At 9:35 a.m. on January 10, 1984, ** in a house in Toyohira District, Sapporo City, Hokkaido, Japan, suddenly sounded, and the nearest 9-year-old boy picked it up**.
Picture丨The disappearance of a 9-year-old boy in Japan, Hidetoku Castlemaru.
Subsequently, the little boy listened carefully to the speech of the other end, and replied very seriously after half a minute: "Okay, okay, I know!" The little boy hung up and got up to look for his coat.
At this time, the mother who was cleaning up the table in the kitchen suddenly felt very strange, she hurriedly came out and asked the little boy who called **, the little boy sighed and said: "Watanabe's mother said that she borrowed my things before, and now let me go over and get them back." ”
It was clear that the little boy did not want to leave the warm room, and at this time there was a biting cold wind outside, and some snowflakes were faintly falling, but the little boy was obviously sensible, because he had already picked up his coat and was ready to go and get something.
The mother breathed a sigh of relief, she turned back to the kitchen and told the little boy: "Go and come back quickly, put on your coat, don't catch a cold!" The boy put on his coat and promised his mother that he would come back when he had finished picking up his things, and then pushed open the door and walked out.
The moment the little boy pushed open the door, the biting cold wind outside poured into the house, and the mother, who was busy in the kitchen, couldn't help but shiver, and at the same time the mother suddenly realized something terrifying: she didn't know the person named Watanabe!
Later, the mother thought about it carefully, and after confirming that her family had never been in contact with the Watanabe family, she hurriedly shouted to her 13-year-old eldest son, telling him to chase his younger brother back.
The eldest son is also very sensible, after listening to his mother's words, he hurriedly came from the bedroom, grabbed his coat and ran out, after watching the eldest son go out, his mother estimated the time again, and the younger son walked for a minute, and her hanging heart finally let go.
However, ten minutes later, the eldest son came back alone, and the younger son went to **? Hello everyone, I am a student of history, today we will talk about this mysterious disappearance of a 9-year-old boy in Japan - the disappeared Jomaru-kun:
The little boy's name is Hidetoku Jomaru, born in Sapporo City in a very wealthy family of five, his father is named Takashi Jomaru, the owner of a company, and his mother is named Machiko Jomaru, who is a full-time housewife, and he also has a 12-year-old sister and a 13-year-old brother.
Map丨Geographical location map of Sapporo City.
Because his father's company has developed very well, their family is very famous in the local area, and the family of five also lives a happy life, especially Jomaru Hidetoku, because he is the youngest, the four relatives in the family take great care of him.
Therefore, Hidetoku Jomaru, who was in the fourth grade of elementary school at the time, although he was like a little adult and very polite, but because he had never encountered any setbacks and ups and downs, he was relatively more innocent than children of the same age, and he didn't know the sinister nature of this society.
Next, let's go back to the day at the beginning of the article to tell the story of Hidetoku Jomaru, which was Tuesday, January 10, 1984, because it was winter vacation, so Hidetoku Jomaru and his brother and sister were at home.
When Jomaru Hidetoku left the house, his elder brother Jomaru Hideaki quickly chased him out, so why didn't his brother catch up with his younger brother? It turned out that my brother was highly myopic and forgot to put on his glasses because he was in a hurry to leave home.
Therefore, when the elder brother pushed the door open, he could only vaguely see that the younger brother walked to the vicinity of an apartment called Erlezhuang on the right-hand side.
The elder brother wanted to go home to get his glasses, but he was worried that the younger brother would not be able to catch up if he went away, and when the elder brother was standing at the door of the house and hesitated, the younger brother had already walked to the intersection in front of the Erlezhuang apartment, and then the younger brother turned left and completely disappeared from the elder brother's field of vision.
At this time, the elder brother could not take care of his glasses, and hurriedly chased after him, but when the elder brother walked to the intersection and turned left, he did not see the younger brother on the street, which made the elder brother anxious.
However, the 13-year-old brother is very smart, he knows that although his eyesight is not good, if his brother keeps moving forward, then he should still be on this road, he must be able to see, but the younger brother is now gone, which means that the younger brother has turned again.
