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Last time we talked about Kiyotaka Katsuta, one of Japan's three major post-war killers, and today we are going to talk about the other one, which is known as the gun killer - Okubo Kiyoshi.
He is a small who does not do business, and with a shoddy disguise, he drives a luxury car to talk to young women.
In just 41 days, more than 127 people, most of them underage girls under the age of 18, had sex with more than a dozen of them.
Later identification site
In the end, the 8 people in the relationship were brutally killed, and the motive was only because the girls said those two words.
So what really happened back then? Why did the murderer succeed so many times?
Let's go back in time to 1935 and take you through the details of the case
Gunma Prefecture, Japan, 1935
Gunma Prefecture, located in central Japan, is an inland prefecture in the Kanto region and one of the few sealess prefectures in Japan, which is surrounded by the sea on all sides.
Gunma Prefecture
Located less than 100 kilometers from Tokyo and part of the Tokyo metropolitan area, agriculture in the prefecture is thriving, with many crops sold to densely populated Tokyo.
On January 17, 1935, Okubo Kiyoshi was born in Takasaki City, southwest of Gunma Prefecture, with a large number of brothers and sisters, a total of 8 boys, 3 boys and 5 girls, of which Okubo Kiyoshi ranked third out of three boys.
Kiyoshi Okubo
However, his eldest brother died shortly after birth, and the second brother had some problems with his intelligence, so the family held him in the palm of their hands, which is not surprising in the era of male superiority and female inferiority in Japan.
Okubo Kiyoshi's father, a railway worker, had a poor reputation in the village and had a "business relationship" with many women in the village, and his father often took women home and sometimes even did something indescribable in front of his children.
Not only was it messing around outside, the father actually communicated with the second daughter-in-law about "business", and the second brother, who lacked intelligence, was aggrieved but had nowhere to tell.
Okubo Kiyoshi's mother, who is half Russian, met such a husband and quarreled with her.
Mother of Kiyoshi Okubo
As a mixed-race Okubo Kiyoshi, his face is not much like that of ordinary Japanese, and he is a bit "Westernized", which is not a problem.
However, it happened that during World War II, japan sneaked into Pearl Harbor and broke out in the Pacific War, and at this time, his "Western-style" face and pedigree were shouted and beaten by everyone.
Classmates laughed at and bullied him, and for a while, as if everyone hated him, over time, Okubo Became Lonely and Poor in Study.
But what is unexpected is that he showed a different talent for speech, and was born to be a successful lecturer.
Gifted speech
In 1946, 6th grade Okubo Tricked a little girl next door into a wheat field with a three-inch tongue and tried to shove a stone into the girl's lower body.
Later, the neighbors came to the door because of this matter, and Okubo Kiyoshi's mother protected her son and tried her best to protect her son, saying that it was just a child living in the family, it was not a big deal, and under the strength of her mother, this matter would not be solved.
Fast forward to 1952, when 17-year-old Kiyoshi Okubo entered Takasaki Commercial High School in Gunma Prefecture, he dropped out of school not long after, dropping out of school and working at an electrical appliance store in Tokyo's Itabashi district.
Takasaki Commercial High School
Part-time work is not easy to fight, directly run to the public bath to spy on the girl bathing, this matter was known to the shopkeeper and fired him.
Later, he married his sister in Yokohama City, and was sent by his sister to an electrical school to study, but during the school period, he did everything except study, and was eventually opened by the school.
In 1953, the 18-year-old Okubo Kiyoshi had nothing to do, and his parents would sooner or later scrap it when they saw it.
So he funded to help his son open a radio repair shop, when it first opened, the business was quite good, but there was no real talent to learn Okubo Kiyoshi, poor technology, fooling one is one, there is no repeat customer at all, mixed to the later even the money to buy goods.
Wire repair shop
At this time, he moved his crooked mind, desperately took the risk to steal, the result was that the people were stolen, twisted to the police station, the father in order to prevent his son from going to prison, after compensating for the loss, spent a lot of money to release him from the police station, and the repair shop also closed down because there was no money to operate.
