A 21-year-old female college student was stabbed to death with a knife in front of the station, a seemingly ordinary stalking murder case, but it caused a sensation throughout Japan, and the government even introduced a corresponding bill to regulate stalkers.
On October 26, 1999, 21-year-old Shiori came to Theokawa Station in Saitama Prefecture as usual, preparing to take a ride to the university class, and when she was locking her bicycle, a man behind her suddenly approached her, holding a sharp knife, and stabbed her several times, and soon she lost too much blood and died.
After the incident, countless reporters rushed to the scene, one of them was a reporter named Qing Shuijie, because the company he was engaged in belonged to a third-rate weekly magazine, Qing Shuijie had no way to interview the police, had to find another way, through the information provided by his peers, he came to the victim's home, and suddenly heard Shiori's brother say a strange word: Was he really killed? No way? Did the family know in advance that Shiori would be killed? Qing Shuijie keenly sniffed that this case was not a random slashing incident that everyone guessed.
At the press conference, the police released the information of the deceased, reported that before Shiori's accident, he had been tracked and pestered by his ex-boyfriend, but there was very little content about stalking the crazy boyfriend, in order to obtain first-hand information, Shimizu Jie launched a carpet inquiry about the people who came to send flowers, and what was strange was that after hearing the name of Shiori's ex-boyfriend, everyone avoided talking It seemed that there was still some fear, and the more people close to Shiori were more silent, the investigation was forced to stagnate here, and there was no progress.
Just then, two people, aliases Shimada and Yoko, agreed to be interviewed, they are Shiori's friends, after carefully meeting KTV, without waiting for Shimizu Toki to ask a question, Shimada immediately spoke: Shiori was indeed killed! The next sentence is even more shocking: Shiori was killed by Komatsu and the police! As soon as these words came out, Qing Shuijie was completely blinded, who was Komatsu? What does this case have to do with the police?
It turns out that before the accident, Shiori once found his friend Shimada and asked him to record what he had experienced, saying that if he was killed, Komatsu would be the murderer, and under Shimada's narration, the truth of the matter was slowly revealed. On January 6, 1999, Shiori and Komatsu met in the game hall, Komatsu fell in love with Shiori at first sight, and then launched a crazy pursuit, the two gradually walked together, Komatsu's concern for Shiori was meticulous, and he especially liked to send gifts to Shiori, at first it was a small thing of hundreds of yuan, with the longer the interaction time, the more expensive the gifts were sent, all kinds of high-end clothing, bags, and also told Shiori which set of clothes to wear with which bag the next time they met, although it was very intimate, but it was obvious that Shiori was treated as a doll, Shiori had always felt uneasy about such a valuable gift.
After a gentle refusal, the always gentle and elegant Komatsu suddenly broke out and asked her why she did not accept her own intentions, Shiori felt a little scared, this man seems to be different from before, for example, every 30 minutes Komatsu will "check the post", a little do not answer the phone, will be crazy jealous, trivial things will be taken out by him to provoke, but also to all of Shiori's male friends, warning each other not to approach their women, and even Shiori met his classmates He even knows, It turned out that Shiori had been monitored.
Finally, intolerable Shiori, proposed to break up, but Komatsu threatened Shiori, if you break up I will let your father lose his job, after that, the control has intensified, Shiori made up her mind to leave this demon, she once again proposed to break up, and sent all the gifts back, unexpectedly, Komatsu brought people to the house to make a big fuss, and even scattered leaflets printed with Shiori photos, the leaflets were impressively printed with "aid message" Several big words, in desperation, Shiori told his parents about his encounter, Shiori's parents take Shiori to the police station to report the crime.
She told her story, and played a recording of Komatsu's threat, it turned out that since being threatened, Shiori carefully recorded the conversation with Komatsu, but who knows, the police reacted very coldly, claiming that this is a male and female problem, the police will not intervene, at that time, Japan did not have a bill against marriage and stalkers, the police were afraid of trouble, to deal with such problems, all with "civil non-intervention" prevarication, Komatsu's various extreme behaviors, let Shiori clearly realize that if Komatsu threatens her, the breakup will force her to "break up the family", It was not a joke, and the policeman's passive response made her full of despair, and even vaguely felt that the police top level seemed to be infiltrated by Komatsu's forces.
Shiori, who has no way to ask for help, has to find an opportunity to tell his good friend Shimada everything that happened, Shimizu Jie finally understands why Shiori was killed by Komatsu and the police, if he can directly investigate after receiving the report, Shiori is likely not to die, originally Shimizu Kizumizu as a reporter just wanted to get clues, and now he seems to have been given some mission, he exchanged the information he received with his colleagues, the other party was very shocked, told him that the police also began to notice Komatsu.
It turned out that the real name of "Makoto Komatsu" was "Kazuhito Komatsu", the actual age was not 23 but 27 years old, his occupation was not a high-end car salesman, the real profession, was the owner of several custom shops, Shimizu Jie finally understood why Komatsu could be so generous, and the custom shops were generally related to the underworld, so he was able to carry out a series of surveillance and harassment of Shiori. Shimizu Jie sorted out the interview and published it, at this time, an employee of Komatsu Massage Shop read the report, he provided Shimizu Kizumizu with the addresses of the rest of the shops, Shimizu Asked, Komatsu's massage group is not a fat man with a height of 1 meter 7, this is the appearance of the murderer, the person immediately informed, it was Kubota who had borrowed money from Komatsu, after investigation, Shimizu Kizumizu almost confirmed that this was the murderer of Shiori.