So, my brother searched nearby, and because of his poor eyesight, it took my brother more than 10 minutes to find a house nearby, and the word Watanabe House was written on the door number on the first floor of this house.
The elder brother squinted his eyes and breathed a sigh of relief after repeatedly confirming the house number, it seems that the younger brother should have come here, but at this time the elder brother did not know if the younger brother had left, so he did not knock on the door, but went straight back home.
Picture丨Schematic diagram of the walking direction of Hidetoku Jomaru after going out.
After the anxious mother saw the eldest son come back alone, she hurriedly asked the eldest son, the younger son went to **, and the eldest son told his mother about his experience just now, and the mother was very uneasy after hearing it, and she hurriedly took the eldest son out to look for it again.
This time, the eldest son quickly brought his mother to Watanabe's house, but I don't know if it was out of politeness or because the mother was not good at dealing with strangers, so the mother did not knock on the door immediately, but waited at the door with the eldest son.
In this way, the time came to 10:10 in the morning, and at this time, the mother had been waiting with her eldest son at the door of Watanabe's house for almost 20 minutes, and when she saw that the younger son had not come out, the mother finally came forward and knocked on the door of Watanabe's house.
Soon, a girl who looked like a high school student opened the door, and before the girl could ask, her mother smiled kindly and said, "We are here to take Xiudeok home."
After listening to her mother's words, the girl said suspiciously, "Who is Xiudeok?" I'm at home! The girl's words made the mother's head instantly roar, it turned out that the youngest son had never been here at all, so where did the youngest son go?
After confirming with the girl that the other party had never called her family, the mother took her eldest son to look for a long time in the nearby building, but they never found a house marked with Watanabe's house, and the neighbors around also said that there was only one Watanabe family nearby.
This can make the mother completely panicked, she hurriedly returned home to her husband **, it was 12 o'clock at noon, the husband knew the situation of the youngest son, immediately returned home, after understanding the cause and effect, the husband calmly analyzed.
The husband thinks that the youngest son is likely to be kidnapped, after all, his family is very wealthy, and it is normal to be targeted by bad guys, the purpose of the kidnapper must be to ask for money, in order to prevent the kidnapper from tearing up the ticket, the husband decided not to call the police for the time being, but to wait for the kidnapper's ** at home.
But after waiting for several days, he didn't wait for the kidnapper's **, at this time the husband finally couldn't sit still, so he called the police**, this time was January 14, and it had been 4 days since the disappearance of his youngest son Jomaru Hidetoku.
* After receiving the case, he immediately launched a detailed search of the surrounding area, and carried out an investigation and visit to the surrounding neighbors, and soon it was said that on the morning of the disappearance of Jomaru Hidetoku, a little boy had been seen walking up a staircase.
Picture丨Schematic diagram of Kudo Kasuko's house.
* When I arrived at the scene, I found that the staircase led to the second floor of a family headed by Kajuko Kudo, where she lived with her two-year-old daughter.
*After explaining her intentions, Kajuko Kudo said that at around 10 a.m. on January 10, she was basking in the sun at the door when a young boy did walk up the stairs of her house and asked her how to get to Watanabe's house.
Kajuko Kudo told the boy the location of Watanabe's house, and then the boy politely said thank you, then turned around and walked down the stairs in the direction of Watanabe's house.
With Kudo Kajuko's testimony, ** immediately went to Watanabe's house to investigate, and at the same time said that he wanted to search Watanabe's house, and the adults of Watanabe's family said to ** that they went out before 8 o'clock in the morning on the day of the incident, and only their daughter, who was in her third year of high school, was studying.
They didn't know the Jomaru family, and they never called the Jomaru family, but they still cooperated**Entering the house to search,**After a careful search, they didn't find any trace of Jomaru Hidetoku.
At the same time, ** also checked the dialing history of the Watanabe family's landline, and the results showed that this ** did not dial any ** between 9 am and 10 am on January 10, and it was also found that the Watanabe family did not have a motive to kidnap Hidetoku Jomaru.
