Murder In Paradise (Crime Documentary) | Real Stories

this is the story of an island paradise a paradise were the dark side as much of a beautiful place that it is don't be fooled don't be tricked a story of mysterious deaths and conspiracy theories the way that leads straight to tear suppose disgraceful I think that they just try and cover these things what the murders of Tim British backpackers it was a very scary time while we tried to piece together what had happened and a police was under fire the alleges that he was sexually assaulted abused beaten threatened threats from the local mafia thank you can throw people I mean go they control money they know when Outsiders coming in and trial by Internet this is the inside story of murder in paradise [Music] Kota is a haven for young backpackers [Music] an isolated island 250 miles from the Thai capital Bangkok only accessible by boat more than half a million travelers come here every year drawn to the beaches nightlife and head anism Jack Van Horn lived in Thailand for three years and turd the islands it's magical when you first arrived everything is perfect and because the contrast between they the way were kind of policed in Europe and everything's controlled when you arrive in Thailand you feel like you can do what you like after three months traveling across Southeast Asia Annabel Emma and Holly have just arrived we don't do much research into code it said it was that same island in Thailand so we have obviously look here alligators a lot more time to this side yeah and we were gonna book extra nights here then he stressed the hope because we love it so much Kato might be fun but the friends are mindful of a recent murder I didn't realize that it was actually on this island Anu is entirely unaware it was coat out though I do realize I think I didn't realize to actually go into the island that happened until we can everyone the beach I realize one the beach where that happened which was placed ranged [Music] just like the girls Hannah weather agent David Miller arrived on hotel looking for adventure Hannah is 23 and on a break from a postgraduate degree [Music] her family tried to persuade her not to go to Thailand but she suddenly books tickets and tells them she's leaving she's in regular touch with her mum he was concerned for her safety [Music] David is about to start a scholarship with a mining company he comes from Jersey and has a tight group of friends who travel with him around Thailand [Music] they go to a full moon party where David is center stage [Music] Hanna and David meet by chance because they're staying in the same hotel at around 7 p.m. on September 14th 2014 they drink with friends in a bar on Syre beach just after midnight the group goes in different directions Hanna and three of her friends head to another beachfront bar known as the AC bar CCTV captures David at a supermarket and chatting in the streets at 2:00 a.m. he joins Hanna at some point after 2:15 Hannah and David leave the bar and walk along the beach they are just meters from the safety of their hotel not long after sunrise local hotel owner mantra what tuition is drank from his bed no he didn't from Apple and her new who Nokia no but I will be happy but home the copper Kolya Pecola markup or norm committed subtly keeping what I collect he might tell Punk up look nan Chao / man blood is mixed with sand I know whether it is body lies on the shore she has been brutally attacked and appears to have been raped when party main a new one in PAP yeah aunty la Luna no Alemany time if I'm so gonna 12 metres from Hannah another body floats in the shallows David Miller he has severe head wounds a garden hoe covered in blood is found nearby EMU's of the murders quickly spreads across the island I was asleep in bed and I got a knock at my door and it was one of my best friends who's a dive instructor here on the island and she came over with the news which wasn't really the story as we know it today and it's kind of a game of you know telephone we didn't know exactly what had happened we had heard these rumors and it was a very scary time while we tried to piece together what had happened the police are now at the beach sergeant Chad guru is the first officer to arrive wake up Curtin Singapore motika hernia from Lucy Kong Hong Hamin coordinate Damon cantaloupe and elope with the Nevada human Concordia my day thinkin the financial collider from luciecox woman whoo man whoo whoo no boo boo from lone yeah well open container Tommy Santa succeed me king rama v me me Rohan tell me confirm it yeah common well a little liver - bye oh hi - hi my name is Han Rothman - ooh sick ticket kaboom the Thai police open a murder investigation but there are only six officers on the island and they don't get off to a good start they struggle to control the crime scene strangers are wandering across restricted areas bystanders are taking photos of the dead bodies and posting them on social media [Music] the chaotic scenes don't go down well in Bangkok the police is handling of the case threatens to embarrass Thailand a senior officer is sent from the police headquarters to direct operations he apologizes to David's family some confidential material that leaked out if they're really bad especially if the photos of the victims on the crime