A 19-year-old Japanese girl was killed by a retired American soldier while running at night. After the truth of the case became clear, the Japanese public aroused much discussion. Some people say that the U.S. soldiers are full of crimes and should be kicked out; but there are others who speak for the murderer and accuse girls that they should not run at night, which is not entirely the fault of men.
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Shimabukuro Rina lives in Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan, and was just 20 years old in January 2016.
Rina is young and lively, and looks very beautiful. He works as a shopping guide in a large shopping mall and is responsible for selling cosmetics.
Because I work very hard in the mall, I am very fond of the store manager.
Because of work reasons, Rina has taken a lot of qualifications related to beauty. When you are selling at work, you have a good relationship with customers, and the customers rate her very well.
Rina has a boyfriend who is one year older than her. The two have been together for more than a year and their relationship is very good. They have already planned their marriage.
Boyfriend commented that Rina was gentle, kind, and very cute. She also loved her boyfriend very much and took good care of his diet and daily life. Although she is not very old, she is already handy when she does housework.
Rina said with friends that because she is the only daughter in the family, she has to have more children after marriage so that the children will not be too lonely. Both boys and girls will love it very much.
Rina also imagined dancing with everyone in Okinawa at the wedding. Ryukyu classical dance, looking forward to a good life with her boyfriend after marriage.
Her work and love are smooth, who could have imagined that her dreaming happy life had not yet appeared, but was broken by a prominent disaster.
Rina is missing
Rina has a habit of running at night,At around 8pm on April 28, she sent a message to her boyfriend and went out for a run.
The content of the message is also to tell her boyfriend his own status and not to worry him.
At around 2 am on April 29th, her boyfriend sent a message to Rina saying that he was on his way home.
2:40 minutes, the boyfriend returned home, but did not see Rina. Her boyfriend sent her another text message and asked her if she was out. But after a long time, the information remained unread, and Rina did not go home.
The boyfriend was very worried, so he contacted Rina’s family. They said that they had not received any information from her, had not seen her, and did not know where she had been.
The family was very worried about Rina, afraid of any danger, so they immediately called the police.
Upon receiving the report, the police first retrieved the signal location of Rina’s mobile phone.
They found that the last place where the mobile phone signal appeared was near Zhouqi, 2 kilometers away from home, and the signal disappeared at about 2:40 in the morning.
Boyfriend saw this location very strange, he said that this is not the route of Rina's night run. Rina usually chooses to run on the main road with more commercial facilities when running at night, where there are so many people that there is no danger.
They guessed that Rina might be in danger or even kidnapped.
The police retrieved surveillance video near the signal and found that there were about 300 vehicles passing by. Finding Rina was like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But there is no way, the police can only investigate one by one, because after that, there are no other clues.
The suspect surfaced
After unremitting efforts, the police finally found a suspect, Gadson Kenneth Franklin (Gadson Kenneth Franklin).
Kenneth was 32 years old and was a staff member of a US military base.
After the police found Kenneth,Inquired about it.
During the questioning process, Kenneth was very nervous, which made the police feel more suspicious.
Afterwards, the police inspected Kenneth's car and found Rina's DNA in the car, as well as a small amount of blood.
The police speculated that Rina was attacked first and then moved to the car. When he arrived in the car, he was dead or in a coma.
After constant interrogation by the police, on May 18, Kenneth finally confessed to the crime.
On May 19, under the leadership of Kenneth, the police found Rina's body in the woods of Anfuzu in Onna Village.
The body is completely unrecognizable, and there are still many stab wounds on the body, and the bones have even been exposed in serious cases.
However, the forensic doctor did not determine what the fatal injury was after preliminary judgment.
In addition to Rinai's body nearby, the police also found the stick that Kenneth had committed that night.
It is not accidental that Kenneth can do this kind of thing, but because his mentality is not healthy at all.
Gadson Kenneth Franklin
Gadson Kenneth Franklin (Gadson Kenneth Franklin) was born in New York State, USA, his family was poor, and his mother gave birth to him when he was unmarried.
He was introverted since he was a child and was often bullied at school, so he was particularly reluctant to go to school.
Later, because the family was too poor and couldn't support him, he was sent to the orphanage.
Kenneth was adopted by several families before and after, but he was sent back to the orphanage because of his character. The life experience of
was indeed so miserable that his psychology gradually became distorted, his personality became even more weird, and he even suffered from severe depression, with symptoms such as auditory hallucinations and fantasy.
After graduating from high school,Kenneth was admitted to , University of Maryland, , and worked as a clerk in the US Department of Defense after graduation.
In September 2011, Kenneth joined the Navy in Washington, DC.
According to him, he joined the army purely to realize his dream of killing people. This idea had already taken root in his heart when he was a teenager.
Because joining the army requires a medical examination, he was found to be allergic to nuts and was disqualified from enlistment. But later he bought a doctor, revised the medical report, and then successfully mixed into the army.
After recruiting training, he was sent to the US military base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan as a logistics staff, responsible for warehouse management.
Although his work is relatively stable after arriving in Japan, he still has the idea of killing people from time to time in his heart. Fortunately, he has been restraining himself and has not made excessive actions.
In 2013, Kenneth met a local Japanese girl on the Internet. She worked as a nurse in a hospital. The girl’s home conditions were quite good.
At that time, Kenneth took her back to the United States to hold a wedding, and then returned to Japan to be a door-to-door son-in-law, and followed the woman to change her name Shinzato Kenneth Franklin (Shinzato Kenneth Franklin) .
In September 2014, Kenneth left the army and temporarily returned to the United States.
