Japanese serial killer who baited suicidal people using Twitter gets death penalty

Takahiro Shiraishi killed eight women aged 15 to 26 and one man, an acquaintance of one of the missing women. - AFP

TOKYO (The Straits Times/ANN): Takahiro Shiraishi, the man who used Twitter to lure suicidal women to his home, where he drugged, robbed, raped and killed them before dismembering their bodies, was on Tuesday (Dec 15) given the death penalty.

Police discovered nine human heads and 240 bones stored in cooler boxes in his tiny 13.5 sq m apartment on Halloween in 2017. His home in Zama city, 90 minutes from central Tokyo, was dubbed by Japanese media as the "house of horrors".