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  Speaker 1: Hello everyone. Back in the day before modern forensic technology,
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  Speaker 1: serial murder cases were much harder to solve. At first,
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  Speaker 1: the police often thought the case was closed until the
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  Speaker 1: killer struck again. Only then would new clues emerge that
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  Speaker 1: could finally lead to the truth. But the story I
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  Speaker 1: told you to day happened in our modern era. In
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen in Japan, a young woman suddenly went missing
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  Speaker 1: after agreeing to meet someone she knew online. When the
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  Speaker 1: police dug deeper, they were shocked to discover this wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just a single missing person case. It was part of
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  Speaker 1: a horrifying chain of murders with a total of nine victims.
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  Speaker 1: The case shook all of Japan to its core. This
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  Speaker 1: story took place in Kanagawa Prefecture, right in the Tokyo
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  Speaker 1: Metropolitan area, at the heart of the prefecture Liza city
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  Speaker 1: called Zama, and that's exactly where everything began. The main
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  Speaker 1: character in this story is Aiko Tomura, a twenty three
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  Speaker 1: year old woman from Hasioji City. Her family had four members,
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  Speaker 1: her parents, her older brother, and herself. Tamura was a
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  Speaker 1: quiet and introverted person who struggled with social interactions. After
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  Speaker 1: finishing middle school, she dropped out of the education system.
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  Speaker 1: As time went by, her parents divorced and she lived
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  Speaker 1: with her mother. In twenty seventeen, her mother passed away
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  Speaker 1: from a serious illness, a devastating blow that deeply affected
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  Speaker 1: Tamura's mental state. She was later diagnosed with schizophrenia and
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  Speaker 1: her condition gradually worsened. Eventually she had to be hospitalized
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  Speaker 1: for treatment. Her older brother had always kept in touch
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  Speaker 1: with her through social media. He often sent messages to
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  Speaker 1: encourage her, hoping she would recover soon. But then one
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  Speaker 1: day in October twenty seventeen, Tamura suddenly vanished without a trace.
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  Speaker 1: In the process of searching for his sister, her brother
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  Speaker 1: unintentionally uncovered a horrifying truth, one that would later be
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  Speaker 1: linked to a string of murders that shocked the entire
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  Speaker 1: nation of Japan. So what really happened to Tamora and
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  Speaker 1: who were the other victims? To find out, we need
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  Speaker 1: to turn back the clock to October twenty third, twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Monday, the beginning of the week. Tamura's
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  Speaker 1: brother realized he hadn't been able to contact her for
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  Speaker 1: three days since she was struggling with mental illness. He
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  Speaker 1: became very worried, afraid she might have done something drastic,
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  Speaker 1: so he decided to try logging into her Twitter account,
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  Speaker 1: hoping to find some kind of clue. And then the
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  Speaker 1: first thing that made him freeze was a tweet Tomura
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  Speaker 1: had posted back on September twentieth. It read, I want
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  Speaker 1: to die, but I'm afraid to die alone. If anyone
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  Speaker 1: feels the same, please dm me. I'm in Tokyo if
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  Speaker 1: you have a car even better. Under that post, there
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  Speaker 1: were quite a few comments. One account asked, do you
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  Speaker 1: want to do it with me? At first, Timura didn't
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  Speaker 1: respond right away, but a few days later she replied,
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  Speaker 1: I want to. The other account continued, then, how about
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  Speaker 1: using pills or alcohol to ease the fear? My room
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  Speaker 1: has aloft, It'll be easier to do it there. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: one days later, Timora messaged again, I hope it'll be today.
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  Speaker 1: Then she added, I only have one thousand yen. Can
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  Speaker 1: we do it without needing anything special? Where do you live?
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  Speaker 1: You're a man? Right After reading through those disturbing messages,
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  Speaker 1: Timura's brother began to feel that something was seriously wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He suspected that his sister might have actually met up
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  Speaker 1: with the man behind that account. Deeply worried, he used
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  Speaker 1: Mora's Twitter account to post a missing person notice and
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  Speaker 1: publicly shared information about the mysterious account, hoping someone out
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  Speaker 1: there might help uncover a clue asterisk. After spending a
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  Speaker 1: whole day's searching without any leads, he finally decided to
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  Speaker 1: go to the police station and report the incident. The
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  Speaker 1: police immediately launched an investigation. After receiving the report, they
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  Speaker 1: discovered that Tamura had been seen at Hachioji station at
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  Speaker 1: one forty five pm on October twenty third. Surveillance footage
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  Speaker 1: showed her walking with a man around twenty five years
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  Speaker 1: old with medium length black hair and a slim build.
