The disappearing car, the mysterious blood stain, the mysterious disappearance of the septuagenarian president and his wife,
Anxious families, panicked police, the body was only found five years later.
What clues can the bed that has not had time to clean up, the expensive watch that disappeared, and the mysterious text message received by my son? Who killed the Japanese couple who disappeared for five years? Who is the murderer who was able to evade the investigation of the Japanese police? Maybe everything is not as complicated as imagined. Let's take a look at this murder case in Osaka.
Secrets in the blue trash can
On November 5, 2009, in a garage in Shinmachi, Hannam City, Japan, a gray-white car was parked inside, the corner of the garage was already covered with cobwebs, and rats ran by from time to time, ran around the two blue garbage cans behind the car, sniffed with their noses, and the car and the garbage can were covered with a thick layer of dust.
Outside the garage, there was the sound of keychains colliding with each other, accompanied by a man's muttering: "I remember it was on this string." Where did it go? I'll see if this is vacant. "As the keyhole was inserted and pulled out again and again, finally the roller shutter door was pushed up.
The sun shone into the garage in an instant, dust floated in the air, there was a puff of dust smoke at the door, and a pungent smell poured out of the garage, and Mr. A immediately pinched his nose
"Oh, what does it really smell like." Although I haven't opened this garage for a long time, the smell shouldn't be so pungent.
Mr. A, the administrator of this garage, frowned and walked in, looking for the source of the smell, and when he walked in, he found that something was wrong, and the garage in the "idle" state shown in the database actually had a car parked, and the style was quite expensive.
A closer look found that the exterior of the car was covered with dust, there was nothing extra in the compartment, neat and clean, the wheels were sticky with dried dirt, and there was also a path for the car in the garage, just a little blurry.
It seems that the car has been parked here for a long time without moving, in addition to the car, there are two large blue trash cans in the corner of the warehouse, and according to Mr. A's judgment, the pungent smell comes from the trash cans.
"I recorded that this one is idle, the last rental was five years ago, I forgot but there is no check, too long, this garage location is not good and can not be rented, I don't care, I don't know who put those things." Because it was too strange, coupled with the pungent smell, Mr. A did not dare to act rashly, so he had to call the police.
The Japanese prosecutor did not pay attention at first, saying that he was allowed to deal with it himself, and arrived at the garage two days later after Mr. A's repeated insistence. After a general understanding of the situation, the investigation was launched.
They slowly approached the garbage can, wearing masks, opened the lid of the garbage can, the smell was stronger, the fishy smell was mixed with the smell of carrion, and the damp smell mixed together, through the preliminary observation that it was two buckets of sediment, the surface was dry and hard, the surface was not flat, and something should be buried under the sediment.
Through this smell, the police have a bad premonition, through the digging under the sediment, small pieces of different sizes are dug out, hard to the touch, all entangled with cloth and tape, this is the source of the pungent smell, a total of more than a dozen pieces dug out of the two garbage cans, according to the size and shape, this is not like cats, dogs or animal carcasses, more like people.
Through forensic piecing, sure enough, these are the bodies of two adults, a man and a woman aged about seventy, buried in sediment and climatic influences, the time of death cannot be accurately known, and the initial judgment is in months or years.
The discovery of rubble in the trash can immediately alerted the police to another case, from the disappearance of the septuagenarian couple in Osaka five years ago, which, according to the car traced, belonged to the missing president's couple.
The president couple from Osaka
Kenji Asai, 74 years old is the president of a company engaged in textile production and sales, and Kiyoshi Asai, 73 years old, a housewife, the two are a particularly happy old couple, have lived for decades, family harmony and happiness, children and grandchildren.
There are few quarrels between the two, they are both people with a particularly gentle personality, and their children are also very sensible. Their family is also quite famous in the local area and is a wealthy family.
In the beginning, the family lived in a large family, and Asai Kenji's company was next door, very close, and although the scale was small, it was also well organized, and the business was booming. The wife takes care of the family's life at home and does her best, and another reason why the two are liked by the locals is because the couple is kind and gentle.
Kenji's company is thriving, the money earned is also donated to the community, and charity events are often held, and the neighbors around them are not less helpful, and their family is also very kind and will not be despised and prejudiced because of their status and occupation, just like once, the Asai family held a large family gathering.
It was also because Kenji's children were moving out one by one, so a large dinner party was purchased, and the children who came out of the family one after another also came to work at Asai's house and did not leave work during working hours, and just at this time it was time for dinner, Kenji asked the workers to eat together, and even gave them some.
