A Change of Guard

សូមស្តាប់វិទ្យុសង្គ្រោះជាតិ Please read more Khmer news and listen to CNRP Radio at National Rescue Party. សូមស្តាប់វីទ្យុខ្មែរប៉ុស្តិ៍/Khmer Post Radio.
Follow Khmerization on Facebook/តាមដានខ្មែរូបនីយកម្មតាម Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/khmerization.khmerican

Wednesday 16 July 2014

Mississippi man found dead in Cambodia was ‘afraid and wanted to leave quickly’

By Arturo Garcia
Monday, July 14, 2014 Read more on this case here.
'Real human skull on wet soil' [Shutterstock] http://tinyurl.com/l4p282c
 
  • 2369
     
  • Print Friendly and PDF
  • Email this page
Authorities in Cambodia are investigating the death of a 44-year-old Mississippi man found strangled to death atop a garbage pile, the Cambodia Daily reported.
The victim, William Bryan Glenn, had been working as an English teacher in Phnom Penh since this past May. Local police said U.S. embassy personnel joined them in searching his room at a local hotel late last week, and that Glenn was wanted as a “criminal” in the U.S, though no specific offense was identified. However, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that the embassy denied any involvement in the investigation.
Glenn’s wife, 44-year-old Nittaya Glenn, told the Daily they regularly spoke on the phone despite filing for separation recently, but that he had become afraid for his life.
“He called me many times and said that some Cambodian people wanted something from him — he was afraid and wanted to leave quickly,” she was quoted as saying. “I told him to move to China, where he worked before for six months. I told him I would pay for his flight so he could go.”
Witnesses who found Glenn’s body said it looked like he had been beaten and tied up by the wrists and ankles.
“The kids saw it when they disposed of the trash, then they ran away,” one witness was quoted as saying. “They wrapped him with curtains but you could still see his feet. They were tied with 10-kilogram rice sacks. We couldn’t see his head because it was limp and had dropped down.”

The Clarion-Ledger reported that during his career, William Glenn had identified himself as a graduate of the University of Mississippi who “got bored of the low pay and the boredom” of teaching there for six years before embarking on a career teaching abroad. However, neither the university nor local county officials have any record of him.
[Image: "Real Human Skull On Wet Soil," via Shutterstock]
Arturo Garcia
Arturo Garcia
Arturo R. García is the managing editor at Racialicious.com. He is based in San Diego, California and has written for both print and broadcast media, including contributions to GlobalComment.com, The Root and Comment Is Free. Follow him on Twitter at @ABoyNamedArt

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i stated from day one that it has something to do with drugs...