I thought that after experiencing this incident, Okubo Kiyoshi would suddenly wake up, but in fact, instead of doing so, he intensified.
Okubo Kiyoshi actually set his sights on a young girl who was not deeply involved in the world, and he disguised himself as a college student, wearing a white shirt and a student hat.
Aim at the young girl
On July 12, 1955, 20-year-old Kiyoshi Okubo successfully hooked up with a 17-year-old female high school student dressed as a student, and then tricked the girl into a remote place to defile her.
Afterwards, the girl reported to the police, and the police quickly caught Okubo Kiyoshi, who was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison because he committed the crime for the first time, suspended for 3 years, which means that if he behaves well within three years, he may not have to go to jail.
It is reasonable to say that at this time, Okubo Kiyoshi should have kept a low profile, but he was biased, on December 26 of the same year, he repeated the same trick, this time the victim girl desperately resisted, did not let him succeed, this time he was sentenced to 2 years in prison, immediately executed, plus the previous sentence was a total of 3 years and 6 months.
under arrest
After being imprisoned, Ōkubo Kiyoshi changed his usual style, obeyed his words, and was extremely well-behaved, after which he was rated as a model prisoner and was released half a year early.
In April 1960, the Japanese student movement at this time was frequent, and there were various types of student movements, such as anti-war movements, anti-tuition fee increases, anti-discrimination movements, and so on.
Sports
Disguised as a representative of the student movement, Okubo Kiyoshi successfully tricked a 20-year-old female student into coming home, and was arrested by his parents just as he was about to commit the assault.
In May 1962, Okuro Kiyoshi got married, not because his wife tolerated him, but because Okubo Hadhi had been hiding his real name and work unit until the marriage was registered, but still did not know his previous vices.
In the second year of their marriage, Okubo Kiyoshi had a son, and in that year Okubo Kiyoshi used the pen name "Tanigawa Imoto" to produce a collection of poems at his own expense, "Odes".
Poetry Collection "Ode"
The collection of poems contains dozens of poems he wrote, and Okubo Kiyoshi had a flash of inspiration and packaged himself as a writer.
In 1964, 29-year-old Kiyoshi Okubo received some financial support from his wife's mother's family, transformed the family and opened a milk delivery shop.
Although he did not make much money, but his life was still passable, and later his daughter was born again, and she had a family and a job, which was also a happy and happy family.
But Okubo Kiyoshi is not a person who lives in peace, and he often takes the opportunity to go out to deliver goods to find outcoming affairs.
Kiyoshi Okubo's home
On June 3, 1965, Okubo Kiyoshi caught a child who stole an empty milk bottle, and he claimed 20,000 yen from the child's family.
The family of the child, who could not bear the extortion, chose to call the police, and Okubo Kiyoshi was sentenced to 1 year in prison for extortion, suspended for 4 years.
After this incident, Okubo Kiyoshi's wife learned that her husband had many previous convictions, and since then the husband and wife have often quarreled, and affected by this extortion incident, the family's business is also on the verge of bankruptcy.
But Okubo Kiyoshi did not care about this, he continued his dashing life, went out to meet young girls, defiled two female high school students in December 1966 and February 1967, and after Being arrested by the police again on probation, Okubo Kiyoshi was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison, canceling the previous probation.
Defiled 2 female high school students
Ōkubo Kiyoshi, who entered the palace, repeated the technique and pretended to be a "grandson" in front of the prison guards, which was really tried and tested, and he won the title of imitating a prisoner.
On March 2, 1971, 36-year-old Okubo Kiyoshi was released from prison on parole, and when he returned home, he found that his wife had already moved back to her mother's house in frustration, leaving only a divorce agreement.
Okubo Kiyoshi, who did not want to divorce, ran to his mother-in-law's house many times to beg his wife to change her mind, but it was of no use.
Okubo's temper was getting bigger and bigger, forming an even crazier plan in his mind.