The kindness of their family also mentioned the hiring and management of workers, and Kenji Asai, as the president of a company, liked to collect some famous watches without any other hobbies, often took them out to play with, and perhaps because of his age, he often lost them.
That was just a few days before the party. Kenji Asai asked someone to renovate and repair the house, and in those days, Kenji Asai lost two Rolex watches, and Kiyoshi Asai searched for it many times at home without success, and through observation, he suspected that he was a member of the decoration workers.
After informing Asai Kenji, he did not immediately look for the suspected worker, but chose a more tactful way, letting the worker's manager deal with the matter, although in the end he did not find the missing watch, but at least he did not lose anything
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But it was such a kind couple, and tragedy quietly befell them. Since their social relationship is so simple and beloved, are there any big enemies, so why did the murderer choose them?
The disappearance of septuagenarian parents
At about 8 p.m. on December 3, 2004, the day before their rest day, the couple was preparing to go to bed early, and Asai Kiyoshi had just laid out the tatami mats and was about to go to bed when he suddenly heard the sound of picking locks next door.
At this time, her husband Kenji Asai was bathing, she hurriedly told her husband, suspected that someone had sneaked in, the company next door, wanted to do wrong, although both of them are over seventy, but fortunately the body is very tough, especially Asai Kenji, when she heard that someone sneaked into the company, she quickly put on her pajamas and went out.
At that time, it was also a cold time, and the two could not care so much, wearing thin pajamas, and walking out of the house was the company two steps away. The door was not broken, but there was indeed a noise in the house, and the couple suspected that it was a thief, so they opened the door of the company, thinking that this would scare the thief away, but after opening the door.
A dark shadow quickly ran towards the office, and Asai Kiyoshi hurriedly followed after seeing it. Kenji Asai followed.
The office was dark, only moonlight spilled in from the window, to the wife obviously ran in front of him, as soon as he entered the office, he disappeared all of a sudden, and he didn't hear any sound, the door of the office was wide open, Kenji Asai walked in carefully, reached out to find the switch, and before he had time to turn on the light, when he turned around, a black shadow was holding something and smashed it towards him.
It was already dawn, and usually my father had arrived at the company at this time, but today, I didn't see my father for a long time, and the eldest son of Asai Kenji was a little worried, the success of the company was precisely because his father was self-disciplined for ten years and was responsible for the company.
It is impossible to be inexplicably late. So I went to the next door to take a look, there was no one in the house, the tatami mats were spread out, there was temperature in the bed, neat look, it didn't look like he had slept, there were traces of rummaging at home, but there was no trace of his parents, and at this time he skipped a bad thought in his heart.
He hurried back to the company next door to see if there was any abnormality, the door of the company was open, there were traces of the key opening, the office was neat and clean, there were no traces of fighting, but at his father's desk, there were two small blood stains. Depending on the amount of bleeding,
If this is the parents' belonging, then both of them must have been injured. So he quickly called the police and asked the police to investigate. After the police arrived, they conducted a more detailed investigation of the home and company, and the office should be the first crime scene, because there were blood stains, but there were no traces of fighting, and the first judgment was to be stunned or knocked unconscious, and then taken away from the scene.
Asai's home has been rummaged, but no cash has been lost of valuables, and the safe is intact, except for a credit card and two Rolex watches worth 1.4 million yen, and the disappearance with the Asai couple
, and a car worth 1 million yen in the underground garage, because the bed did not show any signs of sleeping, the police judged that the two disappeared the night before, according to witnesses, about 8:30 the night before, saw the Asai couple.
The two walked towards the company in their pajamas, but did not pay attention. In other words, the reason why the two disappeared was killed when the company was inspecting. Since the bodies of the two men were not seen, it is not possible to judge whether they are threatened. The police can only issue a search notice for the initial search. Since Kenji Asai is a president, his family also has a lot of money,
It is not ruled out that it is the possibility of being kidnapped, and in the process of publishing a large number of revelations to search for it, clues about Asai were really found.
On December 5, witnesses reported seeing the missing vehicle in Sennan, some distance from Izumi City, and seeing a driver, who was too far away to confirm whether the driver was Kenji Asai. This news made the police and the son of the Asai family a little confused,
If Kenji Asai and Kiyoshi Asai are really fine, why can't they answer the phone, and if it is not Kenji Asai who is driving, where are the prospect couple now?
