# 2 More Serial Killers Who Never Faced Justice

An episode of [Lazy Chill True Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1815534472), 17 Oct 2025, 27 min.

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## Transcript

[0:02] Between 1975 and 1989, seven females ranging from an 11 year
[0:07] old girl to a 50 year old woman, were slain within a 20 kilometer
[0:12] radius in Japan's Saga Prefecture.
[0:15] The perpetrator, never identified, became known as the
[0:19] Wednesday Strangler because six of the seven victims disappeared
[0:24] on a Wednesday. Investigators noted other common
[0:27] patterns across the acts. All the disappearances occurred
[0:31] in the evening or at night, and the five of the victims for whom
[0:35] the cause of death could be analyzed were confirmed to have
[0:39] died by strangulation. Further yet, most victims showed
[0:43] signs of indecent assault, suggesting A motive for the
[0:47] perp. These similarities convinced
[0:50] police that the incidents were connected and the work of a
[0:53] serial predator operating in the rural Saga region.
[0:57] The series of attacks began in the mid 1970s and unfolded
[1:01] sporadically over 14 years. The first known victim was
[1:06] Tamiko Yamasaki, a 12 year old girl who vanished from her home
[1:11] in Kitagatta on August 27th, 1975.
[1:17] Tamiko was home alone that evening.
[1:19] A friend had visited and left around 7:00 PM, after which the
[1:23] girl mysteriously disappeared. Her mother returned that night.
[1:27] The television was still on and Tomiko's shoes were by the door,
[1:32] but the girl was gone. She remained missing for nearly
[1:36] five years until June 27th, 1980, when her skeletal remains
[1:42] were discovered hidden in a septic tank by the swimming pool
[1:46] of a local elementary school. Only days before Tomiko's body
[1:51] was found, the police had made another gruesome discovery at
[1:54] the same school. On June 24th, 1980, the
[1:59] decomposed body of 19 year old Ritsuko Hayakutake was found in
[2:04] a septic tank at that same school.
[2:06] Ritsuko, a young local woman, had disappeared on April 12th,
[2:11] 1980 under similar circumstances after spending the night home
[2:16] alone. In the weeks after Ritsuko's
[2:19] disappearance, her family received a taunting letter
[2:22] written in an old fashioned Japanese script.
[2:26] One line read that their daughter quote isn't coming back
[2:30] and another read quote. I hope you suffer.
[2:35] Notably, these letters were never proven to be from anyone
[2:37] related to the case. They also got a series of phone
[2:41] calls from a young sounding man who warned them not to publicize
[2:45] Ritsuko's case or cooperate further with authorities.
[2:49] The discovery of Ritsuko's body and then Tomiko's in the exact
[2:53] same location 3 days later made it clear the two cases were
[2:58] linked. The next victim was Chizuko
[3:02] Ikagami, a 27 year old factory employee from Shiroishi.
[3:07] On October 7th, 1981, a Wednesday, Chizuko left her
[3:13] garment factory job and never returned home.
[3:17] About two weeks later, her body was found in a vacant lot in a
[3:21] nearby city. She had been strangled with an
[3:24] electrical power cord that was still wrapped around her neck.
[3:29] Just four months after Chizuko's slaying, an even younger victim
[3:33] was claimed. On February 17th, 1982, Kumi
[3:39] Nishiyama, an 11 year old elementary school student, was
[3:43] walking home when she was abducted.
[3:46] She had parted ways with her friends only minutes before the
[3:49] kidnapper struck. Kumi's body was found the next
[3:52] morning, stuffed inside a bag and left in a Grove of trees
[3:55] near her school. It was estimated she was slain
[3:59] within 10 minutes of being taken.
[4:02] Several witnesses later reported seeing a suspicious middle-aged
[4:05] man in a white car cruising around the area that day.
