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January 4, 2024 20 mins

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A young boy in Japan, looking to be the next Zodiac killer, committed a series of horrendous and gruesome murders, sending a number of letters to the media and taunting them.  Sound familiar? This is the Kobe Child Murders.

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https://youtu.be/FNxcFbkduNE
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-book-of-the-dead/id1639787484?i=100057908931
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe_child_murders
https://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sakakibara-seito.htm
https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/921475
https://japantoday.com/category/crime/controversial-autobiography-of-1997-kobe-child-killer-released
https://morbidology.com/the-kobe-child-killer/
https://medium.com/@hellokevinvogel/seito-sakakibara-the-kobe-school-killer-japan-44762215d05d
https://imgur.com/gallery/btuE6
https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Seito_Sakakibara
https://www.thetruecrimedatabase.com/case_file/shinichiro-azuma/
https://gizmodo.com/japans-notorious-boy-a-killer-now-has-a-creepy-vanity-1730106666
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14747612
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/29/world/14-year-old-arrested-in-japan-for-the-brutal-slaying-of-a-child.html 

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