And what about Shomaru Hidetoku? At this time** thought of Kudo Kajuko again, according to the investigation at the time, Kudo Kajuko was the last person to contact Castle Maru Hidetoku, so is it possible that Kudo Kajuko **?
Subsequently, ** launched a secret investigation into Kasuko Kudo, and found that 29-year-old Kasuko Kudo was a single mother who worked as a barmaid in a nightclub at the time, and she divorced her husband shortly after she got married at the age of 26, and she lived here alone with her daughter after the divorce.
In order to find out whether Kajuko Kudo kidnapped Hidetoku Jomaru, ** came to Kasuko Kudo's house again and conducted a detailed search of the room, but found nothing.
Photo丨Sapporo City**.
* At the same time, I also checked the landline of Kudo Kashouko's house, and the results showed that her landline was not dialed out during the period before and after the disappearance of Jomaru Hidetoku, so far**The suspicion of Kudo Kasuko has been temporarily ruled out.
Subsequently, ** mobilized hundreds of police forces and gathered a large number of volunteers to carry out a carpet search in the local area, but until January 17, no trace of Jomaru Hidetoku was found, and in the end, ** could only announce the cessation of the search at 11 p.m. on January 17.
At this point, the case of Shomaru Hidetoku's disappearance was temporarily shelved, and at this time, the Castle Maru family fell into deep grief, especially Jomaru Hidetoku's mother blamed herself very much, she felt that if she could have been more cautious at that time, maybe this kind of thing would not have happened.
However, time can't be repeated, there is no regret medicine in the world, it's too late to say anything, and after that, although they still stayed in front of ** 24 hours a day, waiting for the kidnapper who didn't know whether it existed to fight**, but there was never a kidnapper called**.
And subject to the technical conditions at the time, **I never found out who called Jomaru Hidetoku on January 10th**.
On January 26, 1984, 16 days after Hidetoku Jomaru's disappearance, a middle-aged woman suddenly rushed into the local police station at noon to report the case.
She said that she saw Kudo Kajuko carry a large box to the car, and the large box emitted a strong stench, ** After hearing the news, she hurriedly rushed to Kudo Kashouko's house to check the situation.
As a result, when Kudo Kajuko saw ** coming, she didn't panic at all, she flatly denied that she had moved such a big box, and at the same time she also said that not only did she not have a car, but she also couldn't drive, so it was impossible to transport boxes to the car.
*After investigation, it was found that this was indeed the case, but **, who did not give up**, re-searched Kudo Kajuko's house and did a luminol test (to detect whether there were blood stains).
The results showed that there was no bloodstain reaction at Kudo Kashouko's house, which means that there was still no evidence that Kudo Kashouko was the one, and he had no choice but to leave again.
Figure丨Schematic diagram of laboratory test.
*After leaving, Kajuko Kudo moved that night and left there, and then** checked all the neighbors around, but still did not find any suspicious people, and the case of Hidetoku Jomaru slowly became an unsolved case.
However, a fire four years later pushed Kudo Kajuko to the forefront, and it was on the night of December 30, 1987, less than half a month before Hidetoku Jomaru disappeared.
On this night, a fire broke out in Kudo Kasuko's new home, when Kudo Kasuko and her daughter lived on the first floor, and her new husband Yoshio Wakasu lived on the second floor, and the fire started from the second floor.
In the end, Kasuko Kudo escaped with her daughter, while her husband Mio Wakasu died in the fire, and the most strange thing in this fire was Kasuko Kudo's actions.
When the fire broke out, Kudo Kajuko dressed everything very calmly before leading her daughter to escape from the house, and after she escaped, she did not go to the house next to her to call for help, but to the house 300 meters away from her house to call **.
Moreover, when Kudo Kasuko ran out, she only brought one thing, that is, a huge insurance policy, which was an accident insurance of up to 200 million yen invested by her husband Wakasu Mio, and the beneficiary was Kudo Kasuko.
There was a fire in the house, and I didn't want to save people and run for my life, but I had to carry this insurance policy, which made people suspect that Kajuko Kudo was the one who set the fire.
