“I Love Her Too Much to Leave Her” – Said an Ex-Lover Who Stabbed and Killed a 38-Year-Old Woman

I didn’t like her attitude. We argued, and he said she would call the police, so I stabbed her.”

The man has made no apologies to the victim.

The horrific incident occurred shortly after 6:00 p.m. on January 16. Miki Kawano, then 38, a company employee living in Nakagawa City, Fukuoka Prefecture, was stabbed to death on a street in front of JR Hakata Station in Fukuoka Prefecture. She suffered dozens of stab wounds to her head and chest, and the cause of death was blood loss. Suspected murderer Susumu Terauchi, 31, a restaurant worker and former boyfriend of Ms. Kawano, was arrested.

Terauchi apparently ambushed Ms. Kawano near her place of employment. Security cameras showed the two walking toward Hakata Station, holding umbrellas. While they were walking and talking, they got into an argument. Terauchi pushed Ms. Kawano down, mounted her, and repeatedly and persistently stabbed her with a knife.

After the crime, he hid for about 12 hours at an Internet cafe in downtown Nakasu, using the alias “Shinichi Teramoto.” He was taken into custody by the Fukuoka Prefectural Police two days later on the 18th. A “spotting investigator” who finds a specific person from the crowd found the suspect Terauchi disguised in glasses and a mask on a street about 1.5 km away from the crime scene. He was in possession of a knife with a blade of about 20 cm in length, but he was willing to go along with the investigators and admitted the crime, saying, ‘I’m sure I stabbed her.’

Strongly bound and scary.

Terauchi was born in Fukushima Ward, Osaka City. After dropping out of high school, he worked at restaurants in Roppongi, Tokyo and Minami, Osaka, and moved to Fukuoka about a year ago. He began working part-time at a bar in Nakasu in April of last year. One of the bar’s regular customers was Mr. Kawano.

She came to Fukuoka about 10 years ago, says Ms. Kawano. She was married, but after her divorce, she raised her daughter as a single mother. She lives with her parents and her beloved daughter. She met Terauchi at a bar she frequented, and they began dating around last spring.

Terauchi seems to be a jealous person. He always suspected Ms. Kawano of cheating on him, and had her use an app on his smartphone that would show his location. The relationship deteriorated when he took her smartphone away from her, and she told him she was leaving him around last fall.

Mr. Kawano told those around him that she was ‘too restrictive and scary. After the relationship was terminated, Terauchi persistently followed Ms. Kawano, and in October of last year, she asked the police for a warning.

In November, Terauchi began to appear at Ms. Kawano’s workplace, and the police issued an emergency ban under the Stalking Control Law.

In November, Terauchi began showing up at Ms. Kawano’s workplace, prompting the police to issue an emergency ban under the Stalker Regulation Law. In December, the month after the emergency ban on contact was issued, he unilaterally assumed that a pictogram he received from a third party was a message from Ms. Kawano. He told the police, “I was too in love with her.” He told the police, “I was obeying (the restriction ban), but the other party contacted me. It’s not right that I am the only one who is being blamed.”

Terauchi’s anger toward Ms. Kawano grew out of his one-sided love. It seems that his unbelievable resentment led him to commit the murder.