Originally Posted by
biggestbopper
Just back from Thailand where these and other recent tourist deaths got a lot of play in the English language press. Both the cited story and what I heard in Bangkok suggest that the bug spray story was cooked up to cover up foul play (bad for the tourist biz to have tourists getting murdered for their whatever).
I don't think so. It's one thing for the authorities to cook up stories. Quite another to get friends of the victim(s) to participate. Way too many details for the bug spray story to have been a cover-up, IMO.