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There are no bloody pictures in this article, you can read it with confidence In accordance with the self-discipline of the news), to prevent the news reports from irritating the gangsters and endangering the safety of the hostages.
The incident happened in the year before Japan held the Tokyo Olympics for the first time (1964), at the time of the post-war renaissance period, so this incident is also known as the largest abduction incident in Japan after the war.
On Sunday, March 31, 1963 (Showa 38), from 4:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon, a 4-year-old boy Village Yueji Exhibition (むらこしよしの farmer) was playing in the park near his house , and then disappeared.
The scene of Iriya South Park at that time
Yoshizhan's house is located in Iriya-cho, Taito Ward, Tokyo. The nearby park is called Iriya South Park. At first, his parents could not find Yoshizhan and thought he was lost, so he reported to the police, and the news media also used Disappearances to report.
On Monday, April 1, the police heard from witnesses that Ji Zhan had spoken to a man about 30 years old. The police immediately suspected that the disappearance case was actually a child kidnapping case, and immediately set up a search headquarters.
At 5:48 pm on Tuesday, April 2nd, a man broadcast a phone call to Ji Zhan's house and asked his family to prepare 500,000 yen (equivalent to 2 million yen in today's money), so that the police determined that this was a kidnapping. extortion case.
In order to avoid a repeat of the tragic incident of the abduction and murder of Yashu children three years ago, the police asked the media to self-discipline, and concluded a reporting agreement with the media, to the effect that the hostages were not allowed to conduct random interviews and reports until they were safely released from the kidnappers' control.
The time came to 7:15pm on Wednesday April 3rd and the gangster called home again and said something like
" I will return your child, please have your cash ready. "
Thursday 4th April at 10pm At 18:00, the gangster made another phone call to the family. This time, the family asked to confirm the safety of the child, so the gangster spoke to the family again. Since the call was extended by about 4 minutes, the police successfully recorded the gangster's voice. From this day until April 7, the criminals made a total of 9 calls. Since there was no reverse tracking and positioning technology for telephones at that time, the criminals could not be found.
At 1:40 pm on Saturday, April 6th, the gangster made a phone call to the home and said " The child is sleeping, now take the money to the designated place ".
htmlAt 25:30, the gangster called again and said: "Take the cash to the public telephone booth next to Sumitomo Bank in front of Ueno Station, do not contact the police" . Ji Zhan's mother immediately arrived at the designated place, but she didn't see the gangster for a long time, so she had no choice but to leave a note and go back. The note reads:
I have returned with cash, please contact me again.
After that, the criminals did not show up, and no one took the note.
At 11:12 in the evening, the gangster called and said:
"This morning there was a policeman near the phone booth at Ueno Station, so I couldn't get close, This time I will put children's shoes as proof, please bring cash Put it there, I will tell you about the location ."
At 1:25 pm on Sunday, April 7th, the gangster broadcast a phone call to the home, asking the mother to come alone and prepare cash, the gangster The designated location is a three-wheeled pickup truck at a car sales shop just 300 meters from Murakoshi's house.
The mother set off immediately. In order to avoid provoking the gangsters, the mother prepared real 500,000 yen notes and put them in the envelope. When she arrived at the scene, she found that Ji Zhan's shoes were there, so she put the envelope Put it there and retrieve the shoes.
Jizhan's shoes
The gangster saw the opportunity, took the cash in a very short time and successfully escaped when the police were not paying attention. When the police were about to lock the car, the gangster had long since disappeared. At that time, one of the ambush policemen was guarding the area. He recalled that a man in a suit walked by him at that time. Because he was anxious to catch the prisoner, he only cared about the location near where his mother put the money. Therefore, he was not stopped for questioning.
After that, there was no news from the gangster, and Ji Zhan never came back.
