Japan’s ‘Twitter killer’ charged with nine counts of murder
Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, has admitted killing and butchering all nine of his victims – all but one were women aged between 15 and 26
PUBLISHED : Monday, 10 September, 2018, 4:01pm
A man was indicted on Monday on charges of murdering and dismembering nine people at his flat near Tokyo last year, as prosecutors have determined he can be held criminally liable.

The decision about his mental competency came after about five months of psychiatric tests. Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, has admitted to the crimes. He is believed to have approached people who expressed suicidal thoughts on the internet and lured them to his flat in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

According to the indictment, Shiraishi killed and dismembered eight women and one man, aged 15 to 26, from Tokyo and four prefectures from August to October last year.

Their bodies were discovered inside containers such as cooling boxes in his flat.

Shiraishi strangled the nine people with rope and stole their cash. All the women were sexually assaulted. He had borrowed about 360,000 yen (US$3,240) from one victim.

The killings first came to light last October when police officers stepped into his flat and found several cooling boxes containing body parts.
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