dumped beside homebush Bay Drve we now know that it belongs to a man and was found wrapped in material it was a broken down truck driver who made the discovery at about 10:30 last night it was in damp and dark Bushland police were quickly on the scene and had to move the body immediately to the Glee morg to try to preserve some of that evidence it's now undergoing an autopsy and it's hoped that will help detectives identify the man who didn't have any belongings on him nor any ID until then though police need the Public's help to fill in the gaps we strongly require the assistance of the public to identify this individual and how he came to be on the side of the road at homebush the body was found beside homebush Bay Drve one of Weston Sydney's busiest roads so police want drivers to check their dash cams from last night and over the past few days Also if anyone has concern concerns about a missing loved one they urged to contact Crim Stoppers back at the crime scene officers did not have much to go off of with this road being so busy the chances of identifying his killer was almost as realistic as finding a needle in a hay stack nevertheless new southwell's police department urged all motorists who were driving through the area in recent days to please check their dash cams just in case they'd inadvertently recorded something suspicious over the following days a postmortem examination revealed that the victim had been severely assaulted with blunt force trauma labeled as the leading cause of death in addition to this the autopsy report also noted that the man had been bound and gagged with a t-shirt before being wrapped up in plastic while scouring the crime scene detectives would also find a leather boot near the body which by the way would become a key piece of evidence later on in this story and although they didn't have much to go off initially they were just about to find out who the victim was to fast forward a couple of days and our victim was identified as a 33-year-old man named wakira petang affectionately nicknamed as Mario by loved ones wakira was a permanent resident of Australia residing in the nearby suburb of Hurstville born in the year 1985 he moved to Australia when he was 23 years old in the early days he lived with his aunt until he was able to establish himself but before moving to Australia he obtained a bachelor's degree while he lived with his mother viap in Thailand after working at a spa he eventually moved on to work at a Starbucks as a manager during the daytime and occasionally at a Thai restaurant in the evenings by the time that this story takes place Mario had fully established himself in Australia Not only was he married to his wife named rira but he also had countless friends through the many jobs and hobbies around Sydney at the time of his death he had lived in Australia for just over 10 years and was well acquainted with the city's vibrant lifestyle so when those who knew him found out about his death every single one of them was shocked none of his friends or loved ones believed that he had any enemies whatsoever or even knew anyone capable of doing such a Savage thing so surely his murder was made by an absolute stranger right well it turns out that Mario was actually a very mysterious man in fact he had more than one big secret to him and unfortunately for him all of this would be revealed shortly after his death so let let's talk about the first secret that has nothing to do with his death but Mario was actually bisexual you see despite having a wife and supposedly being happily married he also had a boyfriend in the city one that his wife had no idea about according to multiple sources his boyfriend was actually just down the road and the two of them would routinely meet up whenever he had free time but the other secret of his was far more dangerous you see Mario considered himself to be somewhat of a smalltime drug dealer and he would routin keenly sell methamphetamine on the streets to help fund his lifestyle now his wife and his family had no idea about any of these two big secrets and so you can likely imagine the shock they must have felt when they found out what he was doing in his spare time but saying that a couple of Mario's friends did actually suspect that he may have been a drug dealer I mean put quite bluntly he was buying way too many luxury items to be just a Starbucks manager but alas no one believed he was even capable of hurting another person according to family friends and everyone else who knew him he was sweet gentle and kind and definitely not the type of person to be dabbling in the drug industry it didn't take long for investigators to uncover more information about his death either and one of their first Clues came in the form of surveillance footage at 7:28 p.
