By Boobesh IR
The evening air touched the trees in the wonderful season of summer, the leaves began to rain down like if flowers were descending from heaven. Two sisters who looked identical were playing with sand and leaves in their yard. As a busy father, he left his children to play alone, unaware that one of his children's blood was strongly sniffed by a human Dracula. Yes, you heard me correctly. A human Dracula walking in the streets of Tokyo.
If you don’t know who Dracula is, then this is for you. Dracula is someone who maintains a relationship like of a Vampire toward another person by sucking their physical and emotional strength.
One of the sisters was distracted by a lovely butterfly that unfurled its wings and fluttered in front of her. Trying to catch it, she came a distant apart not knowing that her sister is on the verge of seeing the death welcoming her at the age of just five.
Her sister, who was playing in the yard, was unaware of these things. She was lost in her own world of happiness but not until a man’s shadow fell over her. Looking up at the person, she expected it to be her dad but there stood a middle-aged man. His hands were strange and menacing. He bowed down and went up close to her face, keeping his fingers on the tiny girl’s lips as a gesture to remain silent. He began to scare the poor little girl with his weirdly found hands and forced her to strip off her clothes.
Seeing the small girl nude, the monster within him was aroused. He took off his camera from his belt clip and started to film the child who was shaking in dread. If you wonder that she could have yelled for help. Just position yourself in her place. Being just a five-year-old kid who barely knows about the world is now in an encounter with an inhuman monster. Even a small mistake can cost her life.
The man started to remove his dress off and became completely nude in the park to do the most horrible behaviour. To masturbate on seeing the five-year-old kid. Despite his disgusting acts, the beast within him remained unsatisfied. He got closer to the child; he could feel the heavy gasps of the small kid who is holding her life in her hands which oddly satisfied him. He grabbed the child’s leg and forced it to the ground, then tried inserting the zoom lens of the camera into the vagina of the little kid to get a better picture of it.
However, she was in luck since her father who was preoccupied with his work, returned to the yard in search of his daughters. However, he wasn’t prepared for the sight that he could possibly see in his lifetime. He ran yelling at the man who was trying to abuse his five-year-old daughter. Realizing the danger, the monster ran from the scene trying to flee from the park.
As he runs back to the car, fortunately he was just caught by the police who saw him racing nude to the car. Yes, he fled for his life, leaving his dress in the yard. Right in the time, came the father of the little kid who boldly complained and accused the man of rape on his five-year-old daughter.
The police didn’t hesitate to take action as they themselves saw him naked in the streets of Tokyo now. Little did they know when they arrested him that they had caught someone who is the most wanted of the Tokyo city. A monster who is called by the people of Tokyo as “The Otaku killer” or “The little girl murderer”. A monster who was feared by all the parents who had daughters from the aging four to seven.
He wasn’t like others. Despite being arrested in this manner, he remained cool and chose to close his mouth and not to answer any of the police’s questions. They tried a lot of methods, but the result was him being silent throughout the investigation.
Losing the cool, the police decided to head straight to his apartment for further investigation process, but they were not prepared to see the awful sight over there.
Something which shook not only the Tokyo but the entire country of Japan. Parents with children of all ages began to fear in sending their children out while this monster is alive. The sight was above imaginable and this is what happened in his apartment.
When they entered his apartment, no one could stand there due to the foul odour prevailing over the room. The room appeared very dusty and old. They assumed that the foul smell was caused by a dead rat or cat since the house looked as if no activity was done for a long time but all their assumptions crumbled and went into the dust when they opened the closet behind his bed.
An odour emanating from a decomposing dead body. A very small dead body torn into pieces. In fact, one of the official just started to vomit not bearing the smell. Then just imagine how strong and intense the smell would have been.
That’s when the police realized they weren’t dealing with any normal person. Face masks were immediately arranged, and the search began. To everyone’s surprise, they discovered three more pairs of hands and legs, as well as some teeth, stored on the shelf of his room as if he had won trophies. All those pieces were the size of four- and five-year-old children!!!
They immediately connected the dots as there were nearly four missing cases involving four years old girls and seven-year-old girl in Tokyo which was hanged without a lead, but they were certain that all was done by the same person. This is because of the pattern that all these cases followed.
After the children went missing for two days, the family received an anonymous telephone call from someone, who was simply breathing and enjoying the family’s grief. Just pure cruelty! Within a week, the clothes of the kid will be returned back to the family, intimating that their daughter has dead. Just position yourself in their place. It’s worst thing that could happen to any parents out there.
