In the autumn of last year, there were four cases of homicide
committed in four cities using the same handgun.
This spring, a 19-year old man was arrested.
He became known as “the handgun serial killer".
He was born in June 1949, the fourth son of an apple farmer
in the rural district of Yobito in the outskirts of the Hokkaido city of Abashiri.
When he was three, he and his family moved to central Abashiri.
Aside from the mother and father, five children were registered at the city hall:
an eldest daughter, an eldest son, a second daughter, a third daughter,
a second son, a third son, and a fourth son, as well as the daughter of the eldest son.
When he was five, he and his brothers moved to Itayanagi City
of Aomori Prefecture to join his mother, father, and sisters,
who had moved there beforehand.
In his second year of elementary school, he ran away from home to return to Hokkaido,
but he was caught in Hakodate.
Again, in the ninth grade, he ran away again.
This time he went to Hirosaki, crossed Yamagata Prefecture,
and made it as far as Fukushima Prefecture before he was discovered and returned home.
The year he graduated from junior high school, he was taken into custody
after being caught stealing from a clothing store. This, however, did not prevent him
from going to Tokyo to look for a job with the other graduates that year.
He found work at a fruit parlor in Shibuya and lived in the company dormitory.
He quit the job roughly six months later and stowed away in a ship in Yokohama port.
After his illicit voyage, his brother convinced him to work
in an auto repair shop in suburban Utsunomiya.
He was caught stealing at a local butcher, but the case was not pursued.
One month later he moved from Utsunomiya to Osaka.
A man he met at an inn by the train station got him a job at a rice store in Moriguchi City,
where he was provided room and board.
Six months later, he worked as a porter at a hotel near Haneda Airport
and lived at a dorm in Kawasaki City.
Three months later, he entered the US military base in Yokosuka...
and stole money and other objects.
He was put on probation.
His probation officer managed to secure him employment...
at a laundry service in Kawasaki City, which provided him with room and board.
One month later he quit that job and his custody was transferred to his elder brother,
allowing him to work at a dairy in Tokyo.
While rooming at the dairy, he attended a high school in Nakano part-time.
Five months later, he left the dairy and quit high school.
He spent roughly six months in the Ikebukuro and Sugamo areas of Tokyo.
In January 1968, he went to Atami by way of Odawara.
There, a truck driver agreed to give him a ride.
He went to Kobe after passing through Nagoya and Osaka.
For a second time, he attempted to stow away in a ship.
This time he was caught at sea.
His wrists were slashed.
He arrived in Yokohama with his hands and legs bound.
In late February, his third oldest brother found him a job at a dairy...
in the Suginami Ward of Tokyo.
The company provided room and board, and he resumed part-time high school study.
In May, he once again quit work and school,
this time returning home to Itayanagi City Itayanagi City in Aomori Prefecture.
In September, he applied to the Self-defense Forces in Nagano Prefecture,
but was rejected for service.
His stealing of a pistol occurred on the eighth of October
at the US naval base in Yokosuka.
The handgun was a West German manufactured .22 caliber Rohm RG-10, nicknamed the “Rosco".
He also obtained 50 rounds of live ammunition.
The first incident occurred on October 11th at Tokyo Prince Hotel,
the second on October 14th at Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto,
the third on October 26th on a street in a suburb of Hakodate City in Hokkaido,
and the fourth on November 5th on a street in Nagoya.
A month later, he buried the pistol and ammunition at a Yokohama temple,
then secured employment as a porter in Shinjuku and found an apartment Nakano.
In April 1969, he retrieved the pistol.
In the autumn of last year, there were four cases of homicide...
committed in four cities using the same handgun.
This spring, a 19-year old man was arrested.
He became known as “the handgun serial killer".
Subtitle Translation: Scannon and Kozue Subtitle Timing: Evildee