However, no matter where he went, he never met a policeman, and as early as after the case, the police immediately set up a 100-person special investigation team, this hundred people are actually decorations, Shimizu Jie, as a "third-rate reporter", can not get in touch with the police, had to trouble his colleagues again to help pass on information, it turned out that it was Kubota, his boss was Komatsu Kazuhito, at this time, the massage shop shops were closed, a staff member secretly told Shimizu Kiyomizu that Nishikawaguchi still had a business, After dozens of days of sleepless squatting, the kung fu paid off, and he finally took a picture of Kubota.
The reporter actually caught the murderer faster than the police, Shimizu Jie was excited, he told the police the detailed address of the murderer, however, a week, two weeks passed, the police delayed the arrest action, the police said that the suspect was very cunning, after being monitored, he would not appear again, but the informant told Shimizu Jie, Kubota often stood leisurely in front of the ramen shop chatting, and at this time, Shiori's parents agreed to Shimizu Jie's interview, in this conversation, Shimizu Jie learned a surprising fact.
It turned out that just in July, when Komatsu went around slandering Shiori's reputation, the police finally accepted their case, because Komatsu's behavior did cause defamation, but the police still tried their best to make it difficult and delay, when Shiori successfully prosecuted, the family waited with great expectations for the police to solve the matter, but the police have not done anything, and what is even more disgusting is that a police officer came and asked the Shiori family to withdraw the prosecution without any reason.
At that time, the law stipulated that once the indictment was withdrawn, it was impossible for the same incident to be filed again, as a policeman could not have known this, and then the revocation incident was exposed, the police faced with doubts, and the response given was that it was a stalker pretending, but Shiori's father said that the police officer who came was the police officer who originally took notes at the police station, and the original superior considered the performance problem, so that the police officer did not have to prosecute, and used the victim application instead, so that there was no obligation to deal with it quickly, and the police officer deceived Shiori's family to withdraw the case and then apply again. But the family was resolute and did not revoke, he tampered with the indictment privately, and then let Shiori unknowingly sign the victim's application, of course, all this they did not know at the time.
Qing Shuijie suddenly realized that the reason why the police did not arrest the murderer was perhaps because he was afraid that the previous negative response and cover-up behavior would be made public, and Qing Shuijie's heart surged with fierce anger, and he broke into the police station in a hurry, informing the police that he was about to publish a report on the case, and the police had to finally act. On December 19, Kubota was arrested by the police, three months later, Komatsu Kazuhito was found to have committed suicide by jumping into lake in Lake Hokkaido, Japan, it turned out that he planned to flee from Hokkaido to Russia to avoid the wind, but he did not expect that the brother in charge of receiving him had been arrested by the police, and Komatsu Kazuhito, who failed in the escape plan, finally chose to commit suicide, a person who committed many evils, and finally did not receive the punishment he deserved, did not serve his sentence, and died easily.
Shimizu Jie compiled and published this information, which did not hide the dereliction of duty of the police, Shiori, who had countless chances of being rescued, was still killed in broad daylight, the case has passed for a while, on this day, Shimizu Jie overheard a member of parliament reading his report, the member questioned the Kamigao Police Station in charge of the Shiori case: When the citizens feel afraid, there is no other way but to turn to the police, the police are so passive, is it not to make the citizens fend for themselves? The police have overwhelming power and convenience, why is the investigation ability inferior to that of weekly reporters?
In the face of doubts, in order to save their face and status, the unscrupulous police actually used Shiori as evidence recordings and suicide notes, selected fragments that were beneficial to themselves to excuse themselves, and even used the most intimate part of Shiori's diary, saying that Shiori X concept was free and open, asking for expensive gifts, hating restraints, acting arbitrarily, completely denying the fact that the police officers went to ask for the indictment to be revoked, but instead used Shiori to go to the restaurant to work to divert attention, until Shiori's father stood up, took the police to court, and ripped open this fig leaf. In the end, three police officers were dismissed and 12 were disciplined.
What is even more ironic is that Komatsu has always wanted to ruin Shiori's reputation, but the police have worked with the media to help him "reach", at the press conference on the day of the crime, the police deliberately misled the media, the report, provided basic information about the deceased, a detailed description of Shiori's dress, black miniskirt, thick-soled boots, Prada's bag, Gucci's watch.... A college student from an ordinary family, but he is full of designer clothes.
So all kinds of news hyped up, repeatedly mentioned beautiful female college students, obsessed with famous brands and other bias-oriented descriptions, ShengSheng put the label of "gold worship girl" on Shiori's head, and later found that Shiori once worked in the shop where there was a sale of alcohol, and smeared: It was a third-rate case of a restaurant girl, and then later, the information of Komatsu and people was exposed, and the media wrote: Shiori who interacted with the boss of a special industry, Shiori did not know the true identity of Komatsu and people until his death.
Obviously, she is an ordinary female college student, but she has been put into various molds by the media, making everyone feel as if she is different from her, she is that kind of girl, so she will be killed, she is self-inflicted, public opinion is a double-edged sword, the media that scandalized Shiori used public opinion to kill Shiori's soul again, but the reporter Qing Shuijie insisted on his conscience and used the power of public opinion to punish those policemen who did not act.
However, have the police learned from this tragedy? Years later, years later, Shiori's father said that his daughter had actually died three times: once by gangsters, once by the police, once by the police, and once by the media. "If I am killed, it will be Killed by Komatsu", this is Shiori's last plea for help in this world, if Komatsu bribed the God of Death with money, then the policeman who neglected his duties is to open the door for the God of Death.