THIS WEEK IN HORROR July 5, 2026 - 5 True Crimes That Shocked the World
⚠️ Warning: The following content contains descriptions of real crimes involving violence, murder and harm to children and minors. Reader discretion is strongly advised.
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🩸 #1 — HE CHECKED INTO A CONDO WITH A 17-YEAR-OLD GIRL. HE LEFT WITH A SUITCASE. | 🇹🇭 THAILAND
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Simon Peter Carman, 46, from the Victorian town of Ballarat, Australia, arrived in Pattaya — Thailand's famous beach resort city — as thousands of tourists do every week. In the early hours of Thursday June 26, 2026, CCTV cameras captured him walking hand in hand with a 17-year-old girl nicknamed "Cake" — Tunchanok Donhomla — into a residential building near Jomtien Beach.
Hours later, separate footage showed him leaving the building alone, loading a large black suitcase onto the back of a motorbike and riding away. The suitcase was found near a railway line approximately 4km away. Inside it was Cake's naked body. She had suffered severe assault, with heavy bruising to her face. She was 17 years old.
Carman was arrested at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport on Friday evening as he attempted to board a Jetstar flight to Perth. He had visible scratch marks on his neck and arms. When police asked about the marks, he blamed a spider. He was charged with murder, concealing a body and taking a minor for an indecent purpose.
In police interrogation, Carman said he had strangled her until she was motionless, then brought her body into the bathroom. He was "clueless to find a solution" — so he stuffed her in the suitcase and left it beside the railway track. In footage taken by police he expressed regret to the girl's family while denying he killed her. "I feel bad for what happened to your daughter. It was out of my control," he said. "It shouldn't happen. Please tell other girls just to be careful."
He claimed self-defence. The maximum penalty under Thai law is death.
💀 THE DETAIL THAT WILL HAUNT YOU: After strangling a 17-year-old girl, stuffing her body in a suitcase and dumping it near a railway line, he walked to the airport and tried to board a flight home to Perth. His message to her family: "Please tell other girls just to be careful."
🩸 #2 — HIS 14-YEAR-OLD SON RAN INTO A SHOP BLEEDING AND BEGGED FOR HELP. INSIDE THE HOUSE — HIS MOTHER AND 12-YEAR-OLD SISTER WERE ALREADY DEAD. | 🇯🇵 JAPAN
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At around 7am on July 1, 2026, a 14-year-old boy ran into a nearby convenience store in Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture, and desperately asked for help. His father had attacked him with a knife. He had minor injuries to his hands. When police responded to the emergency call and entered the family home, they found the bodies of the boy's mother and 12-year-old sister.
The Nagano Prefectural Police arrested 46-year-old Keisuke Iijima — an unemployed man — on suspicion of killing his ex-wife Hitomi, 49, and their daughter Itoha, 12. Iijima had fled the scene but was tracked down in a car in Nagano City approximately four hours later. He had ingested a toxic substance in an apparent suicide attempt and was hospitalised. He hinted to investigators that he had killed his ex-wife and daughter.
He was initially arrested on suspicion of the attempted murder of his 14-year-old son. Police plan to formally rearrest him on double murder charges once he recovers from hospital.
💀 THE DETAIL THAT WILL HAUNT YOU: The 14-year-old boy was the one who saved himself — running bleeding into a convenience store, begging strangers for help. He is the only reason his father was caught. He will spend the rest of his life knowing he was the sole survivor of his own family.
🩸 #3 — HE CLIMBED A PYRAMID, PLAYED STRANGE MUSIC, AND SHOT TOURISTS WHILE CALLING IT A "SACRIFICE" | 🇲🇽 MEXICO
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On April 20, 2026, a 27-year-old Mexican man named Julio César Jasso Ramírez arrived at the Teotihuacán archaeological site — one of the world's most visited UNESCO World Heritage Sites — by Uber the day before. He checked into a hotel. The following morning, shortly after 11am, he climbed to the top of the Pyramid of the Moon.
Then he began playing strange music. Then he opened fire on the tourists around him — firing approximately 20 to 30 shots with an old revolver while clutching a plastic bag of 52 cartridges in his other hand. He told tourists he hated them. He ordered a group to lie on the ground, walked to another spot, reloaded and returned to continue firing. He said he was going to "sacrifice" them — a reference to the human sacrifices performed at Teotihuacán by pre-Columbian civilisations. He told some European tourists they would not be returning home.