Turn into a demon
On March 5, 1971, Okubo Kiyoshi approached his doting parents and said that he wanted to open an upholstery store, asking his parents for a little sponsorship, who knew that after he got the money, he immediately bought a Mazda Familia Rotary Coupe that was made by Mazda at the time.
Mazda Family Rotary Coupe
Some poems, paints, paints, paintbrushes, and the like were prominently placed in the car, and it was obvious that this time Okubo Kiyoshi was disguising himself as a romantic artist.
On March 31, 1971, Kiyoshi Okubo drove a newly purchased car and picked up a 17-year-old female high school student named Miyako Tsuda:
Miyako Tsuda
"Hello, my name is Yaichi Watanabe Watanabe Kaichi Watanabe is a painter, recently I was working, can you be my model?" I also have a studio on the shores of Lake Haruna. ”
Fascinated by art, Miyako Tsuda easily believed it and got into Ōkubo Kiyoshi's car.
Kiyoshi Okubo drove the car to a remote mountain, and after some rhetoric, the two had a relationship. Afterwards, Tsuda saw Okubo Kiyoshi's driver's license in the car, and realized that he had been deceived, so he roared angrily:
"You liar! I'm going to expose you, my brother is a cop."
Less than a month after his release from prison, Okubo Kiyoshi instantly changed his face after hearing the word "policeman" and punched and kicked Tsuda, killing the 17-year-old female high school student.
On April 6, 1971, just six days after the last crime, Okubo Kiyoshi took action, this time putting tools in the car, such as shovels, boots, gloves and other things, in case of emergency.
There were tools in the car
That night, he met mieko Oikawa, a 17-year-old waitress who had a relationship with, and while the two were chatting in the car, Mieko somehow suddenly talked about her husband being a police officer.
The word "policeman" touched Okubo Kiyoshi again, and with the experience of committing the crime for the first time, this time Okubo Kiyoshi did not hesitate at all, and afterwards hid Mieko in a stinky ditch at a construction site.
On April 17, 1971, When Kiyoshi Okubo disguised himself as a middle school art teacher and named himself Kaichi Watanabe, he came to Maebashi City that afternoon and asked a 19-year-old temporary county government worker named Chieko Ida to come out and talk about life.
Chieko Ita
It was actually their fifth date, and the naïve Chieko suddenly said to Okubo Kiyoshi in the car:
"I checked on you, you're not a teacher, you're not called Kaichi Watanabe, you have a lot of previous convictions under your name Kiyoshi Okubo, but I don't care about that, and I have a friend who is a policeman."
Maybe Chieko wants to use her police friend to intimidate Okubo Kiyoshi, so that he doesn't have to use his brain, but he doesn't think about it, when Okubo Kiyoshi hears the word "policeman", his murderous heart rises again, and Chieko Itachi falls.
In just 20 days, 3 flower girls died at the hands of Kiyoshi Okubo, and perhaps they did not understand why they died.
The disappearance of three innocent lives did not stop the demon from killing, and he continued to play different roles, driving a car and choosing targets in the surrounding cities centered on his family's hometown of Takasaki.
Around Takasaki
On April 18, 1971, the fourth person killed, Naruko Kawabata, a 17-year-old high school girl in Isesaki City, got into Kiyoshi Okubo's car and also mentioned in the conversation that her father was a policeman and was killed.
On April 27, 1971, the fifth person killed, Akemi Sato, a 16-year-old female high school student in Maebashi City, was killed, and Okubo Kiyoshi also lured him into the car as a teacher, and Sato Akimi also inadvertently mentioned that his father was a policeman, causing the murder.
On May 3, 1971, the sixth person killed, Kawayo Kawaho, an 18-year-old employee of the Telecommunications and Telephone Commune in Isezaki City, was killed.
Kazuyo Kawaho
It was the second time the two had met, and after having a relationship at the motel, Kazuyo Kawaho said that she knew that Kiyoshi Okubo was not a high school teacher, and that she had found a photo of the victim, Chieko Ita, in the car, which made Kiyoshi Okubo germinate the idea of getting rid of her
On May 9, 1971, the seventh victim, Reiko Takemura, a 21-year-old office worker in Fujioka City, was killed.
