The 80s of the 20th century were an important turning point in Japan's economic development, and the economic bubble swelled rapidly in the late 80s until it burst rapidly in the early 90s.
In the 90s, Japan was extremely gloomy, the whole society was impetuous and turbulent, people lost hope and confidence in life, and the crime rate continued to rise.
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What we want to talk about today is a horrific murder in Saitama, Japan, in the 90s. There are more than 30 victims in this case, the murderer's methods of crime are very hidden, leaving no evidence, although the police know who the murderer is, but they have not been able to successfully prosecute the murderer. When the case was heard in court, the murderer provoked the prosecution in court, apparently very confident in his modus operandi. What's going on? And listen to the curator one by one.
Case review
The time goes back to April 21, 1993, when a disappearance occurred in Kumagaya City, Saitama Prefecture.
In the early morning police station, a crisp string of telephones rang. A middle-aged woman's voice came from the phone, clearly stating that her husband was missing, and the concern between her words was clearly heard.
Saitama Prefecture is not big, but Kumagaya City, which is under its jurisdiction, is even smaller, and the people who come to the police every day either lose their cats and dogs, or make small fights, all of which are small cases that can be closed that day.
So as soon as he heard the word missing, the right hand of the police officer holding the record pen who answered the phone was unconsciously tightened a little. He did not expect to receive such a big case of disappearance, confirmed the address with his family, hung up the phone and set out to investigate.
The missing person, Akio Kawasaki, came to Kumagai City to negotiate a "big business" with a pet shop called Africa Kennel (hereinafter referred to as AK Pet Shop).
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The family and the police said that the owner of the AK pet store defrauded Akio Kawasaki of his money and sold a pair of elderly dogs with poor pedigree to Akio Kawasaki at a high price of 11 million yen, and also lied that they were the world's top famous dogs.
Akio Kawasaki originally wanted to make money by selling the puppies bred by this pair of famous dogs, but the result was naturally empty, so he came to the door many times to ask for compensation, but to no avail.
Just after Kawasaki Akio went to the AK pet store, he never appeared again.
When the police stood in front of the AK pet store and saw the poorly built houses, they wondered how Akio Kawasaki believed that such a place could breed world-famous dogs.
The police knocked on the door of the AK pet store, and it was opened by the owner of the place, Gen Sekine, and his wife, Hiroko Kazama.
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The two admitted to seeing Akio Kawasaki during the day, but Akio Kawasaki left after the meeting that day, and Sekine said he had no idea where he had gone.
The police searched Sekinemoto's pet store, and the front and back yards were carefully investigated, but nothing was found, and there was no shadow of Akio Kawasaki at all.
No matter how pressed by the police, Sekine firmly told the police that Akio Kawasaki was gone, and said that he did not know his whereabouts.
In October 1994, it had been a year and a half since Akio Kawasaki disappeared. During this time, there were three more disappearances in small Kumagai City, and these "evaporated" people all went to the same place - AK pet store before disappearing.
The police intervened, and the truth was astonishing
Although the police believe that the AK pet store is a serious suspect, because there is no evidence, they can only conduct a comprehensive investigation and surveillance of the AK pet store to try to find a breakthrough.
Fortunately, with God's favor, the police finally found an opportunity.
AK pet store employee Nagayuki Yamazaki is suspected of being involved in a fraud case for a small amount. But before the police looked for him, this employee ran away with his wife, which naturally aroused suspicion and gave the police sufficient reasons to arrest him.
After several days of interrogation, Yamazaki Nagayuki confessed everything.
—A truth woven by greedy desires and hot blood has gradually emerged.
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On April 20, 1993, Akio Kawasaki received a phone call from Gen Sekine.
Sekine on the phone was full of apologies and promised to refund 6.5 million yen in person. Seeing that the other party was sincere, Akio Kawasaki agreed to meet in a garage in Saitama Prefecture.
In the evening, both sides came as promised. Sekine Moto with his wife Hiroko Kazama and the clerk in charge of driving, Nagayuki Yamazaki. And Akio Kawasaki, alone-human.
Sekine offered to trade on a bus in the garage, and at this time, Kawasaki Akio only cared about his compensation, and followed Sekine Gen to the car without thinking.
As soon as they sat down, Mr. and Mrs. Sekine offered their bags containing cash to both hands, constantly apologizing, and begging Akio Kawasaki for forgiveness.
Kawasaki Akio's previous anger swept away, reached out and took the bag and put it on his side, unloaded his nervous guard, and chatted with the two.
Just when the three of them were talking about the follow-up breeding of male dogs, Sekine Gengen casually handed Kawasaki Akio a bottle of drink, and he didn't think much about it with a dry mouth, and he unscrewed the lid and poured it into his stomach.
He could not have imagined that this drink Sekine Yuan had long been added to the poison used for pet euthanasia - Strychnine poison ratine.