In April 2015, he returned to Okinawa, Japan, and found a job at an Internet company in a US military base.
Because he is usually introverted and he is not very talkative. Although he has been in Japan for many years, his Japanese has not been very good. He usually communicates with his family to help him. But before this case happened, Kenneth just did it. Father.
Father-in-law bought a small villa in Yonabaru Town and gave it to them. After the renovation in 2016, the family of three moved in.
According to neighbors around,Kenneth and his father-in-law get along very well, and the family atmosphere is very harmonious on weekdays. He often accompanied his mother-in-law to go shopping on the street, and he couldn't see any abnormal thoughts in his heart at all.
After being arrested by the police, Kenneth confessed that he has had this idea since high school. He has always wanted to kidnap a woman for his own sake, but he has been trying hard to suppress this idea.
After Rina was killed
On April 28, 2016, Kenneth drove home after get off work. Suddenly, he felt that this strong idea was extremely strong. I felt that I could not do this thing today. I told myself that today is a must Good time.
So Kenneth drove the car, looking for a suitable woman to go out alone.
He feels that such things happen to women, and he is generally embarrassed to report to the police. In the end, he will basically stop it. There will be no consequences for not calling the police, and he feels that it is safe for him to do such a thing.
spent two or three hours in the street, but he never found a suitable candidate until he saw Rina running alone.
Kenneth thought it was her at the time, this is the woman who can realize his dream. At that time, he even looked up at the red moon in the sky, thinking that this was an opportunity God gave him, so he drove behind Rina quietly, waiting for the opportunity to start.
When Rinai ran through a section of road with few people, Kenneth got out of the car and attacked Rinai from behind with a 30 cm long stick.
But by coincidence, a car happened to pass by at this time. Kenneth, who did this kind of thing for the first time, was very flustered, so he dragged Rina into the grass beside him.
After this operation, Kenneth was also awake, but at this time he found that Rina was no longer breathing.
In a panic, he packed Rina into the suitcase and discarded it in the woods of Anfuzu , Anna Village, .He threw Rina's keys and cell phone into the river.
The place where Linai was discarded is from Kenneth's house. It takes 40 to 50 minutes by car, which is quite far away. In order to destroy the evidence, he cleaned his car and sprinkled it with some salt.
When Kenneth described it to the police, he said that he did not intend to kill her, but just wanted to faint her first, and then assault her. I was thinking of getting Rina in the car, then looking for a hotel, and letting her go after the job, but I didn't expect to kill Rina with a stick.
Kenneth thought at first that the police should find him soon, but he didn't expect that no one came to him for a long time in the past. He thought it was just over, and he was still living a normal life on and off work. Think about Rina.
When Rina's parents learned of this, they were very angry and could not accept the fact that their daughter had died.
Because she is the only child in the family, her parents have loved her since she was young, and Rina is also very sensible and well-behaved. He is as brilliant as a 20-year-old, and there are many dreams to do. There are many things to do. To experience, but all this was ruined by Kenneth.
Rina's parents could not forgive the murderer at all, and asked the court to sentence him to death.
Kenneth's trial
Kenneth had no regrets when he was taken to court, and even said that all this was Rina's fault. Who made her appear there when he wanted to find a woman?
It is not difficult to see that Kenneth's thoughts and mentality have been completely distorted, separated from normal people's thinking, and become extremely evil.
His abominable behavior aroused the anger of the people of Okinawa and the Japanese people, because this is not the first time that the people of the US military base hurt the islanders.
On September 4, 1995, four soldiers at a US military base drove away a 12-year-old girl who was shopping in the merchandise street. She was still an elementary school student.
4 U.S. soldiers tied her up,Heinous crimes were committed. Only one of the American soldiers felt that the girl was too young to participate in this violation. The last three people were arrested and sentenced to crimes ranging from 6 to 7 years.
On February 10, 2008, Tyrone, a 38-year-old U.S. military base soldier, struck up a 14-year-old high school student in the shopping street, lied to take her for a drive, and tricked the girl into a car. Then in the car, did nasty things to the girl. Later, the girl's spirit was greatly stimulated, but her parents didn't want to make matters worse, so they didn't sued Tyrone. After this incident was exposed, Tyrone was imprisoned by a military court for 4 years.
On June 19, 2016, 65,000 Okinawa citizens held a memorial service for Rina in Naha City . They held up a sign to protest and asked the U.S. military to withdraw from Okinawa. They didn’t want to see innocents anymore. The people have been harmed, which has already broken through the limits of mankind.
On July 12, 2018, the Japanese and American governments sent representatives to resolve the matter and paid a pacification payment to the Rina family. Most of this comfort payment was paid by the United States and a small part by Japan, but the amount was not disclosed to the public.
On September 20, 2018, the Naha branch of the Fukuoka High Court sentenced Kenneth to life imprisonment.
Soon after Kenneth went to jail, his father-in-law sold the house, took his family, daughter and grandson and left here.
Discussions triggered by the Rina case
The Rina murder case has attracted the attention of many Japanese people, and many people have posted comments on the Internet, with different opinions.
Some people condemned the crimes committed by the U.S. military in Japan as exhausted, and they should be driven out.
However, some people say that although Kenneth is wrong, Rina shouldn’t run alone at night as a girl. It’s not all men’s fault.
I really want to slap them at this comment on the ruining three views, if their daughter encounters this kind of thing,Do they say the same? Not surprisingly, under this comment, there were all grumpy anger.
Japanese male chauvinism is very strong. After marriage, many Japanese women basically stay at home and teach their children. Many of them are obedient to their husbands. This may be the main reason for such ruining opinions.
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