Runa Tamura: Lady suspected of decapitating man in love lodge rented horror motion pictures beforehand

HOKKAIDO (TR) – Runa Tamura, 30, stands accused of decapitating a person at a love lodge in Sapporo Metropolis final yr. By the point 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 along with her mother and father have been then taken into custody.

Because the investigation unfolded, police realized that Runa was the ringleader of the crime. Nevertheless, the police suspected that her father, 60-year-old Osamu, and mom, 61-year-old Hiroko, offered help.

Runa has been accused of homicide and different crimes. In the meantime, Osamu faces expenses of aiding and abetting his daughter’s crimes. Their trials have but to start.

Nevertheless, Hiroko started showing in court docket 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.

Throughout the session on the Sapporo District Court docket on August 30, the prosecution revealed that Runa watched a number of horror motion pictures days earlier than finishing up the crime, which seemingly influenced how she carried out the act, experiences Shukan Bunshun.

Killing spree on Halloween night time

One was “Terrifier.” Launched in the USA in 2016, it tells the story of Artwork the Clown, who goes on a killing spree on Halloween night time.

The opposite was “Leatherface,” which hit theaters the next yr. It’s a work that follows the basic horror movie “The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath” (1974) and depicts the prequel to the start of “Leatherface,” a killer who wears a masks fabricated from 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.

In line with the prosecution’s clarification, each motion pictures include scenes during which a human neck is reduce, and they’re similar to the scene that Runa recorded on her digital camera when she killed the sufferer within the love lodge, which means it’s extremely seemingly that she used them as inspiration for her crime.

Met at a membership in Susukino

“Runa and the sufferer, a cross-dressing fanatic, met at a membership’s closing occasion in Susukino on the finish of Might final yr,” a authorized reporter tells Bunshun. “The 2 hit it off and went to a love lodge the place they engaged in sexual activity a number of instances, however through the ultimate act, the sufferer didn’t use a contraceptive, which made Runa livid, saying that the sufferer had ‘damaged his promise.’ That is mentioned to be the start of the incident.”

On July 1, 2023, Runa lured the sufferer to the love lodge by pretending that an SM fantasy was to unfold. Wearing a black dominatrix-style outfit that accentuated her physique traces, she led the sufferer to the lavatory, blocked his imaginative and prescient with an eye fixed masks, handcuffed him along with his arms behind his again and ready a handheld digital camera.

“The factor it’s worthwhile to mirror 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. As soon as 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. Nevertheless, the prosecution feels in any other case.

“Throughout the trial, the prosecution’s clarification of proof revealed that earlier than the incident, Osamu had searched the web for “fingerprints may be erased with bleach” and “suitcase load capability 100 kg.” For her half, Hiroko despatched a Line message to Osamu asking, “By the way in which, will the GPS file of the automobile be saved?” She then deleted the message.”

In line with the prosecution, each “Terrifier” and “Leatherface” include scenes just like what unfolded inside that lodge 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] advised me to take a seat upright in the course of the lounge of our home, put my arms behind my again, and shut my eyes,” Osamu advised the court docket as a witness. “I used to be advised to take a seat as if I used to be handcuffed and blindfolded. I felt one thing transferring from behind, and I felt somebody touching my cheeks and neck with a shawl.”

“Handled her mother and father 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, primarily based on a report from Fuji Information Community (Jun. 4) after Hiroko’s first listening to.

Luna stopped going to highschool in center faculty.

“[Her parents] raised their daughter with out getting offended. They purchased her every thing she wished,” the prosecution mentioned. “They couldn’t scold her. The home was overflowing with Luna’s issues, Hiroko lived in a small house, and Osamu had no place in the home, so he spent his time in web cafes.”

Hiroko would ask her daughter what she wished and communicated with Osamu on Line.

“She referred to as Runa ‘younger girl’ and spoke to her in well mannered language. Runa advised her father to promote her mom to a jukujo fuzoku enterprise,” the prosecution mentioned in referring to a brothel specializing in older ladies.

Osamu was her private driver.

“She made him be a part of him in all-nighters at sport facilities and different locations. Runa was egocentric and handled her mother and father like slaves,” the prosecution mentioned.

Upon her exit from the love lodge 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 pinnacle and different physique elements have been transported within the automobile pushed by [Osamu], who was ready outdoors. They have been then taken house,” the prosecution mentioned. “At house, the top was hidden within the bathtub, and Runa eliminated the pores and skin from the top.”

Runa requested Hiroko to take a video of the desecration of the physique with a video digital camera.

“Defendant Hiroko requested Osamu through Line to behave because the cameraman. Osamu agreed and took the video. Runa advised her mom that she wished to point out it to her father, and Hiroko despatched defendant Osamu a Line message saying, ‘Should you’d like, please check out my daughter’s work.’”