How hard is it, years after these crimes occur, to track down the relevant people and gather evidence?
Mr. X: That varies. Sometimes you’ll have amazing luck and you’ll find people will say things to you that you’d have sworn they’d never be willing to say. You also find people who don’t like you and what you stand for and won’t talk to you. Or you find people who have a lot to fear in their own lives and ultimately evade you. This happened to me with the witness [in the case of the recently executed Jaturun Siripongs] whom I located at both her residence and her work address in Thailand, and whom I believe might have been a perpetrator of the crime, and almost certainly was at the crime scene. She completely evaded me in Thailand. Even though I knew where she worked, even though I had her address and went to those places repeatedly. I have no power of compulsion. I can’t make her come forward. I’m just an investigator; you’re just a reporter. Sometimes you get utter failure, but sometimes those returns, going back and back and back again, finally pay off and someone will talk to you. S