Finally, the cruellest act occurs. A postcard will be sent to that child’s family, along with her ashes and teeth. Police were struggling to find a lead in all these four similar cases since they couldn’t track down the killer, but they were aware that only a psycho serial killer could be behind this all murders. If you’re wondering why there is no involvement in the technology during this investigation, just to your notice that these incidents are taking place in the year 1988.
After examining these hands and legs and particularly the teeth, the police came to a conclusion that they found the one who was responsible for all these four murders, they finally found the psycho serial killer who was haunting down the little children of Tokyo but they need a solid proof which the killer himself provided. Isn’t it shocking? How could he do that? Well, after breaking his three lockers beneath the Television, they got what they needed as well as what they did not.
We all know how dangerous pornography is. The more you watch the more dark videos you need to satisfy your sexual desires. Why am I mentioning this now? Because we are going to witness someone who fell down this spiral and entirely lost himself in the pornography.
The officials discovered over 6,000 porn video tapes, as well as a large collection of pornographic magazines and anime comics. The video tapes contained pornographic content, violent movies, child pornography. Isn’t child pornography illegal? Well, it was banned only in 1999 in Japan after encountering numerous cases like this.
A lot of photographs of girls which were inappropriate was found. Photographs of the missing four kids were discovered. If you’ve have paying attention closely, you would have probably guessed it by now. Yes, Tsutomu Miyazaki was the killer whom the entire Tokyo police were searching for.
Seeing all of this has left them completely stunned. They weren’t even into the main picture. One of the police took out a cd with a name “Mari Konno.” A four year old child who went missing last year. Playing the video, the police wasn’t ready to see the sight of it. I warn you to make your heart and mind strong because this might bring some disturbing thoughts within you.
Tsutomu Miyazaki, the monster who had killed this little girl was having sex with her dead body!
Totally unexpectedly, police were just simply banged. They raced back to their office to get the information from him in their style, only to discover that they were dealing with one of the most psychotic serial killers in Japan’s history – Tsutomu Miyazaki also known as The Rat Killer.
Throughout the investigation, Tsutomu Miyazaki remained calm. In fact, he kept smiling all while despite showing what they have found in his home. He felt a sense of pride within himself as if he done the greatest thing for civilization. On the other hand, the legs and hands were sent to the forensic lab and yes, all those belonged to the four children who went missing in the past one year.
When asked about this, Tsutomu Miyazaki kept smiling which annoyed the investigating police much. However, he did cooperate with the police when they asked for the confession, and this what he confessed, shocking the entire police force that was listening to him.
I was a good man, but he wasn’t. I felt all alone, and whenever I saw a little girl playing on her own, it was almost like seeing myself, but he didn’t like it. The police were taken aback when he uttered “he”. Is there any other person involved? They wondered. As Tsutomu Miyazaki continued*, it was one day after my birthday (22nd August 1988) I saw a small girl named Mari Konno who was just four years old, playing all alone by herself. I simply approached her, escorted her back to my car and drove away to the wooded bridge of West Tokyo. I parked the car under the bridge where no one could see us.
We spent half an hour in the car talking to each other. Then I strangled the little girl, stripped off her clothes, and raped her. I left the body naked in the woods and brought the clothes to my apartment. For several weeks, I left it to decompose in the woods, occasionally returning to see it. Eventually I removed her hands and legs from her body and kept it in my closet. Then, I made a call to her family and just hear their sobs of sadness. The best feeling I have ever experienced. Then I grind her bones into powder and sent back to her family through a post card with words entitled “Mari, Cremated, Bones, Investigate, Prove.”
Then, two months later, to be precise 3rd October, I saw another girl named Masami Yoshizawa who was seven years old. The place was hot, so I offered to tell her to a cold place and she agreed. I did the same thing with her as I done with the first girl. It was strangely satisfying for both me and him.
After a month, returning from a party, I saw a girl named Erika Nanba who was four years old in a parking a lot. She was difficult to convince so I just threatened her and made her top strip off forcefully. I took photograph of her naked body, killed and raped her. Then I damped it in the nearby woods and sent a postcard to their family with words entitled “Erika, Cold, Cough, Throat, Rest, Death.”
Then, for about six months he didn’t make me do anything. I believed he was satisfied finally but not until he saw another girl named Ayako Nomoto who was five years old. This time, I offered her that I will take wonderful pictures of her to which she agreed. Effortlessly I murdered her and took her corpse to my apartment instead of dumping in the woods.
For two days, I did anything I pleased. I had sex with it, masturbated multiple times while watching it, drank her blood and ate a portion of her leg and hand. The flesh was kind of hard but we both enjoyed. Then I disposed the body parts in various locations so that you people can’t track me out and I was correct.
