I don't think that a likely serial killer in Japan is getting quite as much publicity as I expected. Seems to have been pushed out of the headlines a bit by the goings on in Washington.
Update: the details appear to involve a very (sad to say) Japanese set of circumstances, involving loneliness, social media, suicidal desire, the quasi romantic (well, to some people - women especially perhaps) idea of doing it with someone else, and even the suggestion of disturbing sex. Just awful:
Police suspect Shiraishi found suicidal women on the Internet and pretended that he also wanted to kill himself, posting, “Let’s die together.”
After they showed up, he invited them to his apartment where he killed them and took about 500,000 yen ($4,390) in total from the bodies, according to police.
Further information on his “obscene purposes” was unavailable.
According to police, the first victims were an unmarried couple.
In August this year, Shiraishi had a meal with the couple with whom he had become acquainted through Twitter.
On a later day, he invited the woman to his apartment, where he killed her, according to police.
The woman’s male acquaintance, unable to contact her, asked Shiraishi if he knew where she was. Shiraishi also invited him to the apartment and killed him, police said.
Shiraishi told police he killed most of the nine people when he met them in person for the first time.
Some of the nine people had posted suicidal messages on the Internet, and Shiraishi promised to meet them directly after exchanging messages online.
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