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Japanese citizen, and was then brought to the police station for further interrogation. There, he professed that his name was Ryuichi Tsukamoto, but after investigators found a knife, a screwdriver and adhesive plaster in his bag, he broke down and confessed both his real name and to the crimes.
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judges, he claimed that he had killed the women because "he hated their eyes". On
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over the clues, it was noticed that the towel used in the first murder had an engraving of the Futaba Ryokan, a local hotel. When they cross-checked with hotel staff, they revealed that they had a guest matching the description, who registered himself as "Ryuichi
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Due to the similarity in the three murders, the police departments in
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from a gun shop. For this crime, he was sent to a juvenile welfare facility in Sendai, where he was ostracized by other teenagers for his skin color. In response, he would beat up the offenders, and less than two months after his admission, he again found himself isolated from others. Despite this,
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September and confessed to 11 burglaries, for which he was sent to a juvenile detention facility. However, soon after his arrival, the facility experience an outbreak of
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soldier, A. Johnson, who had been stationed at a nearby military base, and a 16-year-old
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bathroom, filled the bathtub with water and pressed her head underwater. After killing Ando, he stole 20,000 yen and fled the house, leaving Ando's body to be discovered by her husband later in the day.
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