ABOVE: Canadian Dave Walker and Cambodian Sonny Chhoun visiting Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2013. Photo: Richard S. Ehrlich
Nearly a year after David Walker’s remains were discovered inside Siem Reap’s Angkor temple complex, his friends are still searching for answers.
A longtime friend of the Canadian filmmaker has created a website detailing information about the case and a narrative of what happened before and after Walker disappeared on Valentine’s Day last year. It also casts its share of suspicions at associates of the 58-year-old author.
“A weekly series of historical reports looking back a year into the investigation of the unsolved disappearance and death of Dave Walker is being posted to www.davewalkercase.com,” Walker friend Peter Vronsky wrote.
Walker had long been a fixture in Bangkok and Southeast Asia. He vanished under suspicious circumstances on Feb. 14, 2014, from a hotel in Siem Reap, Cambodia. No one reported seeing him again until his body was found by children on May 1, 2014, near the Victory Gate inside the Angkor temple complex.
During the months following Walker’s disappearance, his associates were quick to cast a wide net of blame. They suggested foul play was involved, possibly involving Cambodian-Canadian emigres to former Khmer Rouge. They faulted Canadian and Cambodian authorities for either not taking seriously or bungling the investigation.
They use a Facebook group to discuss the case.
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