But what about the bones? (somewhat grisly)

[mbarker]

I suppose I should be thinking about something else, but . . .

See, there's a 33-year-old man in Tokyo who supposedly has admitted to police that about a month ago, he killed his 23-year-old neighbor, then cut her body into small pieces and flushed them down the toilet. Apparently he did this to avoid being captured on the security cameras dragging a body out.

There's a great deal of concern about the fact that shortly after she disappeared, he was interviewed on TV and seemed like such a nice man. I've actually had people comment to me that they can't understand why he looked so good -- to which I can only respond that I really don't think evil necessarily shows. There is no "red sign of the murderer" that we can all see, nor is there background music that gives it away.

I even think it's odd that the taxicab drivers act so surprised. He's apparently a temp worker, without a permanent job, but he's known to local taxicab drivers because he took a taxi every day to work. And for a 1,500 yen ride, he would hand them 2,000 yen and say keep the change. Apparently this kind of generosity just isn't right from a murderer.

Very weird, especially the way people are responding to the information that this guy was lying, even on TV.

But I have to admit, my own wonder is somewhat smaller. I understand the notion of flushing bits and pieces down the toilet. But a human body has some reasonably large bones in it. And that's my question -- what did he do with the bones?

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080527a3.html

Very odd.

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[mbarker.livejournal.com]

the lunchtime news was full of stuff about this guy -- maybe we're short on news this week? One of the arguments irritated me considerably though. Apparently someone dug into his background and found that his father moved the family six times while he was in school. The argument appears to be that this left him without friends, and so he became a murderer. When my wife confirmed that indeed that was what the news person had just said, I pointed out that I moved many times during school too, but that as far as I knew, that didn't automatically result in murder. And in fact, this guy is 33 years old -- he's been out of school for a while, let's let him be responsible for his own actions.

Twits. One sample, and they're jumping to all kinds of hasty generalizations. Moving children causes them to become murderers later in life? Nuts!