Episode 7: Sagamihara Care Home Stabbings

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 7, 2026 · 11m

At two in the morning on a Tuesday in July 2016, most of the residents of Tsukui Yamayuri-en were asleep. They were adults with severe intellectual and physical disabilities — some unable to speak, some unable to move without help — living in a residential care facility tucked into the hills outside Sagamihara, about forty kilometers southwest of Tokyo. It was a large institution, home to roughly one hundred and fifty people. It was supposed to be the safest place they could be. The man who arrived that night was not a stranger. He had worked here for over three years. He knew the building…