Playback: “How Many People Have Disappeared?” Saitama dog lover serial murders: “Another Disappeared Person” that this magazine had grasped.
What did “FRIDAY” report 10, 20, or 30 years ago? Playback Friday” takes a look back at topics that were hot at the time. This time, we introduce “Saitama Aikenke Murder: Another Missing Person” from the January 27, 1995 issue, which was published 30 years ago.
The “Saitama Serial Murder of Dog Owners” case came to light when a wide TV show reported that there were similar missing persons in Saitama Prefecture after the Osaka serial dog lover murders in January 1994. The names in parentheses are from past articles. (Descriptions in parentheses are quotations from past articles. (All ages are current at the time.)
The case came to light through the confession of a “body disposal staff member.
On January 5, 1995, S. (53), a dog and cat breeding and sales businessman, and his ex-wife K. (37) were arrested in Konan Town, Saitama Prefecture. They were suspected of damaging and abandoning the corpse of Mr. A (39 at the time of the incident), a company executive, by burning his body and dumping it in a mountain in Gunma Prefecture. Y was shown Mr. A’s corpse by S, who threatened to help him if he didn’t want to end up like him, so he helped dispose of the body.
It is said that Ms. A and S had a dispute over the purchase price of the dog. In addition, a local gang leader, Mr. C (51 at the time of the disappearance), his driver, Mr. D (21), and a housewife, Ms. B (54), were also missing in 1993, the same year that Mr. A was murdered. That is not all. What kind of person was S?
After graduating from junior high school, he worked at various jobs, including a ramen store, before opening a pet store in his apartment in the 1970s. Since then, he has continued to buy and sell pets, changing his store several times.
He used to dismantle cows and pigs he bought at a livestock farm for food on top of his truck in front of his store, turning the nearby river red with blood and discarding the heads of cows in his yard.
He’s a flat out liar and exaggerator. He would yell at customers visiting the pet store, telling them to go home if they didn’t like him. He also displayed pictures of young men with tattoos and calendars of gangsters in his store as material to threaten people.
