BlueMoon wrote:So is there any indication as to the curtain? Tuk Tuk or Guest House Curtain?

Between the two, I'd guess it looks more like a ratty guesthouse curtain.

The plot thickens. It appears he was a wanted criminal in the U.S.



A 44-year-old American man found murdered last week in Phnom Penh was the subject of a criminal investigation by U.S. authorities before his death, a local police official said Sunday.

Mississippi native William Glenn came to Cambodia two months ago from Bangkok and worked at several English language schools in the city, but was discovered on Wednesday morning strangled to death on a dirt road in Prek Pnov district’s Kok Roka commune.

Suon Samoeun, chief of Kok Roka commune police, said Sunday that though the murder investigation has yet to establish a motive or identify a suspect in the crime, U.S. officials informed him that they had been seeking William Glenn’s arrest prior to his death.

“Embassy officials confirmed that the victim was wanted by the U.S. authorities, which were trying to find him to send him back to the U.S. because he is a criminal,” Mr. Samoeun said.

Officials from the U.S. Embassy on Thursday accompanied Cambodian police to two Phnom Penh guesthouses where William Glenn stayed and removed his belongings from the Tattoo Guesthouse in Prampi Makara district, where he last stayed.

Asked Sunday whether CCTV footage from the guesthouses had revealed any clues, municipal penal police chief Eng Sorphea said that U.S. authorities had taken the evidence for examination.

“We don’t know anything because we sent it to the embassy,” he said.

U.S. Embassy spokesman John Simmons said that due to privacy laws, he could not discuss the case, but he denied the U.S. Embassy was involved in the investigation.

“We are doing what we can to assist Cambodian authorities, but it is the Cambodian police’s investigation,” he said.

The victim’s wife of five years, 44-year-old Nittaya Glenn, said on Friday that her husband, from whom she separated two months ago, had repeatedly told her that he could not return to the U.S. but had never disclosed the reason.

She said the FBI came to her house in Bangkok last week.

“They called me and had a meeting in my home and I gave them lots of information,” she said.

Ms. Glenn said her husband went to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh on July 7 to get additional pages put in his passport because he wanted to leave Cambodia immediately for China.

“He texted me to say he was worried because the embassy took his passport from him and he didn’t know why,” she said.

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/murde ... say-63935/

Hmmm, seems the FBI was hunting him down to extricate him back to the U.S. for drug charges....





n American man found murdered in Phnom Penh last week was wanted in the US on drug charges and had his passport confiscated by the US Embassy before his death, a police official said yesterday.
The bruised body of teacher William Glenn, 43, was found wrapped in a curtain in a Por Sen Chey district trash heap last Wednesday.
“The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] team from the US Embassy here told us they had been looking for this guy because he was involved in a drug case and they wanted to send him back to the US,” said Choun Narin, deputy Phnom Penh municipal police chief in charge of penal crime.
“He’s a wanted criminal – that was why the embassy kept his passport and when he was found dead, we found only a copied one.”
Narin did not elaborate on the specifics of the drug charge.
John Simmons, deputy public affairs officer at the US Embassy, would not comment yesterday on Glenn’s passport, or whether the victim was wanted in his home country, saying he could not provide such details due to Privacy Act “considerations”.
“Inquiries may be addressed to the Cambodian police authorities who are handling the investigation,” he wrote in an email, adding that the embassy was not involved in the case.
But Narin said police were working with the embassy to investigate Glenn’s murder.
“We have no clue as to who the perpetrator is, but we are working with the [embassy] now because they took some [items] from a guesthouse,” he said, referring to the place Glenn had been staying before his death.
But Simmons said this was not because the embassy was investigating but because it often collected and sent “personal effects, including clothing and other personal belongings, to the family of any American Citizen who dies in Cambodia”.
Mok Chito, director of the central justice police department at the Ministry of Interior, said municipal police were handling the case “directly”, so he was not aware of how far the investigation had progressed.
Glenn, who was born in Mississippi, had been teaching at schools in Phnom Penh since May after separating from his wife in Thailand.
Heng Sokuthy, manager of the Golden Gate American School, where Glenn had briefly taught, said his employee had mentioned living in Bangkok.

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/a ... s%E2%80%99