New film claims to have solved Jim Thompson mystery

In this Oct. 12, 2017, photo, a visitor walks out of Jim Thomson’s outlet in Bangkok, Thailand. A new documentary is set to stir fresh debate over one of Asia’s most enduring mysteries: What happened to Jim Thompson, Thailand’s legendary silk king. Thompson decamped on March 26, 1967 to the Cameron Highlands, a hill station dotted with tea plantations that was once popular with British colonists, for some rest and relaxation with Singaporean friends at their Tudor-style Moonlight Cottage vacation home. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

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