Unemployed man in his 30s who murdered a 21-year-old woman by displaying multiple “female skulls” in his home tells of his “selfish excuse” for killing her.

Possibility of up to 5 years in prison

On June 16, Saitama Prefectural Police re-arrested Jun Saito, 31, an unemployed resident of Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, on suspicion of murder. The suspect is believed to have strangled Kaho Miyamoto, then 21, whom he met on a social networking service, to death around January 4, 2006.

The incident came to light in May of this year when Saito was arrested for stealing a smartphone from another woman. During the investigation, a police officer who visited his home found Miyamoto’s skull. This led to this arrest. In addition to the skull, several bones of Ms. Miyamoto were found, and the prefectural police are conducting further investigation, assuming that the body was dismembered at her home.

In addition to Ms. Miyamoto’s skull, the suspect Saito also possessed the skulls of a woman believed to be in her 20s or 30s, all of which were displayed on a shelf in his room. Regarding the murder of Ms. Miyamoto, he said, “I killed her with her consent. I have had a kind of desire to kill since I was a small child. The motive was a simple intent to kill itself,'” he said, broadly admitting the charges. On the other hand, as for the other woman’s skull, he said that he bought it on the Internet, denying that he killed her.

Saito lived with his parents, but his family told interrogators that they had no knowledge of the murder and denied any involvement.

When the suspect was sent to the prosecutor’s office on August 18, he did not move even slightly in front of the many reporters who crowded around him, and he was staring straight ahead at a single point. Still, when the FRIDAY Digital photographer pointed his camera at him, he took one look at us for a moment. There was no life in his eyes, and their emptiness seemed to indicate Saito’s emptiness.

Saito told the interrogator, “I gave up killing people in the street because I thought it was too risky. He also said, ‘If I was a suicidal person, the police investigation would not reach me, which was convenient. After meeting Ms. Miyamoto, it is known that he had her write a letter saying that she was going to a live-in job and instructed her to remove her SIM card to prevent her location from being identified.

As the suspect Saito has consistently insisted that the murder was “consensual,” the focus of the investigation is likely to continue to be on the “presence or absence of consent. Lawyer Shuji Suzuki explains.

If it is an ordinary murder charge, the penalty is 10 to 15 years in prison. In this case, there is a suspicion of abandonment of a corpse, so if the case is prosecuted, the maximum sentence could be 15 years in prison. On the other hand, the sentence for murder by consent is 2 to 7 years, which is less than half of the maximum sentence. There are reports that the victim had been hinting at suicide to those around him for some time, so the police will be investigating that aspect of the case as well.

However, the police have re-arrested the victim on suspicion of murder, which means they can make a case for murder. In other words, they are assuming that they can make a case for murder. Also, the suspect Saito gave detailed instructions to the victim, but we are also concerned about the extent to which he took the initiative. Of course, if he forced the victim to choose death, it would not be considered a consensual killing.

If he put his hands on a young life for the sake of his own murderous desires, it is absolutely unforgivable.