Episode 31: Amagasaki Serial Disappearances

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 1, 2026 · 12m

When police in Japan's Hyogo Prefecture pulled a steel drum from the waters of Okayama harbor in October 2011, they knew something was wrong before they even cracked it open. The drum was too heavy. And when they did open it, they found what they feared — a body, sealed in concrete. The victim was a man named Jiro Hashimoto. He was fifty-three years old. And he was only the beginning. What investigators uncovered over the months that followed was something that had been hiding in plain sight for nearly twenty-five years — a woman in her early sixties who had drawn at least five separate…