scene and that they were traumatized the the family the victim's family once I have talked to David father on the phone I said sorry despite the problems at the crime scene the police focus on the forensic evidence tests a run on cigarette butts the murder weapon and David in Hannah's bodies the results yield a crucial lead officers say they have found the DNA profiles of two Asian men but the forensic evidence will become one of the most contentious parts of the case the police will soon face allegations of serious misconduct being influenced by the Mafia and even torture the Thai island of Koh Tao is one of Southeast Asia's most popular destinations for young travelers stunning beaches clear seas a stretch of beachfront bars but this beautiful island is the backdrop to a brutal double murder British backpackers Hana weather agent David Miller are beaten to death after leaving a bar Alexandra box has lived on Kanto for six years and writes a blog about the island I couldn't help but be very affected by that story I was Hana a few years ago when I came to koh tao exploring this beautiful country for the first time so i have my heart goes out to that family i can't imagine what they've gone through the Thai police believe they have an early lead they say they have found the DNA profiles of two Asian men from Hannah's body officers sweep the island taking swabs from as many Asian men as possible the atmosphere is tense there are now more than 60 offices on the island normally there are only six rumors are circulating about powerful local families dealt by some residents the kotel mafia what we call with a mafia I'm really lucky they're more just families of a lot of control who Overland's to own the people and who own what comes on and off of islands that's what makes the island mafia a little bit different from the mainland because they can control people who come and go they control money they know when an Outsiders coming in to kind of check up Oliver doing maybe one family is consistently linked to the murders on social media the two regimes they own more businesses on syuri Beach than any other family mantra wat T which him is the first high to see Hannah and David's bodies he then appears to play a major role in the police investigation first he is seen in a restricted area as the police gather forensic evidence my papi picked up dongle I blew into my my my him get a life hawa then had a chameleon mind I hope you come back up clear I come back up lumpia Manticore Tao la coka come her peepin collect Kodama 40 him himself in hooligan okapi picket on kyoko muni he don't copy anybody home Hey I can't go Nicole Abdul come on a week later mantra wat confronts the potential witness Shawn McKenna is friends with David Miller mantra wat and the police officer chase him into a supermarket to ask him about allegations he was seen covered in blood on the night of the murder Shawn posts to his Facebook page time a fear are trying to kill me Sean gives a terrifying account of what he says happens next to a British newspaper before fleeing then they just said to me initiating everytime people to keep those deaths in your mantra disagrees he says Sean run away when he started asking questions you want to look at that tilted Mahal ko check or higher Aamir Khan high remaining a torn cogema dogma look a wing by lockup by t supermarket Oh pick up imma do it look I'm Kenya comment on wings look cool yeah hello got songs are you laughs la da morte are a man or a condom no matter my tongue wing local time Kenya yeah hello Penelope woman what man like a corner when poo body soon man concealed and ran with Lisa much it to a gallon can't even I can estrellas are in time arrived Kenichi Leon with Lazarre la ropa to Barney I'm chillin Sean McKenna denies any involvement he says he had a cut on his body but this occurred before the murders he says he cooperated with the police and he believes the threat to kill him was genuine the police are still trying to identify the DNA profiles of the two Asian men they focus upon the Burmese migrant community Burmese outnumber Thais on koh tao they are the engine of the island doing most of the jobs in hotels and bars many of them enter the country illegally Andy Hall is a migrant rights campaigner he says the Burmese are treated poorly by the times they're very much unrespected unwelcome and unwanted you know so people take from them what they need in terms of their physical labor their manual labor but they don't give them the rights and they're very high risk of exploitation abuse whether by brokers by their employers also by corrupt officials 13 days after the murder Andy Hall gets reports the police are brutally targeting the Burmese as we started to get calls from workers who said they were being tortured or abused as part of the investigation into the case so we sent a team to the island to gather information and we got a lot of information which we consider was reliable and we got photos we got documents to show that people are being abused [Music] this is the most serious injury a man claims officers poured boiling hot water on him the police deny all of the accusations [Music] just days after this alleged torture a turning point in the investigation [Music] officers identify three Burmese migrants spotted on CCTV