Episode 34: Toyokawa Housewife Murder

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 4, 2026 · 12m

He was seventeen years old. Good grades. Respected by the younger kids at school. A member of the soft tennis club. Nothing about the way he looked or talked or moved would have made you uneasy. On May 1st, 2000 — a national holiday, the start of Golden Week — he walked to a house roughly a hundred meters from his school, stepped through an unlocked front door, and killed a sixty-five-year-old woman he had never met. When police asked him why, he said something that stopped Japan in its tracks: "I wanted to try killing someone." No rage. No grievance. No money. Just curiosity about what it…