Twitter Killer waits for the end on death row in Japan
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Brad Hunter
Takahiro Shiraishi was sentenced to hang for nine dismemberment murders of eight women and one man he met through Twitter. Article content From the fleeting late summer to mid-October in 2017 a serial killer painted the streets of a dreary Toyko ex-burb crimson.
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Article contentBy the time the killer finished his macabre handiwork, a man and eight young women and girls were dead. They were between the ages of 15 and 26.
Killed in the most vile manner, Japanese cops and newspapers called their suspect The Twitter Killer.
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Besides the loudmouth know-it-alls who infest social media like termites in a plywood shack, the neighbourhood bars of 2021 also host armies of the lonely, desperate and vulnerable.
The victims of suspected Twitter Killer Takahiro Shiraishi. Takahiro Shiraishi lived in a squalid apartment in Zama, a Tokyo bedroom community. His profession was equally grubby: Shiraishi worked as a scout luring young women into the sex trade in the city’s largest red-light district.
Locals warned young women about a “creepy scout†luring women and girls into the brothels.
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Article contentIn his lair, he began trolling Twitter, targeting suicidal young women. Shiraishi would help them kill themselves while he watched. This was tried and true territory for the twisted young man who choked girls during sex in high school.
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One by one, the women disappeared.
A worried brother began looking into his 23-year-old sibling’s disappearance and with the help of a friend set up a fake appointment with Shiraishi â€" along with detectives.
The 27-year-old confessed immediately. He pointed to the freezer.
“There is no doubt that I tried to hide the body of the person I killed,†Shiraishi told detectives, according to Kyodo News. “I dismembered it at the bathroom, disposing of some body parts in the garbage.â€
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Article contentInside the house of horror, investigators found nine bodies. All had been dismembered and their legs, arms and heads had been stuffed into three coolers and five storage boxes.
Cat litter was used to cover the smell.
Cops take away suspected serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi. Prosecutors want him to hang. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ***
The missing â€" now dead â€" woman met Shiraishi through Twitter in her quest for someone to join her in a suicide pact. She had posted on her Twitter that she wanted to die but was “scared of dying alone†and was “looking for someone who will die with me.â€
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For detectives, it was game, set and match. But who was their killer? And why did he turn into a murder machine?
His father later told investigators that Shiraishi had told him he felt his life had no meaning. The motive was sex and vulnerable young women were easily manipulated. Shiraishi would sexually assault the women reveling in his darkest fantasies.
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Article contentAs for the women, they would not be around long enough to go to the cops.
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On Oct. 1, 2020, the killer pleaded guilty to all nine murders. On Dec. 15, 2020, he was sentenced to death and he has said he will not appeal his sentence.
There are currently about 112 inmates on the country’s death rows. Only on the day of execution do the condemned get the bad news.
And then, they are hanged by the neck until dead. The last hanging was in August 2019.
A shocked neighbour who knew Shiraishi told Kyodo News that he is “a cheerful, kind and polite man.â€
He should have added doomed.
bhunter@postmedia.com
@HunterTOSun
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