Miyazaki Tsutomu

Somewhat of an 'off the beaten path' post. After the case of Miyazaki being mentioned in an article on Contemporary Japanese art, i investigated this Japanese serial killer, also known as The Otaku Murderer, The Little Girl Murderer, The Cannibal Nerd, and Dracula.
Between 1988 and 1989, Miyazaki mutilated and killed four girls, aged between four and seven, and sexually molested their corpses. He drank the blood of one victim and ate her hands - an interesting fact, considering Miyazaki's premature birth left him with deformed hands, which were permanently gnarled and fused directly to the wrists. During the day, Miyazaki was a mild-mannered employee. Outside of work he randomly selected children to kill. He terrorized the families of his victims, sending them letters recalling in graphic detail what he had done to their children. To the family of victim Erika Nanba, Miyazaki sent a morbid postcard assembled using words cut out of magazines: "Erika. Cold. Cough. Throat. Rest. Death." He allowed the corpse of his first victim, Mari Konno, to decompose in the hills near his home, then chopped off the hands and feet, which he kept in his closet. They were recovered upon his arrest. He charred her remaining bones in his furnace, ground them into powder, and sent them to her family in a box, along with several of her teeth, photos of her clothes, and a postcard reading: "Mari. Cremated. Bones. Investigate. Prove." Police found that the families of the victims had something else in common: all were bothered by silent nuisance phone calls. If they didn't pick up the phone, it would sometimes ring for 20 minutes.
On July 23, 1989, Miyazaki attempted to insert a zoom lens into the vagina of a grade school-aged girl in a park near her home and was attacked by the girl's father. Fleeing on foot, Miyazaki eventually returned to the park to retrieve his car, promptly being arrested by police the father had called. A search of his two-room bungalow turned up a collection of 5,763 videotapes, some containing anime and slasher films (later used as reasoning for his crimes). Interspersed among them was video footage and pictures of his victims. Miyazaki, who retained a perpetually calm and collected demeanor during his trial, appeared indifferent to his capture.
The media soon came to call him "The Otaku Murderer". His bizarre killings fueled a moral panic against otaku, accusing anime and horror films of making him a murderer. However these reports were disputed.Miyazaki's father refused to pay for his son's legal defense, and eventually committed suicide in 1994. The trial began on March 30, 1990. Often talking nonsensically, he blamed his atrocities on a "rat man" alter ego, a character that he often drew in cartoon form for the court. Believed to be insane, Miyazaki remained incarcerated throughout the 1990s while Saitama Prefecture put him through a battery of psychiatric evaluations. Teams of psychiatrists from Tokyo University diagnosed him as suffering from dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) or extreme schizophrenia. However, the Tokyo District Court judged him still aware of the gravity and consequences of his crimes and therefore accountable. He was sentenced to death on April 14, 1997. He described his serial murders as an "act of benevolence" and never apologized. Miyazaki was hanged on June 17, 2008.

Deceased:
今野真理 Konno Mari: Four years old
吉沢正美 Yoshizawa Masami: Seven years old
難波絵梨香 Nanba Erika: Four years old
野本綾子 Nomoto Ayako: Five years old