Somkid Pumpuang

Following multiple grants of clemency over the years, Pumpuang's sentence was eventually reduced to 13 years imprisonment, scheduling his release date for 2019. During his imprisonment, he was described as a model inmate, which contributed significantly to the reduction of his sentence.

On May 17, 2019, Pumpuang was released from the Nong Khai Provincial Prison and shortly after began dating 51-year-old Rassamee Mulichan, a housekeeper at a local hotel. On December 15 of that year, the couple's neighbors reported that they had apparently been arguing until the evening, when everything suddenly went quiet. After she did not come out of the apartment to leave for work on the following morning, the neighbor called out for Rassamee, but received no response. He then opened the door and entered the household, where he found her body stuffed under the bed. Rassamee had been wrapped up in a blanket and transparent tape, with the former also being tied around her neck, with a cellphone charger tied around her ankle. The neighbor called out for Pumpuang, but again received no response.

From January 30 to June 21, 2005, Pumpuang killed five women in several different provinces, usually by strangulation or by tying them up and holding their heads under water. The killings took place in hotels, and he usually stole items like cellphones from the women.

Somkid Pumpuang (Thai: สมคิด พุ่มพวง; born 1964), known as Kid the Ripper (Thai: คิดเดอะริปเปอร์), is a Thai serial killer who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering five masseuses from January to June 2005. After having his sentence reduced to 13 years and being released in 2019, he murdered another woman seven months later, for which he was convicted and sentenced to death.

Somkid Pumpuang was born in May 29, 1964, in the Thung Song district. When he was eight years old, his father left him to live with his uncle, and during this time, Pumpuang started stealing. One day, after he stole a teacher's bicycle, he was expelled from school. When he was 14 or 15 years old, his uncle found him work at a sawmill in the Thung Song district, where Pumpuang dealt with driving rubberwood. Eventually, his uncle caught him stealing money from his employer, resulting in Pumpuang being kicked out and moving back in with his father in Trang province. He quarrelled regularly with his father and continued to steal. Eventually, he was forced to flee the village after he was attacked by a group of teenagers, causing him to travel around the country.