near the crime scene maman zulan my Pio the men admit they were on Syre beach on the night of the murder Mon Mon is released but zulan and way P o are arrested on immigration offenses neither man has a lawyer and at this stage they are only witnesses in the murder investigation but this police video never broadcast before shows way Pio apparently reconstructing the crimes the police say both men had confessed by this point I was before this was filmed way Pio claims he was tortured by the police his testicles were pinged he was in a lot of pain he was left naked in a room with lots of police officers photos were taken of him naked alleges that he was sexually assaulted abused beaten threatened to have his electrocuted to be burnt to be you know thrown into the middle of the ocean or whatever at one point the police translator strokes way piays head as he struggles to remember what happened zulan also claims he was tortured but the police are confident that they are the killers because of two crucial bits of evidence first they claim the Burmese are a perfect match to the DNA found at the crime scene and on Hanna's body we found inside the body we found out the secret and so mainly that's enough for us second officers believe they can prove way pio stole David's phone they find this handset at an address linked to the burmese way Pio tells officers he found it on the beach the Thai police contact the National Crime Agency in Britain they provide the serial number showing it belong to David the arrests are a coup for the Thai police in a show of confidence they stage a public reconstruction on syuri beach yet there is growing unease on koh tao the Thai police's track record is hardly unblemished especially when investigating the deaths of Western tourists eight months before Hannah and David were murdered Nick Pearson died on the island the Pearson's were on a family holiday after a night out on syuri beach they returned to their hotel at around 2:00 a.m. Nick had had a drink and needed help getting to his room all of his won back together we took Nick back to his room because me and my dad had to help him he was limping his knee was really infected from a fall they had a few days before that my husband saw him to his room and watched him getting bad took his shoes off and shorts and climbed into bed said goodnight the next day he was found floating in the bay at the bottom of this hotel he was in the same underwear he had worn to bed and his key was still inside his room an autopsy revealed he had no broken bones suggesting he did not fall we thought well maybe there's a chance that he could have slept walked or something but when you look at the the layout of the resort if there's no nobody is gonna sleep walk around around that environment there's steep rocks and steep steps and everything curving around and going around corners and stuff so I mean that that's completely out of the question it must have been about 50 feet down to the water just on a gradient but it was all rocky we walked down to see how maybe it could have fallen into the water but when he got not too far down there was a massive rock so it wouldn't have been able to fall any further because the rock would have stopped him it doesn't make any sense whatsoever to was that he would have walked all the way down to the bottom of the resort and slipped and fell into the ocean and and drowned like that just wouldn't have happened there's no way the police concluded that Nick drowned and ruled out foul play but his family thinks he might have been murdered the night before he had been warned off chatting to a young Thai woman in this bar the pearsons feel the Thai police did not do enough to investigate they say they didn't look in his hotel room or interview any witnesses Nick's brother Matt lived in Thailand for four years he says he loves the country but believes koh tao has no rule of law when you arrive you earn by boat Co Tao or you can see are these beautiful hills green trees blue skies blue ocean beautiful sandy beaches paradise but it seems like that is all a front really for the deeper dark things are happening which we found out the hard way that the island is obviously run by the Mafia the Thai police say they did investigate Nick's death and deny any allegations of corruption but officers are still under scrutiny as more Westerners die on koh tao and the burmese go on trial [Music] just over two weeks after the murders of Hanna with a rich in David Miller the Thai police charged two Burmese migrants zoralan am YPO but there are questions about the conduct of officers including allegations of torture the police deny the claims and insist their investigation was carried out properly we are not the best of police in the world but we try to do our best we try to bring justice to the victim's family the pressure on the police is about to increase human rights campaigner Andy Hall takes up the case of the Burmese he puts together a legal team and goes to koh tao to investigate he meets the alleged killers both in their early twenties when I met them they were in a really bad state to be honest they were shackled 24 hours a day they were kept in a room 24 hours a day on the basis the fact that they were risk of either killing themselves or killing other people zulan and YPO