m. in the evening of May the 25th 2018 a surveillance camera located at a 7-Eleven shop in South Hurstville captured Mario walking into the store door with another man close behind it was soon determined that the two must know each other but were trying to seem unrelated in front of the obvious cameras leading detectives to believe that he was likely Mario's associate undisclosed San's footage also showed Mario's associate making three attempts to withdraw money from the store's ATM machine but ultimately was unsuccessful now surely that was not part of the plan here but shortly after that the two left the store and then disappeared officers soon learned that the man that Mario was with was 40-Year-Old Alex Dion and the interesting thing here is that he also now seemed to be missing with their newly found knowledge of Mario's drug dealings they believed that perhaps this could have been a drug deal gone wrong and this is where the story becomes even more concerning because several miles away and just north of Sydney a construction worker was just about to discover a very perp ing package his assignment on a new property which was currently being built required him to perform some routine checks on the water tank but after making his way over to inspect that water tank he noticed that something was inside it peering in he saw a bag that was filled with clothes a metal bar and two Tire irons and after taking a closer look he realized that the clothes found within had blood all over them no surprise he called the authorities immediately when officers investigating Mario's case caught wind of this information they were quick to realize that Alex had in fact been working on that very same property the week prior you see Alex was a Tyler so he would have needed several days at that house and now suddenly this was all looking a little too suspicious for him when they tried to contact Alex for questioning they were no surprise met with silence and after stopping by his property well more bad news his neighbors confirmed that they hadn't seen him in over a week in addition to this several neighbors came forward to the officers to claim that they had seen him washing his car with a high press hose in the early morning hours before he disappeared with this in mind the New South Wales Police Department held a news conference to seek The public's help in Mario's case and while doing this they quietly revealed some evidence on Alex to see how he would react but before we continue this case who precisely is Alex Dion well unfortunately not a huge amount is known about him but there are a few details so Alex was actually a US citizen who only lived in Sydney for work he was a married man with a wife and two children all of which lived back in the US in California what he was doing in Sydney wasn't particularly clear however he had established himself for a couple of years now after being in a horrific car accident a year prior he was left with both chronic pain and discomfort comfort and so as a result he turned to methampetamine to help cope with that pain it was already known that he had connections with another drug dealer who in that time had been arrested so it's likely that Alex then moved over to Mario to find new Supply so we have a man who takes methamphetamine who is caught on surveillance camera with a drug dealer who is now dead and he failed to withdraw cash from the ATM for those drugs all of this is slowly starting to make sense now don't you think ironically Alex would contact the authorities before they had the chance to track him down but he was actually nowhere near them anymore in fact he was all the way over in San Diego he told the police that he believed that it was his housemate and friend who had killed Mario but when asked if he had Mario's phone number and credit cards he did admit to taking them to America with him and that wasn't great news for officers who now had even more questions than when they began however before they could even establish a more permanent connection with Alex he had instead hung up on them never to call again so let's talk about what actually happened starting from the very beginning after losing his previous supplier Alex got in touch with Mario to see if he could sort out some methamphetamine that is when the two arranged to meet at a local 7-Eleven store in Hurstville which of course is where this surveillance footage was captured the surveillance camera shows that Alex couldn't withdraw any cash required to pay Mario which of course created a problem for their deal so Alex's Plan B was rather simple he decided to Rob Mario instead he invited him back to his apartment where he promised he had the money as a result the two of them then traveled back to his place with Mario as a passenger that is when unfortunately he was mercilessly battered across the head sustaining very significant trauma and more than 24 head injuries in the process which of course ultimately caused his death Alex then ripped up his T-shirt using it to tie Mario up before wrapping his body in a mattress protector and placing it in the back of his Hundai Teran SUV after that he then drove around the city smoking all of the ice he had stolen he eventually found himself on homebush Bay Drve where he callously dumped the body discarding only one of Mario's leather boots in the process he then dumped his bloody clothing amongst other items at the construction site he was working at in the days prior blood had found its wayway into the boot and exterior of his car forcing Alex to pressure wash the vehicle in the middle of the night the commotion caused others living nearby to notice what he was doing which was another vital clue which helped the police to pin him down in an eratic state after consuming a bunch of methamphetamine and also you know murdering someone Alex called his wife in the United States and told her that he had found himself in trouble now of course he wasn't going to tell her that he had just murdered someone instead he claimed that he was being targeted by Rogue drug dealers and that his life was in danger this quite clearly panicked her and so as a result she bought him a flight ticket back home scheduled to leave that night now because she was the one to buy him a ticket it was less evident that he had fled the country however officers would eventually find this image