The man killed at least nine people whom
became to know each other through social networking service. He pretended to
help those people kill themselves. Surprising enough, the man kept those dead
corpses in plastic boxes in his room, causing unusually disgusting smell
outside the building. This bizarre murder made most Japanese people feel weird this
week.
Takahiro Shiraishi was raised in a normal
family in Zama, Kanagawa, and his father was a car engineer. The acquaintances
of him remember him as a calm and normal boy in a school. When he was working
for a recruiter for illegal sex business in the street in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the
police arrested him in February and he received five-year suspended sentence of
a year and two months in prison in May. One person remembered him of saying, “I
don’t know what reason I’m living for.”
It was September 20th when a
woman in Hachioji posted her tweet that she wanted to die but was scared doing
that alone. Street camera in Hachioji station and Sobudaimae station recorder her
with Shiraishi October 23rd. Her elder brother requested the police
to file her as missing the next day. The police found two dead corpses in
Shiraishi’s room on October 30th. They found eight plastic boxes in
his room, which contained nine corpses in total.
Shiraishi introduced himself in Twitter
with handlenames of “wanting to die” and “professional hanger.” In his account
of “wanting to die,” Shiraishi pretended to be a man hoping to die with words
of “recruiting suicide” or “let us die together.” He requested direct e-mail to
the responders. It is supposed that the corpses are those who responded to his
message. Four of them were teenagers.
Police found two knives, a pair of cooking
scissors, a saw and an auger, all of which showed response of human blood
sticking. Shiraishi told the police that he demolished dead bodies in the
bathroom and dumped their flesh and viscera as garbage. Fundamental purpose of
the murder was rape and robbery. He admitted the police that he killed them all
and tried to destroy evidences.
Over ten years ago, there were some cases
of “suicide site,” in which a man killed others who wanted to die or someone
instructed how to commit suicide. Now, those who want to die get together in
SNS, raising hush tags indicating suicide. The problem of helping suicide is
that it does not exclude who does really not want to die, if he or she was
persuaded. Victims’ willingness to die represents uniqueness of the case, anyway.
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