Hiroshi Maeue

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Hiroshi Maeue ( Japanese 前 上 博 , Maeue Hiroshi ; born August 8, 1968 in Osaka Prefecture , † July 28, 2009 in Osaka ) was a Japanese serial killer who was looking for his victims on the Internet.

Life and crime

Hiroshi Maeue was the son of a former police officer. He was arrested in 1995, 2001 and 2002 for attempting to strangle female passers-by in the street. He was last sentenced to ten months imprisonment for this in 2002.

Maeue killed a 25-year-old woman in February 2005, a 21-year-old student in May and a 14-year-old student in June. He had met all of them in internet forums for potential suicides and arranged to meet them by e-mail on a joint suicide in a remote mountain region. There he undressed his victim, tied him up and then strangled him. He filmed the deeds and hid the bodies in the mountains. In the case of the student, he also made a ransom note.

Maeue told investigators that the sight of a person who was strangled and in agony was sexually aroused. He wanted to watch "a face in agony". Even before his arrest in 2002, he had published a 50-page long fictional story on his homepage that describes exactly the type of killing that he later carried out. On the hard drive of his computer there were pictures of more than ten different people during the strangulation.

A psychiatric report certified Maeue full culpability. He himself pleaded guilty and answered the court's question by saying that he was afraid he would commit such acts again. On March 28, 2007, the Osaka District Court found him guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging for willful murder and disposal of bodies . The chairman justified the death sentence by saying that it was too difficult for the defendant to change his anomaly and that the court had no other choice. The sentence was in a prison in Osaka 28 July 2009 enforced .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Internet murder death sentence , accessed March 21, 2015
  2. ↑ a b suicide pact murderer (English), accessed on March 21, 2015
  3. ↑ 3 die in fake net suicide pacts (English), accessed on March 21, 2015
  4. ↑ Death Sentence for Japanese Multiple Murderers , accessed March 21, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Maeue, Hiroshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 前 上 博 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese serial killer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Osaka prefecture
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 2009
Place of death Osaka