Episode 6: Zama Serial Killings (Twitter Killer)

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 6, 2026 · 12m

In the autumn of 2017, a twenty-seven-year-old man in a quiet Japanese city was killing people — one at a time, over ten weeks — and almost nobody noticed. The bodies were in his apartment the whole time. Nine of them. Strangled, dismembered, stored in cooler boxes a few feet from where he slept. What made it possible was a single tool: Twitter. He found his victims the same way anyone finds anything on social media — by searching a hashtag. The hashtag was "shinitai." In Japanese, that means "I want to die." He wasn't searching it to help people. He was searching it to hunt them. This is the…