*A later investigation revealed that Kasuko Kudo seemed to have been planning this incident from the beginning of her marriage to her new husband, who married her new husband Yoshio Wakasu in May 1986.
But at the beginning of this marriage, it was full of doubts, because this Wakasu Mio is a farmer, how could Kajuko Kudo marry a farmer? Sure enough, not long after the two got married, they separated.
Since then, her husband Yoshio Wakasu has moved to the second floor to live alone, while Kajuko Kudo and her daughter have lived on the first floor until the day of the fire.
The first to question this strange fire was Tanaka, the brother-in-law of Yoshio Wakasu, who remembered that Yoshio Wakasu once said to him after getting drunk: "Brother-in-law, that woman Kajuko is going to kill me sooner or later!" ”
When Tanaka heard this sentence at the time, he only thought it was a drunken thing that the two of them had drunk too much after they quarreled, but after the fire, he was keenly aware that maybe Mio Wakasu had already noticed something, so Tanaka hurriedly told the matter **.
But after investigation, no evidence was found that the fire was man-made, let alone that Kudo Kajuko was the one who set the fire, and in the end the fire could only be characterized as an accident, and Kudo Kasuko then left there with her daughter.
Schematic diagram of the burned house.
However, the insurance company believed that the fire was a fraud and therefore did not pay Kudo Kasuko 200 million yen in compensation, so no matter what the real cause behind the fire was, Kudo Kasuko did not profit from it.
Although Tanaka has great doubts about the death of Wakasuki Mio, but ** is given, what can he do, but when the time came to June 14, 1988, that is, half a year after the fire, Tanaka came to the former home of Wakasuo Mio again.
Faced with this house that was charred and blackened by the fire, Tanaka was very emotional, and he planned to clean up this house, maybe this can be regarded as a kind of commemoration for Wakasu Mio!
However, when Tanaka walked into the warehouse that had not been completely burned, he found a black plastic bag on a shelf, and when Tanaka opened the plastic bag, he saw that it was full of tiny bones.
Although he didn't know what kind of bone it was, Tanaka keenly felt that it should not be an animal bone, otherwise there was no need to put it in a plastic bag, and then Tanaka thought of the sensational disappearance of Hidetoku Jomaru.
Tanaka knew that Kudo Kajuko had been investigated, but Hidetoku Castle never saw anyone alive or dead, so could these bones be related to Hidetoku Castle Maru?
Determined to avenge Wakaju Mio, he sent the bag of bones to the local police station with the attitude of giving it a try, and at the same time expressed his guess, the police station attached great importance to it and quickly arranged for a forensic doctor to identify the bag of bones.
After careful identification, the forensic doctor determined that the bag of bones belonged to a boy about 10 years old, which means that it was likely to be the bones of Hidetoku Jomaru, but the conditions at that time were limited, and DNA identification technology was not yet available.
Therefore, the forensic doctor is not sure that these bones are Shomaru Hidetoku, but after all, these are human bones, but they appeared in the warehouse of Kudo Kashouko's house, so ** On the afternoon of the same day, that is, June 14, 1988, Kudo Kajuko was arrested.
After being arrested, Kudo Kajuko insisted that she had never seen the black plastic bag in her home, and that since the fire in her home six months ago, the house had been abandoned and anyone could go in and throw the bag of bones.
In the face of Kudo Kashouko's statement, ** was also very helpless, and finally had to release Kudo Kasuko 3 days later on June 17, 1988.
However, ** did not discard the bag of bones at will, but preserved it, hoping that one day the technology will be mature, and further identification will be done.
In this way, time passed little by little, and slowly came to November 1998, when the DNA identification technology had matured, and the forensic doctor confirmed that the bag of bones was Hidetoku Jomaru's.
Figure丨Schematic diagram of DNA identification.
With this appraisal result, ** arrested Kajuko Kudo on November 15, 1998, but at this time there was only more than one month before the 15-year statute of limitations for homicide in Japan, and the crimes of abandonment of corpses and destruction of corpses had long exceeded the statute of limitations.
