Yukio Yamaji

Yukio Yamaji (山地 悠紀夫, Yamaji Yukio, born 1983) is a Japanese man who murdered his own mother, a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister.

His family was poor and his own father died of cirrhosis in January 1995. He had few friends and was referred to as "devil" in Junior high school. After he graduated from Junior high school, Yamaji did not enter High School. He began working at the newspaper store. When he was 16 years old, he killed his own 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat on July 29, 2000 in Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He called police and was arrested on July 31. The motive was his mother's silent telephone for the woman who he fell in love with, and his mother's debt.

Yamaji was released on October 2003. The official release was on March 2004. His work after the release, however, was illegal. Yamaji wanted to get the pleasure which he felt when he killed his own mother. On November 17, 2005, Yamaji raped a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister and murdered them with a knife, in Naniwa, Osaka. The two victims had never met Yamaji. He was arrested on December 5, 2005. He said to the Osaka police "I couldn't forget the feeling of murdering my mother, and I wanted to see people's blood."

On December 13, 2006, a district court in Osaka sentenced Yamaji to the death penalty. The defense made an appeal but he retracted the appeal on May 31, 2007. The Ministers of Justice have not decided the date of his execution yet.

See also

• Matricide
• Lust murder
• Sakakibara and Hiroshi Maeue - Japanese killers who also murdered their victims for their own pleasure.
• Neomugicha incident - Yamaji was one of the juvenile killers in Japan in 2000.
• (Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the first incident case
• (Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the second incident case

External links

• Suspected sister slasher's sordid past: 'He killed his own mother'
• Man to hang for sisters' murders
• Man admits to slaying Osaka sisters
• Man pleads guilty to murdering 2 sisters in Osaka
• Jobless man sentenced to death for murdering Osaka sisters
• Death penalty fixed after man who murdered 2 sisters retracts appeal
• Double-killer lets death sentence stand
• Template:Ja icon 山地悠紀夫事件