of Alex at the airport but before leaving Alex had one more trick up his sleeve he used Mario's phone to text his housemate to organize a drug deal that would never take place in what was a crude attempt to implicate his friend in the murder real slimy stuff and so only 24 hours after Mario's death Alex was gone he bordered a one-way flight to the United States flying home to San Diego via Honolulu believe it or not but shortly after arriving in the United States he then tried to use Mario's card three times to get money but again failing to acquire the cash that he so desperately wanted to blow on Ice by the time Alex became a blip on detectives Radars he was already long gone and unfortunately his arrest warrant would take quite some time too 3 months later in September of 2018 it was finally issued and with Australia and the US cooperating in the EXT tradition treaty they could thankfully demand him back with notice you know maybe if Alex had kept his head down for a while then he could have outrun the American authorities but due to his own stupid actions it was actually effortless to find him he was already behind bars on a domestic violence charge in San Diego and so after completing that charge he was extradited to Australia on April the 14th 2019 where he was then arrested immediately after arriving in Sydney and so with Alex now in their hands he was at the full mercy of the law so how do you think he pleaded not guilty of course he told officers that not only had he not murdered Mario but he was not responsible for any of his injuries either in addition to this he would once again tell officers that he believed that his housemate was the one to murder Mario and the reason why he was framed well that's because he secretly fancied his girlfriend Alex would also claim that his barbaric housemate forced him to dispose of the body and that for whatever reason he had to do it naked however several parts to his story was simply not adding up to the evidence stacking against him namely the part where he told officers that Mario was with his housemate at the gas station his bogus testimony aside other articles of evidence make his involvement almost irre all I mean for one the shirt he had worn on the 90 murdered Mario which was also picked up on surveillance footage was the very shirt found in Mario's mouth when his body was discovered in addition to this the leather boot found under his body matched another leather boot found in Alex's apartment clearly proving that Mario was inside of his home Mario's DNA was also found on the wall of Alex's garage where he washed his vehicle and phone records showed that the two were in contact with each other throughout the entire day before he died now Alex did admit that he intended to buy $900 worth of methamphetamine from Mario however as we know his debit cards were then declined at the service station and although he claimed that he didn't kill Mario he did admit that he was the one who disposed of his body saying quote I was very embarrassed to tell any person what I had done it was embarrassing to tell the truth yeah no [ __ ] Alex while in court the prosecution argued that Alex deliberately called caused very serious injuries to Mario in which resulted in his death this included 27 soft tissue injuries to his head and fractures to his skull which usually are inflicted with a high degree of force there was one forensic pathologist who suggested that the extent of head injuries that Mario had suffered could have been caused by him falling over however other Pathologists rebuffed these claims saying that this would require Mario to fall onto a raised object and then stand up and then fall down several more times times to injure different parts of his head they also argued that there was no evidence to suggest the injuries were caused in self-defense or that Alex had help from any other parties in the end the jury found him guilty of the murder of Mario petang he was therefore sentenced to 25 years in jail with a non-parole period of 18 years and 9 months this means that with time served Alex will be eligible for parole in September of 2043 which sounds like a very long time away if you ask me during his sentencing the judge said Mrpetang was dumped in a sad and pitiful resting place in a contemptuous manner with about as much respect as would be afforded by a piece of rubbish one constant in all of the descriptions of wera petang was that he was a peaceful and nonviolent person from the time he realized that he'd been lured into a trap in the underground car park until he lost Consciousness he would have been terrified and your tears at the sentencing hearing are insufficient to demonstrate remorse and so with all said and done Alex is now behind bars where he will stay for the next couple of decades meanwhile Mario is gone and will never have the opportunity to experience life again his aunt told the Supreme Court that she regrets bringing her nephew to Australia while his mother said she knows in her heart that he was a good person and that he always treated his parents with gratitude she further said that she is tortured by her only son's horrific death and struggled R to understand why it happened in her own words she said I miss my son so much nowadays I live as if I can only breathe to survive I'm like a dead person while still alive his wife said that while loving Mario may not have been the easiest task in the world sometimes she loves him now and forever you know stories like this always come with some form of mild internal conflict I mean I feel terrible