Episode 24: Fukuoka Family Murder

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 25, 2026 · 12m

There's a house in Higashi-ku, a quiet residential ward of Fukuoka city. It's a normal family home in a normal neighborhood — the kind of place that doesn't call attention to itself. But parked outside, according to what was later described in court, is a Mercedes-Benz. And for three young men watching the street that summer, that car is a sign. Not just of wealth, but of what they believe is waiting inside. On the night of June 19th, 2003, they go in. Inside is a family of four. A businessman named Shinjiro Matsumoto, forty-one years old. His wife Chika, forty. Their two children — eleven…