[4:10] This man had allegedly tried to lure a woman at a bus stop into
[4:13] his car. This woman refused and
[4:16] threatened to call police. He was also seen approaching
[4:19] groups of school children, with some children reporting that he
[4:22] was offering rides and others saying that he wanted to show
[4:26] them pictures. In fact, on that same afternoon,
[4:30] a man in a white car briefly kidnapped another young girl,
[4:33] releasing her only when she began crying loudly.
[4:37] Witnesses provided police with a partial license plate number and
[4:41] a description of the vehicle and driver.
[4:44] Unsurprisingly, the vehicle was noted to be a white sedan, very
[4:49] strongly suggesting the same man was responsible.
[4:53] Despite these leads, the man in the white car was never
[4:56] identified. After 1982, the perpetrator
[5:00] again went dormant for several years.
[5:04] Also, you may be wondering right now how the authorities still
[5:07] believe these cases are all related.
[5:10] But I'll be getting to that shortly and to tip my hand more
[5:14] than a little bit. I'm in the camp that this was
[5:16] definitely carried out by multiple unrelated perpetrators
[5:20] and you're about to see why. The case had grown cold when,
[5:26] five years later, the violence began anew.
[5:29] On July 8th, 1987, Sumiko Fujise, a 48 year old restaurant
[5:35] worker from Takeo, left work early to go out with colleagues.
[5:40] After an hour together, her friends invited Sumiko to
[5:44] continue hanging out, but she declined and headed off on her
[5:48] own. Sumiko never made it home that
[5:51] night and was soon reported missing.
[5:54] About a year and a half later, on December 7th, 1988, Kiyomi
[5:59] Nakajima, a 50 year old housewife from Kitagata, also
[6:04] vanished under mysterious circumstances.
[6:07] Kiyomi had left her house that evening to attend a weekly
[6:10] volleyball practice at a local Sports Center less than a mile
[6:14] away, but she never arrived. A local resident had seen her
[6:18] speaking with a man on a bicycle shortly before she disappeared.
[6:23] Two weeks into the search for Kiyomi, her husband received a
[6:27] strange phone call at home. An unidentified man claimed that
[6:31] Kiyomi had been found near a mountain pass.
[6:34] The caller hinted that he was someone the family knew, but he
[6:38] refused to give his name or specific details of Kiyomi's
[6:41] whereabouts. Kiyomi's husband recorded the
[6:44] strange phone message, but police were ultimately unable to
[6:48] trace the caller. Both Kiyomi's home and her
[6:51] husband's workplace began receiving repeated silent calls
[6:54] afterward, possibly from the same person.
[6:58] The final victim in this series was Tatsuyo Tatsu, a 37 year old
[7:03] office worker from Kitagata. On January 25th, 1989, again a
[7:09] Wednesday, Tatsuyo spoke with someone on the phone in the
[7:12] early evening, then told her mother she was going out to help
[7:16] a friend. She left the house and never
[7:18] returned. Later that same night, Tatsuyo's
[7:23] car was found abandoned in the parking lot of a local bowling
[7:26] alley. A Co worker came forward to
[7:29] report that she had seen Tatsuyo getting into a white Toyota
[7:32] sedan with an unknown person that evening.
[7:36] This disappearance immediately set off an intensive search, but
[7:40] it ended in grim fashion just two days later, and the results
[7:44] would spark a massive media firestorm.
[7:49] On January 27th, 1989, a couple driving through a wooded area in
[7:55] the mountains of Kitagata pulled over so the wife could gather
[7:58] flowers. As she walked near the base of a
[8:01] Cliff, she stumbled upon the dead body of a woman and
[8:05] immediately called police. When authorities arrived and
[8:09] searched the area, they discovered two more female
[8:12] bodies sprawled at the bottom of the same rocky slope, about 6
[8:17] feet apart from each other. Personal items and clothing
[8:21] belonging to the victims were found scattered in the
[8:23] underbrush over the area, suggesting the perp had dumped
[8:27] the victims and their belongings from atop the Cliff.
[8:30] The three bodies were soon identified as those of Sumiko
[8:34] Fujise, Kiyomi Nakajima and Tatsuyo Yoshino, the missing
[8:39] women from 1987 to 1989. Forensic examination determined
[8:45] that Kiyomi and Tatsuyo had each been strangled, while Sumiko's
[8:49] remains were skeletal and the cause couldn't be made out.