However, the last incident, I was overconfident and also, he didn’t leave me to take her to my apartment. He forced me to perform it in the yard itself.
After hearing his confession, the police could only feel pathetic for the girls who have undergone severe torture even after their death, but one thing baffled them a lot. Who is the “he” that he is referring? They found no traces of evidence of any other person other than Tsutomu Miyazaki. So, whose directions did he follow when he committed all these nasty things?
Tsutomu Miyazaki’s following words stunned everyone and added a new and unexpected twist to the case.
Well, I did not make any mistakes. I just did what he said. I am innocent and he is the real guilty! He spoke with complete confidence in his voice. That’s when the police realized they were dealing with one of the most disturbing cases in their lifetime. Immediately a special team was arranged to find the entire truth. No one was expecting such a twist in his case.
To find out what it is, we need to know his childhood!
When we look at the childhoods of serial killers, we can observe that nine out of 10 of them were traumatized and abused by their parents. Tsutomu Miyazaki was no exception to this.
Tsutomu Miyazaki was born on 21st August 1962. He was a premature baby, who was born within 7 months of pregnancy. Due to this he lacked the basic cognitive thinking skills. Cognitive thinking enables us to translate information into decisions and act on them.
When the police came to know about this in their investigation, they tried to guess it as the reason for his murders, but they were desperate to know the other person whom Tsutomu Miyazaki mentioned.
Also, Tsutomu Miyazaki was also born with strange, deformed hands where his wrists and hands are fused together. He can’t rotate his wrists; instead, he must fully rotate his forearm. Being born like this, he was shy and quiet kid during his school days. He wasn’t accepted by his family. He wasn’t accepted by his peer group. He wasn’t accepted by the society. He was often physically abused by his father and mother, along with his two younger sisters. Only his cousin sister and his grandfather were the only source of support for him.
Tsutomu Miyazaki was very attached to his cousin sister but during the investigation, the police found the ugly truth which Tsutomu Miyazaki himself doesn’t know about. I am damn sure even you wouldn’t expect in Tsutomu Miyazaki’s childhood story.
Tsutomu Miyazaki’s mother wasn’t his actual biological mother. He was born for his father by her cousin sister herself. Yes, you heard me right. She was the actual mother of Tsutomu Miyazaki which was hidden by the family since they were highly respected family in Tokyo. Now you can understand why they both had such a bonding. How can mother give up on his child that easily?
According to doctors, Tsutomu Miyazaki was born strangely due to the genetic changes caused by his birth between two close relations.
He was also mentally tormented by his peers, who bullied him all the time, and girls found him weird, making it difficult for him to socialize with them. Since he was lonely, he began to read manga which become a significant part of his life. He started to collect various manga books, posters and imagined himself as the hero of the manga which he wrote.
Despite being abused both physically and mentally, Tsutomu Miyazaki was an excellent student. He was always at the top of his class. He wanted to be a teacher and help a lot of students who were like him, but his fate had other plans. His grades started to drop as the class increases.
Though the reason is unknown, the police suspected that his love for manga would have served as a diversion from his studies. In the final grade, he scored 40th rank out of 56 students in his class.
He always dreamt of studying in Meiji University, which is one of the prestigious universities in Tokyo. Similar to IITs and IIMs in India. Unfortunately, he wasn’t selected, and his father forced him to en-roll in a junior college near his home to become a photo technician.
It was said that, Tsutomu Miyazaki wasn’t interested in his father’s decision. Having no choice left, he went to pursue it, and this is the tipping point of his monstrous acts.
College life of one’s is something very important and precious but it wasn’t like in the movies for Tsutomu Miyazaki. He was left all alone in the class, being bullied by almost everyone in the college. He had no person to talk with except one. The “he” which he said in his confession.
At this point of time, the police took this task that is to know about the other person he was referring to.
Tsutomu Miyazaki began to feel insecure around girls due to his incapacity to socialize with girls and develop a profound inferiority complex, believing that his penis was too little to satisfy any lady. That’s why sex education is important but sadly it’s not mandatory in many of the schools around the globe.
As a result, he started to take the pictures of female tennis player’s crotches and masturbate using them. To confirm this act of his, police found many photographs like this when they investigated his home. He started to create nuisance to the girls in the college, prompting the management to kick him out of the dormitory, which caused him to become depressed.
Moving back home, he started living with one of his younger sisters. Tsutomu Miyazaki family was a highly influential family since his father owned a newspaper. He always wanted his only son to take over the business, but Tsutomu Miyazaki wasn’t interested much. Due to this difference of opinion, both involved in verbal dispute, but his grandfather was the saviour for him. His grandfather adored him so much that, even his disgusting acts blinded him.
