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were indicted on a number of insurance fraud charges as well. Hayashi has also been tried for three other attempted murders by poison that had occurred during the previous 10 years, with the motive in those cases being life-insurance benefits. She is believed to have tried to kill her husband at least once. Her motive for poisoning the curry has been said to be anger at her neighbours for shunning her family. The arsenic found in the curry was identical to the arsenic she had in her own home from her husband's extermination business.
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Hayashi as a witness had seen her at the curry pot, and she had easy access to arsenic because her husband was an insect exterminator. Prior to the murders, Hayashi had been an insurance saleswoman. After her arrest, she and her husband
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This case is very famous as a case with a strong possibility of false accusation. The main feature of this case is that the defendant Masumi
Hayashi's motive for committing the crime has not been clarified and there is no direct evidence. Experts have also pointed out the problem as a case where
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In July 2009, Hayashi formally petitioned for a retrial. Wakayama
District Court rejected her petition in March 2017. Hayashi appealed to Osaka High Court by April 2017, but the request was rejected. A third petition for retrial was filed in June 2021.
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