The new owner who bought the house from the Department of Legal Execution revealed that before finding the remains reduced to a human skeleton, they dreamed of an elderly woman and admitted surprise that the abandoned, locked house had no belongings missing. Meanwhile, Mae Ping Police Station officers are contacting the deceased's son in prison and expediting identity verification.
Updates on the case of a villager who bought a house from the Department of Legal Execution and went to inspect the property only to be shocked by finding skeletal remains. Villagers believe it to be Grandma Sriwan, the original owner who disappeared with her son over five years ago, though official confirmation awaits a medical autopsy. Police are also seeking to question the son, currently incarcerated, to see if he knows about his mother's death. Meanwhile, villagers are helping to locate relatives of the grandmother. The new owner shared that before discovering the remains, there were signs such as a foul odor emanating from the house, and the night before inspecting the property, she dreamed of an elderly woman asking if she wanted to win the first prize lottery. Online detectives using Google Street View found images from 2011 showing the grandmother sitting in the same spot where the body was found, before the house was abandoned from 2020 onward.
On 16 September 2026 in Chiang Mai province, reporters updated on a case where a local resident interested in buying a foreclosed house being auctioned by the Department of Legal Execution went to inspect the property but instead found a dried skeleton lying on a bed inside a mosquito net. It is suspected to be the elderly female owner who had been missing for more than five years.
Around 5:00 p.m., officers from Mae Ping Police Station in Chiang Mai were notified by villagers from Tha Duea, San Phi Suea subdistrict, Mueang Chiang Mai district, about discovering human skeletal remains. At the scene on the ground floor, they found a wooden chair and a bed with a mosquito net. Upon lifting the net, they found a dried skeleton lying on the bed, which shocked those inspecting the house.
Initial inquiries with villagers revealed that the house originally belonged to Grandma Sriwan Puangphet, then 93 years old, who lived there with her son, Mr. Prawet Saejiu, nicknamed "Tee." Villagers last saw both about 5-6 years ago. Since then, nobody has seen Grandma again, and villagers assumed she had moved to live with her son and relatives because no one saw her leave the house.
This morning, reporters returned to the house to speak with Mrs. Phakakaew Chantraporn, 54, the new owner who purchased the house from the Department of Legal Execution on 6 August 2026. Mrs. Phakakaew said that on 15 September, after paying the department, she expected to find belongings of the previous owner, so she filed a report at Mae Ping Police Station requesting police and the village headman to witness and inventory the previous owner's possessions for relocation.
Mrs. Phakakaew added that she intended to renovate the auctioned house. One or two days before, villagers passing by mentioned detecting a foul odor coming from the house and joked about fearing someone might have hanged themselves inside. The night before filing the report to inspect belongings, she dreamed of an elderly woman who told her she would win the first prize lottery and asked if she wanted to trade anything. Mrs. Phakakaew replied that she did not want anything.
After unlocking the house, she was shocked to find skeletal remains next to the wooden bed. Initial inquiries suggest it was Grandma Sriwan, the original owner who many believed had moved away and passed away, with her son having cremated her at Pa Paeng temple. Previously, no one knew the details until yesterday when Mrs. Phakakaew cleared weeds and offered incense and offerings to spirits. Villagers advised her to check inside because of the foul smell. At first, she did not believe it until opening the door and being shocked. She admitted it was strange that the abandoned house had no missing possessions.
Mrs. Phakakaew also said that police, after trying to contact and check the background of Grandma Sriwan's son, found that he had been imprisoned in Tak province since February 2026.
Currently, officials have been unable to contact the grandmother's relatives, so villagers are helping to locate family members. Mae Ping Police Station will travel to question the grandmother's son in prison to confirm whether the remains are indeed hers.
The grandmother's skeletal remains are currently at the forensic department of Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, awaiting autopsy results to officially confirm whether the remains are those of Grandma Sriwan.
Meanwhile, social media detectives searched Google Street View images showing the grandmother's house. Going back to 2011, the images show the house operating as a shop, with Grandma Sriwan sitting on the wooden chair at the exact spot where the skeleton was found inside the house. From 2019 to 2020, the house was seen to have been closed and abandoned, remaining so to the present.