Asia accidentally fell into an elevator, an entire family was murdered, and a man died after a cruel mockery. Three shocking stories that expose the worst of indifference, impunity, and lack of compassion in different corners of the world.
In different parts of the world, three people died under preventable conditions. What unites these stories is not the place, the language, or the context. What connects them is the same factor: human indifference. An elevator that no one controlled, a family that the State failed to protect, and a promise that ended in tragedy. These are three real cases. Three absurd deaths. And each one leaves a question hanging in the air: How much is a life worth?
🟥 Story 1: The woman who fell thinking she was trapped
On April 27, 2023, at Amu International Airport in Indonesia, two workers noticed a pungent odor coming from one of the elevators. When they checked the elevator's technical section, they found the decomposing body of a woman. No one knew it was there. No one had noticed it in three days.
The victim was Aiciia Cintade Dewi, 38. Security cameras showed that she had entered the elevator hoping to reach the second floor. The doors opened normally, but she, confused, thought they weren't working. She desperately pressed buttons as the doors opened and closed behind her. She called her niece, saying she was trapped. She then tried to open the doors manually. She succeeded. But on the other side, there was no floor: only a technical shaft. She fell three levels, straight into a cavity used for maintenance.
The most shocking thing is that the autopsy couldn't confirm whether she died instantly. There's a possibility: she remained alive, injured, and lay there in agony for hours.
Her family asked to review the cameras and the elevator shaft at the time of her disappearance. They were told no. That it wasn't allowed. Crucial hours were lost. Days later, her body was found. Her husband filed six complaints. Five people were fired. But Asia was gone.
🟥 Story 2: The crime that could have been avoided
On September 19, 2021, in Killamarsh, England, police received a call at 7:39 a.m. A man said in a calm voice, “I killed four people.” When they arrived, they found him waiting at the door, blood pouring down his chest. His name was Damian Bendall; he was 31 years old and had a criminal record.
Inside, horror. Four bodies: his pregnant partner, Terry Harris, their two children, ages 13 and 11, and the girl's best friend, who had just gone to sleep.
The night before, the family had gone out to the park and then returned home. Everyone went to sleep, except Damian. Under the influence of drugs, he grabbed a hammer and attacked everyone. With the youngest girl, he also committed an abhorrent act that forensic experts could barely describe.
The incredible thing: Bendall had a suspended sentence, a nighttime arrest warrant at that same house, and had confessed to violent thoughts. But the system classified him as a "low risk" to women and children.
The next day, he sold one of the boys' Xbox at a pawnshop. He bought drugs. Only then did he call the police. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of release.
🟥 Story 3: The joke that ended in death
On October 31, 2024, in Conanakunte, south of Bangalore, India, Diwali was being celebrated. Fireworks, lights, joy. In the midst of the festivities was Shavari, a 32-year-old bricklayer with a disabled hand, but recognized for his hard work. He was walking drunk when he crossed paths with a group of young people he knew from the neighborhood.
Between laughs and drinks, they offered him a deal: if he sat on a giant firecracker and lit it, they would buy him a tuk-tuk. To anyone, that would be crazy. To him, it was an opportunity. The tuk-tuk meant independence. Work. Dignity. He hesitated, they provoked him, they challenged him, and he accepted.
They lit the firecracker. They ran. He didn't. The explosion devastated him internally. He was rushed to the hospital. He died on November 2nd from injuries that were impossible to reverse.
At first, the young men lied. They said he had done it alone. But the cameras showed otherwise. Six were arrested. To this day, it is unknown whether they are in prison or free.
🟨 A silence that hurts more than the scream
Asia fell into a hole. Bendall killed with a hammer. Shavari died for trusting a joke. Three people. Three stories. And behind each one, an absence: no one controlled the cameras, no one stopped a killer, no one stopped a humiliation.
These aren't fictions. They're facts. And they show what happens when the system fails, when others look the other way, when life becomes disposable.