Therefore, ** can only prosecute Kajuko Kudo for homicide, but at this time Kajuko Kudo is very uncooperative, no matter what ** asks, she only answers: "I don't know!" ”
This sentence made ** very annoyed, and at the same time, she was even more suspicious that Kudo Kajuko was**, because normally speaking, if Kudo Kashouko was not**, she could completely defend herself.
But ** During the interrogation of Kashouko Kudo, a total of more than 500 questions were asked to her, and Kashouko Kudo did not make the slightest excuse, and always only said that she didn't know.
Obviously, Kajuko Kudo is waiting for the expiration of the 15-year statute of limitations, which means that as long as she carries it for more than 1 month, ** can't come up with evidence to prosecute her, then she will be completely safe.
However, how could ** let her succeed so easily, although there was still zero confession at the time, and there was not enough evidence, but on December 7, 1998, the prosecution still filed an indictment against Kudo Kajuko based on the evidence provided by **.
The prosecution believes that Kudo Kashouko should have originally controlled Hidetoku Jomaru for the purpose of kidnapping, but then it is likely that he killed Hidetoku Jomaru out of fear, so he asked the court to sentence Kashouko Kudo to life imprisonment.
At the same time, according to the evidence handed over by **, the prosecution raised three questions about Kudo Kajuko in court: First, Kudo Kajuko was the last person to see Jomaru Hidetoku, and no one ever saw the boy again.
The second is that, normally, only the Jomaru family and the prisoner know that Jomaru Hidetoku is going to Watanabe's house, and in addition to the Jomaru family, only Kudo Kajuko knows about this situation.
The third is that Kudo Kajuko has had a lot of weird behaviors, such as she only has one daughter, but she bought a desk for boys, and some people say that Kudo Kajuko often folded her hands and muttered something later, which could be caused by her inner fear after killing someone.
In addition, the prosecution did not come up with too decent evidence, but the above three points are not direct evidence, and the bag of bones cannot prove that Kudo Kajuko hid it.
Although, at this time, everyone thought that Kudo Kajuko was **, but there was no direct evidence to convict her, and then the prosecution asked Kudo Kasuko a total of more than 400 questions in court.
But Kajuko Kudo always said, "I can't answer!" Kudo Kashouko's behavior made people very indignant, but there was nothing to be done.
On 30 May 2001, the court ruled in the first instance that the available evidence showed that Kajuko Kudo was very suspicious, but that there was insufficient evidence to prove her guilt, and acquitted her.
Figure丨Schematic diagram of Kajuko Kudo.
The prosecution was very dissatisfied with this result and immediately filed a protest, but when the time came to March 19, 2002, the court of second instance still acquitted Kudo Kajuko on the grounds of first instance, and Kudo Kajuko was subsequently acquitted.
After Kudo Kajuko was released, almost everyone regretted it, saying that the case ended with the victory of the criminals, but no one expected that Kudo Kajuko's victory was more than that.
On 2 May 2002, more than one month after her release, Kudo filed an appeal seeking compensation for the 928 days she had been in detention and the related legal fees incurred during that period.
On November 18, 2002, the court awarded Kajuko Kudo 9.28 million yen and attorney's fees of 2.5 million yen, for a total of 11.78 million yen.
This is not the most annoying, and later Kudo Kashouko said proudly in an interview with **: "If I speak, then all cases will be resolved." ”
Obviously, the "all cases" in Kudo Kashouko's mouth include at least the arson case and the kidnapping of Jomaru Hidetoku**, and Kudo Kashouko not only escaped the punishment of the law with her silence, but also shamelessly showed off in front of the public, which is really hateful and pathetic.
Later, many people blamed Jomaru Hidetoku's mother, because if his mother had reacted faster at that time, or if she had gone out to chase Jomaru Hidetoku herself, she should have been able to avoid the death of her youngest son.
But we have to say that it is really not easy to be a parent, and my mother didn't expect that things could be so serious, maybe she was just stunned at the time, and she didn't want such a thing to happen, and she lived in guilt and self-blame all her life because of this incident.
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