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okokok
Joined: 27 Aug 2006
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 Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 2:38 am Post subject: The Cannibal Celebrity: Issei Sagawa |
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http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_killers/weird/sagawa/1.html?sect=3
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It pays to be rich, and his father, Akira Sagawa, president of Kurita Water Industries in Tokyo, eventually worked out a deal in 1984 to have Sagawa transferred to the Matsuzawa psychiatric hospital in Japan. The superintendent there believed that he was sane and ought to be in prison. There Sagawa remained for only 15 months before he was granted his freedom in August 1985, again, thanks to his father and very much against the advice of the superintendent. After killing a woman and consuming her remains, Sagawa was able to go freely about in society only five years after the crime. He was even granted a passport to go to Germany.
What made the situation worse was how he reveled in what he did and was only too happy to tell people about it on television talk shows. He even agreed to appear in several Japanese pornographic films, and he wrote four novels. The one in which he described the details of his murder sold over 200,000 copies. Thanks to his father, he'd gotten away with murder, and he was quite proud of it.
Now Sagawa enjoys being the focus of tabloid media, granting interviews and making videos to indulge the voyeuristic curiosity of those who want to get closer to someone who has eaten human flesh. He apparently finds the attention amusing and does not feel that he did anything wrong. "The public has made me the godfather of cannibalism," he stated, "and I am happy about that." |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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It is disappointing that the guy was never murdered by an angry mob.
Looks like the Japanese are as limp-wristed in vigilante justice as Koreans. I always thought if the Hwaseong serial killer, subject of the movie Memories of Murder, were to step forward today, he'd enjoy similar stature. |
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