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? On March 6, 1997, Juvenile A (because the murderer was underage at the time, the media refers to him as Juvenile A The murderer) asked the little girl Ayaka Yamashita for help on the pretext that he could not find his way to the toilet. After Yamashita Ayaka took him to the toilet, boy A said, "Turn around and let me thank you," and then attacked the girl's face with a hammer. When he fled in a hurry, he bumped into another elementary school girl. Boy A picked up a knife and stabbed the girl in the stomach before running away.
At 1 pm on May 24 of the same year, boy A decided to find the next victim. While looking for the target, he met 11-year-old Tu Shichun, so he used his own (blue turtle) ), he deceived Toshi Chun to a high platform near Kobe, strangled him to death and hid him. On the 25th, boy A came to the high platform and cut off Toshi Chun's head with a prepared knife and hid him. On the 26th, Boy A brought the head home again for cleaning. In the early morning of the 27th, Boy A hung his head on the iron railing of his school. In the early morning, the security guard found the head and called the police. Later, the police found a card left by Boy A in the head, which claimed that he was the Drunkard Rose Saint. .
On June 4th, Kobe Shimbun received a letter with 1,400 words in total. The letter contained six words "Drunkard Rose Saint", which respectively represent "alcohol" (alcohol). ), "Death" (ghost), "Rose" (rose), "Saint" (holy), "fight" (fight). The sender also wrote in the letter: "When I kill someone or cause physical harm to another person, I feel free from the constant hatred. I can find peace with it. The only way to alleviate my pain - is to add other people The pain... In the letter, the self-proclaimed alcoholic Rose Saint is the sender of his masterpiece. In order to prove the authenticity of his words, he also talked about many details that the police did not release.
The police began to focus on investigating this letter. At first, the police determined the age of the suspect to be between 20 and 40 years old. However, after several checks, the police finally determined that the 14-year-old boy A was the murderer. This caused a stir in Japan at the time. It had a huge social impact. After Juvenile A was arrested, no information about his identity was revealed, and he was only sent to a labor camp, and then completely disappeared from people's sight.
On March 10, 2004, the adult male perpetrator was discharged from the juvenile institution and embarked on the road to return to society. The Japanese Ministry of Justice informed the victim’s family that Juvenile A was released on parole. In 2015, the former Juvenile A was released. The book "Zeuge Kobe Renkodo Murdering Incident" was published under this name, which attracted widespread attention.