Choking and choking in jail…6 men died suspiciously, Miyuki Ueda, death row inmate, “Love letters sent to victims” and bewitching methods.
The next deceased was Mr. C (27 at the time of death), who was living with Miyuki at the time. Mr. C’s relatives said that he had been subjected to domestic violence by Miyuki while he was living with her.
“She used to beat him with a frying pan and tie him up with a rope, saying, ‘You have to pay the rent. Once, C ran back to his parents’ house, but Miyuki stormed into the house, kicked him in the leg, and brought him back.”
In February 2008, Mr. D (in his 40s at the time of his death), a detective with the Shimane Prefectural Police, was found hanged in a mountain in the same prefecture, and like Mr. B, his death was ruled a suicide. Mr. D, who had a wife and child, had met Miyuki at a restaurant where he stopped by to gather information, and they had developed a relationship.
Why were the men attracted to Miyuki?

Next, in April 2009, Miyuki’s former boyfriend, truck driver Mr. E (47 at the time of his death), was found drowned in the waters off Hokuei-cho, Tottori Prefecture. Following the discovery of Ms. A’s body on October 7, 2009, as already mentioned, an acquaintance of Miyuki’s, Ms. F (58 at the time of her death), who lived in an apartment next to Miyuki’s, died 20 days later on October 27. Mr. F, who lived alone, had been driving a car borrowed from Miyuki in September of the same year when he was involved in a rear-end collision, but his health had been deteriorating rapidly since then, and Miyuki had started bringing him home meals.
The same sleeping aid ingredients were found in the bodies of this Ms. F, as well as Mr. A and Ms. E. A person who knew Ms. F well told my interviewer the following: “The reason Ms. F was not feeling well was that she was having a hard time sleeping.
A person who knew Mr. F well told me in an interview, “Mr. F fell ill before and after the accident. He used to go out for a walk normally, but then he started saying, ‘Sometimes I feel lightheaded. He also explained that he felt lightheaded at the time of the accident. Miyuki and her husband (common-law) took over the other party’s car repair and medical expenses for this accident, and Ms. F was supposed to pay them monthly from the money she received as welfare.
At the end of September, Ms. F paid them 60,000 yen. The day before he died, Mr. F was already in a half coma and the door to his room was left open. When I peeked into Mr. F’s room around 8:30 p.m., Miyuki and her husband were in the room, laughing and talking with each other. So I did not enter the room and did not see Mr. F.”
A resident of the same apartment who has known Miyuki for a long time reveals, “Miyuki told me about the drugs.
Miyuki called the medicine ‘minzai’ (sleeping pills), and the old lady next door said that Miyuki had given her ‘minzai. Apparently, she had received a large quantity of them, and when the woman asked Miyuki in my presence, “Can I take some? She warned in a harsh tone, “You shouldn’t say such a thing every time. I myself was once asked by Miyuki, “Shall I give you a sleeping pill? I myself was once asked by Miyuki if I wanted to give her a sleeping pill.
As a result, Miyuki was arrested and charged with two counts of robbery and murder, 15 counts of fraud, and one count of burglary and theft. She was sentenced to death by the Tottori District Court in December ’12, and her death sentence was later confirmed when the Supreme Court rejected her appeal in July 2005.
The question remains as to why so many men have been attracted to and deceived by Miyuki regarding this case. We were able to interview a former boyfriend of Miyuki’s (then 66) about her manipulations. The story is a bit long, but we will include it here.
Miyuki and I met in the fall of 2005 at a snack bar where he worked, and he was very aggressive from the beginning. I told her that my shoulders were stiff, and she told me to get in her car because she had brought some medicine. He took me to a love hotel and said, ‘I’m going to apply it here, so take off your clothes. It was the first time I had ever been taken to a hotel by a woman.
We started dating, but within a month, he started asking me for money. Miyuki is sneaky because she uses her children as a pretext. When her oldest son was with her, she would make him call me “father. Then, the child would say, “Father, let’s live together. That’s how it works, you know. I thought that if we were going to be together, I had to do a lot of things for him, so I started providing him with money.
After that, he started asking me for more and more money, for example, to pay for renting a new house, or to pay for Miyuki’s hospitalization because she had heart and kidney problems. One month, for example, he asked me to pay 150,000 yen for plumbing for a new house he was renting, 80,000 yen to change tatami mats, and so on. I think I have given him about 3 million yen in cash and about 1.5 million yen worth of rings and other precious metals. I used to be a dump truck driver and made good money, but after I quit my job. I had no savings or anything, and all I had left was debt.
He told me he had rented a new house, but he wouldn’t show it to me. And when I asked him to return the ring he had entrusted to me, he said he had given it to his mother. He was just full of lies. One time he told me he was having a baby. Well, he broke down and said, ‘Forget about it,'” he said.
When this man learned that Miyuki was living with her common-law husband, he began to distance himself from her. If he had not, it is not certain what fate would have befallen her.




Interview and text by: Ikko Ono
Born in 1966. Born in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. After working as a magazine editor and a magazine reporter, became a freelance writer. He has covered the Afghan Civil War, the Great East Japan Earthquake, and various crime scenes. His major books include "Shinpan Kazoku Kokui: Amagasaki Serial Henshin Jiken no Shinso" (Bunshun Bunko), "Zenpaku: Gozumigyo no Onna: 'Kinki Serial Seishin Jiken' Chisako Kakehi Told" (Shogakukan), "Hitokushin no Logic: Interview with an Evil Murderer" (Gentosha Shinsho), and "Serial Killers" (Bunko).