I also don’t think he was a skater or had anything to do with the groups at the skate park. Due to the age range given I don’t doubt he knew people and was friends with those who were skaters, but he wasn’t one of them and didn’t know those at Soshigaya park.
RSMB: I had some trouble understanding your meaning in parts. But taking your points in turn. If the Tokyo MPD is uncertain as to the killer's escape route, I'm wondering what basis there is for deeming this window a "wonderful" option.
I don't actually know what this sentence means.
Nor this one.
Based on what? Perhaps you could share some links or evidence for this?
That's not strictly true, there are traces of him both inside and outside the house. And it's not that his methods are inconceivable --they are certainly understandable-- it is that we don't have certainty given the problems with the window sill and Haruko's lack of a recollection surrounding the front door as she discovered the bodies. The fact that the police are still unsure (at least publicly) is not evidence of him being some criminal mastermind. Particularly, given that the TMPD have not discussed Rei's balcony as an ingress/egress point. How do we know he simply wasn't lucky?
Citation needed. Particularly the PIN number part. Where is that coming from?
This is word salad to me, I'm afraid.
How do you know this? Based on what? If it is only just your opinion, I think it's a good idea to add 'JMO'.
By nursery, I assume you mean the kids' bedroom?
He enters the house around 11pm and leaves, at the earliest, at 1:23AM. That is plenty of time to take one of Mikio's jackets. There is no evidence he rushed out of the house and didn't have enough time to grab a jacket.
This is definitely a possibility. But not a certainty.
As above.
A reasonable supposition, though again, we don't know that.
Evidence?
Evidence?
Or he could've said he cut himself while making dinner. It depends who and what he has around him.
To be clear, the wikipedia pages are so problematic, they're responsible for much of the confusion that clouds this case. So many contradictory ideas that are posited as fact. And that's ignoring the inherent problem with hitting the translate button on the Japanese or Chinese wiki pages.
RSBM: We don't know that there wasn't. Perhaps they were faint and not easily visible in the photos we have.
As I've said many times, the grip tape is not substantiated. It's not on the TMPD materials, they have not discussed it.
The climb from the car roof to the balcony was not challenging. If he's able to get up to the bathroom window, he's able to get to Rei's balcony. 100%.
Yes, there are plenty of climbing opportunities in the Mojave. It's a huge area.
It has not been ruled out at all. In fact, they still consider this officially a ROBBERY homicide. However, except for Mikio's sweater, Yasuko's pads, and some of the money, there is nothing known to be missing from the house.
Within the house, there was only one assailant. Only one man killed the Miyazawas. If anyone else was complicit, they were outside / far away the whole time. Is it possible, for sure? There's also no evidence for it. I don't really have much of an opinion on it. I guess if more information were to emerge, we could opine.
This is entirely possible, yes.
We don't know at what point he got on top of the car, if he did that, versus walked in the mud. I guess it's also possible there were faint traces of mud on top of the car / hood.
Yes, it's definitely possible. I just find it less likely given the absence of those things / the difficulty involved.
From discussions with LE, people like Chief Tsuchita and so on were called back from their holidays pretty soon. It's entirely possible the first man into the house wasn't as senior as he normally would be. But I think it's reasonable to conclude that they immediately would've realised just how major this crime was.
I actually don't know if they were ironed. I wrote those articles years before seriously investigating this case. From memory, the TMPD do theorise that the killer could've been a "mommy's boy" given the food in his stomach. I think thi theory touched on the handkerchief being ironed too.
House, one entrance - the front door. Neighbors, police - how will they enter the house? Through the doors, they will not climb through the balcony or window. There are no other exits in the house, except for the bathroom window, through which you can safely escape if someone unexpectedly enters, while he enters, while he goes up to the second floor - there is more than enough time to escape through the bathroom window. Therefore, this is a “wonderful” escape option.
From the place where he was, above the front door, through the window you can see everything in front of the house. If, for example, you hear the sound of a police car, you can look out and see it.
He left bank cards, passports, and passbooks by the sofa. Also mobiles on it. This is an assumption that he was looking for passwords (PIN) codes for them. Perhaps it was possible to somehow check the balance from mobile phones, and he tried dates of birth and other standard combinations, and looked for records and clues in the boxes.
Are the existing facts not enough? An unknown person entered the house, then left it, and did it in such a way that no one can understand how he did it. This suggests that he is a master at this, a pro. No one could do this the first time, there would be traces left. Training, practice - this is the ideal result.
Yes, but is there a difference? They not only slept there, but also played there, there were toys. Whatever you call it, the essence is the same.
I meant about his jacket, he penetrates, say, through the balcony, attacks Rei. Then what prevents him from taking off his jacket and leaving it there? And after all, put back on a clean one and leave in it. He didn’t do that, he didn’t have time to do it or didn’t think that he would stain it, maybe murders weren’t part of his plans at all.
Walking past corpses, pools of blood, more than once, as if this is in the order of things. Morally and psychologically, it didn’t bother him. Otherwise, he would have covered them with something, at the very least, or dragged the bodies far away.
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Apologies but how do the existing facts make you think it was a robbery?
). It also creates a tremendous amount of cleanup for staff. and after we've had to go through 15 to 20 pages to find and clean up responses, that really makes us very, very cranky.
He left behind everything about him besides his name written on the bathroom mirror. This man was no pro. Not being able to agree on how he entered the house is irrelevant for this case to be solved - he got inside one way or another. If Japan had the laws to allow his DNA to be used in other ways this would have been over and done with a decade ago.
RSBM: Wrong.
Interesting... I'm curious about the 'mommy's boy' label! They say related to his food/diet? I don't understand the connection there and I'm so curious!
I sure hope there is some breakthrough with DNA at some point with this. The family deserves justice.
RSBM: Do we know if it's been made known publicly if any of the bodies were covered up at all? Or faces covered? I tried to search online but didn't find any information if any of the victims were or weren't covered up in some way post crime by the killer.
No none of them were covered per se. Mikio had a cabinet drawer thrown on top of him, and in the crime scene images distributed via the TMPD DVD Yasuko has a black sheet over her, but that was put there because the injuries to her face and head were incredibly gruesome.
Okay thanks, so the sheet on Yasuko sounds like done by authorities and not the killer. I always thought acts of violence to the face (not head but face particularly) were more personal from crimes especially with women - especially if done post mortem with intent. I still come back to her being the main target here for some reason. Not that she necessarily knew him, but perhaps if a brief encounter before somewhere that set him off, MOO.
