Episode 32: Kitakyushu Serial Murders

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Aug 2, 2026 · 12m

There's a kind of evil that doesn't announce itself with violence. It arrives quietly — as charm, as trust, as the slow realization that you've already done something you cannot undo. Between 1996 and 1998, in a cramped apartment in Kitakyushu, Japan, a man named Futoshi Matsunaga killed seven people without ever personally pulling a trigger or picking up a knife. He made their own family members do it for him. And when it was over, he had the killers living under the same roof, bound to silence by their own actions. Japanese prosecutors, in their closing statement, told the court that this…