On Saturday, April 13th, two weeks have passed since the incident. The police chief, Hara Benedict, shouted to the gangster through the media, hoping that he could return the child to his mother, but he still did not receive any response, and the incident still did not progress. Welcome to read Ruxu's "Japanese Strange Stories" series There are no bloody pictures in this article, you can read it with confidence In accordance with the self-discipline of the news), to prevent the news reports from irritating the gangsters and endangering the safety of the hostages. The incident happened in the year before Japan held the Tokyo Olympics for the first time (1964), at the time of the post-war renaissance period, so this incident is also known as the largest abduction incident in Japan after the war. On Sunday, March 31, 1963 (Showa 38), from 4:30 to 5:30 in the afternoon, a 4-year-old boy Village Yueji Exhibition (むらこしよしの farmer) was playing in the park near his house , and then disappeared. The scene of Iriya South Park at that time Yoshizhan's house is located in Iriya-cho, Taito Ward, Tokyo. The nearby park is called Iriya South Park. At first, his parents could not find Yoshizhan and thought he was lost, so he reported to the police, and the news media also used Disappearances to report. On Monday, April 1, the police heard from witnesses that Ji Zhan had spoken to a man about 30 years old. The police immediately suspected that the disappearance case was actually a child kidnapping case, and immediately set up a search headquarters. At 5:48 pm on Tuesday, April 2nd, a man broadcast a phone call to Ji Zhan's house and asked his family to prepare 500,000 yen (equivalent to 2 million yen in today's money), so that the police determined that this was a kidnapping. extortion case. In order to avoid a repeat of the tragic incident of the abduction and murder of Yashu children three years ago, the police asked the media to self-discipline and concluded a reporting agreement with the media.The general idea is that the hostages are not allowed to conduct random interviews and reports until they are safely out of the control of the kidnappers. The time came to Wednesday April 3rd at 7:15pm and the gangster called the house again and said " I will return your child, please have your cash ready. " Thursday April 4th at 10pm At 18:00, the gangster made another phone call to the family. This time, the family asked to confirm the safety of the child, so the gangster spoke to the family again. Since the call was extended by about 4 minutes, the police successfully recorded the gangster's voice. From this day until April 7, the criminals made a total of 9 calls. Since there was no reverse tracking and positioning technology for telephones at that time, the criminals could not be found. At 1:40 pm on Saturday, April 6th, the gangster made a phone call to the home and said " The child is sleeping, now take the money to the designated place ". htmlAt 25:30, the gangster called again and said: "Take the cash to the public telephone booth next to Sumitomo Bank in front of Ueno Station, do not contact the police" . Ji Zhan's mother immediately arrived at the designated place, but she didn't see the gangster for a long time, so she had no choice but to leave a note and go back. The note reads:
I have returned with cash, please contact me again.
After that, the criminals did not show up, and no one took the note.
At 11:12 in the evening, the gangster called and said:
"This morning there was a policeman near the phone booth at Ueno Station, so I couldn't get close, This time I will put children's shoes as proof, please bring cash put it there,Location I will tell you again. "
At 1:25 pm on Sunday, April 7th, the gangster broadcast a phone call to the home, asking the mother to come alone and prepare cash. The location designated by the gangster was at a house only 300 meters away from the village's house. A three-wheeled pickup truck in a car dealership.
The mother set off immediately. In order to avoid provoking the gangsters, the mother prepared 500,000 yen in real money and put it in the envelope. When she arrived at the scene, she found Ji Zhan The shoes were there, so she put the envelope bag there and retrieved the shoes. Successfully escaped, when the police were about to lock the car, the gangster had long since disappeared. At that time, one of the ambush police officers was guarding the area, and he recalled that a man in a suit walked by him because he Desperate to catch the prisoner, he only cared about the location where his mother put the money, so he did not stop him for questioning. After two weeks, the police chief, Hara Benei, shouted to the gangster through the media, hoping that he could return the child to his mother, but he still did not receive any response, and the incident still did not progress.
On Friday, April 19, the police decided to change to Public investigation, at the same time publishing the gangster's phone calls and seeking relevant clues from the public, the police soon received more than 10,000 pieces of information, but in the end, none of the clues could successfully help the police catch the gangster.
Thursday, April 25th,The Shimotani North Office Search Headquarters made an exception to broadcast the recording of the threatening phone call with the title of "The Voice of the Prisoner" and began broadcasting it nationwide through radio and television, hoping that the public would recognize this voice. By noon, more than 220 pieces of information were sent. In the end, however, the culprit was not caught.
They then entrusted Takao Suzuki, a technical officer of the National Police Agency's Scientific Police Research Institute, to do voiceprint identification, but because the technology at the time was not yet proficient, it was ultimately unsuccessful.
A linguist in Japan, Haruhiko Kaneda, after listening to "the prisoner's voice", found that when the gangster said "green" and "sanbanmu", his accent and nasal voice belonged to the southern part of Ou, so estimated that the gangster might be from the origin In Miyagi prefecture, Fukushima prefecture, Yamagata prefecture or Ibaraki prefecture, Tochigi prefecture, narrowed down the search range.
Later, on October 21, 1963, a linguist Guichun Ren, a lecturer in the literature department of Northeastern University, announced through the news that "the gangster was born in the South Tohoku and North Kanto south of Koriyama City". Finally locked the prisoner's birthplace.
In May 1963, a reporter from a Japanese radio station found that the "Prisoner's Voice" was very similar to a guest named Kohara Ho (30 years old) in the izakaya he frequented, so he sneaked in and waited for an opportunity to talk with Kohara, and successfully recorded it. After listening to Ohara's voice, the Metropolitan Police Department entrusted Kazuya Akiyama of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies to do a voice identification. It was found that the prisoner's voice was the same as that of Yasushi Ohara, and the suspect was locked.
The voiceprint identification at that time
However, Ohara stated that he was in the hometown of Fukushima from March 27, 1963 to April 3, and although the voices were similar, they did not all use the same vocabulary.Therefore, it cannot be concluded that they are the same person.
More importantly, the police found that Xiaoyuan did not lie through the polygraph, and because Xiaoyuan had one leg inconvenient to move, it was difficult to quickly take the cash and escape at the scene, so Xiaoyuan was finally found innocent.
