Chapter 1: What surprising event happens during Noemi and Audrey's vacation in Thailand?
Today's story has a very surprising ending, and I do sort of tip off what actually happens early-ish on in the story, but I'd be very surprised if people actually pick up on it and put it together before I reveal what actually happened at the end of the story.
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Okay, let's get into today's story. Early on the evening of June 12, 2012, a 25-year-old woman named Noemi Belanger opened up the door to her hotel room on Phi Phi Island, which is a major tourist destination in Thailand. Once the door was unlocked, Noemi pushed it open and she held it for her little sister, 20-year-old Audrey, who came in wheeling all their suitcases.
Noemi and Audrey were both from Quebec, Canada, and they were also both college students, and they were on this big month-long vacation to celebrate the end of the school year. They had been in Vietnam for the past three weeks, and today they had arrived in Thailand, and their plan was to stay here for a bit before finally heading back to Quebec.
But for right now, Noemi in particular was feeling really exhausted. I mean, there was a lot of travel getting here today and the past three weeks had been loads of travel and Noemi was kind of hitting a wall. And so as soon as she got into the room, all she really wanted to do was just flop down on the bed and just lay there for a little while.
But she had also become a fairly experienced traveler by this point. And she knew before she did that, she just wanted to make sure that, you know, the bed was cleanly, you know, I mean, make sure there were no bed bugs or, you know, unclean sheets or something. And so she went over and pulled the sheets back and checked and the sheets were pristine. It was beautiful. The room felt super nice.
And so she just flopped down on the bed and just enjoyed the air conditioning. And at the same time that she was doing this, Andre, who very likely was also feeling all the, you know, the symptoms of travel over so many weeks, I mean, she likely was very, very tired. But she, instead of laying down, went right into the bathroom and started getting ready for the night.
And Noemi sort of understood why. So while the girls were in Vietnam, they had met these two really nice guys who were from Brazil, and they had kind of hit it off. And, you know, they had left today to go to Thailand. And wouldn't you know it, it turned out those guys, their itinerary included them coming to Thailand today.
And so it was kind of like this revelation at the end of their time in Vietnam that they would not have to say goodbye basically forever. But instead, you know, the good times could keep on rolling in Thailand. And so the plan was that night they would meet up with these two guys, these Brazilian guys out on the beach and basically party with them and just have a fun night.
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Chapter 2: How do Noemi and Audrey prepare for their night out in Thailand?
And so Noemi put her phone down and decided, you know what, tonight's going to be just fine. I just got to let things go. And so she actually climbed off the bed and she joined her sister in the bathroom and began also getting ready for their big night out. A little bit later, Noemi and Audrey left their hotel room and they headed out to the beach.
And sure enough, there right outside of a beachfront bar were the two Brazilian guys they were meeting up with that night. And as the two girls approached, they saw that each of these guys were holding these big buckets. They almost looked like, you know, a toy that a child would use on the sand, you know, to fill it up and make a sand castle with, like a big, you know, beach bucket.
And, you know, the girls, as they're walking over, they're wondering what these buckets were for. And they thought it was maybe like some joke these guys were going to play or they didn't know what. But as they got closer, they realized that these buckets these guys were holding were filled to the brim with ice and liquid. There was some sort of drink in these buckets.
And so the girls walked up to them and they said hello. And very quickly, the conversation turned to these big drinks they were holding. And Noemi and Andre were like, what are those? And the guys told them, these are like these amazing cocktails that you can only get in this part of the world. The girls asked, you know, like, well, what is it? What's inside of the drink?
What makes it so special? And the guys kind of looked at each other and laughed, and they were like, I don't know, just try it. It's really good. It'll make you feel great. Now, Noemi, being the sort of more responsible one, did not immediately begin drinking either of these drinks. Instead, she sort of paused and thought about it. But Audrey, on the other hand, was totally sold.
She reached forward, grabbed one of the buckets, and just began chugging this drink. And so Noemi's looking at her like, come on, like, you can't just jump into this. We don't know what this stuff is. But, you know, after a couple of chugs, Audrey lowered the bucket and looked at her sister and she just grinned and she handed it back to her guy. And then she told Noemi, like, these taste great.
This is awesome. Like, you got to try it. Loosen up. And so at this point, Noemi, you know, she's considering the situation. You know, they were in Vietnam with these guys and these guys were out partying with them. They were drinking with them and, you know, they seemed perfectly trustworthy and they were clearly drinking from these buckets and it didn't seem nefarious.
And also Noemi looked around the beach and suddenly realized that basically everybody had these big buckets. You know, this was not just these two guys. Everybody's drinking this thing. And so Noemi's thinking, okay, well, if they think it's okay and it's sort of normal, you know, in this part of the world, then it's gotta be okay.
And so she reached forward, grabbed the other bucket from the other guy and took a big sip. Several hours later, well after the sun had gone down, Audrey and Noemi were having a great time with their Brazilian friends. They were still near this beachfront bar. They were actually dancing right outside of it because now there was a DJ blaring some music and there were all these people.
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Chapter 3: What concerns does Noemi have about going out with the Brazilian guys?
And from those interviews, they learned that Audrey and Noemi were visiting Thailand from Canada. And on the first night they were here, the two women went out early in the evening, and then one of them came back with some guy, some unidentified man at 1 a.m. They came back to the hotel. And then at 4 a.m., the other girl came back to the hotel also with an unidentified man.
And so there are Noemi and Audrey and these two unidentified men that are in the hotel room presumably from 4 a.m. until 6 a.m. when both of these unidentified men left the hotel room together and the two girls were presumably left inside the hotel room.
Lieutenant Somboon reviewed some security footage from the hotel, which confirmed this entire timeline was correct, which meant Somboon really needed to speak to these two unidentified men because they clearly were the last ones to see these girls alive.
And so the police department put out an announcement about Noemi and Andre's deaths, as well as a public call for help in identifying these two unidentified men. And shortly after making this announcement, the police learned that these two men were Brazilian. And unfortunately, they had already left Thailand on their way back to Brazil. And so obviously Brazil is outside of his jurisdiction.
And so he had to appeal to Interpol, which is an international police organization, and appeal to them to find these two Brazilian men and interview them. About a week later, Sam Boon finally got a call from Interpol. They had found these two men and they had interviewed them.
And they told Sam Boon that when they informed these two guys that Noemi and Audrey had died, the two men seemed genuinely shocked. And then when they were asked, why were you so quickly on a flight out of Thailand back to Brazil? They said, no, no, no, no, no. There's nothing suspicious about it. We already had booked those tickets way in advance. We just got on the flight and left.
There's nothing more to it. And so Interpol said they continued to press these guys and asked them, you know, hey, you were the last ones who were with these girls before they died. Tell us about their condition. Tell us how you left them when you left the hotel at 6 a.m.
And the two guys, they said, look, like they did seem like maybe they were already hungover or sort of sick from, you know, partying the night before. They definitely did seem a little bit down, but they were basically fine.
However, Interpol said it was fairly interesting that the two men did admit that following, you know, their night out with Noemi and Andre, that the next two days they were stuck in bed themselves, totally sick, vomiting, ill. They didn't know what from, but they said they were very, very sick following their encounter with these two girls. Sambun thanked the Interpol officer and then hung up.
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