A Canadian woman aged 29 was killed. Thirteen others were injured — Americans, Colombians, Brazilians, a Russian, another Canadian. Among the wounded: a six-year-old child and a 13-year-old. Investigators found Jasso Ramírez had been carrying materials related to the 1999 Columbine massacre. He shot himself before National Guard forces could reach him.
💀 THE DETAIL THAT WILL HAUNT YOU: He ordered a group of tourists to lie face down on the pyramid. Then he walked away, reloaded, and came back. Some of them thought lying still might save them. Some were right. Some were not.
🩸 #4 — A 65-YEAR-OLD GRANDFATHER OF ELEVEN RAPED AND MURDERED A THREE-YEAR-OLD GIRL | 🇮🇳 INDIA
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On May 1, 2026 — Maharashtra Day — a 65-year-old labourer named Bhimrao Kamble abducted a three-year-old girl from Nasrapur village in Pune district, Maharashtra. He was a father of six daughters. He was a grandfather of eleven grandchildren. He had spent his life surrounded by children.
CCTV footage captured him taking the girl at 3.12pm. He returned alone at 3.51pm. In those 39 minutes, he sexually assaulted her, killed her and concealed her body. The autopsy documented 18 injuries. The court described the crime as committed with "extreme brutality" that "shocks not only the judicial conscience but even the conscience of society."
The investigation was completed in 16 days. Evidence was presented in 16 more. Final arguments took 20 days. On June 25, 2026, Additional Sessions Judge S R Salunkhe sentenced Bhimrao Kamble to death — a landmark verdict completed in under two months. The judge stated: "The only circumstance that could be posed is the age of the accused, 65 years. According to me, this cannot be taken as mitigating. Rather, it is aggravating." Kamble's own family abandoned him immediately after his arrest.
💀 THE DETAIL THAT WILL HAUNT YOU: He had eleven grandchildren. He spent 39 minutes alone with a three-year-old girl and killed her. The court noted he had conducted a reconnaissance of the crime scene before May 1. He had planned it.
🩸 #5 — THE TEENAGER WHO KILLED HIS PARENTS, LIVED WITH THEIR BODIES, AND SUBMITTED HIS HOMEWORK THE NEXT MORNING | 🇺🇸 USA
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On February 11, 2025, seventeen-year-old Nikita Casap shot and killed his mother Tatiana Casap and his stepfather Donald Mayer in their home in Waukesha, Wisconsin. The following morning he submitted his school homework electronically. He used his parents' phones to send messages to their family and friends — pretending they were still alive. For almost two weeks he lived in the house with their decomposing bodies, at one point lighting candles near his stepfather's corpse, while planning his next move.
That next move was the assassination of President Donald Trump — using a drone loaded with explosives, purchased with $8,700 in Bitcoin sent to online contacts who were scamming him. There was never a drone. There were never any explosives. But Casap did not know that. He was in contact with a Russian-speaking individual online, discussing plans to flee to Ukraine after the attack. He had written a manifesto. He had a target. He had a timeline.
On February 23 he gathered $14,000 in cash, 70 pieces of his mother's jewellery, their passports and the family dog — and fled in his stepfather's SUV. He was arrested four days later during a traffic stop in Kansas. On March 6, 2026, Nikita Casap — now 18 — was sentenced to two life terms with no possibility of parole.
💀 THE DETAIL THAT WILL HAUNT YOU: The day after killing his parents he submitted his school homework. From the same house. While their bodies decomposed in the next room. His teachers marked it. Nobody noticed anything was wrong.
💀 MOST DISTURBING THIS WEEK
This week belongs to Simon Carman — not because his crime is the most elaborate, and not because his victim was the youngest. But because of what he said afterward. After strangling a 17-year-old girl, stuffing her naked body into a suitcase and dumping it by a railway line, he walked calmly to an international airport and tried to board a flight home. And when police arrested him and filmed him speaking to the victim's family — he told them: "Please tell other girls just to be careful." Not grief. Not remorse. A warning. As if she had made a mistake. As if it was something she could have avoided. As if any of it was her fault.
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