Case 328: Kirsty Jones
Casefile True Crime
Casefile Presents
4.7 • 41.6K Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
*** Content warnings: Sexual assault ***
23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her whole life ahead of her when she set out for a two-year trip across Asia, Australia and South America. Tragically, that trip was cut short just two months in when Kirsty was found strangled to death in her room at The Aree Guesthouse in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Thai police anticipated a quick arrest, but what followed was a media circus and bungled investigation that left the Jones family and young travellers everywhere desperate for answers.
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| 1:46.8 | From a young age, Kirsty Jones was sure of one thing. |
| 1:51.0 | She wanted to see as much of the world as possible. |
| 1:54.8 | At 14, she decided that after finishing high school, |
| 1:58.7 | she'd leave her family's 300-acre farm just outside the |
| 2:02.3 | small Welsh village of Tridoman and spend a year travelling around Australia. In 1996, 18-year-old |
| 2:10.8 | Kirsty did just that. She met her travel companion through a classified ad in her local newspaper, and off they went. |
| 2:20.3 | While Kirsty's parents, Sue and Glyn Jones, were naturally worried, they supported their daughter's |
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