UDON THANI — 11 June 2025, Police are searching for a foreign couple suspected of abandoning a newborn girl who was later found unresponsive beneath a tree in Udon Thani, after the pair were spotted at a coffee shop in Nong Khai and are believed to still be in the country.
The infant, wrapped in a pink towel and covered with a blue cloth, was left under a rain tree in Soi Chan Charoen Suk, Don Udom community, within the Udon Thani municipal area at around 09:20 on 10 June. She was found more than eight hours later by three boys aged 10–12 who were fishing at a nearby drainage canal. Emergency responders performed CPR and rushed her to Udon Thani Regional Hospital, but she could not be revived.
CCTV footage reviewed by investigators showed a tall, white foreign man with brown hair and a dark-skinned woman carrying the bundle walking toward the soi. The pair stopped briefly in front of a house along the canal, appeared to speak for about three minutes, then left the infant under the tree before walking away via Soi Don Udom toward Amphoe Road without retracing their steps.
Pol. Col. Patthanawong Chanphon, superintendent of Mueang Udon Thani Police Station, said officers searched hotels, resorts and guesthouses within a one-kilometre radius but found no record of a couple checking in with an infant. One nearby hotel reported that a foreign man had inquired about a room on the evening of 8 June but declined after being told the rate was 1,400 baht.
Nong Khai police subsequently contacted investigators to report that the couple had been seen at a well-known coffee shop in the province — the man identified as a 39-year-old European and the woman as a 29-year-old American, carrying a female infant estimated to be around two weeks old.
Investigators have coordinated with Nong Khai immigration police to determine whether the pair have left Thailand. Records show no departure recorded at the Friendship Bridge checkpoint in Mueang Nong Khai. Crossings via informal routes have not yet been verified. Police believe the couple remain in Thailand and are continuing efforts to locate them for legal proceedings.
