Episode 49: Ishinomaki Murder

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 20, 2026 · 10m

It was 6:40 in the morning on February 10th, 2010, in Ishinomaki — a coastal city in Miyagi Prefecture, quiet and ordinary in the frozen winter dark. Most people in the house were still asleep. That's when the door opened. And a young man stepped inside carrying a butcher knife. By the time this was over, two young women — twenty years old, eighteen years old — were dead. A male friend was stabbed through the chest. And the person he had actually come for, the young woman he believed belonged to him, was bleeding from a leg wound as he dragged her into his car and drove away. And here's the…