This was also their second meeting, the two drove until the evening, when Okubo Kiyoshi wanted to force a relationship, Takemura Reiko desperately resisted, and said that her father was a policeman, in a vain attempt to scare each other off, the result can be imagined.
Diagram
On May 10, 1971, the eighth victim, Naoko Takazuki, a 21-year-old unemployed woman in Maebashi City, was killed on their seventh date.
After the two had a relationship in the car, Naoko Takatsuki bluntly asked Kiyoshi Okubo if he had ever been in prison, and Kiyoshi Okubo was a little nervous, so in order not to leave hidden dangers, he got rid of Naoko Takatsuki.
The murderer is fufa
In the early morning of May 10, 1971, Mitsuo Takemura, the brother of the seventh victim, Reiko Takemura, called the Gunma Prefectural Police Station:
"My sister is missing, she hasn't been back all night since she rode out on her bike yesterday afternoon, and I asked my sister's friends all over the place saying they hadn't seen her."
After receiving the report, the local police thought that it was just an ordinary case of running away from home, and did not pay attention to it, not to mention that the time of disappearance was less than 24 hours, so they let the police on duty symbolically look for it in the jurisdiction, and did not file a case.
Symbolically look for it
After the phone call, the light man was like a needle felt, rushing to take his family to find his sister, but he had no clue until dawn.
When the exhausted Hikari was preparing to join his family, he suddenly saw his sister's bicycle near a bank, and he felt that something was wrong, so he left a heart eye, and instead of moving the bicycle, he hid in the distance to observe secretly.
Sure enough, not long after, a car stopped in front of the bank, and a man got out of the car and walked straight to his sister's bicycle, and then put on gloves and wiped the bicycle.
Bikes in front of the bank
This was obviously a trace on the destruction of the bicycle, and Hikari immediately rushed out to stop the man, and the man turned his head and sneaked into the car after hearing the sound, and drove away from the scene.
In a hurry, Mitsuo wrote down the model and license plate number of the car, and he called the police again and explained the situation.
After investigation, the police confirmed that the owner of the car was called Okubo Kiyoshi, a habitual criminal who had just completed his sentence and was released from prison, so they rushed to check on this Okubo Kiyoshi, and as a result, no one was found in his parents and husband's house.
Okubo Kiyoshi's car
On the other hand, the impatient Mitsuo returned home and began to mobilize relatives, friends, neighbors and employees in the factory to organize a search team.
You know, the factory run by Mitsuo has at least a few dozen employees, and the size of the search team is not small, and by May 12, the number of search teams has reached 150.
Under the direction of the police, the search team began a carpet search throughout Gunma Prefecture, mainly tracking down the Mazda sedan.
Mazda
On May 13, Okubo Kiyoshi's car was finally found on the street of Maebashi City, and at that time, in addition to Okubo Kiyoshi, a young woman was arrested.
Judgment
Now there is a problem, the police only know that Okubo Kiyoshi wiped the bicycle of the missing Takemura Reiko, but this does not explain anything.
During the interrogation, Okubo Kiyoshi said:
"I did see Reiko Takemura that night, and I wanted to take her to open a room, but she didn't want to, so she left on her own.
Wiping the bike just for fear that this matter would cause me trouble when exposed."
trial
The police also had headaches, and there was really no substantial evidence
It seems that Okubo Kiyoshi's detention period is approaching, but it is not as good as the sky
On May 15, a woman reported to the police that not long ago, Okurabo Hadi had defiled her and that she could not hide from prison, and Okubo had done something unexpected
He told police:
"I did the case of Reiko Takemura, but I just don't tell you what happened, nor do I tell you where you are buried, and see how you find them."
At that time, there was no surveillance, the police really could not find the place of the crime, a aimless search, or found something.
Distribution of crime sites
On May 21, the police found a body near Lake Haruna, confirmed to be miyako Tsuda (the first victim) who was reported missing, and the police suspected that it was probably also Done by Okubo Kiyoshi, but no matter how the police interrogated him, he just wouldn't admit it.