In this way, the case reached a deadlock again. Two years later, on March 11, 1965, the search headquarters of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section 1 announced that it was disbanded, and another special search team related to the Jizhan incident was reorganized, through a method similar to the FBI. Investigate.
In the end, they found that there was a problem with Ohara's alibi. The most favorable evidence is that Ohara once said that he saw the Nippori fire on the train, and the fire happened in Tokyo's Nippori on April 2., which is equivalent to indirect Admitted that the alibi was false.
In addition, the police investigation in Fukushima prefecture found that the last witness to Ohara was on March 30, and other signs also confirmed that Ohara only stayed in Fukushima until March 30, then Ohara was in March The possibility of abducting Ji Zhan on the 31st can be established.
As the police kept breaking through the flaws of the alibi, Ohara couldn't justify himself and finally admitted the crime. On July 4, the police arrested him on suspicion of kidnapping for money and intimidation.
After the incident, Ohara stated that he was short of money, and after watching the movie trailer of " Heaven and Hell " directed by Akira Kurosawa, he thought that he could kidnap children and decided to commit the crime. He thought that Ji Zhan was a rich man in beautiful clothes, so he went up to chat with him and praised the water and iron cannon in his hand, and then kidnapped him.
He said that Jizhan was killed on the day of the abduction. The reason why
was killed was that Ji Zhan knew that his feet were inconvenient to move.He was afraid that if he returned the child to his mother, he would be locked up soon, so he decided to kill Ji Zhan directly and buried him in Yuantong Temple.
Neither his mother nor the police knew that Ji Zhan was already dead when he called his home to demand the ransom.
On July 5, the police found Jizhan's bones in Yuantong Temple. The case was officially announced to be solved. Yuantong Temple erected a "Jizhan Kizang King" monument for Jizhan to mourn his young undead.
On March 17, 1966, the Tokyo District Court sentenced Ohara to death on bail. Although the defense continued to appeal on the grounds that Ohara did not commit a planned crime, on October 13, 1967, the Supreme Court rejected the accusation and announced the death penalty. He was executed in Miyagi Prison on December 23, 1971, at the age of 38.
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The voiceprint identification at that time
However, Ohara stated that he was in the hometown of Fukushima Prefecture from March 27 to April 3, 1963, and although the voices were similar, they did not all use the same vocabulary, so cannot be identified as the same person.
More importantly, the police found that Xiaoyuan did not lie through the polygraph, and because Xiaoyuan had one leg inconvenient to move, it was difficult to quickly take the cash and escape at the scene, so Xiaoyuan was finally found innocent.
In this way, the case reached a deadlock again. Two years later, on March 11, 1965, the search headquarters of the Japanese Metropolitan Police Department's Search Section 1 announced that it was disbanded, and another special search team related to the Jizhan incident was reorganized, through a method similar to the FBI. Investigate.
In the end, they found that there was a problem with Ohara's alibi. The most favorable evidence is that Ohara once said that he saw the Nippori fire on the train, and the fire happened in Tokyo's Nippori on April 2., which is equivalent to indirect Admitted that the alibi was false.
In addition, the police investigation in Fukushima prefecture found that the last witness to Ohara was on March 30, and other signs also confirmed that Ohara only stayed in Fukushima until March 30, then Ohara was in March The possibility of abducting Ji Zhan on the 31st can be established.
As the police kept breaking through the flaws of the alibi, Ohara couldn't justify himself and finally admitted the crime. On July 4, the police arrested him on suspicion of kidnapping for money and intimidation.
After the incident, Ohara stated that he was short of money, and after watching the movie trailer of " Heaven and Hell " directed by Akira Kurosawa, he thought that he could kidnap children and decided to commit the crime.He thought that Ji Zhan was a rich man in beautiful clothes, so he went up to chat with him and praised the water and iron cannon in his hand, and then kidnapped him.
He said that Jizhan was killed on the day of the abduction. The reason for
's killing was that Ji Zhan knew that his feet were inconvenient to move. He was afraid that if he returned the child to his mother, he would be locked up soon, so he decided to kill Ji Zhan directly and buried him in Yuantong Temple.
Neither his mother nor the police knew that Ji Zhan was already dead when he called his home to demand the ransom.
On July 5, the police found Jizhan's bones in Yuantong Temple. The case was officially announced to be solved. Yuantong Temple erected a "Jizhan Kizang King" monument for Jizhan to mourn his young undead.
On March 17, 1966, the Tokyo District Court sentenced Ohara to death on bail. Although the defense continued to appeal on the grounds that Ohara did not commit a planned crime, on October 13, 1967, the Supreme Court rejected the accusation and announced the death penalty. He was executed in Miyagi Prison on December 23, 1971, at the age of 38.
Welcome to read other "Japanese Strange Stories" series, you can directly click "Learn More" in the lower left corner, or : The Setagaya Murder Case: The Last Unsolved Case of the 20th Century, Japan's Sanchome Murder
