Cannibal Killer Issei Sagawa Is Walking Free And Plans To Eat Humans Again
Cannibal Killer Issei Sagawa Is Walking Free And Plans To Eat Humans Again In 1981, Japanese murderer Issei Sagawa, the “Kobe Cannibal,” killed his friend Renée Hartevelt and ate her remains, yet he's free to walk the streets to this day. "I specifically want to eat a Japanese woman this time. I think either sukiyaki or shabu shabu is the best way to go in order to really savor the natural flavor of the meat." On June 11, 1981, Issei Sagawa invited his friend Renée Hartevelt over to his Paris apartment. They had become close while studying at the Sorbonne and he said he wanted help translating poetry. But it was all a ruse — so that he could act out his cannibalistic desires. Soon after she arrived, he murdered Hartevelt before dismembering her body and eating her flesh. He even took photos every step of the way. But by 1986, he was a free man, able to check himself out of a Japanese psychiatric facility on a legal technicality, and he walks the streets of Tokyo to...