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  Speaker 1: The two took a train from Hachioji to Mashida's station,
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  Speaker 1: then transferred to the Ottawa Line and arrived at Subutimei
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  Speaker 1: station in Zama City, over twenty kilometers from Tamura's home
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  Speaker 1: at two forty seven pm. After leaving subude May station,
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  Speaker 1: they disappeared without a trace. Then an unexpected breakthrough came
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  Speaker 1: anta and contacted Tamura's Twitter account. This person said she
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  Speaker 1: had also messaged the same man and could help identify him.
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  Speaker 1: On October thirtieth, she arranged to meet him at Subutimey station.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as they received the information, the police determined
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  Speaker 1: the man was highly suspicious. They asked the girl not
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  Speaker 1: to go to the meeting spot. Instead, officers in plain
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  Speaker 1: clothes were dispatched to the location to keep watch. That morning,
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  Speaker 1: undercover officers and Timura's brother were all at the train
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  Speaker 1: station quietly waiting. By afternoon, they noticed a man pacing
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  Speaker 1: back and forth as if he were looking for someone.
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  Speaker 1: Upon closer inspection, it was him, the very same man
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  Speaker 1: seen in the surveillance footage walking with Timura. However, the
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  Speaker 1: police didn't make a move right away. They kept watching.
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  Speaker 1: The man stood around for a while, and when it
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  Speaker 1: seemed like no one was showing up, he turned and
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  Speaker 1: walked away. Officers began to follow him discreetly. Unaware he
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  Speaker 1: was being tailed, the man casually made his way toward
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  Speaker 1: a nearby apartment complex located less than eight hundred meters
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  Speaker 1: from the station. He climbed up to the second floor,
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  Speaker 1: right to the unit where he lived. The plain close
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  Speaker 1: officers followed silently behind. But here's the part that made
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  Speaker 1: everyone shudder. The closer they got to his apartment, the
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  Speaker 1: stronger the smell became. It was a heavy, foul stench,
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  Speaker 1: so strange and overwhelming it seemed to be coming from
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  Speaker 1: inside his room. The police decided to knock on the door,
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  Speaker 1: and the moment it opened, the stench hit them full force,
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  Speaker 1: so overpowering that anyone standing nearby instinctively winced. Timura's brother,
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  Speaker 1: who was waiting just outside, glanced into the room and
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  Speaker 1: immediately spotted something chilling, his sister's white bag half buried
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  Speaker 1: among the clutter inside. At that moment, the officers directly
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  Speaker 1: questioned him about Timura's whare, but his reaction sent chills
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  Speaker 1: down everyone's spine. No emotion, no panic. He simply pointed
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  Speaker 1: to a cooler in the room and calmly said, she's
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  Speaker 1: in there. This is the layout of the house that
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  Speaker 1: the police searched. As you enter the front door, the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and kitchen are on the left hand side. Above
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen area, there's a small loft. Next is the
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  Speaker 1: living room, and it was right there that the police
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  Speaker 1: uncovered a series of horrifying things. In the living room,
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  Speaker 1: there were eight large containers. As for the cooler the
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  Speaker 1: man had pointed to earlier, when the police opened it,
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  Speaker 1: they found it filled with cat litter, but as they
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  Speaker 1: dug beneath the surface, they discovered a human head along
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  Speaker 1: with several bone fragments. Initial forensic analysis confirmed that the
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  Speaker 1: victim was to Mura, a young woman who had been
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  Speaker 1: missing for days. At that point, the police immediately opened
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  Speaker 1: all eight containers in the living room for inspace. The result,
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  Speaker 1: seven of them contained human bones, only one box was empty.
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  Speaker 1: Right away, the officers restrained the man on the spot,
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  Speaker 1: called for back up, sealed off the entire house, and
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  Speaker 1: launched an official investigation. At the scene, there were a
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  Speaker 1: total of eight containers, seven of which held nine severed
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  Speaker 1: heads and two hundred forty bone fragments. The air in
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  Speaker 1: the room was filled with an overwhelming stench of decay
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  Speaker 1: and death. In addition, police seized a number of suspicious tools,
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  Speaker 1: a saw, a pair of scissors, a rope, and various
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  Speaker 1: other objects believed to have been used in the crimes.
