Life imprisonment for the first violent crime in 44 years! Man’s Yucky Motive for Continuing to Attack Women

The defendant is a devil in human skin. His cruel and cowardly acts are absolutely unforgivable. I hope the judges will consider the victim as if she were their own daughter in sentencing.”

On March 17, the man who committed the crime was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The man sentenced to life imprisonment, Yoshito Sato, 30, committed the crime on a night in September 2008. Sato found a female office worker, Ms. A (35 at the time), on her way home in Toshima-ku, Tokyo, and followed her. He found her apartment and confirmed that she lived alone and that the door was unlocked. He entered her room and repeatedly sexually assaulted her.

The defendant’s home and Ms. A’s apartment were only about 600 meters apart, but it appears that they did not know each other. Fearing that the incident would be discovered, Sato tied Ms. A’s neck with a rope and killed her. He testified that he became impatient when he saw his face. In order to make it look like he had disappeared, the body was dumped far away. The body was taken to a vacation home in Nasu-cho, Tochigi Prefecture, owned by a relative, and a hole was dug and buried in a nearby mountain forest.

The method of making the disappearance look like a disappearance is elaborate. After the murder, they used the key to Mr. A’s room that they had stolen to enter and leave the apartment several times. They wiped the apartment clean of fingerprints and even cleaned the interior. They took the clothes in Mr. A’s carry-on case and went to an empty mountain forest to burn them on a stove. In order to prevent animals from digging up the body, they placed a slab of sand in the hole where they buried the body and covered it with soil.

After the murder, he went to his place of work and to a wedding.

Surprisingly, Sato continued to work at the daycare center where he worked without a hitch after Ms. A’s murder, and even attended a friend’s wedding. However, footage from security cameras in the vicinity of the crime scene brought Sato to the forefront of the investigation. He was arrested in December 2008 on suspicion of abandoning a corpse.

After that, Sato said, “I entered the house of a woman I didn’t know for money,” he said. He was arrested again in January of last year on suspicion of robbery and forcible sexual homicide. This is the first time in 44 years that the same alleged crime has occurred.

At first, he told the police that his motive for committing the crime was “for money. In court, however, he changed his mind. In court, however, he changed his mind, testifying that he had “uncontrollable sexual desires. He also said, “There was a time when I was desperate after my divorce,” and “I was depressed because I couldn’t visit my children.

Mr. Sato’s crime was not limited to Ms. A. In the three months between his murder of Ms. A and his arrest, he committed three indecent assaults, including touching women, in Tokyo and Saitama Prefecture.

The victims in Saitama Prefecture were a woman in her 30s and a teenager. The victim of the indecent act in Tokyo was a 9-year-old girl at the time. It is an unbelievable crime, despite being in the position of a nursery school teacher. ……

Sato testified in court about his motive for repeating the indecent act, even though it occurred immediately after the murder.

I felt guilty for killing the woman (Ms. A), and I wanted to make a case and get caught by the police. (I didn’t have the courage to turn myself in.) I thought the police would move more quickly if the victim was exposed.”

Out of selfish logic and desire, Sato repeatedly committed the crimes. His words, “I think I will be in prison for a long time, but I want to look at myself and reflect on my actions,” ring hollow.