The Thai Teen Who Was Tortured & Put In SUITCASE By Sick Tourist_VMDT

The Thai Teen Who Was Tortured & Put In SUITCASE By Sick Tourist_VMDT

This is the last time Thitiporn Hong Law was seen alive walking hand in hand with her alleged killer past a security guard and into a hotel lift with a man more than twice her age. Thai police arrested 45-year-old Simon Carman alleging he the 17-year-old girl whose body and body was found inside an abandoned suitcase.
>> Just a few hours after this footage showed 17-year-old Thitiporn Hong Law walking away with a man that she had just met. This camera [music] captured the very same man leaving alone. Only this time he’s dragging a large heavy suitcase. And inside that suitcase investigators would make one of the most horrifying discoveries Thailand has seen in years.
But somehow that’s not even the craziest part. When police questioned the man in the footage, his story didn’t just change. It changed again and again and again. Every new version raised even more questions than the last. Then investigators uncovered something that completely changed the way that they looked at this case.
Thitiporn wasn’t the first woman whose body had been found inside a suitcase around Pattaya. So what really happened inside that apartment? And was Thitiporn’s case truly an isolated tragedy or a part of something much darker? Let’s break it down. Now you guys, what makes this case so heartbreaking is just how young Thitiporn Hong Law was.
She was only 17 years old before she became another headline. She was simply a teenage girl [music] living in a small town in northeastern Thailand with her dad, Thong Chai, and her stepmother, Oradee. [music] They didn’t have much money, but if you watch the home videos they shared, you would never know it. Just look at this.
This footage was taken during Thong Chai’s 46th birthday. [music] Everyone is smiling and happy, and according to her dad, the birthday cake they’re celebrating [music] with was bought by Thong Chanok herself. She had quietly saved the little money that she had just to surprise him. Think about that for a second. She wasn’t buying expensive [music] clothes or the latest phone.
She spent what little money she had making sure that her dad felt loved on his birthday. That’s who Thong Chanok was. Her family affectionately called her Cake, and they described her as kind, cheerful, and always willing to help. She was also Thong Chai’s only child, and the two shared an incredibly close bond. [music] Whenever festivals came around, Thong Chanok would help her dad and her stepmother sell flower garlands and fruit along busy roads.
Her parents later told reporters they never forced her to work. She simply wanted to help her family however she could. So, when Thong Chanok asked if she could take a short holiday with a friend [music] in Pattaya, no alarm bells went off. Why would they? Now, Pattaya is a famous beach city on Thailand’s eastern coast, about 310 miles from her home in the northeastern province of Kalasin.
[music] For Thong Chanok, it was her first trip there, a chance to see a different part of the country, enjoy the beach, and make memories with a friend. She was excited. Her grandmother even sent her a little spending money for the trip, [music] expecting that she’d come home with stories, photos, and happy memories.
Instead, that holiday would become the beginning of a nightmare that no one saw coming. And the last person seen with Thong Chanok would soon become the focus of a murder investigation. Now, before we continue, I want to give you guys some important context because [music] Pattaya isn’t just another beach town.
On the surface, it’s known for its beautiful coastline, luxury resorts, and millions of tourists who visit every year. But, it also has a much darker reputation. Over the years, Pattaya has repeatedly made international headlines for violent [music] assaults, organized crime, trafficking, and a string of shocking deaths involving both locals and foreign [music] visitors.
And that’s just the beginning. Once the sun goes down, parts of the city transform into one of Thailand’s busiest nightlife [music] districts. The heart of it is Walking Street, a stretch packed with bars, clubs, and entertainment venues that stay busy until the early hours of the morning. Now, here’s the part that made my stomach turn.
[music] For years, journalists and investigators have reported that some vulnerable young women and girls are exploited in these areas by people looking to take advantage of their financial situations. >> The person I was with pointed out a young girl. I thought she would have been 12. Uh it’s maybe she was 15, but he said that girl was a And this is what is happening here on the streets of Thailand.
[music] Australian men are exploiting women for services with no regard to the cost to them. >> There are even online forums where some foreign visitors openly discuss how easy and inexpensive of it is to buy services in Pattaya. Think about that for a second. Real people being talked about like they’re products.
It’s something that’s drawn outrage from child protection advocates across Thailand. Take a listen to what one of the advocates had to say. [music] >> You can imagine how messed up the reality will be for the girls or even for the boys to to grow up seeing something like that and think that it’s normal.
That this is just another kind of job and that’s another way for living. >> And unfortunately, that’s where Tung Chanok’s path crossed with 45-year-old Australian Simon Peter Carman. According to investigators, the two met during the early hours of June 25th before leaving the area together. This CCTV footage shows them walking away from the beachfront and into the foyer of Carman’s condominium in Jomtien.
