Episode 4: Setagaya Family Murder

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

It's New Year's Eve, 2000. Somewhere in the quiet western suburbs of Tokyo, a family of four is going to be murdered tonight. The killer who does it will leave behind more physical evidence than almost any unidentified suspect in Japanese criminal history — DNA, fingerprints, clothing, his own belongings, even a biological sample from the bathroom. He will eat their ice cream. He will drink their tea. He will sit down at the father's computer. And then, some time before dawn, he will slip out of the house and vanish completely. Twenty-five years later, he has never been identified. More than…