Pattaya, at 9:55 PM April 26th, 2025 — investigators from Pattaya City Police Station and Chonburi Immigration Police brought Mr. Tongyung Fu back to Pattaya for further questioning. He was arrested at Suvarnabhumi Airport after the discovery of the body of a transgender woman in a Pattaya apartment he rented.
Before his transfer to the Pattaya Police Station, Fu was taken to the Region 2 Forensic Police Office for DNA and tissue sample collection, which took about 40 minutes.
Upon arriving at Pattaya Police Station, Fu appeared stressed, keeping his head down, with visible scratch wounds across his face. During interrogation, with the help of an immigration translator, Fu confessed that he met the victim, a transgender woman, on April 25th while walking on South Pattaya Beach.
After exchanging contacts via the “WeChat” app, they agreed to meet later at Fu’s rented room. Fu claimed he paid the victim 8,000 baht for escort-related services but when the victim allegedly refused to engage in such services with Fu, an argument and physical altercation broke out.
He alleged the victim scratched his face and kicked him off the bed, starting the altercation, claiming he acted in self defense. Fu then allegedly strangled the victim until she was unresponsive. After confirming her death, he dragged the body into the bathroom, allegedly cut out her silicone breast implants with scissors, and mutilated the body, removing the heart but denying involvement with the missing lung.
Fu stated he cleaned the scene, left the body in the bathroom, and shockingly went to bed and slept normally. The next morning, he attempted to flee Thailand by motorcycle taxi and bus to Suvarnabhumi Airport, where he was apprehended before boarding a flight to Wuhan.
When asked if he had mental health issues, Fu said he had never sought medical treatment but admitted he acted out of uncontrollable rage. He apologized to the victim’s family and revealed he worked as a welder in China and had visited Thailand three times, calling it a “safe” country.
Fu also claimed that he bought the plastic bags and scissors at a discount store for carrying belongings and self-defense purposes before meeting the victim. Police said he has confessed, but forensic tests are still pending to confirm if any other body parts were removed. The plastic bags he carried only contained bottled water, not organs as initially rumored, according to the police.
Police are reportedly skeptical about Fu’s claims that the man acted in self defense and was rejected and attacked first, believing that Fu’s purchase of tools used in the gruesome murder were signs that the action was premeditated.
This is a developing story.