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  Speaker 1: There were also multiple pairs of shoes and wallets, likely
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  Speaker 1: belonging to the victims. The bathroom still had visible traces
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  Speaker 1: of blood that had not yet been cleaned. When forensic
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  Speaker 1: experts stepped in. They confirmed that among the nine victims,
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  Speaker 1: one was male and the rest were female. Bodies had
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  Speaker 1: been dismembered. The exact causes of death couldn't be determined immediately,
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  Speaker 1: but based on estimates, the earliest death had occurred about
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  Speaker 1: three months prior, while the most recent was just around
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  Speaker 1: two weeks ago. At that time, the scene outside the
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  Speaker 1: house was utter chaos. Crowds of residence gathered and reporters
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  Speaker 1: swarmed the area. Police had to cover the scene with
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  Speaker 1: blue tarps to shield the public from the horrifying images inside.
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  Speaker 1: Nearby neighbors were also brought in for questioning. However, since
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  Speaker 1: the house was located right next to a train track,
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  Speaker 1: the sound of passing trains drowned out all other noises,
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  Speaker 1: so no one had heard anything unusual. However, many locals
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  Speaker 1: later shared that ever since the man moved into the
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  Speaker 1: second floor, the house often reeked of a strong, unpleasant odor.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, they simply assumed it was coming from
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  Speaker 1: the sewers or some drainage issue. No one could have
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  Speaker 1: imagined that behind that stench was such a horrifying secret.
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  Speaker 1: On November ninth, twenty seventeen, exactly sixteen days after the
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  Speaker 1: case was uncovered, the police finally identified all nine victims
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  Speaker 1: through DNA testing and matching the list of victims sent
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  Speaker 1: chills down everyone's spine. Miura Mazuki twenty one years old,
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  Speaker 1: an ordinary office worker living Inatsugi, Kanagawo Prefecture, hong Yishihara
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  Speaker 1: only fifteen years old, a tenth grade student from Gunma District, Tokyo, Takugo.
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  Speaker 1: Nishinaka twenty worked at a nursing facility in Yokosuka, also
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  Speaker 1: in Kanagawa. Sarakinako nineteen a second year university student in Tokurozawa,
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  Speaker 1: Sayatama Prefecture. Hitomi Fujima twenty six, divorced living in Kasukabe,
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  Speaker 1: Satamasuda seventeen, final year high school student from Fukushima. Kubotsumi seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: an eleventh grade student from Satama's city, Kazumi Maayama twenty five,
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  Speaker 1: worked at a convenience store in Yokohama. And finally, Toma
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  Speaker 1: Aiko twenty three, a young woman undergoing psychiatric treatment in Hachioji, Tokyo,
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  Speaker 1: the very person whose disappearance helped uncover the entire case.
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  Speaker 1: Among them, the oldest was only twenty six years old,
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  Speaker 1: while the youngest was just fifteen. What's especially notable is
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  Speaker 1: that most of them had previously struggled with mental health issues.
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  Speaker 1: That's why the case caused such a massive shock to
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese public at the time. People started asking countless questions,
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  Speaker 1: how could an ordinary man, not even a professional killer,
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  Speaker 1: manage to murder nine people in just a few months,
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  Speaker 1: and how did he earn their trust enough to lure
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  Speaker 1: them all the way to his home. The identity of
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  Speaker 1: the killer was later revealed. Takahiro Siracy born in October
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  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, living in Zema, the very place where the
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  Speaker 1: crime took place. At the time, he was just twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old, unemployed and living alone, about three kilometers
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  Speaker 1: from his parents' house. Taca Hero came from a family
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  Speaker 1: of four, his father a car parts designer, his mother
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  Speaker 1: a homemaker, and a younger sister. According to people who
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  Speaker 1: knew him, taca Hero had always shown strange behavior since childhood.
