Hotel Employee Makes Troubling Discovery Under Mattress

Visitors could never have guessed they were sharing their hotel room with an additional guest: a transgender woman’s corpse.

Two hotel guests had just spent the night sleeping on the mattress when a hotel worker would later stumble on the dead body, belonging to 28-year-old Amphon Kongsong, the Daily Mail reports.

“The hotel’s cleaner found a very strong smell in the room and tried to find the source,” police chief Col Apichai Kropphet said. “Then the hotel staff searched the room and found the body under the mattress.”

Shortly after, police arrested two teenage boys – ages 14 and 17 – on August 21 for Kongsong’s death.

The teenagers, who already have a record of crimes related to assault, allegedly told the police the 17-year-old and Kongson befriended each other through Facebook, the Bangkok Post reports.

Reportedly the 17-year-old met up with Kongson after she said she would help him find a job.

When the teenager allegedly rejected Kongson’s sexual advances, a fight broke out.

With the help of his 14-year-old friend, he strangled her to death shortly before her body was found, leaving Kongson’s corpse in the hotel room.

The incident bears similarities to the Tennessee murder of Somy Millbrook, whom authorities found dead underneath a motel room’s mattress six weeks after she died, WMC-TV reports.

Her boyfriend, Lakeith Moody, was charged with killing her but not before five people slept on that same mattress, unaware of the corpse lying underneath.

Sources: Daily Mail, Bangkok Post , and WMC-TV Photo Credit: TraffickCam via St. Louis Post-Dispatch