[8:54] This finding sparked a massive media sensation and also marked
[8:58] the end of the slayings. The discovery of three bodies
[9:02] together in January 1989 dramatically re energized the
[9:07] investigation. Given that Sumiko, Kiyomi, and
[9:10] Tatsuyo were all dumped at the same site, police now had
[9:14] confirmation that a single perpetrator was behind those
[9:17] three acts. Attention quickly turned to
[9:20] Teruhiko Matsui, a 26 year old man from Kitagata who had known
[9:26] Tatsuyo personally. Matsui was acquainted with
[9:29] Tatsuyo through work and was one of the last people to call her
[9:33] before she disappeared. In fact, immediately after the
[9:37] 1989 cliffside discoveries, Matsui was briefly detained and
[9:42] questioned because of his link to Tatsuyo.
[9:45] During an intensive interrogation, he seemed to
[9:47] suggest his involvement. However, he quickly recanted
[9:51] anything that could be taken as a confession, claiming he had
[9:55] been coerced, and he provided an alibi.
[9:59] He said that he was out with friends on the night Tatsuyo was
[10:02] slain. At that time, with no physical
[10:06] evidence or eyewitness testimony implicating him, the police let
[10:10] him go free. For more than a decade after
[10:13] 1989, the Wednesday Strangler case saw little progress.
[10:18] It wasn't until the early 2000s that investigators revisited
[10:22] Terujiko Matsui as a suspect for the 1987 to 1989 triple
[10:28] slayings. Only by 2002, Matsui was serving
[10:34] a short prison sentence for a unrelated burglary conviction
[10:38] when new evidence and the looming expiration of the
[10:40] statute of limitations prompted police to act.
[10:44] On June 11th, 2002, Saga Prefectural Police rearrested
[10:49] Teruhico Matsui in his cell and formally charged him with three
[10:53] of the serial slayings. Notably, the 15 year statute of
[10:58] limitations had already expired on the 1st 4 slayings.
[11:02] Prosecutors sought the death penalty, portraying Matsui as a
[11:05] cold blooded serial strangler who preyed on women and dumped
[11:09] their bodies in the mountains. Matsui's trial opened in October
[11:13] 2002 in Saga District Court and he pleaded not guilty to all
[11:18] charges. The case against him was largely
[11:21] circumstantial. The prosecution's evidence
[11:24] included his past alleged confession and some potential
[11:28] forensic traces. Mott's Way's defense argued that
[11:31] the incriminating statements he gave were coerced by an
[11:34] aggressive police interrogation and that the DNA evidence wasn't
[11:38] conclusive. In fact, when a further
[11:41] mitochondrial DNA test was conducted on materials from the
[11:44] crime scene, the results didn't link Mott's Way at all, which
[11:48] was highly problematic to the case against him.
[11:52] Also, I feel it necessary to mention that this sort of
[11:55] evidence should have been considered a good thing for the
[11:58] prosecution. It let them know that they
[12:01] didn't have their man, but perhaps because the statute of
[12:05] limitations had expired, they just kept up the prosecution
[12:09] despite obvious exculpatory evidence.
[12:12] Ultimately, in 2005, after significant delays, the court
[12:18] found the case against Matsui lacking and all charges against
[12:22] him were dismissed. The court wasn't kind to how
[12:26] investigators handled the case, to put it mildly.
[12:31] The court found that he had been coerced into his pseudo
[12:34] confession. Also, given the way Japanese
[12:37] cops handle interrogations, when a Japanese court finds that an
[12:41] accused was coerced, that's pretty damning.
[12:46] This verdict was a shocking disappointment for the police
[12:48] and prosecutors, who immediately appealed.
[12:52] The saga finally came to a close in March 2007.
[12:56] The Fukuoka High Court upheld the not guilty verdict on
[12:59] appeal, meaning he was once again cleared of all charges.
