Playback ’14] “I wanted to look inside her body,” a high school girl who murdered her classmate, “Signal” just before the murder.

What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, and 30 years ago? In “Playback Friday,” we take a look back at the topics that were hot at the time. This time, we bring you “In-Depth Report: How a 16-year-old Tokyo University aspirant dismembered his classmates” from the August 15, 2002 issue, published 10 years ago.

In the early morning of July 27, 2002, the body of a friend, a classmate from junior and senior high school, was found decapitated in the room of a first-year female high school student at one of the prefecture’s leading preparatory schools in Sasebo City. Why did the arrested student lay a hand on her friend? Various speculations were rife over her family environment and the “incidents” she had committed in the past (the descriptions in parentheses below are taken from past articles).

The body’s neck and left wrist were severed. ……

We can’t think about it yet because it happened so suddenly.

The parents of A (15 at the time), who was killed, expressed their feelings through their lawyer at the time: A went out a little after 2 p.m. on July 26, 2002, and did not return home until 11 p.m. after texting that she would be home around 7 p. m. A week ago, A’s mother told the parents that she had been in the hospital for a week, but that she had not seen A since then. Her mother had been told by Mr. A a week earlier that he was going to play with a classmate, X (then 16), on that day. The shocking situation then came to light. The situation at the time was as follows.

Shortly after 3:00 a.m., a police officer and Xoko’s parents visited Xoko, who was living alone in an apartment in Sasebo City.

I don’t know.”

She kept a blank expression on her face. The policeman entered the room. There, they found Mr. A’s body lying on the bed in a state of utter disrepair.

Her neck and left wrist had been severed, and her stomach had been cut open wide. Near the bed was a saw, two types of hammers, and a kitchen knife; it appeared that Xko had struck Mr. A in the back of the head with the hammer, strangled him with a string to death, and then dismembered his body in bed. The murder weapon was purchased in the neighborhood in advance, and the crime is seen as premeditated rather than impulsive. Moreover, there was no blood on Xoko’s clothes. For some reason, she seemed to have changed her clothes after the murder.

The arrested Xko was not distraught and admitted the crime, giving a nonchalant statement at the Sasebo police station.

I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to look inside their bodies. I don’t have any urami.”