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  Speaker 1: He tended to see himself as the center of everything, cold, detached,
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  Speaker 1: and indifferent to others emotions. Even in elementary school he
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  Speaker 1: was already aloof and by middle school he remained just
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  Speaker 1: as withdrawn, to the point that he was nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: be seen in the class graduation photo in high school,
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  Speaker 1: Taca Hero's parents began fighting constantly and eventually divorced. He
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  Speaker 1: chose to live with his father. From then on, he
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  Speaker 1: dropped out of school and took part time jobs to
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  Speaker 1: save money and move out on his own. But the
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  Speaker 1: truly disturbing part is that during this time he lost
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  Speaker 1: all will to live. He even tried to organize a
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  Speaker 1: group's suicide with others who shared the sane, dark thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: planning to burn charcoal indoors. Fortunately, the attempt failed. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, after graduating from high school, Takahiro
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  Speaker 1: started working at a supermarket. The job was relatively stable,
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  Speaker 1: and his manager even gave him high praise, describing him
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  Speaker 1: as diligent and responsible. However, after some time, he quit
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  Speaker 1: and moved on to work for an electronics company. However,
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  Speaker 1: this was the turning point where Teka Hero's life began
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  Speaker 1: to spiral downward. He started making money by working as
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  Speaker 1: a pimp, gradually getting involved with gangs and the criminal underworld.
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  Speaker 1: By August twenty twelve, at just twenty two years old,
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  Speaker 1: he quit his job and moved straight to Kobukacho, Tokyo's
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  Speaker 1: infamous redlight district. There he worked for a brothel that
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  Speaker 1: recruited sex workers, earning up to three hundred thousand yen
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  Speaker 1: a month through referral fees, commissions, and consulting services. Despite
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  Speaker 1: making good money, he spent recklessly and saved nothing dark
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  Speaker 1: and unstable, and it was during this time that his
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  Speaker 1: twisted hollo psyche began to give rise to a series
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  Speaker 1: of horrifying ideas. By February twenty seventeen, after five years
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  Speaker 1: of drifting through Kabukicho, taka Hero was finally arrested by police.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with coercing a woman into prostitution and
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  Speaker 1: received a suspended sentence of fourteen months in prison, along
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  Speaker 1: with three years of probation. During this time, he seemed
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  Speaker 1: to want to turn his life around. He got a
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  Speaker 1: job at a logistics company and even had a girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: But just two months later, taka Hero abruptly moved back
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  Speaker 1: to his hometown, returning to live with his father in
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  Speaker 1: Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture. From that point on, he practically
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  Speaker 1: vanished from society. He kept his head curtains drawn all day,
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  Speaker 1: rarely left his room, and his only interaction with the
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  Speaker 1: outside world was through social media. In Japan, there's a
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  Speaker 1: heartbreaking reality. The desire to end one's life is not
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  Speaker 1: uncommon due to overwhelming pressure from school, work, and even family.
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  Speaker 1: Around seventy people take their own lives every single day.
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  Speaker 1: It's a devastating number, and the majority are men. Takahiro
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  Speaker 1: seemed to pay close attention to this issue. He noticed
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  Speaker 1: that on Twitter there were many people struggling with dark
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  Speaker 1: and negative emotions, so he created five accounts. One of
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  Speaker 1: them was used to play the role of a sympathetic listener,
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  Speaker 1: someone who gave kind, understanding advice. The other four accounts
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  Speaker 1: were used to privately chat and connect with potential victims.
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  Speaker 1: He would start by gently reaching out, making small talk,
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  Speaker 1: and gradually gain their trust. From there, he would begin
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  Speaker 1: to lure those who were in despair into meeting up
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  Speaker 1: with them, offering all sorts of reasons that sounded convincing
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  Speaker 1: and emotionally reasonable. And then, in August twenty seventeen, he
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  Speaker 1: connected with Miura Mazuki, a twenty one year old he
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  Speaker 1: met through Twitter. Maizuki worked at a delivery company. On
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  Speaker 1: the outside, everything about her seemed perfectly normal, but deep down,
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  Speaker 1: she had been carrying emotional scars ever since middle school,
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  Speaker 1: where she had been relentlessly bullied. When she entered high school,
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  Speaker 1: Mizuki became addicted to social media, especially content filled with negativity.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, she even connected with another online user
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  Speaker 1: who was also in despair, and the two agreed to
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  Speaker 1: meet by the sea to carry out a tragic plan together. Fortunately,
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  Speaker 1: Mazuki survived that day. As time went by, Mizuki's condition
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  Speaker 1: didn't improve much until she met Takahiro on Twitter. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: she ended up involving another friend who shared similar emotional
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  Speaker 1: struggles to Kogo Nishinaka, a twenty year old working at
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  Speaker 1: a nursing facility. The three of them met in a
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  Speaker 1: park to discuss ending their lives together, but afterward they
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  Speaker 1: each went their separate ways. On the way home, Takugo
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  Speaker 1: suddenly realized that he no longer wanted to die. He
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  Speaker 1: wanted to live to start over, and when Mizuki saw
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  Speaker 1: that the dark courage within her also faded, she messaged Tekeahiro, saying,
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  Speaker 1: since Takugo gave up, I don't want to do it
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  Speaker 1: anymore either. But for Tekeahro, things didn't end there. After
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  Speaker 1: several conversations, he learned that Mizuki was single and had
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  Speaker 1: a decent amount of savings. That's when a twisted plan
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  Speaker 1: began to take shape in his mind. Lure her in,
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  Speaker 1: take her money, manipulate her feelings, and then kill her.
