Episode 23: Kanae Kijima Black Widow Poisonings

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 24, 2026 · 13m

She arrived for every date with a home-cooked meal. Elaborate food, prepared with time and care — the kind of cooking that says I put thought into this, I put you first. And for the men who met her through Japan's marriage-hunting websites, that meal was often the most intimate attention they'd received in years. In 2009, police in Saitama Prefecture found a 41-year-old man dead in a rental car. Carbon monoxide. Charcoal briquettes still burning inside. It looked, at first glance, like a suicide. It wasn't. Detectives started pulling the thread. And what unravelled was a pattern: lonely men…