Yukio Yamaji
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Yukio Yamaji (山地 悠紀夫 Yamaji Yukio, August 21, 1983 – July 28, 2009) was a Japanese triple killer. He murdered his own mother in 2000, and then murdered a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister in 2005.
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[edit] Biography
Yamaji was born into a poor family and his father died of cirrhosis in January 1995. After he graduated from junior high school, he did not enter high school and began working at the newspaper store.
[edit] Matricide
He killed his 50-year-old mother with a metal baseball bat in Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi Prefecture on July 29, 2000 at the age of 16. He called the police and was arrested on July 31. One of his motives was his mother's silent telephone to the woman who he fell in love with. Another motive was his mother's debt. He was paroled in October 2003 and was released officially in March 2004. However, his work after the release was illegal.
[edit] Double homicide
On November 17, 2005, Yamaji raped a 27-year-old woman and her 19-year-old sister and murdered them with a knife, in Naniwa, Osaka. He then set fire to their room and escaped. The two victims had never met Yamaji. He was arrested on December 5, 2005. He said to the Osaka police, "I could not forget the feeling when I killed my mother, and wanted to see human blood."[1]
[edit] Sentence
On December 13, 2006, the Osaka District Court sentenced him to death. His defense made an appeal but he retracted it on May 31, 2007. On July 28, 2009 in Osaka, he was hanged alongside Japanese serial killer Hiroshi Maeue.[2] At the age of 25, he is the youngest inmate executed by Japan at least since 1989.
[edit] See also
- Matricide
- (Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the first incident case
- (Japanese) Japanese Wikipedia entry on the second incident case
[edit] References
- ^ Man to hang for sisters' murders Japan Times, December 14, 2006
- ^ "Japan executes three for multiple murders". Agence France-Presse. The Times of India. July 28, 2009. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4828666.cms. Retrieved September 3, 2010.
- Man admits to slaying Osaka sisters Japan Times December 20, 2005
- Man pleads guilty to murdering 2 sisters in Osaka Kyodo News May 1, 2006
- Jobless man sentenced to death for murdering Osaka sisters Mainichi Shimbun December 13, 2006
- Man to hang for sisters' murders Japan Times December 14, 2006
- Double-killer lets death sentence stand Japan Times June 2, 2007
[edit] External links
- (Japanese) 山地悠紀夫事件
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