[13:04] In its ruling, the High Court agreed that there was no direct
[13:08] evidence tying Matsui to the crimes, and it criticized the
[13:11] investigation's sloppy methods. To date, all 7 slayings remain
[13:17] officially unsolved. By the time Matsui was cleared,
[13:21] the statute of limitations for all cases had expired.
[13:25] Notably, in 2010, partly spurred by cases like this, Japan
[13:30] abolish the statute of limitations for serious
[13:33] offenses. But that change was not
[13:35] retroactive. Even if the Wednesday Strangler
[13:39] was to go public today, there would be nothing to do.
[13:43] Over the years, the Wednesday Strangler case has prompted
[13:46] extensive media coverage and countless theories.
[13:50] Some observers have argued that multiple perpetrators could have
[13:53] been responsible for these 7 slayings.
[13:57] They point out that the victims didn't all fit 1 profile.
[14:01] Two of the victims were just 11, and 12/2 of the other victims
[14:05] were women in their very early adulthood.
[14:08] The last three victims, spanning from 1987 to 1989, on the other
[14:13] hand, were middle-aged women. Serial predators often prefer a
[14:17] specific victim type or age range, which raises the
[14:20] possibility that the acts were committed by at least two
[14:23] different criminals operating at different times.
[14:26] This theory generally suggests that three or more perpetrators
[14:29] were involved and that most of the links are simple
[14:32] coincidences. That said, there are still many
[14:36] who believe that, given all these coincidences, this was all
[14:40] the work of one man. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear
[14:44] that DNA evidence was preserved from the earlier victims, and
[14:48] unless the perpetrator comes out and confesses, it seems unlikely
[14:52] we'll ever have answers. In the summer of 1911, on a warm
[14:58] Saturday night in Atlanta, GA, a young woman named Emma Lou Sharp
[15:03] went out to look for her missing mother. 20 year old Emma Lou was
[15:08] worried as she walked the dark streets, knowing a dangerous
[15:11] menace lurked in the city's black neighborhoods.
[15:15] Sure enough, a tall, broad shouldered stranger in a wide
[15:19] brimmed hat appeared out of the darkness.
[15:23] He spoke calmly and told Emma Lou she had nothing to fear.
[15:27] He didn't harm girls like her. Then, in an instant, the man
[15:32] lunged and stabbed her in the back before disappearing into
[15:35] the night. Bleeding and terrified.
[15:38] Emma Lou managed to stagger away and survive.
[15:42] But not far from where she was attacked, her mother, 40 year
[15:46] old Lena Sharp, lay dead, her throat cut so deeply that she
[15:51] was nearly beheaded. Atlanta had a serial predator on
[15:55] its hands. 1 So brutal and elusive that the press would
[16:00] soon dub him the Atlanta Ripper. Atlanta in 1911 was a booming
[16:06] southern city proudly advertising itself as the
[16:09] capital of the New South and effectively the business capital
[16:13] of the South. Notably, Black-owned businesses
[16:17] and colleges catering to Black students were growing at a rapid
[16:21] pace. But for most Black residents,
[16:23] life was harsh and segregated. Many members of the Black
[16:28] community in the city were also recent arrivals from rural
[16:31] regions and were far away from their family and the rest of
[16:35] their social connections. In this fraught atmosphere,
[16:39] crimes against Black people often didn't receive meaningful
[16:43] attention from the authorities or media.
[16:49] The first slaying that drew notice occurred on May 28th,
[16:52] 1911, when a woman named Belle Walker failed to return home
[16:56] from her job as a cook. Her body was found the next
[17:00] morning near her house, her throat slashed by an unknown
[17:04] assailant. The gruesome slaying got only a
[17:07] brief mention in the city's newspapers. 2 weeks later, on
[17:11] June 15th, another black woman was brutally attacked. 22 year
[17:16] old Addie Watts was struck in the head with a brick and left
[17:20] in some bushes with her throat cut.
