In 2011, the 311 earthquake in Japan caused a serious nuclear leak at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, making the place famous. But today we are not talking about this nuclear leak accident, but a urinal hiding body. Today's story takes place on February 28, 1989, when there is a elementary school in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. At six o'clock in the evening, a 23-year-old female teacher at the elementary school played a day's class and came out of the teaching building to walk back to the staff dormitory not far away.
In February, it was still winter in Fukushima Prefecture, and the weather was very cold, and by six o'clock in the evening, it was already dark. It didn't take long for the female teacher to return to her dormitory, where she was ready to get up and go to the bathroom. His faculty dormitory is a separate room for each person, and each dormitory is equipped with a separate toilet, so the toilet in the room is usually used only by him. At that time, the conditions in Japan's mountain villages were not very developed, and the sewer pipes of the toilets were not circulating, but were separate septic tanks. The toilet is a squat design, under the squat toilet is a U-shaped pipe septic tank, excrement is accumulated here, one end of the U-shaped pipe is connected to the squat toilet, the other end is a sewage outlet, this sewage outlet is outdoors, every once in a while, someone will open the lid of the sewage outlet, use the machine to pump away the excrement inside.
After the female teacher finished going to the toilet, she subconsciously looked into the depths of the urinal and faintly saw a shoe, which made her feel very uneasy. He went outside and opened the manhole cover at the outlet to see what was inside. It didn't matter if I saw it, I found a female teacher under a human leg inside and cried out loudly, and quickly ran away to ask for help from her colleagues. After a while, the principal and some courageous colleagues arrived at this place, and everyone carefully looked into the sewage outlet, determined that there were human legs below, and found that there were no shoes on the feet, so they immediately called the police.
When the police arrived at the scene and saw this situation, they reached down from the sewage outlet and dragged it against the stench that came over their faces, and the man's two legs, like his bare hands, pulled the person up, but there seemed to be something stuck underneath, and he couldn't pull it up, so the police contacted the firefighters again. In the end, they used an excavator to dig the entire parade pipe up from under the ground, and then used a cutter to cut the pipe to save the man. But the man was already dead. The deceased was a man, in a very strange posture at the time of death, bending his hands and legs, lying face up in a U-shaped tube, his pants on the bottom of his body were naked, and he was still holding a neatly folded dress in his arms, his face was right in front of the female teacher, and the deteriorated mouth of the toilet looked like he was spying on women going to the toilet. Since the body had been soaked in the cesspool for several days, it was washed exactly twice before the autopsy was carried out. Immediately after the cleaning was completed, he was recognized by someone named Naoyuki Kanno, a 26-year-old boy named Naoyuki Kanno, a very famous young man in the local village.
Many people knew him, and after forensic examination, the deceased died two days ago on February 26, and no trauma was found except for some minor scratches on his elbows and knees. The cause of death given by the forensic doctor was death due to cardiopulmonary failure caused by chest compression and low temperature, which is simply frozen alive. After a series of investigations, the police could not find any traces and evidence of his killing, and quickly closed the case, concluding that it was an accidental death caused by trying to spy on the woman's toilet. Neither the father of the deceased nor the local villagers could accept the police conclusion, because everyone knew him and knew that the young man was a very promising young man.
He worked as a sales manager at a maintenance company at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, played baseball and guitar, and wrote lyrics and poetry. She often appeared in the village and participated in various activities, so the people in the local village basically knew him, knew him well, and felt that he could not do such a thing as peeking at women going to the toilet. Of course, the villagers will not doubt the police's conclusions based on their knowledge of the deceased. There are so many doubts in this case that it doesn't look like an accidental death caused by simple voyeurism. So the people in the village spontaneously organized signatures, and also joined hands with the people in the next village to sign together, a month after the crime, 4300 people were collected one after another, and jointly asked the police to re-investigate the case, you know, the village where the deceased was located, there were a total of 3800 people, plus the signatures of some people in other villages, and the final number of signatures was even greater than the total number of people in the village. So why is there widespread disbelief in the police's findings? Next, let's take a look at what are the doubts in this case.
The first doubt, and the core of the case, how did he get in? The parade hall is symmetrical in design, with a diameter of 36 centimeters in vertical pipes, with an outdoor sewage outlet at one end and an indoor toilet at the other. Since the indoor toilet needs to be equipped with a squat toilet, the caliber at the end of the room is even smaller, only 20 centimeters, so it can only be from the outdoor, and the height of the deceased is about 170 centimeters. According to a survey by The Japanese Economist, the average shoulder width of Japanese men aged 25 to 29 is 40.4 centimeters, while the diameter of the vertical pipe of the parade pipe is only 36 centimeters, so it is very difficult to enter the pipe by yourself and achieve this posture. Later, the father of the deceased also put the cut pipe fragments back together for experiments, and found that whether they wore it or not, there was no way to drill into the clothes themselves. Suppose that the deceased is really unobjected, knowing that the pipeline is already so difficult to drill, and knowing that it is very likely that it will not be drilled out, and it will be forced into it. What is the probability that he will do this. The time of the crime was February, and it was still very cold in Fukushima, Japan, and it was even colder in the wet place inside the urinal pipe. According to the investigation, when it died on February 26, there was still about 20 centimeters of snow on the ground, and in such a cold environment, the deceased was naked, and even more strange was that he was still holding folded clothes in his arms, such a strange posture and movement was really difficult to understand, if he really wanted to peek, in the toilet so dim light, can he really see clearly? During the autopsy, the forensic doctor found that the deceased had no other trauma except for some minor scratches on the elbows and knees, and the cause of death was freezing. From the academician report, it can be inferred that he entered the pipeline alive and then froze to death. Because the state of death is impossible to enter the pipeline, and if it dies before entering, then its cause of death will be found by the forensic doctor. If he had been forced in alive by force, there must have been obvious external injuries on his body, but there were no external wounds on him, and when the deceased was found, he did not wear shoes on his feet. The police searched the urinal pipe and found only one shoe in the pipe, which was confirmed to belong to the deceased himself, and the location of the shoe was near the head, that is, the shoe that the female teacher saw at the beginning. There was only one shoe on the scene, where did the other shoe go?
