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RSBM: The sexual motive is where I was when first reading about this case. Having never spoken to the TMPD, I was left with assumption. However, sexual abusers of children (or abductors) almost always engage in opportunistic behaviour versus this all-out assault. On the face of it, him expecting to find Niina in her bedroom, only for Rei to be alone and to wake up, could've led him to having to silence the boy, at which point Mikio climbs the stairs, and he goes from there.Thank you!
@FacelessPodcast, when you say "manual" strangulation, do you mean "purely by hands"? I would think, a garrote, a string or a strong wire would be less energy-consuming.
Why would it matter? The intent. I am torn between whether the plan was:
- to slightly smother and abduct Rei
- to incapacitate Rei and abduct Niina (if he didn't know that she was upstairs that day)
- or, to kill everyone
I wouldn't make much of the increasing savageness of the murders so far. But in general, I can't quite fathom what his initial plan was. It did appear an overkill, tbh. The only situation that would make any sense, if anything makes the sense, would be some form of sexually inappropriate behavior with one of the kids (Rei?), then Niina informing the parents, then the parents getting connected to the perpetrator or his parents, who had a good future ahead of him (a good student? Planning to enter Tokyo University, perhaps?).
However, why doesn't he run away when Rei wakes up? Why does he not assault Niina after death? I can't discount any of this, as you know. But I find it unlikely that such a loser sexually obsessed with a little girl wouldn't have blipped on the radar SOMEWHERE. Yet nowhere. Can a garden variety pervert switch to stabbing people in the face on a dime? Yes, it's possible. But having never blipped anywhere before? The weight of 280,000+ cops looking into this family and not one of them uncovers a man watching her? And to be clear, the stories you'll find on google of a peeping tom problem at Niina's school are BS. I don't know, I can't refute it, like I say. But for the bodies to be untouched sexually? No semen at the scene anywhere? It's possible that was his initial driver but then after injury, he lost that appetite, I suppose.
Again, I have not seen this intercom buzz verified anywhere I trust.Then the rest makes some sense: the intercom buzzing at 8:30 or so,
by quarrelling voices, do you refer to Mikio's arguments with the skaters? If so, this is up for dispute with no definitive conclusion. The skaters I all spoke to say they never heard of this. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, of course. On the night of the murders, to be clear, there was no reported quarrel.the perpetrator coming to talk to the Miyazawas, the sounds of quarreling voices,
We assume that car parking too close could well be the killer. My gut tells me it is. But we simply don't know. There are some reports of a man "with a foreign accent" calling Mikio's car dealership in the weeks before the murder asking about his Citroen Xanthia, and, possibly, trying to get an address out of them.the Miyazawas refusing to recant, then the perp leaving and coming/driving back a tad later to silence the whole family.
Having been strangled myself in fights, I would dispute there is any kind of mercy in this. And when we are putting the pain of stabbing on one side of the scales versus the life choked out of you, I'm not sure if there is any firm conclusion other than horrific. En fin, the view of him killing Rei 'kindly' versus Niina brutally is one I understand but do not share.That could explain why Rei was killed in a reasonably merciless way, why the violence escalated and why Niina was killed in a "punishing" way.
In the broad sense, there is absolutely zero evidence the killer had any kind of connection to the family as things stand. Zero. So, if Niina was going to rat on some man and he needed to silence her before that happened? Technically possible. But right now that's pie in the sky. I also think that name would be out there somewhere, even in that scenario.
How would such a scenario exist nowhere? We might say that's because he found it and took it with him. But would Mikio be typing up a report at home without telling her school / the local police / his mother / his family next door? Would Yasuko not at least mention a 'problem' --ANY problem-- to her colleague, her friends? I just don't buy that something grave enough to kill them for could occur in a vacuum and that the collective efforts of these detectives wouldn't be able to uncover it. JMO.But this would be just one of potential motives. He could be looking for a "report" or "complaint" written by the parents, IMHO.