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  Speaker 1: He bought a saw, some rope, and then started looking
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  Speaker 1: for an apartment near Sabutime station. He eventually rented the
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  Speaker 1: very apartment that the police would later discover cheap, discreet,
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  Speaker 1: no security cameras, a perfect hideout for a predator. One day,
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  Speaker 1: he asked Mazuki to go with him to check out
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  Speaker 1: an apartment, claiming he was planning to move soon. After
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  Speaker 1: the visit, he made up a story said he needed
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  Speaker 1: to put down a deposit, but didn't bring enough cash. Mizuki,
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  Speaker 1: trusting him withdrew money and handed over five hundred ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand yen, not a small amount by any means, and
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  Speaker 1: that was the moment everything began to spiral beyond saving.
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  Speaker 1: Three days later, Teca Hero moved into the new apartment.
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  Speaker 1: He called Mizuki over, saying he needed help with a
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  Speaker 1: few things. Everything seemed normal, nothing suspicious until Mizuki drank
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  Speaker 1: the glass of wine Tekahiro had secretly laced with sleeping pills.
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  Speaker 1: Not long after, she drifted off, completely unaware that she
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  Speaker 1: would never wake up again. At that moment, seeing that
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  Speaker 1: Nizuki no longer showed any response, he quietly took the
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  Speaker 1: rope he had prepared in advance and ended her life.
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  Speaker 1: What followed was a period of horror and depravity beyond imagination.
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  Speaker 1: To cover his tracks, he tried to dispose of the body.
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  Speaker 1: Since it was his first time committing such a crime,
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  Speaker 1: Takahiro was extremely clumsy. He went online, searched for all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of information, and then handled the corpse himself right
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  Speaker 1: in the bathroom of his apartment. It took him three
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  Speaker 1: full days to finish. However, things didn't go as smoothly
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  Speaker 1: as he had imagined. A foul odor began to spread,
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  Speaker 1: forcing him to find ways to mask the smell. He
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  Speaker 1: separated the body and departs and stuffed them into the refrigerator.
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  Speaker 1: Each night, he would secretly put a small portion into
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  Speaker 1: a trash bag and carry it to a nearby dump
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  Speaker 1: with the same cold indifference as if he were tossing
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  Speaker 1: out kitchen waist. As for the victim's head, since it
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  Speaker 1: was rigid and difficult to deal with, he bought a
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  Speaker 1: co ulerbox and some cat litter then placed it inside
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  Speaker 1: as if it were just some frozen item unrelated to
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  Speaker 1: a human life. A week later, on August twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, Takahiro struck again. This time, the victim was
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  Speaker 1: honky Shihara, just fifteen years old, a quiet girl who
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  Speaker 1: often made friends online, but was deeply wounded inside. Since
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  Speaker 1: middle school, Ishihara had been constantly scolded by her mother
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  Speaker 1: over her grades, to the point that she locked herself
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  Speaker 1: in her room and refused to go out. When she
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  Speaker 1: entered high school. After a major argument, she ran away
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  Speaker 1: from home asterisk. It was during that period of confusion
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  Speaker 1: and hopelessness that the young girl turned to social media,
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  Speaker 1: searching for someone who could understand her, and that's when
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  Speaker 1: she met Takahiro. Just like Mizuki before her, she was
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  Speaker 1: lured to his apartment and fell into the exact same trap,
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pills, out, a rope, and a heart breaking end.