The police thought about it, and it seemed that they could not ask anything, so they changed their strategy, no longer interrogated him, but blindly praised him, such as you are really a very talented person, writing a good poem.
After several days of continuous praise, Okubo Kiyoshi enjoyed it and his attitude began to change.
On May 26, he announced the location where Reiko Takemura was buried, and in the days that followed, although he was not very cooperative, he revealed other details little by little.
Identify the scene
Meanwhile, police examined Okubo's car in detail and found about 200 hairs on his body.
The police compared the hairs with those of nearby families who reported missing, and finally confirmed that at least 8 women in gunma Prefecture who reported missing had been in Okubo Kiyoshi's car.
According to the vehicle odometer, it was calculated that after Buying a car, Okubo Kiyoshi's average daily driving distance exceeded 170 kilometers, which was quite suspicious, in that era, a person who had nothing to do all day could actually run more than a hundred kilometers a day.
odometer
In July 1971, more than 80 days after Okubo's arrest, he finally confessed all the facts of the crime and led the police to exhum the victim's body, and during the interrogation, he and his wife formally divorced.
He told police:
"I am not human, I am a cold-blooded animal, no blood and no tears"
According to Okubo's own confession, after he bought a car, he talked to about 150 people in just over a month, but the police could only confirm 127 people, basically young women between the ages of 16 and 20.
About 35 of them got into his car, more than 10 had relations, and 8 of the more than 10 people he killed, mainly because these victims had said that they knew the police or saw through his lies, but we have no way to verify the authenticity of this motive.
victim
On October 25, 1971, the case was tried at the Maebashi District Court, and Kiyoshi Okubo requested a psychological assessment.
The following year, Professor Osamu Nakata, a specialist in criminal psychiatry at Tokyo Medical and Dental University, and three other experts in the field conducted a research evaluation of Okubo Kiyoshi's mental condition and intelligence.
Kiyoshi Okubo
After 186 days, it was concluded that Okubo Kiyoshi's IQ was completely normal without cooperation, there was no mental illness, and it was most likely that there was personality abnormality.
For example, he has an antisocial personality, but his thinking from luring girls to the car to killing people and throwing away corpses when he commits crimes is very clear, so he can fully accept criminal trials.
On February 22, 1973, Okurabo Kiyoshi was formally indicted on eight counts of murder, and he also confessed to all the charges and dropped his appeal, and the court sentenced him to death.
Related stories
On January 22, 1976, 41-year-old Kiyoshi Okubo was hanged at Fuchu Prison in Tokyo.
Continued
Due to the harshness of Okubo Kiyoshi's hookup case, after his death, it still left an indelible psychological shadow on the residents of Gunma Prefecture.
Reported
Even for a long time after Ōkubo's death, as long as someone in Gunma Prefecture drove a car to talk to women.
"I'm a painter, would you like to be my model", the sensitive masses will definitely call the police.
From the case, we can see that Okubo Kiyoshi's deception is not clever, mainly using three aspects of automobiles, art and academia to attract the opposite sex.
Accosted
In addition to his mouth and tongue, he is also a person who is good at grasping women's psychology, and he specializes in picking young women who are not deeply curious and beautiful about the outside world as a target, which is also an important reason why he can succeed repeatedly.
The Okubo Kiyoshi case was well known in Japan at the time, and there were many film and television works and books later adapted from Okubo Kiyoshi, such as "Okubo Kiyoshi Crime" and so on.
《The Crime of Kiyoshi Okubo》
In fact, no one is born a demon, and the repression, paranoia, and violence shown in the day after tomorrow often have a lot to do with the environment and experience in childhood.
People who have experienced a tragic childhood do not necessarily become criminals, but it is undeniable that people with unhappy childhoods have a relatively high probability of becoming criminals.
Okubo Kiyoshi's father was undoubtedly a very bad "mentor", and eventually created a "demon" like Okubo Kiyoshi.
Well, the above is the story of Kiyoshi Okubo, I am Nagakaze, we will see you next issue.
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