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Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-Teen and Teenage Killers Free FREE CHILDREN WHO KILL: PROFILES OF PRE-TEEN AND TEENAGE KILLERS PDF Carol Anne Davis | 396 pages | 30 Nov 2011 | ALLISON & BUSBY | 9780749006938 | English | London, United Kingdom Mary Bell - Wikipedia Miyazaki abducted and killed the girls, aged from four to seven, in his car before dismembering and sexually molesting their corpses. Miyazaki's crimes included not only kidnapping, murder, and necrophilia, but also vampirismthe preservation of body parts as trophies, and taunting the families of his victims. Miyazaki was diagnosed as having one or more personality disordersbut was determined to be sane and aware of his crimes and their consequences. Miyazaki was sentenced to death in and was executed by hanging in Miyazaki's extensive collection of anime and horror videotapes caused a moral panic against otaku in Japan. Tsutomu Miyazaki was born on 21 August in ItsukaichiTokyothe eldest son of a wealthy family. Miyazaki was born premature and suffered from a rare birth defect that caused his hand joints to be fused together, preventing him from being able to bend his wrists upwards. Due to his parents being busy, Miyazaki was mainly raised by his grandfather and an intellectually disabled Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers the family hired as a nanny. Miyazaki was ostracized when he attended Itsukaichi Elementary School due to his deformity, and consequently kept to himself. Miyazaki attended Meidai Nakano High School in Nakanoa prestigious high school associated with Meiji Universityand was a star student until his grades began to drop dramatically. Miyazaki was ranked 40 out of 56 in his class, and did not receive the customary admission to Meiji University for students of the school. Instead of studying English and becoming a teacher as he originally intended, Miyazaki attended a local junior college and studied to become a photography technician. In the mids, Miyazaki moved back into his parent's house in Istukaichi near his father's print shop, sharing a room with his elder sister. Although Miyazaki's family was highly influential in Itsukaichi, he expressed no desire to take over his father's job. After his arrest, Miyazaki would say that what he really craved was "being listened to about his problems" but believed that his parents, more worried about the material than the sentimental"would have not heard [him]; [he] would've been ignored". Miyazaki felt he only received support from his grandfather, to whom he was close, and was rejected by his two younger sisters. In MayMiyazaki's grandfather died, which served to deepen his depression and isolated him even further. A few weeks later, one of Miyazaki's sisters caught him watching her while she was taking a shower, and when she told him to leave, he attacked her. When Miyazakis' mother learned of the incident and demanded that he spend more time working, and less time with his videos, he attacked her as well. Between August and JuneMiyazaki mutilated and killed four girls between the ages of four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate a part of her hand. During the day, Miyazaki was, by all accounts, a mild-mannered individual. Outside of work, he randomly selected children to kill. He wrote to the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling the details of his murders. Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: all received silent nuisance phone calls. Miyazaki would not speak a word during these calls, instead simply breathing heavily. On 22 Augustone day after Miyazaki's 26th birthday, Mari Konno, a 4-year-old girl, vanished while playing at a friend's house. After failed attempts to find her, Konno's father contacted the police. Miyazaki had led Konno into his black Nissan Langley then drove westward of Tokyo and parked the car under a bridge in a wooded area. There, Miyazaki sat alongside Konno for half an hour before murdering her, then engaged in necrophilia with her corpse. Miyazaki dumped Konno's body in the hills near his home, departing with her clothes. Miyazaki allowed Konno's corpse to decompose for a while before later returning to remove her hands and feet, which Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers kept in his closet at home. Miyazaki burned Konno's remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teethphotos of her clothes, and a postcard which read: "Mari. On 3 OctoberMiyazaki abducted 7-year-old Masami Yoshizawa after spotting her while driving along a rural road. Miyazaki had offered Yoshizawa a ride, which she accepted, then drove her to the same place he had killed Konno. Miyazaki killed Yoshizawa then engaged in sexual acts with her corpse, and took her clothes with him when he departed. On Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers DecemberMiyazaki abducted 4-year-old Erika Namba as she was returning home from a friend's house. Miyazaki had forced Namba into his car then drove to a parking lot in Naguri, Saitamawhere he forced her to remove her clothes in the back seat and began to take pictures of her. Miyazaki killed Namba then tied her hands and feet behind her back, covered her with a bed sheetand placed her body in his car's trunk. Miyazaki disposed of Namba's clothes in a wooded area and left her body in the adjoining parking lot, where it was discovered three days later. On 20 December, Namba's family received a postcard sent by Miyazaki with a message assembled using words cut out of magazines: "Erika. On 6 JuneMiyazaki convinced 5-year-old Ayako Nomoto to allow him to take pictures of her. Miyazaki then led Nomoto into his car and murdered her, covered her corpse with a bed sheet and placed her in the trunk of his car. Miyazaki took Nomoto's corpse into his apartment and spent the next two days engaging in sexual acts with it, taking pictures of it in various positions, and filming it. Miyazaki kept her hands, drinking blood from and cannibalizing them. Fearing that the police Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers find Nomoto's body parts, Miyazaki returned to the cemetery and the hills two weeks later and carried the remains back to his apartment, where he hid them in his closet. Miyazaki was taking photographs of the younger daughter, who he had Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers to strip nude, when he was caught by their father, who attacked Miyazaki but was unable to restrain him. A search of Miyazaki's two-room bungalow produced 5, videotapesChildren Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers containing anime and slasher films Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers used as reasoning for his crimes. Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims. Miyazaki was also reported to be a fan of horror filmsof which he had a collection. Miyazaki, who retained a perpetually calm and collected demeanor during his trial, appeared indifferent to his capture. Miyazaki's arrest and publication of his crimes led to the media dubbing him "The Otaku Murderer", in reference to otaku culture. Various newspapers claimed that Miyazaki had retreated into a fantasy world of manga as a result of his neglected upbringing. The danger of a whole generation of youth who do not even experience the most primary two- or three-way relationship between themselves and their mother and father, and who cannot make the transition Children Who Kill: Profiles of Pre-teen and Teenage Killers a fantasy world of videos and manga to reality, is now extreme. These reports were disputed. Miyazaki's trial began on 30 March Often talking nonsensically, Miyazaki blamed his actions on "Rat Man", an alter ego who Miyazaki claimed forced him to kill; he spent time during the trial drawing "Rat Man" in cartoon form. The seven-year trial focused on Miyazaki's mental state at the time of the murders. Under Japanese law, people of unsound minds are not subject to punishment, and the feeble- minded are entitled to reduced sentences. Three teams of court-appointed expert psychiatrists came to differing conclusions about Miyazaki's ability to tell right from wrong. Two teams determined him to be feeble-minded—one team concluding that he was schizophrenicthe other that he had multiple personality disorder. A third team found that although Miyazaki had a personality disorder, he was still capable of taking responsibility for his actions. The Tokyo District Court judged him aware of the magnitude and consequences of his crimes and therefore accountable. He was sentenced to death on April 14, He described his serial murders as an "act of benevolence". From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ItsukaichiTokyoJapan. Tokyo Detention House Tokyo, Japan. Asian Recorder. Google Books: K. Thomas at Recorder Press. Retrieved 26 December Retrieved 9 May Yomiuri Shimbun. 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