Dr. Lee was also the coroner called in as an expert in the Connecticut "woodchipper" murder, in which a man put his dead wife's body through a woodchipper. Fragments were found along a river bank.

Further info on the arrest: U.S. and Thai police moved into rooms down the hall from Karr about 10 days before the arrest to survey Karr's movements and await the arrival of a U.S. arrest warrant, said Thai police official Lt. Gen. Suwat Tumrongsiskul.