FUJIMI — 2009 · Serial Murder
The "Marriage Site" Deaths — Saitama and Tokyo
In August 2009 a 41-year-old man found dead in his car in a car park in Fujimi, Saitama, was at first thought to have taken his own life. But investigators found that the woman he was seeing had taken money from several men she met through marriage-matching websites, and that some of those men had died in suspicious circumstances. Kanae Kijima was arrested for fraud in September 2009 and later tried for the murders of three men. Despite scarce direct evidence, the Saitama District Court sentenced her to death in 2012 on circumstantial evidence. Japan's Supreme Court upheld the sentence in April 2017. The press called the case the "konkatsu" (marriage-hunting) killings.
- Date
- 2009
- Place
- Saitama, Japan, Fujimi, JP
- Category
- Serial Murder
- Case Status
- Solved
- Coordinates
- 35.8560, 139.5490 ↗
Timeline of Events
- 6 August 2009A man was found dead in his car in Fujimi.
- 25 September 2009The woman he was seeing was arrested for fraud.
- 2010She was charged with murder over three deaths.
- 13 April 2012The Saitama District Court sentenced her to death.
- 14 April 2017The Supreme Court made the sentence final.
Sources
- Mainichi Shimbun — Yüksek Mahkeme kararı haberi mainichi.jp ↗
- Wikipedia — Kanae Kijima en.wikipedia.org ↗
- Mainichi Shimbun
- Wikipedia
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