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After a few minutes, Kawasaki Akio's facial and neck muscles began to stiffen, and his whole body collapsed on the narrow aisle of the bus. Immediately his feet buckled inward, his whole body stiffened, and he twitched. Finally, collapsed in the carriage.
Mr. and Mrs. Sekine watched the whole process of Akio Kawasaki from life to death, and the clerk Yamazaki Nagayuki, who was waiting at the door of the bus, also witnessed - cut without knowing it.
Sekine Moto did not intend to keep Akio Kawasaki alive, nor did he intend to hide it from Yamazaki Nagayuki, because he made up his mind that if this person did not cooperate, he would send him on the road with him. At the sound of threats, Yamazaki Nagayuki nodded repeatedly in fright.
Immediately afterwards, the three men worked together to carry the body out of the car and clean the bus.
Under the threat of Sekine, Yamazaki Nagayuki drove the car to the AK breeding factory in Gunma Prefecture, a remote and desolate place where few outsiders set foot on it.
After arriving in Gunma Prefecture, Yamazaki Nagayuki thought that he could leave, and the thoughtful Sekine Gen arranged a new mission - to go to Tokyo with Hiroko Kazama to falsify the scene of Kawasaki Akio's disappearance.
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In this way, Hiroko Kazama and Nagayuki Yamazaki came to the Saitama Prefecture parking lot again.
Hiroko Kazama threatens him to get into Akio Kawasaki's car and drive in the direction of Tokyo, while he follows, staring all the way.
Until the two parked their car firmly in the parking lot of the Yaesu underground shopping street in downtown Tokyo, they successfully confused the place where Akio Kawasaki disappeared.
On the other side, Sekine Gengen, who remained alone in the dog farm, took on a more important "job" - destroying corpses.
During the hours that Hiroko Kazama and Yamazaki Nagayuki went to Tokyo to abandon their cars, Sekine Moto dragged the poisoned Akio Kawasaki into a room and carefully decomposed and deboned the body.
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When Hiroko Kazama returned, Sekine Moto smiled and beckoned her to come over and help, no one knows if she wondered why her man was so calm and divided at this time, whether she resisted.
But in the end, the couple continued the tacit understanding when running a pet store, one was responsible for separating the corpse T-bones, and the other was responsible for chopping R meat D.
For bad destruction discard in an iron drum, set on fire to ashes.
In the early morning of the next day, Mr. and Mrs. Sekinemoto, whose hands were covered in blood, carried a large bucket of human flesh pieces and a small bucket of ashes into the deep mountains and old forests behind the breeding plant.
The pieces were scattered in the woods and streams, and the ashes were scattered into the air like sacrifices.
In this way, Akio Kawasaki completely disappeared into the world.
The perverted behavior of the demon couple
It has to be said that Akio Kawasaki's death seems to have triggered the evil switch of Sekine Gengen. In the six months after that, someone disappeared inexplicably.
It was a day in May 1993. More than half a month has passed since Akio Kawasaki disappeared, and the Saitama police are still carefully investigating, but they have found nothing except the private car.
After waiting for so many days, Akio Kawasaki's wife couldn't sit still, and she went straight to the AK pet store.
After learning of Kawasaki's wife's intentions, the couple were first surprised, and then denied it one after another, with an innocent face.
At this time, the gangster brother Anji Endo was also in the pet store, chatting with Sekine Genmoto.
Looking at Kawasaki's wife who looked angry, after patiently communicating a few fruitless words, he set his sights on his friend Endo, who was watching the whole time, wanting to invite him as an intermediary in this conversation to be a witness, and quietly promised to give Endo 1 million yen as a reward.
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As the small leader of the Takada Group of the local Inagawa Kai in Gangnam-cho, it was nothing to settle this little matter, and Endo actively responded to this request.
Under his role, Yamazaki Nagayuki walked in and "proved" that Kawasaki Akio had indeed left the AK pet store that afternoon.
Even if Kawasaki's wife doubted it, she couldn't ask again, after all, she had no evidence in her hand and had to leave.
All this was seen by Endo. The next day, Endo came again, and he was here to steal money.
Endo threatens Sekine and his wife to stab out the disappearance of Akio Kawasaki if they do not meet his demands, and the Sekine couple are worried that the murder will be exposed, and they have no way to do anything about the underworld, and they will be falsely deceived.
But Endo's means of charging are simply varied, and after going back and forth a few times, the two of them were lied to him and had nothing left.
So, Endo set his greedy sights on the still profitable pet store, and he asked the Sekine couple to register the property rights of the newly expanded pet store in his name.
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Of course, the couple who worked hard for this pet store did not agree, so the evil idea came up again.
On July 21, 1993, less than 100 days after Kawasaki Akio's death, the Sekine couple took Yamazaki Nagayuki to visit the gangster brother at night.
On a remote side road in Kumagaya City, Sekine holds a briefcase with a "Property Rights Registration Certificate" in his hand.
After arriving at the agreed location, he found that Endo did not come alone, and he also brought a driver.