for Mario as all of us should he never deserved to die but this is one of the many reasons why you should not stick your nose in drugs unfortunately some addicts will murder for supply and Mario he had it I do really hope that his family and friends are recovering from this terrible story and now with that said it's time to move on to the next one our next case takes us to the same country in which Mario was born and of course I'm talking about Thailand but unfortunately the ending to this is just as tragic so the information around this story is a little more limited lied to what we normally cover here in coffee house crime hence why this is a much shorter story but the information available will absolutely terrify you and so without further Ado please grab yourself another coffee this is the case of vet toota welcome to Thailand folks now we have been here a few times before on the channel but unlike our previous stories all of which have happened on the southern Islands today we are traveling to the northern and mountainous region of changai it's a place that I've been to myself on more than one occasion and changmai has a very special place in my heart to name a few amazing things it is brimming with waterfalls ancient cities bustling markets and incredible Wildlife saying that the rules and regulations for Animal Welfare are not the best here so please do your research before you spend money to see tigers and elephants this place is seriously beautiful though and honestly I hope to return for a third visit sometime in the future but enough about that let's talk about a case that disrupted the area's peace and Tranquility travel southeast of changmai and you will soon find a city named lampang with a population of 60,000 people it is a lot quieter than its larger neighbors that being changai and Chang Rai rainforests mountains rivers and lakes surround the area and it's a place where you could easily disappear if you wanted to lamang also faces very aggressive weather conditions with temperatures reaching up to 44° C or 111° F during their Summers cast yourself back a little over a year ago to the start of 2023 and one of those living here was a young man named waret toota waret also had the nickname Ben so for the rest of this video we're going to refer to him by his nickname now Ben was a jeel national having a British father named Steve and a time mother named oi it was in the year 2000 that Steve and oi fell in love with each other with Steve eventually moving to Thailand to help pursue the relationship fast forward four years and they had built a beautiful home in the countryside got married and had a baby boy named Ben Ben would often Stand Out Among his friends as a toddler with thanks to his blonde hair he was a cheeky Boy Who Loved football and could speak both Thai and English now unfortunately the two would eventually divorce leaving Ben right in the middle he would ultimately remain with his mother in lampang while his father made the rather difficult decision to return to England but regardless Steve would visit his son quite often he recognized the quality of Ben's life was better in Thailand with his mother and the friends he had made now Ben was 16 years old at the time that this case took place but despite his age he was already quite the character it is clear through the many photos and videos of him online that he highly valued offer Road biking in fact it looks like he was really into the sport as a proud Rider and member of the soop pra motorcycle club he would go on to win several Motocross trophies and hoped to one day open up his own motorbike repair garage and through other photos it seems that he was also quite the plant enthusiast and loved his puppy but there was a dodgy side to Ben to unknown to his parents he was actually buying and selling drugs in the area in fact he was actually quite vocal about it too as you can see through his many translated Facebook posts which if you ask me is quite a bold move to say the least but Ben was very well loved with many friends two families a bunch of motorbike fans and even two girlfriends he was never alone he was known to be bright vocal and very expressive the kind of guy that would never be quiet so you can probably imagine when on May the 6th 2023 family and friends were very concerned when he suddenly fell silent now to begin with nobody knew a Ben had gone but after a while Ben's mother realized that her scooter was missing from the garage and so she assumed he must have taken it somewhere so with that in mind she contacted many of his friends but after realizing that nobody knew where he was she decided to call the authorities instead after contacting the authorities officers were quick to find this surveillance footage now the concerning clue here is that he was with one of his girlfriends friends named surich Chaya kamza who had the nickname pingpong they drove together on a road they would usually take to see her grandfather who lived just outside of the city after a little digging around and asking questions the Thai police soon confirmed that they had spent time with her grandfather before dropping off his other girlfriend yam back home yam told the officers that Ben and pingpong had planned to meet a man in the forest though she didn't know what for now she assumed it probably had something to do with drugs but she herself wasn't certain but this was all the officers needed to go down a new rabbit hole and that is when they found this surveillance footage a small glimpse of a scooter traveling into the darkness at 7:18 p. m.
