Though he had been acquitted on trafficking charges, Liam allegedly committed over a dozen murders, dating back to the 1990s, typically shooting, stabbing, or beating migrant workers to death, occasionally in front of multiple eyewitnesses, before throwing their bodies into the Trang River, according to EJF and Thai police records. And yet, while the allegations against Liam were clear and well documented, Thai authorities had never prosecuted him.