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  Speaker 1: When both Mazuki and Ishihara went missing, their families immediately
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  Speaker 1: reported it to the police. The investigation later uncovered one
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  Speaker 1: key detail they had in common. The last known location
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  Speaker 1: of their phones was near Subutime Station, the same area
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  Speaker 1: where taka Hero's apartment was located. Police also conducted a
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  Speaker 1: sweep of the surrounding area, but found nothing unusual. Takahiro
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  Speaker 1: rarely left his apartment, never drew attention, and had no
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  Speaker 1: friends coming over, like a ghost quietly drifting through real life.
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  Speaker 1: The third victim was someone who had once narrowly escaped death,
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  Speaker 1: Takugo Nishinaka. At twenty years old, Takugo had been diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: with high functioning autism. His mental state was fragile, and
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  Speaker 1: after a painful breakup, he had even been hospitalized for
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric treatment. Even after being discharged from the hospital, he
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  Speaker 1: still hadn't fully recovered. Once, when he happened to run
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  Speaker 1: into his ex girlfriend at a train station, he was
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  Speaker 1: so overwhelmed with despair that he jumped onto the tracks,
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  Speaker 1: but luckily someone managed to stop him just in time.
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  Speaker 1: But that wasn't the last time ta Kugo felt like
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  Speaker 1: giving up on life. Just before he became a victim,
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  Speaker 1: he was harshly reprimanded by his superior at work, even
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  Speaker 1: though he hadn't done anything wrong. The feeling of being
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  Speaker 1: treated unfairly, combined with his already fragile mental state, caused
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  Speaker 1: him to break down once again to Kugo already knew Mizuki,
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  Speaker 1: and after a few days of not being able to
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  Speaker 1: contact her, he grew worried and decided to reach out
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  Speaker 1: to Takahiro. They met in person. Takugo poured his heart out,
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  Speaker 1: talking about the pain at work, the pressures that were
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  Speaker 1: slowly killing his spirit, and strangely enough, after letting it
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  Speaker 1: all out, he felt relieved. The dark, heavy thoughts began
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  Speaker 1: to fade away. On his way home, Takugo texted take
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  Speaker 1: a Hero, writing I will live a good life from
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  Speaker 1: now on. Sadly, Taka Hero had already grown too accustomed
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  Speaker 1: to killing, and in his mind, there was no room
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  Speaker 1: for those who changed their minds. When Takahiro read the message,
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  Speaker 1: I will live a good life from now on, he
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  Speaker 1: immediately panicked. He knew that if Takugo found out Mizuki
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  Speaker 1: had gone missing, there was no doubt he would grow
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  Speaker 1: suspicious and might even go to the police. Taka Hero
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  Speaker 1: couldn't let that happen, so he decided to strike first.
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  Speaker 1: He invited Takugo over to his apartment for a drink,
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  Speaker 1: same script, same method, no exceptions, and just like that,
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  Speaker 1: Tecugo never made it back home. By this point, inside
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  Speaker 1: that tiny apartment, there were already three bodies. The stench
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  Speaker 1: was overwhelming, spreading throughout the place. He tried everything to
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  Speaker 1: deal with it, cutting the bodies into smaller pieces, bagging them,
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  Speaker 1: freezing them, but this time the smell just wouldn't go away.
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  Speaker 1: In the end, he became so desperate he actually cooked
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  Speaker 1: some of the body parts, cooked them as if he
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  Speaker 1: were making dinner, just to mask the odor of death.
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  Speaker 1: Neighbors began to notice the foul smell, but they assumed
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  Speaker 1: it was just something wrong with the sewage system, so
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  Speaker 1: no one called the police. After successfully carrying out three murders,
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  Speaker 1: Takehiro had no intention of stopping. In fact, he even
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  Speaker 1: got a new girlfriend, a girl he met online, moved
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  Speaker 1: in to live with him, right in the very apartment
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  Speaker 1: where he was hiding the bodies, and still he kept
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  Speaker 1: hunting for new victims. The fourth victim was Sarak Hinako,
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  Speaker 1: a nineteen year old second year university student. Hinako was
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  Speaker 1: introverted and emotionally sensitive. After a harsh scolding from her mother,
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  Speaker 1: she spiraled into despair and posted a troubling message on Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: and just like before, Taca Hero appeared, sending her a
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  Speaker 1: caring message, offering sweet words and inviting her to his apartment.
