Episode 35: Okegawa Stalker Murder

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 6, 2026 · 13m

Shiori Ino filed her first police report in the summer of 1999. She was twenty-one years old — a university student in Saitama Prefecture — and she was being stalked by a man she had stopped dating. She didn't file once and give up. She and her family went back to the police again and again, over four months, with written documentation of harassment: defamatory flyers spread through her neighborhood, threatening letters sent to her family and her university, evidence that her life was in danger. Four months. She tried for four months to get the system to protect her. On October 26th, 1999…