tell Andi Hall that they only confessed to the crimes after they have been tortured by the police 18 days after their arrest the confessions are withdrawn to hear a first-hand account of these allegations we went undercover in koh samui district prison with only one phone to talk to the men we are reliant upon the translator to accurately relay their comments zulan describes his alleged experience first [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] it's not too when they are in our custody we send them to the hospital to make a report to record about their physical there's no Brewster no not even there even their statement or even asking for any doctor so can you tell me 100 percent that need azulon or y fo were tortured yeah sure December 2014 zulan and YPO are charged with murder and rape the judge adjourns the case until the summer [Applause] as New Year breaks more suspicious death song Hotel [Music] Frenchman Dimitri Hobbs is found hanged in his bungalow the police conclude it's suicide but his hands are tied behind his back raising doubts about how he could have killed himself three weeks later British tourist Christina Anna's leas found dead in her hotel room again it's entire beach again the Thai police are criticized Cristina had just started a four-month trip around Asia we were starting to get worried and we're sending a texts and asking the friends if they hid it from her I thought what they were doing out I came home from work and the police had been waiting for us as soon as they knocked on the door Meggy just sort of collapsed sister Utley Christina's father does not know how or why his daughter died on the night of her death she had been taking some medication for a chest infection and had been drinking but her father is frustrated he fills the Thai authorities failed to investigate if the combination of medicine and alcohol was sufficient to kill her no toxicology report we can't understand how she could have died the lack of investigation by the Thai police the lack of even worrying about the following things through and astounds me [Music] the most glaring issue for her father is that the police did not interview the last man to see his daughter alive at around 6 a.m. a man was seen on CCTV leaving her room the police knew his identity but failed to contact him so Christina's dad tracked him down himself his name was in the Thai police report so that further astounds me because they managed to identify him they know he left the island six hours after her death he was due to go so there's nothing suspicious about that there was the time is due to Sofia so if they found out his name his nationality where he stayed they would have the address why they couldn't contact him just to eliminate him or to get some information off him to me biggest belief now how we found him was because we had the name it was a simple affair of going on the internet typing his name and he comes up on Facebook and in the UN we managed to get a phone number and I actually rain and spoke to him but I bet emotional yeah because we probably see me we would have been we would have liked to been the last people but on talking to him he seemed sprit quite straightforward the Thai police say they only have limited resources on koh tao which is a long way from the mainland the string of deaths do nothing for the island's reputation Cotto is struggling to maintain its image is a holiday paradise but the mayor says many of the tourists who have died are responsible for their own downfall then gonna go Papa John's hidden at a tiny number a me qualms and I couldn't I couldn't allow you up in low-volume now Maya Dorian do with he gone miss a combatant transmitted across Idaho Nevada homeland how simple hostage mr. Bonilla Goodman tomato what the hell underlying I couldn't get a name Koo Yong didn't like me like then kidney Ahok on connecting yet cap Lord Messiah rayon could untie what he hate yeah nam do it he made it a one hop Lagarde combo what my life in Burma taken me to a pie that's only a turban foreign although he made me lose the Torah Mawlana Tom let me die July za lane and YPO stand trial at the heart of the case is the forensic evidence the prosecution build their arguments around the DNA samples from Hannah's body which are damning evidence against the Burmese they claim repeatedly in court that the accused are a 100% match and Eagle disagrees you cannot say that so anything is a hundred percent you know DNA doesn't work in that way is very complex in the kind of samples that we're using here we're talking about multiple contributors we're talking about Hannah we're talking about a test a control we're talking about we're pure we're talking about sodium we're talking about four DNA profiles within one sample the speed at which that was analyzed and the way in which it was presented as a hundred percent certain defies the logic of forensic standards the defense refuses to retest the samples from Hannah's body because they say it was not collected or stored to international standards this point is reinforced in court by their forensic expert dr. palm tip or Janice Sunan she claims the police made a number of errors at the crime scene including failing to use a forensic doctor Santa could hear hear Johnny Mikado can compare cooking in Yemen