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The family of a Chaiyaphum woman killed by an ex-drugs inmate while on a romantic outing in her car has appealed to police to re-examine the case.

The family of Siripapha Chambuakhao, 49, say she appears to have been assaulted, not merely strangled in a spasm of rage as the killer claims.

Siripapha, who worked in Rayong as a cleaner, returned home to Chaiyaphum over New Year to celebrate with family. However, the confessed killer, Pichai Wisetsak, 48, whom she met on the internet a month before, was to take her life on Dec 1, supposedly when she spurned his offer to get engaged after their whirlwind romance.

Her younger brother, Sathaporn, 35, said the autopsy showed she had a ruptured…