Playback ’05] The Nakatsugawa Family Murder Case: The Motive of the “Gentle Uncle” who Murdered a Family

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 introduce “The Face of the Violent Act of a 57-Year-Old City Office Manager Who Slaughtered His Mother, Children, and Grandchildren, ” which appeared in the March 18, 2005 issue 20 years ago.

On February 27, 2005, a family of six was murdered in Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture. A man X (57 at the time), who had a reputation as a “kind uncle” in the neighborhood, killed his mother, children, and grandchildren one after another. Everyone in the neighborhood tilted their heads as to why he had to murder his family. The article reported the scene at the beginning of the incident. All ages are current at the time).

He even took his 20-day-old grandson in his hands.

The murderous act began in the morning.

On the morning of February 27, 2005, X, who worked at a geriatric healthcare facility in Nakatsugawa City, Gifu Prefecture, strangled his eldest son, 33, and his 85-year-old mother, Ako, who was sleeping, with a piece of string. At around 11:00 a.m., he next visited the home of his eldest daughter, Biko (30), who lived about 1 km away from his house. He then took her and her two grandchildren, a 2-year-old and a 20-day-old, to his home and strangled them to death, saying, “Grandma misses you.

At around 1:00 p.m., she lured Biko’s husband, 30, to her home and suddenly stabbed him with a kitchen knife, saying, “I want you to die! and stabbed him to death with a kitchen knife.

Despite being stabbed in the abdomen, her husband fled and called the police for help. When officers from the Nakatsugawa Police Station of the Gifu Prefectural Police rushed to the scene, X was in the bathroom with a 20 cm-long sashimi knife held to his own throat, dying. In the adjoining Buddhist-style room were the bodies of Ms. A, Mr. B, and their two children, with Mr. B in a posture as if he were protecting his children.

Also, in the mountains near X’s place of work, the mutilated corpses of two shepherds that he had loved were found.