The Disturbed Teenager-Tsutomu Miyazaki

After wondering in the world of serial killers and writing about the famous ones I found my way to one fella who is again the victim of loneliness and took the devilish path to deal with it. He is often referred to as "The Human Dracula" well, I know it's kind of a cool name but the things he did are far away from being cool. One more name was given to him by the geeks on the Internet is, "The Girl Killer", which explains clearly how he entered the serial killer's hall of infamy. This Asian fella can be considered as a Japanese version of Jeffery Dahmer, if you switch teenage boys for very young girls. 

Tsutomu Miyazaki

Like Dahmer, Miyazaki had a thing for expressing his twisted adoration of dead bodies. This is my way of describing necrophilia without veering too much into the realm of X-rated content because seriously I just don't get the concept of it. But then I also don't get along soo well with computers but still, I am a computer engineer. Anyways, back to the topic, He also ate parts of his victims for dinner. So, yes he was a cannibal. 

So, how did this twisted boy transformed from being a cute little Japanese boy to a wretched killer of kids?

Let's have a brief look at his past. If you've read my other articles on serial killers, you can bet he didn't have the best start in life. His rotten luck started the moment he took his first breath, but if you want to be more precise, it started while he was still in the womb. He was born on August 21st, 1962, which makes him a Leo. I actually looked upon famous serial killers and their star signs, and Gemini had the most, so if you are a Gemini, you are surrounded by some Hall of Famers from the serial killer infamy. Okay, sorry about the digression. 

Miyazaki's Hands

So, this guy was born with very deformed hands. Not only was it hard for him to use them, but they also looked like the hands of Nosferatu, long, and thin and gnarled and utterly creepy-looking. As you might imagine, this didn't go down well with the girls, and it was an endless stream of amusement for young boys who liked to bully him. It's said Miyazaki soon learned it was best to stay alone. That he did, while reading fantasy comics and watching slasher films. But his loneliness soon shifted him from comics and horror movies to watching Japanese pornography. It was later discovered he has amassed over 5,763 of these screamadelic videos, and as weird as they can be, it wasn't enough, and soon he was into anime and illegal films whose victims were children. He once said about normal Japanese pornography,

"They black out the most important part."

They weren't good enough for him, and aside from searching for and finding illegal videos, he filmed girls' underwear when he managed to get shots while they were playing tennis at a nearby court. The thing is, this was a kid with opportunities. His dad owned a newspaper, but Miyazaki wasn't interested in taking it over. He was a black sheep as well as a lonely cripple. He watched videos all the time rather than work, and its said the two sisters who lived with him, didn't like him at all. His dad never listened to him and his mother wasn't exactly doting. The one person he did have his grandfather, whom he loved so much he ate parts of his ashes after he died so he could stay with him forever. 

Things went downhill after the death of grandpa.

On one occasion Miyazaki was caught spying on one of his sisters as she showered. She expressed her concern, and rather than apologize, he beat her up. His mother admonished him for crime number one and crime number two, and so he beat her up, too.

You get the picture, this is one unhappy kid...

Miyazaki's Victims

As is the case with so many abused kids who attempt to gain power and control in their lives, he soon turned to murder. And so, on August 22, 1988, Miyazaki abducted a 4-year old from a park in Tokyo. He took her to a quiet spot under a bridge, and the two chatted for around 30 minutes. He then strangled her and proceeded to engage in sexual acts with her corpse. He stripped her and took her clothes to his home. Only a few days later, he had a change of mind and went back to the decomposing body. 

He chopped off her hands and feet, which were later discovered in his closet. He took the rest of the body,  burned it, and ground the bones into powder. He then sent some of this powder to the girl's parents, along with a few of her teeth and some photos of her clothes. He sent a postcard, too, which cryptically read,

                                             "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove."

Soon after he did the same with a seven-year-old girl who he had seen walking around by herself. Again, he engaged in necrophilia and he did that in the exact same spot where he had done it before. He kept the clothes again, presumably for later gratification. He took his third victim another 4-year-old, just a couple of months later. He drove her to the prefecture of Saitama to parking and took photos of her while she was alive. He dumped her body there and left her clothes close by in a green area. Again he sent the parents a postcard, but this time he used letters cut out from the magazines. The postcard cryptically read,

                                                 "Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death"

Room of Miyazaki

It's said that a passing driver saw the two together, and if he'd have done something he could have stopped the murder, but he drove on. Soon after the girl was strangled. It's also said that his car was got stuck in a gutter where he had stopped and then taken the dead girl from the car. After he had dumped her a bunch of guys helped him get his car out. Because of all the things that went wrong, he waited a while before he struck next, but about six months later he took a wondering five-year-old from a park. He took her to his car, killed her, then covered her in a sheet, and took her home with him. There he spent two days molesting the dead girl,  and he took photos and videos of this. The videos were later found in his room. When decomposition made it impossible for him to further exploit the body, he chopped her up. He dumped the torso and head in separate locations and kept the hands. He admitted to eating parts of these hands and drinking blood from her. But he got paranoid and soon dumped what's left of the hands. He got caught soon after this when he was attempting to insert a zoom lens of a camera inside a young girl's vagina, or according to another report, in between her legs. He was trying this in a park it's said. But the girl's dad turned up his Miyazaki, and he ran off, absolutely naked. The dad reported him of course and when the cops went to Miyazaki's house to confront him, They found his stash of terrible homemade videos as well as all other sexual videos. Police also later found some girl's hands. It's said during his trial he showed no remorse whatsoever and even once said that "he had done a good job". He said he was a Japanese hero, and during the trial, he thought he was on stage. He refused to apologize for what he had done, compelling some people to think he was insane. Court-appointed psychiatrists had two different opinions, one that he had a personality disorder but knew exactly what he was doing, and other that his mind was not working correctly during his reign of terror. In Japan, that's called having a "feeble mind", and if the judge agreed with that, the sentence would be more lenient. But the judge believed the first diagnosis, and he was sentenced to death. 

"Considering the cruelty of his crimes, their social impact, and the sentiments of the victims' kin, capital

Video collection of Miyazaki

punishment is unavailable," said the judge.

This was in spite of Miyazaki saying he had felt as though he was dreaming when he committed the murders and that he had been hallucinating about something he called the "Rat People". 
One psychiatrist said, 

"He may not have an incapacitating personality disorder such as paranoia or schizophrenia, but I think he may be borderline."

His rich father didn't offer any money to help his son's defense, as he said it would have been an insult to the victims' families. In fact, in true Japanese style, the father took his own life a few years later after his huge loss of honor. It's said after his arrest, Miyazaki wore a letter to his dad, blaming him for everything. To his mum, he simply wrote, 

"Mother, I've caused you much heartache. Don't forget to change the oil in my car, or it will get so you can't drive it."

The day he was Executed

Before he was executed he told more of his story, saying how being hated or just ignored by his parents and his sisters made his life miserable. It turned out he hurt animals, as many serial killers do before they turn their attention to human flesh. He strangled his pet dog to death and killed two cats, one of which he watched boil to death. After some retrials to the man's sanity, his sentence was upheld, and Miyazaki was hanged on June 17, 2008. 

So what are your thoughts, was that the right decision by the court?

Could a man that damaged have been rehabilitated?

What do you think should happen to criminals who commit such vile crimes?

Let me know!!

Also, be sure to check out my other article on:-

Jack the Ripper

Ted Bundy

Jeffery Dahmer

Ed Gein

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