Through a search of the surrounding area, the police found another shoe on the riverbed far from the scene of the crime. Why are these two shoes so far apart and appear in different places? The deceased also knew the female teacher, and not only knew him and the female teacher's boyfriend also had a very good relationship. Before the incident, the female teacher had been harassed by the phone many times, Yu Shiye and the boyfriend of the female teacher recorded the harassing phone calls, and then handed the tape to the police, and Kim has also been helping to investigate who made the harassing phone calls, and seems to have some eyebrows. Thus it can be seen that the deceased Kanno was the boyfriend of the female teacher and the female teacher. These three people have close contact, good relationship, and a certain understanding of their respective schedules and formations. We know that the deceased was found on February 28, and he died on February 26. The last person to see her was the father of the deceased. According to his father, at ten o'clock in the morning of February 24, he was watching TV in his room when he heard his son say at the door that I was going out to run some errands. Then no one saw her again. So where did he go during the two days of his disappearance?
It was the time of the death of Emperor Showa of Japan, and the funeral of Emperor Showa was held on February 24, so those days were Japan's national mourning day, everyone was on holiday, and the female teacher returned to her hometown on February 24 and 27, so he was not in the dormitory at all during this time. However, this matter is also known, from the time of his disappearance on the 24th, it is possible that he has been in the pipeline, and the date of death is on the 26th. Therefore, he knew that the female teacher would not return on the 28th, and knew that the toilet was only available to him, and he had to brave the cold days to climb into the parade pipe at least two days in advance, just to peek at her to the toilet. Such an inference is obviously very far-fetched. When the police searched around the scene of the crime, they found that the deceased's car was parked, and in the parking lot near Zhao's staff dormitory, the car keys were still inserted in it and not unplugged, and the car door was not locked.
It doesn't look like you want to park for a long time, it's more like you're going to stop here temporarily and leave right away, otherwise you won't have to pull out your car keys. Someone questioned the female teacher, saying that at night, the toilet light was so dim, the urinal was so deep, and the female teacher's eyesight was so good that she just saw the shoes below. Moreover, after the female teacher found the shoes, she did not immediately go to someone to help, but went outside to open the lid of the sewage outlet, and the courage was also quite large. Is it possible that the female teacher committed murder on the deceased, then disguised herself as if he wanted to peep, and finally deliberately opened the outside lid for everyone to find? However, such speculation is not supported by any evidence, and there is no motive for female teachers to kill him. More than a month before the incident, an accident occurred at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, where the maintenance company where the deceased Kanaya worked, and the welding part of the impeller of the recirculation pump of Reactor No. 3 failed, and a large amount of metal fragments flowed out, resulting in the No. 3 reactor of the nuclear power plant.
The person in charge of the downtime accident committed suicide for this matter, and the person in charge of the suicide was Kanno's colleague, perhaps this matter has something to do with Kanno's death. Ten days before the crime, the village had just held a vigorous election for the village chief, and the deceased was also favored by a candidate for the village chief because of his good eloquence, and asked Kanno to help him speak to canvass for his own votes. Speaking of which, there is also a background, that is, the attitude of the counseling to the nuclear power plant at that time, some people supported, some people opposed. Proponents believe that nuclear power plants can create a lot of jobs and boost the local economy, while opponents worry that nuclear power plants are harmful to the human body, so the two sides are arguing. However, the village chief has a certain right to speak, and even to a certain extent, it can decide the problem of the nuclear power plant. It is also very likely that the deceased was involved in the event because he discovered the dark curtain of the election, offended people, and thus caused himself to kill himself. Judging from the timing of his death and the motive for committing the crime, it is entirely possible that this is the case. This is also the biggest question in the local area, why did this happen after the election? It was a coincidence, but in the end, I couldn't avoid a fundamental question, how did he get into the pipeline? Although the case was accidentally fatal and closed, in fact none of the theories are entirely defensible. In the end, the villagers' joint request for re-investigation was not supported by the police, because the police said that they could not find evidence that he killed him. In the absence of new clues and evidence, the matter was closed. Now, 30 years later, there are still many people who believe that this is definitely not a simple voyeuristic accident, but a well-designed and seamless murder. So, what is the truth of this case? Maybe only the deceased himself knows.