[17:22] This second attack in such a short span set off alarm bells
[17:27] and a local paper published a story claiming there was a quote
[17:31] butcher stalking the streets. The article claimed a quote
[17:35] insane criminal might be prowling the city and drew a
[17:39] direct comparison to Jack the Ripper.
[17:42] The idea seemed implausible at the time, but as more victims
[17:46] surfaced, it began to seem more likely.
[17:52] Over the next several weeks. One Saturday night after another
[17:56] brought news of another slain woman, nearly every victim fit a
[18:00] pattern. Young black or mixed race women,
[18:04] often in their early 20s, attacked while walking alone at
[18:07] night. Each was found with her throat
[18:10] viciously slashed and some victims bodies showed signs of
[18:14] horrific mutilation. By early July 1911, at least
[18:20] eight women had been slain in this manner.
[18:25] The attack on Emma Lou Sharpe and her mother Lena on July 1st,
[18:28] 1911 finally convinced even the skeptics that a serial predator
[18:33] was likely on the loose. Newspapers that had earlier
[18:37] downplayed the crimes now featured them prominently,
[18:41] perhaps in hopes of using lurid stories to sell more papers.
[18:45] Significant pressure on the police mounted as prominent
[18:48] wealthy white families exerted pressure on them to solve the
[18:51] case. These families weren't
[18:54] necessarily upset about the crime spree, but rather the fact
[18:57] that their black female employees started to leave work
[19:00] early or refused to show up at night.
[19:04] Regardless of this apparent lack of altruism or genuine concern,
[19:09] they were able to pressure the authorities into taking the case
[19:12] very seriously. However, as I'll explain
[19:15] shortly, this pressure may have simply led to the cops
[19:19] attempting to close out the file, so to speak.
[19:24] On July 11th, 1911, just ten days after the sharp incident,
[19:29] the body of another victim, 25 year old Sadie Holly, was
[19:32] discovered beside A streetcar line.
[19:35] The local papers weren't even sure how to number this attack.
[19:39] Depending on the source, Sadie was either the 7th, 8th, or 9th
[19:44] victim attributed to the Ripper. What was clear was that the
[19:48] perpetrator was growing bolder and the city's outrage was
[19:52] growing with each new body that was found.
[19:57] Under tremendous pressure, the police ramped up their efforts.
[20:01] Within a day of Sadie Holly's slaying, they arrested a 27 year
[20:05] old black laborer named Henry Hough.
[20:09] Hough had reportedly been seen with Sadie on the night of her
[20:12] death and when picked up he was found wearing bloody clothes and
[20:16] bearing scratch marks on his arms.
[20:19] The arrest was splashed across headlines and for a moment it
[20:23] seemed the nightmare might be over.
[20:25] However, the case against Hough was weak and he was held only on
[20:29] suspicion and investigators admitted they lacked solid
[20:33] evidence tying him to the string of attacks.
[20:38] Soon after Huff's arrest, another suspect was caught.
[20:41] A tip LED police to 35 year old Todd Henderson.
[20:45] Henderson, like Huff, had been seen around the area of one of
[20:48] the slayings. The police brought Emma Lou
[20:51] Sharp to the station to see if she could identify Henderson as
[20:55] the man who attacked her. Emma Lou was startled by
[20:59] Henderson's voice and thought he might be the same man, but she
[21:03] couldn't be absolutely certain. That lingering doubt meant
[21:07] Henderson couldn't be definitively pinned as the
[21:10] perpetrator. Henderson didn't do himself any
[21:13] favors. He made an off color remark that
[21:16] if he were Jack the Ripper, he would have eliminated his own
[21:19] wife first. The police ended up presenting
[21:24] both Huff and Henderson to a grand jury, essentially hoping
[21:28] the jurors might decide whom to indict for the slaying of Sadie
[21:32] Holly. Throughout August 1911, with
[21:35] Hough and Henderson locked up, the attacks unfortunately
[21:39] continued. In late August, another young
[21:42] woman was found with her throat cut in a rail yard on Atlanta's
[21:45] West side. Then in November 19, 1115, year
[21:50] old Minnie Wise was discovered slain in an alley in the style
[21:54] of the Atlanta Ripper. These attacks occurred while the
[21:57] two main suspects were behind bars, suggesting that neither
[22:01] Huff nor Henderson was the true Ripper unless a copycat was at
[22:05] play. Both men were eventually
[22:08] released without charge in early 1912.
