New: Thai man drowns dad, sister in steel boxes over inheritance feud

A man in Thailand, a 35-year-old man, identified as Warut Datephumee, allegedly drowned his sister and father in separate steel boxes over his unhappiness with his father in an inheritance dispute. He was arrested by Thai police after the bodies of his sister and father were discovered on Jan. 9, reported Thai media outlets Thai Examiner and Thaiger.  Warut, the Thai man, confessed to the double murder, claiming that he was unhappy with how his father threatened to end their relationship and cut him off from his inheritance. 

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Locals in the Phang Khon district of Sakon Nakhon alerted the police after they spotted two metal boxes in Nong Lum Hin pond on Jan. 9 and the police found two bodies in the locked boxes tied with thick chains.They were later identified as a 33-year-old woman Piangpen Datephumee and her 68-year-old father Prayat Datephumee — sister and father of Warut.