HOKKAIDO (TR) – On July 2, 2023, Hokkaido Prefectural Police made a grisly discovery inside a room of a love resort in Sapporo Metropolis: the decapitated corpse of a person.
Three weeks later, police discovered the pinnacle of the person on the Atsubetsu Ward residence of a household, three of whom have been then taken into custody.
Because the investigation unfolded, police realized that Runa Tamura, 30, was the ringleader of the crime. She has been accused of homicide, mutilation of a corpse and different crimes.
Runa had met the sufferer, a 62-year-old cross-dresser, within the Susukino red-light district of Sapporo. Her obvious motive was that he engaged in unprotected intercourse together with her a month or two earlier than.
She is alleged to have killed the sufferer throughout an SM session on the resort by repeatedly stabbing him within the neck with a folding knife. After killing him, she decapitated him with a noticed or different instrument.
Runa then hid the pinnacle in a suitcase and took it to the house in a automobile pushed by her father, 60-year-old Osamu, who’s psychiatrist. As soon as house, she peeled off the pores and skin of the pinnacle with a blade and eliminated the eyeballs.
She additionally deliberate to videotape the incident, having requested her mom, 61-year-old Hiroko, to take action.
The trial of Hiroko started this previous June. Earlier this month, the fourth listening to was held.
As is clear from what follows by way of the court docket proceedings up to now, the case is a sordid story of revenge and turmoil inside a household that led to a most extraordinary crime.
“I solely discovered in regards to the harm to the pinnacle after it was introduced into the home”
The primary listening to for Hiroko, who has been accused of aiding within the abandoning of a corpse and aiding within the mutilation of a corpse, was held on the Sapporo District Courtroom on the afternoon of June 4, based on TBS Information (June 9).
She is alleged to have allowed Runa to cover the person’s head within the house. She can be accused of agreeing to Runa’s request that she to take a video of the pinnacle mutilation in that she allowed it and requested Osamu to do it.
In denying the cost of aiding and abetting the abandonment of a physique, she mentioned, “I solely discovered in regards to the harm to the pinnacle after it was introduced into the home. So, it’s not true that I allowed it to be hidden. Once I discovered, it was already within the toilet. It was so irregular that I couldn’t say something to my daughter, couldn’t blame her, couldn’t settle for it and couldn’t say something.”
Concerning the videotaping, she mentioned, “There’s a distinction between finishing up the videotaping and approving it. I wasn’t informed what precisely we have been going to movie. I couldn’t bear it, so I requested my husband to movie it out of a need for assist. I had completely no intention of serving to with the crime, and I had no intention of serving to with the desecration.”
She additionally tearfully denied the cost of aiding within the mutilation of a corpse.
The protection additionally mentioned that Hiroko was conscious that Runa had left the sufferer’s head within the toilet of her house, however had not made any statements to point approval, so no crime was dedicated.
She additionally claimed innocence, saying she had not heard in regards to the plan to desecrate the pinnacle whereas filming, and had solely vaguely requested Osamu to movie it, and that Osamu had filmed it with out touching the pinnacle.
After this, each the prosecution and protection each identified the distorted parent-child relationship and Runa’s motive for killing the person, which was that he had intercourse together with her with no condom, and this led to hassle.
The prosecution identified that Runa not solely deliberate not solely to kill the sufferer but in addition to dismember and play with the physique, and that Osamu permitted and cooperated.
In response, the protection holds the view that Osamu isn’t responsible of aiding and abetting homicide. They argue that each dad and mom solely knew that Runa and the sufferer have been engaged in SM play, and that they solely discovered in regards to the homicide when Runa introduced the pinnacle house.
“I’ll kill everybody”
At 11:00 a.m. on October 1, the fourth listening to for Hiroko was held. In the course of the session, six hours of audio recordings of Runa have been submitted by her lawyer. After which, Osamu, whose trial is but to start, appeared in court docket as a witness, based on STV (Oct. 1).
In a few of the recordings, Runa speaks to her father in English. She additionally refers to an individual named “Cynthia” as her sister.
In a recording from October 6, 2020, Runa yells abuse at her father in English, saying issues like, “I need to kill you,” and “Why don’t you observe my orders?”
Runa says in Japanese on January 22, 2023, “I’m going to get a bit of stronger and kill you guys. That’s what I’ve at all times thought, my sister and I!”
That very same day, she says, “I’ll kill everybody! That’s all!” Osamu responds, “I don’t kill any.”
Runa provides, “You’re not even taking accountability! Simply hurry up and do it, you fool!”
She says in Japanese in an obvious reference to the homicide sufferer on June 1, 2023, “The opposite individual thinks that he’s at my mercy, so I made him suppose that, however I’m the one in management.” She goes on, “I believed it might be like a contest of endurance as a result of I might faux to be a bitch so far as I might go. However I don’t appear to be that type of lady, don’t you suppose?”
“Runa’s soul”
The protection then questioned Osamu.
Protection: “In one in all Runa’s statements, she mentioned ‘my sister.’ Did she have a sister?”
Osamu: “No.”
Protection: “Who’s her sister?”
Osamu: “Runa. Runa’s soul.”
Protection: “Who’s the topic of the dialog that claims, ‘I killed my sister!’?”
