Hunting a suicidal maniac was sentenced to death in Japan. Kyodo agency writes about it.
A Tokyo court found 30-year-old Takahiro Shiraishi guilty of the brutal murder of nine people: eight girls and one man between the ages of 15 and 26. The man was also found guilty of dismemberment of bodies and storage of remains. The main subject of disagreement at the meeting was the question of whether Shiraishi killed his victims with their consent: they all thought about suicide. This circumstance was not recognized as mitigating.
According to the version of the investigation, Shiraishi found victims through the social network, in connection with which he received the nickname “killer from Twitter”. He opened an anonymous account and through it contacted those who talked about their desire to commit suicide. Shiraishi promised to help them die and invited them to visit his apartment in Zama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
“The [goals] of the murders were selfish, they were committed for the sake of monetary gain and sexual gratification. Luring mentally weak victims can only be done by cunning,” the judge said. The examination concluded that the man committed crimes, being sane.
The investigation began in October 2017. Then, in the house of Shiraishi, the dismembered remains of the bodies of eight women and a man were found. The offender immediately confessed to the crime. Then, on October 24, a 23-year-old woman disappeared from the district. Before her disappearance, the Japanese woman published a message on social networks with the text “I’m looking for someone who will die with me.”