Tsutomu Miyazaki

Tsutomu Miyazaki ( Japanese 宮 崎 勤 , Miyazaki Tsutomu ; * August 21, 1962 in Ōme ; † June 17, 2008 in Tokyo ) was a Japanese serial killer and cannibal who between 1988 and 1989 in Saitama Prefecture four girls aged between four and seven years old, sexually assaulted the corpses and consumed parts of two victims. He was also known as the otaku killer or Dracula .

Childhood, school and work

Miyazaki was initially a very good student who was shunned by his classmates due to his twisted hands and stiff wrists from birth and developed into a loner. During high school, his performance deteriorated so much that he could not realize his intention to study English at Meiji University and become a teacher. Instead, he trained as a photo technician and found a job as a worker in a printing company. Miyazaki was considered a gentle, quiet, and obedient employee.

Deeds

Miyazaki chose his victims at random. He strangled all four and sexually abused them post mortem . He also ate parts of his last two victims.

The first victim, the four-year-old Mari Konno, he left to rot in the hills near his residence. He later cut off her hands and feet and kept them in his closet until he was arrested. He burned the remaining bones in an oven, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a cardboard box along with some remaining teeth and photographs of their clothes. To do this, he put a postcard with the inscription:

"Mari. Cremated. Bone. Research. Proof."

The second victim was seven-year-old Masami Yoshizawa.

He wrote a postcard to the family of his third victim, the four-year-old Erika Nanba, with the words cut out from magazines:

“Erika. Cold. To cough. Throat. Quiet. Death."

The body parts of his last victim, the five-year-old Ayako Nomoto, he scattered over the forests of Saitama Prefecture to Tokyo Prefecture .

Miyazaki sent letters to the families of all victims detailing what he had done to each child. The police later found out that all families had also been harassed by phone, all following the same pattern and probably also by Miyazaki: if the phone was picked up, nobody answered, nobody answered the phone, the doorbell rang for up to twenty minutes.

In Saitama Prefecture, the number of recorded crimes against children has been very low for a long time. The population's reaction to the murders was all the more panicked.

arrest

In July 1989, Miyazaki was trying to molest an elementary school girl in a park near his parents' home when he was surprised by her father. At first he managed to escape on foot. When he later returned to the park to get his car, he was arrested.

After brief interrogation, he made a confession that included all four murders and admitted to having a troubled relationship with adult women. He claimed that everything "went like a dream".

The search of his apartment, a two-room bungalow, uncovered a total of 5,763 video tapes. Most of them were - unlike widely reported by the media than later - shooting regular movies or baseball - Anime . However, some cassettes also contained hentai and slasher films , interspersed with images and video material of the victims. In addition, were horror movies a substantial part of the collection. The first five parts of the Guinea Pig series deserve special mention , because Miyazaki apparently used the second part of this series, Flowers of Flesh and Blood , as a template for one of his deeds.

Trial and sentencing

In 1989 Miyazaki was initially admitted to a mental institution for life. During the trial, he appeared calm and collected and gave the impression that he did not care about his arrest. He claimed not to be able to remember his confession. His father refused to pay his son financially for the defense, and committed after its condemnation of suicide .

In 1997, at the end of a series of psychiatric investigations, a group of psychiatrists from the University of Tokyo came to the conclusion that, although Miyazaki suffered from dissociative identity disorder and profound schizophrenia , he was nevertheless aware of the significance and scope of his actions and was therefore responsible for them. A short time later, Miyazaki was sentenced to death by hanging .

On January 17, 2006, the Japanese Supreme Court refused to overturn the death sentence .

Miyazaki was on June 17, 2008 in Tokyo by the train executed.

literature

• Murakami, Peter and Julia: Lexicon of Serial Killers. 450 case studies of a pathological type of killing. 7th edition, Ullstein Taschenbuch, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-35935-3 (source, unless otherwise stated)

Web links

• "The silencing of the lambs" - report on Miyazaki's deeds ( Memento of August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Japan: Three Murderers Executed" FAZ , June 17, 2008