This is the time when Tsutomu Miyazaki began collecting porn magazines, adult films by selling his manga collections which he loved and collected since boyhood. As he encounters more pornography, he starts to look for even for darker video tapes which involved violence and child pornography.
He had some money by selling the inappropriate photos which he took in his college but as time went he didn't have the money to buy this at first, but his grandfather, who loved him very much, provided him money, allowing him to extend his collection to over 6,000 pornographic videos.
We used to consider our sisters as our next mothers. In fact they act the way like our mother when she is not home. That much respect we do have for all our own sisters but Tsutomu Miyazaki was entirely an inhuman creature.
He once spied his own sister take a shower. He was caught red handed by her, she confronted him for his dirty acts. Instead of apologizing, he assaulted her as well as his mother who asked him.
Despite all of these actions, his grandfather loved him unconditionally, but the worst was yet to come. His grandfather died due to natural cause which drove him more into his depression and eventually leading to his serial killing journey.
Again I am giving a disclaimer to keep your heart strong. This might bring you some disturbing thoughts because it did to me because the thing which he did was even unimaginable for the devil who rules the hell.
In fact, it is said that he ate the ashes of his grandfather so that he can retain a part of him within himself. He wanted his grandfather to be with him forever and the surprising part is. This is confirmed and agreed by Tsutomu Miyazaki during the later investigation.
After knowing all these, the police were able to conclude that his mental instability made him do these but still their questions remain unanswered.
Who was the “he” that was referred by Tsutomu Miyazaki?
To know it, they investigated him again. He said with complete calmness on his face, “I didn’t do anything. It was all because of the Rat Man who said within him.” That’s when the police realized, he was also psychological affected.
Calling the psychologist, they examined him and gave the report. The report said that Tsutomu Miyazaki might be suffering from dissociative identity crisis which is commonly known as multiple personality disorder.
Whereas some psychologists said that he had no apparent disorder, and he was just acting all this while. What’s the need for him to act like this? Well, if you know laws or even watch movies with court cases, the law cannot punish any guilty if he/she found to be mentally ill.
“He was a pedophile first which made him a killer. Killing was just an extension of interest in little girls, a way of possessing them,” said a psychologist. Placed in a very difficult situation, the police decided to let the case to the hands of court.
On the other side of the spectrum, the public and media was furious on Tsutomu Miyazaki, and they termed him as the “The Otaku Killer” or “The Little Girl Murderer.” The public wanted the justice to given to those four pity little girls. The media who was covering all this, saw him being totally unbothered of the fate which he is going to face.
The day came where Tsutomu Miyazaki’s case came in the court. Tsutomu Miyazaki was still defending him and was blaming the “Rat Man” within himself, who forced him to do these murders. He further extends the blame to his father and mother who didn’t treat him properly like that did his younger sisters. “If I tried to talk to my parents about my problems, they’d just brush me off,” he said during the case.
Meanwhile, his parents publicly disowned him, and his father refused to pay for his son’s legal fees. His father later on went to suicide due to the insults that came due to his own son in 1994.
Though having strong evidence against Tsutomu Miyazaki, the court was unable to take decision because of the mixed report given by the psychologists. So, the court was forced to give a small period of trail, to be precise seven years of trail to Tsutomu Miyazaki and check whether he had feeble mind or not.
The public and media bashed the court for taking this decision. They wanted justice to be served on that day for those four little innocent souls. All the parents of Japan, not just Tokyo were praying to God to make him serve the punishment that he deserved. People started to protest against the court for favouring a psychotic killer.
Though valid reasons were given from the court, the sentence remained the same. Though the people’s voice might not have heard to the court justice but it did hear to something called as KARMA!
After seven years of trail, the psychologists declared that Tsutomu Miyazaki had a strong mind and no apparent disorder. Thus, the court declared DEATH SENTENCE to Tsutomu Miyazaki.
The entire Tokyo celebrated it as if they got freedom from a monster which was ruling them. The parents felt satisfied. The victim’s family were happy despite nothing could replace their loss done by him.
21st August 2008, on his 46th Birthday, the Otaku killer finally answered for all the terrible crimes he committed. He was hanged to death but the funny thing about him was his last words. They were “Please tell the world that I am a gentle man”.
Tsutomu Miyazaki was just another serial killer having abused childhood. Along with pornography and his insecurities, he wasn’t a gentle man but indeed a monster in Japan’s history.
By Boobesh IR
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