HOKKAIDO (TR) – Runa Tamura, 30, stands accused of decapitating a person at a love resort in Sapporo City final yr. By the time the crime was found, Tamura had taken the sufferer’s head again to her house.
Three weeks later, police discovered the top of the person on the Atsubetsu Ward residence of Tamura, who alongside together with her mother and father have been then taken into custody.
As the investigation unfolded, police realized that Runa was the ringleader of the crime. However, the police suspected that her father, 60-year-old Osamu, and mom, 61-year-old Hiroko, supplied help.
Runa has been accused of homicide and different crimes. Meanwhile, Osamu faces expenses of aiding and abetting his daughter’s crimes. Their trials have but to start.
However, Hiroko started showing in courtroom on June 4. She has been accused has been accused of aiding within the abandoning of a corpse and aiding within the mutilation of a corpse.
During the session on the Sapporo District Court on August 30, the prosecution revealed that Runa watched a number of horror motion pictures days earlier than finishing up the crime, which possible influenced how she carried out the act, experiences Shukan Bunshun.
Killing spree on Halloween night time
One was “Terrifier.” Released within the United States in 2016, it tells the story of Art the Clown, who goes on a killing spree on Halloween night time.
The different was “Leatherface,” which hit theaters the next yr. It is a piece that follows the traditional horror movie “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” (1974) and depicts the prequel to the delivery of “Leatherface,” a killer who wears a masks product of human pores and skin.
Defendants Runa and Osamu rented these horror motion pictures from a video rental retailer within the metropolis on June 21, 2023, which was 10 days earlier than the sufferer was murdered.
According to the prosecution’s rationalization, each motion pictures include scenes during which a human neck is lower, and they’re similar to the scene that Runa recorded on her digicam when she killed the sufferer within the love resort, which means it’s extremely possible that she used them as inspiration for her crime.
Met at a membership in Susukino
“Runa and the victim, a cross-dressing enthusiast, met at a club’s closing event in Susukino at the end of May last year,” a authorized reporter tells Bunshun. “The two hit it off and went to a love hotel where they engaged in sexual intercourse several times, but during the final act, the victim did not use a contraceptive, which made Runa furious, saying that the victim had ‘broken his promise.’ This is said to be the beginning of the incident.”
On July 1, 2023, Runa lured the sufferer to the love resort by pretending that an SM fantasy was to unfold. Dressed in a black dominatrix-style outfit that accentuated her physique strains, she led the sufferer to the lavatory, blocked his imaginative and prescient with an eye fixed masks, handcuffed him along with his fingers behind his again and ready a handheld digicam.
“The thing you need to reflect on most is breaking your promise to me,” she mentioned as she wielded the knife.
She then repeatedly stabbed him within the neck. After killing him, she decapitated him with a noticed.
Runa then hid the top in a suitcase and took it to the house in a automobile pushed by Osamu. Once house, she peeled off the pores and skin of the top with a blade and eliminated the eyeballs. She additionally requested Hiroko to movie the mutilation of the top.
SM fantasy
Osamu and Hiroko declare that they have been unaware of their daughter’s intent or plan to kill the sufferer. However, the prosecution feels in any other case.
“During the trial, the prosecution’s explanation of evidence revealed that before the incident, Osamu had searched the internet for “fingerprints can be erased with bleach” and “suitcase load capacity 100 kg.” For her half, Hiroko despatched a Line message to Osamu asking, “By the way, will the GPS record of the car be saved?” She then deleted the message.”
According to the prosecution, each “Terrifier” and “Leatherface” include scenes much like what unfolded inside that resort room on the night time oF July 1, 2023.
The prosecution additional argued that Osamu and Runa carried out a “trial run” of the SM fantasy that the sufferer thought was in retailer for him that night time on the Tamura household house across the time the movies have been rented.
“[Runa] told me to sit upright in the middle of the living room of our house, put my hands behind my back, and close my eyes,” Osamu advised the courtroom as a witness. “I was told to sit as if I was handcuffed and blindfolded. I felt something moving from behind, and I felt someone touching my cheeks and neck with a scarf.”
“Treated her parents like slaves”
Runa faces expenses of homicide, mutilation of a corpse, possession of a corpse and abandoning a corpse. Her father has been accused of aiding and abetting all 4 of these crimes.
Not solely does the prosecution declare that each Osamu and Hiroko the place conscious of Runa’s murderous intent, it argues that their has maintained agency management over each of them since she was younger, based mostly on a report from Fuji News Network (Jun. 4) after Hiroko’s first listening to.
Luna stopped going to high school in center college.
“[Her parents] raised their daughter without getting angry. They bought her everything she wanted,” the prosecution mentioned. “They couldn’t scold her. The house was overflowing with Luna’s things, Hiroko lived in a small space, and Osamu had no place in the house, so he spent his time in internet cafes.”
Hiroko would ask her daughter what she needed and communicated with Osamu on Line.
“She called Runa ‘young lady’ and spoke to her in polite language. Runa told her father to sell her mother to a jukujo fuzoku business,” the prosecution mentioned in referring to a brothel specializing in older ladies.
Osamu was her private driver.
“She made him join him in all-nighters at game centers and other places. Runa was selfish and treated her parents like slaves,” the prosecution mentioned.
Upon her exit from the love resort with the top of the sufferer within the suitcase, she advised the entrance desk that the sufferer can be leaving at 11 a.m.
“The head and other body parts were transported in the car driven by [Osamu], who was waiting outside. They were then taken home,” the prosecution mentioned. “At home, the head was hidden in the bath, and Runa removed the skin from the head.”
Runa requested Hiroko to take a video of the desecration of the physique with a video digicam.
“Defendant Hiroko asked Osamu via Line to act as the cameraman. Osamu agreed and took the video. Runa told her mother that she wanted to show it to her father, and Hiroko sent defendant Osamu a Line message saying, ‘If you’d like, please take a look at my daughter’s work.’”