The NationIsraeli tourist Carol Cohen, whose body parts were recovered from a Bangkok canal earlier this week, might have been knocked out by a blow to the chin before being stabbed to death, the chief of forensic medicine said yesterday.
The 26-year-old's husband, Eli Cohen, has been charged with her murder but denies committing the crime.
Cohen, 36, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with murdering his wife, cutting up her body and then stuffing it into a suitcase and dumping it in Klong Phadung Krung Kasem.
The torso of the body was found in a large black suitcase on Wednesday near a sluice gate on the canal near Government House.
The head was found in a blue plastic bag on Thursday and a leg and some human skin was recovered from nearby.