The Horrible Killer

2020-11-10 15:26:52 Written by Sarah

This is a horrible story of a killer who is now free.

 

Born 26 April 1949 in Japan, Issei Sagawa was studying in Paris when he killed and cannibalized a Dutch woman named Renée Hartevelt. When he was released from jail, he became a minor star in Japan and earned a living through the public's dividend in his crime.


On June 11, 1981:

 

Sagawa, then 32, persuaded his Sorbonne classmate Renée Hartevelt to dinner at his flat under the pretext of summarizing poetry for a school task. He thought to murder and eat her, having chosen her for her fitness and elegance; qualities he thought he lacked. He interprets himself as vulnerable, awful, and tiny (he is 1.52 m (5 ft) tall)and contends he liked to consume her energy. She was 25 years old. Her personality was attractive and she was 6 feet tall. After she came, she started examining verse at a desk with her back to him. He shot her in the neck with a rifle. Sagawa told the police that he collapsed after the panic of shooting her but awoke with the culmination that he had to achieve his plan. He raped her body but was incapable to chew into her skin, so he departed the flat and bought a butcher knife. For two days, Sagawa ate several parts of her corpse, conserving other parts in his refrigerator. He then tried to throw away her corpse in a lake in the Bois de Boulogne but was discovered in the act and imprisoned by French police. When he was arrested, he was holding up two suitcases. He put the remaining girl's body part in these suitcases.

 

Sagawa's rich father gave a lawyer for his defense, and after being arrested for two years without prosecution Sagawa was found legally mad and unable to survive the prosecution by the French judge, Jean-Louis Bruguière, who decreed him held indefinitely in a mental institution. After a visit by the author Inuhiko Yomota, Sagawa's summary of the killing was publicized in Japan under the caption "In The Fog". Sagawa's successive publicity and macabre hero likely endorsed the French administrations' ruling to deport him to Japan, where he was shortly admitted to Matsuzawa hospital. Assessing psychologists there all announced him sane and found sexual perversion was his only enthusiasm for the massacre. Because penalties in France had been lowered, the French judiciary documents were shut and were not disclosed to Japanese authorities; accordingly, Sagawa could not lawfully be imprisoned in Japan. He checked himself out of the hospital on August 12, 1986, and stayed free. Sagawa's resumed freedom has been largely condemned.

Between 1986 and 1997 he was continually invited to be a guest lecturer and announcer. In 1992, he occurred in Hisayasu Sato's exploitation film Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture) as a sado-sexual voyeur. Sagawa has written stories about the killing, as well as Shonen A, a story on the 1997 Kobe child killings. He has also composed restaurant analyses for the Japanese magazine Spa. Sagawa can no longer discover publishers for his manuscript and he has endeavored to find a job. He was almost approved by a French-language school because the administrator was instilled by his enthusiasm in using his actual name, but workers disputed and he was denied.

In 2005:

 

In 2005 Sagawa's parents died. He was banned from visiting their funeral, but paid back their creditors and strode into public housing. He earned welfare advantages for a time. In an interview with Vice magazine in 2011, he told that being compelled to make a living while being realized as a killer and cannibal was a disastrous punishment.