At 3:34 a.m., another camera captured them walking hand-in-hand through the lobby before stepping into the elevator. Now, hold on [music] to that image because at first glance, nothing seems out of place. Tung Chanok doesn’t appear to be distressed. She’s not trying to run away. If you were watching this footage with no context, you would probably think it was just two people heading back after a night out.
But investigators would later realize they were looking at the last known footage of Tung Chanok alive. Not long after entering the apartment, she sent what would become one of the most important messages in the entire investigation. “I’m already in his room. His room is very messy.” At the time, it sounded completely ordinary.
Investigators didn’t know it yet, but those would be some of the last words Tung Chanok would ever send. The next day, Tung Chanok’s friends knew that something isn’t right. She wasn’t answering her phone. Their messages are going on red. No one has heard from her since she texted that she had made it safely to this man’s room.
As the hours pass, worry quickly turns into panic. In fact, these images show one of Tung Chanok’s friends going to Carman’s apartment themself, desperately trying to find out what had happened to her. When she got no answers, she went straight to the police station and reported Tung Chanok missing. And you guys, this is where I have to give Thai investigators credit because they move incredibly fast.
Instead of treating it like just another missing person’s case, officers immediately began retracing Tung Snok’s final known movements. They review security footage, interview witnesses, and work backwards from the last person known to have seen her alive. That investigation leads them straight back to the condominium. The cameras confirm what they already know.
Tung Snok walks into the building with Simon Carman, but she never walks back out. Now, if you were a detective here, what’s the very next thing you would do? [music] Well, you’d keep watching the cameras, and that’s exactly what investigators do. Nearly 18 hours later, [music] at 9:25 p.m. on June 25th, another camera captures movement [music] outside of Carman’s apartment.
This time, he isn’t walking besides Tung Snok. He’s dragging a large black suitcase. The suitcase appears heavy. It doesn’t roll smoothly behind him. Instead, it scrapes along the road as he slowly pulls it towards the street. Now, if you didn’t know what investigators would later discover, you would probably think he was just checking out after a holiday.
Moments later, another camera captures him riding a motorbike with the suitcase strapped to the back. Investigators continue following him through CCTV cameras positioned along nearby roads until he reaches a quiet area beside some railway tracks. Then, he disappears for 9 minutes. 9 minutes that investigators can’t account for. [music] And this is where the mystery deepens. At 9:57 p.m.
, Carman rides back into Vio, but something has changed. The suitcase is gone. Yet, he calmly walks back to the condominium alone, as though nothing has happened. At that moment, investigators realize they aren’t just looking for a missing child anymore. They’re looking for where Tung Snok ended up.
And the answer is waiting just a few minutes down that same road. By By point, investigators have seen enough. Using the CCTV footage and the evidence they had gathered, police obtained an arrest warrant for Simon Carman. But then they discover something else. He’s trying to leave Thailand. Investigative teams from the Pattaya City Police Station in Thailand’s Immigration Bureau race to Suvarnabhumi International Airport, where Carman is preparing to board a flight back to Australia.
Just minutes before takeoff, they arrest him. Take a look at the moment it happens. >> Carman was arrested at the airport trying to board a Jetstar flight to Perth. Instead, he was transported back to Pattaya and marched into the police station with his hands covered in scratches on his neck and arm. >> Meanwhile, while one team is taking Carman into custody, another team is retracing the exact route that he took on his motorcycle.
Remember those 9 minutes when he disappeared from CCTV? Investigators head to the area beside the railway tracks where the cameras lost sight of him. And that’s where this case takes another devastating turn. Hidden in the grass, they find the same large black suitcase seen in the surveillance footage. Inside is the body of 19-year-old Thuchchanok Don Homla.
>> People are pretty distressed and angry. There’s not much sympathy for Simon Carman at the moment. >> Police say Thuchchanok had injuries around her neck consistent with strangulation. [music] They also found bruising to her face, which they believe may have occurred after her body was compressed inside the suitcase.
The discovery shocked both Thailand and Australia. This Australian reporter sums up the horror. >> I can’t think of anything more horrendous, not only for the elements of the crime, but the way his victim was treated after that crime. >> Now, you’d think this would be the point where the truth finally comes out. Instead, when the investigators questioned Carman, they got three completely different stories.
Now you guys, before we get into Carmen’s ever-changing story, I think we need to talk about who this man actually was. Because the more I learned about him, the more contradictions I found. Before moving to Thailand in late 2025, Simon Carmen worked as a truck driver in Western Australia. According to the people who knew him, a serious vehicle accident left him with neck and spinal injuries.
And he later relied on medication, disability payments, and worker’s comp. After moving to Thailand, he rented a small apartment in Jomtien, where neighbors would later become some of the first people police interviewed. But here’s what was interesting. People who knew Carmen painted two completely different pictures.
Some described him as quiet, polite, and reserved. They said that they couldn’t believe the allegations because he’d never seemed like a violent person. Others told a very different story. >> A bit of a strange man, I would say. There’s a few people around here that aren’t surprised by what’s happened. >> They described him as heavily medicated, prone to angry outbursts, and recalled that police had confiscated his firearms and suspended [music] his gun license in 2023.
