Episode 36: Nagasaki Boy Murder 2003

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 6, 2026 · 11m

A 4-year-old boy named Shun Tanemoto was in the game corner of an electronics store in Nagasaki City while his mother shopped nearby. She was a few aisles away. She told him she would be back in a few minutes. He nodded. She walked off. When she came back, he was gone. His body was found the next morning at the base of a multi-storey parking building in the city center — roughly four kilometers from where he had disappeared. He had been stripped naked, beaten, and thrown from the roof. He was four years old. And the person caught on security cameras leading him away by the hand was twelve…