Osamu: “I feel Cynthia is the principle character. There are a lot of different souls, however Cynthia is the principle character.”
Protection: “Who does Cynthia’s soul need to kill?”
Osamu: “Me and Hiroko. Cynthia thinks that Runa’s soul died due to our response.”
Protection: “Have you ever ever been harmed by Runa?”
Osamu: “No.”
Protection: “Did she ever wave a knife or a kitchen knife round?”
Osamu: “Indirectly at us.”
Protection: “Concerning the truth that you have been pressured to take pictures of [the victim’s] head, might the photograph session have been postponed?”
Osamu: “He solely had one eye left, and though it was Friday night, I needed to depart for a enterprise journey to Kansai very first thing the subsequent morning. If I returned on Sunday night time, I might be away for 2 days, and I believed I must ask Hiroko to take the pictures. Simply desirous about this sort of harm was sufficient to ship shivers down my backbone, and Hiroko couldn’t bear it. It could sound impolite, however I believed, ‘It could be higher to finish this shortly.’”
“I hoped that he wouldn’t be discovered”
On the night time of July 1, 2023, Osamu drove Runa by automobile to Sapporo, in search of the sufferer. In safety digicam footage, Osamu is proven inside a Susukino membership a number of meters from Runa and the sufferer.
Protection: “What did you need from the sufferer?”
Osamu: “I believed that if she confronted him and there was an apology, [the situation] could possibly be repaired. I believed that if he didn’t apologize, that may be the tip of it.”
Protection: “What have been your ideas once you seemed for the sufferer?”
Osamu: “I hoped that he wouldn’t be discovered, and that she would quit on it.”
Protection: “I don’t suppose you realize something in regards to the sufferer, so how did you search for locations the place he could be?”
Osamu: “I didn’t get any private data from him in any respect. I heard his nickname and that he usually goes to golf equipment for older folks on weekends, so I seemed for him based mostly on these situations.”
Protection: “When [Runa] went to search for the sufferer, she referred to as him ‘Shika”‘(deer) on the Line chat app. How did she begin calling him Shika?”
Osamu: “After we have been in search of the sufferer, neither my daughter nor any of the household knew him, so calling him by his nickname didn’t sound good to my daughter. I assume she thought there was one other solution to name him. My daughter requested me to name him Shika simply earlier than we left.”
“This time I’ll be the attacker”
Previous to the crime, Runa bought numerous gear, together with knives and handcuffs. Osamu bought a suitcase and saws at her course. Osamu and Runa additionally practiced SM collectively in preparation.
Simply earlier than 11:00 p.m., after assembly within the membership, Runa and the sufferer went to the love resort. As soon as contained in the resort, she pretended that they’d pay out an SM fantasy. After he out on an eye fixed masks and handcuffs, she started filming.
“The factor it’s good to mirror on most is breaking your promise to me,” she mentioned earlier than stabbing him to loss of life with a knife whose blade was 8.2 centimeters lengthy.
After decapitating him with a noticed, she put the pinnacle inside a suitcase, which was later packed into Osamu’s automobile. He then drove house.
Protection: “Who was the one who began speaking about SM observe?”
Osamu: “From my daughter. After making an appointment with the sufferer, my daughter practiced, saying, “I used to be attacked final time, so this time I’ll be the attacker.”
Protection: “How lengthy did it take?”
Osamu: “I feel it was at most 1-2 minutes.”
Protection:” Particularly”
Osamu: “I used to be sitting upright, with my fingers handcuffed behind my again and sporting an eye fixed masks, and my daughter approached me from behind, touching me right here and there. I keep in mind her asking me the way it felt and interacting with me.”
“What number of dolls can slot in a black suitcase?”
Osamu’s Web search historical past for on June 25, 2023 reveals that he researched the acquisition of a big black suitcase. Throughout questioning, he mentioned it was for use for Runa’s doll assortment, which numbers over 100.
Protection: “Did Osamu seek for “suitcase load capability 100 kg” and “suitcase load capability 50 kg”?”
Osamu: “I don’t keep in mind precisely, however I used to be requested to search for what might slot in it, so did I sort it in myself…or click on it…?”
Protection: “What number of dolls can slot in a black suitcase?”
Osamu: “I feel 20-30 can slot in.”
Protection: “What about 70-centimeter tall ones?”
Osamu: “I take into consideration 15 can slot in.”
Protection: “How a lot do they weigh?”
Osamu: Every one weighs 4-5kg, so if there’s no cushioning or something, it ought to weigh about 50-70kg.”
Protection: “Had been you informed to obviously movie the destruction?”
Osamu: “I used to be informed to movie with out being informed what was inside [the bathroom].”
Protection: “At what level did you understand that the mutilation [of the head] would happen?”
Osamu: “I took the digicam to the lavatory, and once I was proven the broken bottles and different issues, and was informed that the eyes have been nonetheless within the head, I believed that the mutilation would happen. I didn’t know till I obtained to the lavatory.”
Osamu did the truth is shoot the video. At one level, Runa used a colander, a hanger and an S-hook to hold the pores and skin from the pinnacle within the toilet. She mentioned, “I would like you to see my work.”