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  Speaker 1: Hinako never made it back home that night. After killing Hinako,
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  Speaker 1: Taka Hero hadn't even finished cleaning up when his girlfriend
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  Speaker 1: unexpectedly came home. In that moment, he seriously considered killing
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  Speaker 1: her too. She was a dangerous witness. But strangely, the
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  Speaker 1: girl didn't panic. She didn't scream, didn't call the police. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: she stayed silent. Even more disturbing, she helped him hide
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  Speaker 1: the body. Seeing that she might be useful, Taca Hero
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  Speaker 1: decided to spare her life, but he still didn't stop.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Not long after, he came across a tweet from a
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  Speaker 1: young woman named Hitomi Fujima twenty six years old. Hitomi's
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  Speaker 1: story was heartbreaking. She got married at nineteen and had
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  Speaker 1: a daughter, but because of work, she and her husband
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  Speaker 1: lived apart. They div divorced, reconciled, and tried to make
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  Speaker 1: things work, but life wasn't a fairy tale. Her daughter
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  Speaker 1: was born with a congenital illness and couldn't attend kindergarten.
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  Speaker 1: Hittomi had to stay home to care for her child,
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  Speaker 1: which led her mother in law to blame her for everything.
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  Speaker 1: The family tensions escalated, and by August twenty seventeen, after
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  Speaker 1: a second divorce, Hitomi was kicked out of the house.
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  Speaker 1: She had nowhere to go. In her desperation, she went
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  Speaker 1: online and shared her pain, and Tecahiro, always watching, immediately
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  Speaker 1: reached out. What she didn't know was that in his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: she had just become his next prey. They met at
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  Speaker 1: the train station and returned to the apartment together. While there,
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  Speaker 1: Hittomi's ex husband called her, and the two exchanged text
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  Speaker 1: messages that made teca Hero nervous. He feared she might
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  Speaker 1: back out or try to escape, so the moment her
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  Speaker 1: guard was down, he struck right there without hesitation. After
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  Speaker 1: this incident, the stench became unbearable. It was no longer
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: something he could mask. In desperation, he replaced the entire
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: ventilation system in the bathroom, a last ditch effort to
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  Speaker 1: delay discovery. But it didn't stop there. Four more young women,
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  Speaker 1: one after another, fell into the same all too familiar trap, alcohol,
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pills, and a rope. In total, nine lives were taken.
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  Speaker 1: Taca Hero, who once seemed like nothing more than a
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  Speaker 1: reclusive shadow shut away in his room, had now become
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  Speaker 1: one of the most notorious serial killers in modern Japanese history.
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  Speaker 1: At the crime scene, police discovered eight boxes containing human remains,
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  Speaker 1: but there was one detail that sent chills down everyone's spine.
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  Speaker 1: One of the boxes was empty. Takahiro confessed that the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: empty box had already been prepared for his tenth victim.
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  Speaker 1: If the police had arrived just a little later, another
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  Speaker 1: innocce life might have been lost. Because the number of
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  Speaker 1: victims was so high, and due to the massive amount
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  Speaker 1: of forensic evidence, legal investigations, and psychological evaluations needed, it
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  Speaker 1: took three years before the case could go to trial.
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  Speaker 1: On September thirtieth, twenty twenty, the Tokyo District Court officially
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  Speaker 1: opened the proceedings. Tucka Hero fully confessed to all charges. However,
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  Speaker 1: his defense lawyers argued, my client has mental health issues.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't intend to murder. He merely helped those people
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  Speaker 1: carry out their own wishes. Across twenty three court appearances,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Taka Hero repeatedly apologized, saying he felt remorse for the
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  Speaker 1: victims and their families, but none of that could ever
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  Speaker 1: erase the horrors of the crimes he had committed. On
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  Speaker 1: December fifteenth, twenty twenty, the court officially sentenced to Khiro
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  Speaker 1: to death. The case was closed, but the wound it
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  Speaker 1: left in the hearts of the Japanese people still write.
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  Speaker 1: After Takahiro's arrest, Twitter Japan immediately added a new policy
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  Speaker 1: strictly prohibiting any content related to seeking help to disappear.
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  Speaker 1: If such posts are detected, they are removed immediately. Dear friend,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: we all have moments when life feels overwhelming, when despair
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: seems too heavy to bear. But please don't give up
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  Speaker 1: just yet. Take a deep breath, be patient. Life can
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: change in just a single moment. You matter, Your life
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  Speaker 1: is precious. Please give hope a little more time so
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  Speaker 1: it can find its way to you. That's the end
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  Speaker 1: of today's video. Thank you for watching, and see you
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  Speaker 1: again in the next stories. Goodbye,