On December 6, in the city of Hannam, the man next door saw the missing vehicle again, where the missing vehicle was last seen. Then there was no news, for two reasons, the first was that the police were no longer chasing, and the second was that the vehicle did not appear in the surveillance video again.
The reason why the police stopped tracking down was because on December 7, the day after they saw the vehicle, the son of the foreground received a message from his father: My mother and I were out playing and would be back later.
And to explain the appearance of blood stains in the office, saying that the mother accidentally caused nosebleeds, there was no time to clean up, according to the forensic evaluation, the design did come from the Asai couple, but according to the amount of bleeding, it was not like just nosebleeds.
But because the text message announcing safety had been sent, the police were no longer able to intervene, so the button came to an end. The Asai couple never returned home, and the disappearance lasted for five full years.
Construction worker Katsuaki Suzuki
There is another person who is very concerned about the disappearance of the Asai couple, this person is construction worker Katsuaki Suzuki. Katsuna Suzuki, 42, is an ordinary renovation worker in Terrace Castle, Osaka City, who used to work in the Asai family.
He also met with the foreground couple several times, and was fortunate enough to attend the Asai couple's family party and was favored by them. But it was also those days that an unpleasant thing happened.
"This is how it is, when I started to ask, only your reaction was the most intense, I want to hear your opinion" In the office of the decoration company, the manager sat at the office desk and looked at Katsuaki Suzuki standing in front of him.
"Of course I haven't seen it either," was Katsuaki Suzuki's answer, but the experience on the other side was indeed suspicious.
"That watch is worth 300,000 yuan, do you really not see a single piece?" The manager's questioning tone once again warned Katsuaki Suzuki
"I didn't see it," Suzuki said, looking down and panicked, but still said that he didn't see it.
The manager looked at him for a long time before finally letting him out of the office. After he went out, the manager called another one, and interrogated him one by one. In the end, I still think that Katsuaki Suzuki is the most suspect.
Even if he does not want to doubt his workers, but for the matter asked by Kenji Asai, he must thoroughly find out, after all, it is a big customer, the big customer lost valuable items at home, and it happens that when his own workers work, whether he can find it or not, he must have a scapegoat to come out to blame.
Katsuaki Suzuki does things decently, has no background, I have done everything, I do everything, work conscientiously and rarely take leave of absence from work, and the relationship with co-workers is good, I really can't think of him may take a watch, but I heard that Suzuki Katsuaki has tens of thousands of debts, so he is still the most suspected. In desperation, without evidence, you still resigned him.
The process of the crime is full of loopholes
It is this that increases the hatred between Suzuki's fame and Kenji Asai. The name reappeared, and it was on the rental list of that garage. In 2011, the garage where Mr. A found his body was most recently rented by Katsuaki Suzuki, and it was four days after the Asai couple disappeared.
It was the lease that took place on December 7, and then disappeared without returning the keys. Through this series of clues, the police judged that he had the greatest suspicion, so they searched the country and arrested him.
"I didn't do all this" Hikaru hit Suzuki Katsuaki's face, he looked calm, cold handcuffs on his hands, and in the face of repeated pressing, Suzuki replied calmly.
"I stayed at home after I lost my job, and that day a phone call suddenly called me to go to Asai Naga's house and take out the two watches in his drawer," Suzuki explained as he sat under police questioning
"I have been to President Prospect before, and my family is also familiar with the layout of their home, and when there is no one in the house, I took out my watch."
When Suzuki was interrogated, his logic was clear and his language fluent: "When I came out, the car was parked in front of the door, and he asked me to drive the car to Hannam City to rent a warehouse and put it inside."
This can no longer be verified, because the time has been too long, and the surveillance video at that time the police have screened and have not seen suspicious situations.
"After I put the car in, the rest didn't know at all, you said that there were broken corpses, it wasn't me who did it" Suzuki firmly refused to admit that he had murdered "Those two watches were also pawned by him, and I paid off the debt after getting the money" The police explained it by him based on the receipt of Suzuki's pawn watch later.
"So who ordered you?"
"I can't remember his contact information"
Suzuki's lightly replied without convincing. The police only suspected that the so-called instigator did not exist, that Suzuki was exonerating himself, so he was arrested, sentenced to death for intentional homicide and theft, and passed a retrial in 2017, still upholding the original sentence, but delaying the treatment, and Suzuki is still in prison.