>> So at that point, he panicked, stuffed her body into the bag, and kept it in the bathroom for about a day before taking it out to be disposed of. >> So who is telling the truth here? Now remember, by the time investigators questioned Carmen, they already had the CCTV footage. They had recovered Tung Snok’s body.
They knew where he had gone that night. This footage shows Carmen speaking to reporters shortly after his arrest. When asked whether he had killed Tung Snok, he denied any involvement. >> You all killed her, right? >> No, no, huh. No. >> According to investigators, Carmen claimed that the teenager had simply left his apartment while he was asleep, and that he had no idea what had happened to her.
But, that wasn’t the only explanation he gave when they asked him about the scratches on his arms and his neck. This was his response. >> I think in that spider that like get in here. >> A spider? Yeah, right. Now, keep that answer in the back of your mind because investigators are about to show him something that completely changes his story.
They confront him with the surveillance footage showing him dragging the suitcase out of his apartment, strapping it onto his motorcycle, and returning without it. That’s when his explanation changed. Investigators allege that Carmen admitted there had been an argument over money. Thai media reported the pair had initially agreed on a payment of a thousand baht, roughly 43 US dollars, before arguing after he allegedly offered only 500 baht instead.
That’s about 21 US dollars. You guys, that is less than what some people spend on lunch. And according to investigators, that was the argument Carmen eventually described before Tung Chanok ended up dead. How do you even process that? But, that wasn’t the end of his explanation. Carmen then claimed that he had acted in self-defense after Tung Chanok threatened him with a knife.
Now, whether the argument was really about money or whether events unfolded the way that Carmen described, investigators may never know. But, police say that’s the version of events he eventually settled on. But, you guys, this next part is what makes the entire case so unsettling. According to the police, after Tung Chanok died, Carmen didn’t call emergency services.
He didn’t alert anyone inside the condominium. Instead, investigators say he remained in the apartment with her body for hours. Take a look at this footage. It shows Carmen casually walking through the condominium carrying a laundry bag, talking to neighbors, and just carrying on with his day before CCTV later captured him removing Tung Shing Nak’s body nearly 18 hours after she had entered his apartment.
But, that’s not even the most outrageous part. While sitting in police custody, Carmen said this to Tung Shing Nak’s family. >> I feel bad for what happened to your daughter. It was out of my control. Um I hope you I know you’ll be very sad, upset, same same me. Um it shouldn’t happen. >> Out of his control? What does that even mean? And investigators didn’t buy that, and neither did Tung Shing Nak’s family.
Her dad said he was devastated that he could not save his only child. Her stepmother, who had held onto hope until the very end, said that she wanted Carmen to face the full consequences [music] under Thai law. >> The Thai news states, “Mother says, I told the police I want him executed. I don’t know what else to say.
I just want him to face the full consequences.” >> But, just when the investigators thought that this case couldn’t get any more disturbing, they uncovered something that sent chills down their spines. Tung Shing Nak wasn’t the first woman whose body had been found inside a suitcase [music] around Pattaya.
She wasn’t even the second. So, according to the Thai police, Tung Shing Nak was the third woman in less than two years whose body had been discovered hidden inside a suitcase in or around Pattaya. The first case happened in February 2025 when a fisherman in nearby Rayong Province reeled in what he thought was a snag on his fishing line.
Instead, he pulled a suitcase out of the water. According to investigators, two dumbbells had been deliberately placed inside to weigh the suitcase down so it would never resurface. But, whoever did it made one mistake. The suitcase eventually floated back up. Inside was the body of an unidentified woman. More than a year later, police still don’t know who she was, and her killer has never been found.
And then, just 7 months later, it happened again. Members of Thailand’s national rowing team spotted another suitcase floating in a Pattaya reservoir. Inside was the body of a woman believed to be in her early 30s. This time, police said that the suitcase had been secured with chains, padlocks, and heavy weights. Investigators believe that she died from asphyxiation.
Just like the first victim, she has never been identified, and no one has ever been arrested. Then came Tung Chanok. While investigators recovered her body from yet another suitcase in June of 2026, they couldn’t ignore the similarities. >> It may or may not be linked, but quite suspicious. It’s in a similar area.
The fact that suitcases were used. >> Now, before I go any further, I do want to be very clear. Thai police have reportedly said that there’s no evidence that [music] Simon Carman is connected to either of those two earlier murders. As of now, all three cases are being investigated separately. So, it leaves you with a chilling question.
Was Tung Chanok’s murder simply a tragic coincidence, or does Pattaya have a much deeper problem that authorities still haven’t uncovered? I would genuinely love to hear your thoughts. So, let me know in the comments below. And if you enjoy deep dives into cases like this, don’t forget to like this video, subscribe, and turn on notifications so you don’t miss the next one.