Although the temporary change made the couple a little nervous, they still kept a calm smile on their faces. Then handing over the drink prepared in advance, Endo did not doubt that he had him, and casually took a few sips. At the same time, Sekine did not forget to "care" the driver and also handed over the bottle.
A few minutes later, Endo had a suffocation reaction, his body convulsed and stiffened, and finally he was out of breath.
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And the driver at this time, because he only drank a small sip, the effect of the drug did not attack, saw the boss fall to the ground, raised his feet and ran away.
Who knew that without taking a few steps, he was stopped by Seki Gengen, who proposed that an ambulance should be found. In a panic, he got into Sekine-won's private car and went with the three of them to find an ambulance.
In this way, in a car speeding on the road of Gangnamcho, a simple driver died.
The next thing is that Sekine and his wife are familiar with the road. However, this time, the location of the body was changed from the breeding factory to Yamazaki Nagayuki's home.
The couple did not hide it, and after entering the door, they dragged the body directly to the bathroom, and then methodically divided the two adult males.
What made Yamazaki Nagayuki even more creepy was that these two people were humming a small song while bloody S!
When the sun was about to rise, Sekine Negen scattered the ashes into the air like a sacrifice like last time.
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In the early morning of August 27, 1993, a month after the death of the gangster brother Endo. The ashes of a middle-aged woman named Mitsue Sekiguchi were once again scattered in the air.
And the perpetrator of this crime is only about Gen Yuan. Just a day earlier, on August 26, the woman's identity was still Sekine-won's extramarital lover.
When it comes to Sekine Gen's marriage, it can be described as extremely complicated, 51-year-old Sekine Gen has actually experienced seven marriages, each marriage lasts an average of four years, and his current wife Hiroko Kazama is Sekine Gen's seventh wife.
Hiroko Kazama comes from a middle-class family with a solid family, and after meeting Sekine Gen, she quickly sank in the vortex of love, bent on marrying this old man 16 years older than herself.
Marrying such a spoiled wife, Seki Negen was still restless and cheated on the 54-year-old Sekiguchi Mitsue.
Due to the high debt caused by the previous expansion of new stores, as well as the unlimited blackmail of the underworld big brother, Sekine Negen's economic situation was extremely tense, and at this time, he remembered Mitsue Sekiguchi, who trusted himself extremely and had savings in his hands. Under the rhetoric of Sekine, Mitsue Sekiguchi agreed to invest 2.7 million yen to become the new shareholder of AK Pet Store.
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As for why he killed his "intimate lover", the reason is because of peace of mind. Only if Guangjiang Guangjiang of Guankou disappears completely, the 2.7 million stake scam will not have to worry about being discovered, and the previous 9 million will not go wrong.
The same Shareholding Agreement, the same thirst-quenching drink. In the middle of talking and laughing, this lover, who had been with him for a long time, fell beside him.
Later, Sekine called Yamazaki Nagayuki, and the two disposed of the body in the early morning of August 27, following the previous practice. And Hiroko Kazama did not participate in the whole process.
Since then, the four missing people have disappeared without a trace under the butcher knife of Sekine Negen.
The interrogation process was flawless
Based on Yamazaki Nagayuki's testimony alone, there is simply insufficient evidence for murder.
In the dark interrogation room, the handcuffed Seki Gengen had no remorse, and even a little proud, he said to the police very provocatively: If the police cannot find the body, it can only be regarded as a disappearance, and if you want to confess to murder, there must be evidence, but unfortunately the police cannot find it.
Sekine also told the police a set of his own "murder philosophy": how can you not be discovered after death? It would be nice to let the corpse evaporate on earth. The evaporation he said on earth is to completely disappear the corpse from the world by dismembering and burning.
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From Yamazaki Nagayuki's description, it can be seen that Sekine Moto handled the body extremely skillfully, even when he killed Kawasaki Akio for the first time, he did not hesitate or panic.
This can't help but make the local police seriously doubt whether Sekine Negen had already killed people in this way before killing Akio Kawasaki.
Therefore, during the interrogation of Sekine Gengen, the police tentatively raised this question, but unexpectedly, Sekine Gengen admitted without hesitation, and he revealed that he had killed about 30 people in the past.
However, there is no evidence of all this.
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In subsequent trials, Seki Negen denied the murder charges, even blaming them all on his wife, identifying all four victims as being the work of Hiroko Kazama alone. And Hiroko Kazama also claimed that it was Sekine Moto and Yamazaki Nagayuki who murdered the four victims, and the couple, who once "fought side by side", came to the end of "fighting each other".
Five years, 105 trials.
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Due to the contradictory and complex confessions of Sekine and Hiroko Kazama during this period, the credibility level is extremely low.
On 6 July 2000, in the absence of physical evidence, the judge accepted the confession and identification of the clerk Nagayuki Yamazaki and used it as the main evidence to sentence Sekine and Hiroko Kazama to death.
This demonic couple who hummed and killed people finally got a just trial.