subs on my have Omega by song on remember then yo man I do a light on my pie pumpkin my tea could hear me titli like my neck tomotommy corner a woman like her nanny acted on and like a tech shop in her name to the bottom or either way the defense also argues that the police failed to test a number of items from the crime scene including blood on the rocks and sand and Hannah's clothes [Music] but the crucial issue they say is the murder weapon dr. Porntip reveals to the court that she has retested the garden home she says she found DNA from David Miller and another unknown male who is neither Zul in Norway Pio what okay ideas off my resume using the old he couldn't so Mike hacker could talk said make a one-time contour Tito yeah I being a Hebrew one team Totti damn like a DNA profile Kunia cutter pain Homer wrote song : heaven which I well DNA notable arimathea tanto Metro today Punto Nia living for Camp royalty so loop I hate how I been home but not which I don't want them is a television sound like a pond captain that's a big problem when the murder weapon which must be used with such force gripped so hard actually doesn't have the DNA of the accused on it when they're being tried on a capital murder case that could lead to their execution there needs to be more the defense feels this is a breakthrough but the police insists the forensic evidence is up to scratch [Music] I have no idea wife people doesn't believe in that evidence we we did it in the laboratory we did it with the specialists the the equipment that they use is come from Europe and standard things like that comply with ISO or something I cannot remember when questioned by us in prison Zola and YPO cannot explain why their DNA could have been found on Hanna with orange [Music] [Music] yes or no did you kill Hannah william eacho and David [Music] the court adjourns after three months of evidence [Music] David Miller's family including parents and brother Michael returned home after attending almost everyday the prosecution asked for the death penalty there is no jury the fate of zulan away PR rests with three judges Koh Samui District Court Christmas Eve 2015 the mothers of the accused Poosh when you and door may turn are about to enter court their sons are accused of murdering and raping Hannah wither egde and murdering David Millar the prosecution has asked for the death penalty [Music] and II will be learned and where am i oh yeah one hour later a guilty verdict and the death penalty the judges are persuaded by the prosecution that the Burmese match the DNA found on Hannah's body the allegations of torture doubts about the murder weapon and questions about the forensic evidence are dismissed while the Burmese families are distraught David Miller's family who attended almost the entire trial welcomed the verdict we believe that after a difficult start the Royal Thai police conducted a methodical and thorough investigation having listened carefully to all the evidence and despite what their lawyers say it is our opinion that the evidence against WIPO and Su Lin is absolutely overwhelming they raped to satisfy their selfish desires and murdered to cover up that fact they have shown no remorse during the trial an appeal is planned but zulan and Waipio head to death row anonymous the battle over their conviction moves from the courtroom to the computer screen it has come to our attention that a Thai Court in Thailand has recently sentenced two Burmese migrants to be executed the online activist group Anonymous champions their cause they hacked and crashed the time police websites and then release a controversial video accusing the police of framing zulan and rapier Thai police have accused innocent people before and would rather blame foreigners or migrants for such crimes so as to protect their tourism industry the film received support from an unlikely source [Music] the sister of Hannah with orig Laura whether it rights a furious message on Facebook attacking Thailand and endorsing the video many Thais hate Westerners and they have little to no regard for human life [Music] the trial stirs uncomfortable memories for some families they warn parents should stop their children even thinking of going to co-towel I've told him to do anything in their power to stop them going he's dangerous in view of what's happened to David Miller and Hanna with rich and various other he proved out right about here just all leads to the same thing and their parents must be going through how just like we are and we have been for the last almost two years doesn't ever go away I've got no desire to go there at all and the only desire it have would be to go and see the last place her daughter was in and they never want to go back there again Hotel January 2016 two weeks after the conviction of zulan and way P o the police are called to a bar on Syre beach a 26-year old British man is found dead the Thai police say Luke Miller died after jumping into a swimming pool and banging his head his firmly expresses concerns about the investigation Luke Miller is the sixth Westerner in just over two years to die in suspicious circumstances on ko Tao [Music] you [Music] you

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Length: 46min 36sec (2796 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 11 2018