Kobe child murders
1997 Japanese double-murder case
Kobe child murders
The Kobe child murders (Japanese: 神戸連続児童殺傷事件, Hepburn: Kōbe renzoku jidō sasshō jiken) occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on 16 March and 24 May 1997, when two children, ten-year-old Ayaka Yamashita (山下 彩花, Yamashita Ayaka) and eleven-year-old Jun Hase (土師 淳, Hase Jun) were murdered. Yamashita was fatally injured in a series of assaults on elementary school girls between February and March 1997 while Hase was abducted, strangled and mutilated before his severed head was left in front of a school. The perpetrator, fourteen-year-old Shinichiro Azuma (東 真一郎, Azuma Shin'ichirō) used the alias Seito Sakakibara (酒鬼薔薇 聖斗, Sakakibara Seito) to write two messages to the public following the discovery of Hase's remains in May 1997, taunting police and threatening to commit more murders. Azuma was arrested in June 1997 and confessed to the murder of Hase. He also admitted to killing Yamashita and three additional attacks on schoolgirls. As a juvenile offender, Azuma was prosecuted and convicted as "Boy...
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