[22:14] With the investigation stalling, some authorities floated
[22:17] alternative theories. A Fulton County grand jury
[22:21] concluded that the so-called Atlanta Ripper might be a myth.
[22:25] They speculated that each attack could have been an unrelated act
[22:28] of violence by different men, but many Atlantans doubted this
[22:32] explanation. The consistency in the crimes,
[22:37] the uncanny similarities in how, when and against whom they were
[22:41] carried out, was hard to dismiss.
[22:44] To the community and many officers, it still looked like
[22:48] the work of a single madman. Leeds continued to trickle in,
[22:54] and in April 1912, a man named Charlie Owens was convicted and
[22:59] sentenced to life in prison for one of the attacks attributed to
[23:03] the Ripper. It was never clearly reported
[23:06] which victim's case this was, and the secretive way the trial
[23:10] was handled left observers puzzled.
[23:13] Whatever the truth, Owens's imprisonment didn't halt the
[23:17] attacks that newspapers linked to the Ripper.
[23:22] That summer, police arrested yet another suspect, Lawton Brown.
[23:27] Brown's wife had gone to the police with a disturbing story.
[23:31] She said that on several Saturday nights matching the
[23:34] attack dates, her husband came home late with blood on his
[23:37] clothes. Under interrogation, Brown
[23:41] reportedly confessed to at least one attack and hinted at knowing
[23:44] about the others. It seemed like a breakthrough,
[23:48] but the manner of the confession raised red flags in court.
[23:52] It came out that detectives had beaten Brown severely to extract
[23:56] his confession. Brown recanted, claiming he was
[24:02] coerced, and he was acquitted in October 1912 when a jury found
[24:06] the case against him unconvincing.
[24:09] Once again, Atlanta was back to square 1.
[24:13] By 1913, the panic had begun to subside a little, perhaps out of
[24:17] fatigue and the lower frequency of new attacks.
[24:21] But the mystery was far from solved.
[24:24] In March 1913, the slaying of yet another young black woman,
[24:29] Laura Smith, made the papers, and she was noted as possibly
[24:33] the third victim of the Ripper that year.
[24:37] In early 1914, a chilling development revived all the old
[24:41] fears. Handwritten notes were found
[24:44] pinned to emergency call boxes around the city, warning that
[24:48] the Ripper would start attacking younger black women caught out
[24:51] at night. Soon after, several more women
[24:57] were attacked and slain in familiar fashion, bringing the
[25:00] total toll attributed to the Atlanta Ripper to somewhere
[25:03] around 20 victims in all. And then, as mysteriously as it
[25:08] all began, the attack stopped and never resumed.
[25:13] After 1914, no more slayings were linked to the Ripper's
[25:17] spree. The nightmare that had
[25:19] terrorized Atlanta for three or four years simply evaporated
[25:24] without any satisfactory conclusion.
[25:29] Over a century has passed, and the Atlanta Ripper case remains
[25:33] unsolved. No single suspect was ever
[25:35] definitively identified as the perpetrator, and no one was
[25:39] convicted for the majority of the attacks.
[25:43] After the attack stopped, the authorities rapidly lost
[25:46] interest in wrapping up the investigation and the case went
[25:50] cold. Contemporary analysis has
[25:54] strongly considered that the Atlanta Ripper might not have
[25:56] been a lone wolf at all. It's possible that multiple
[26:00] perpetrators use the Rippers brutal methods as a cover for
[26:03] their crimes. Some have suggested it could
[26:06] have been a group that actually communicated and conspired with
[26:09] one another. Others have suggested that as
[26:13] the hysteria built, copycats could simply employ the widely
[26:17] known methods of the Ripper to provide cover for their crimes.
[26:22] Under this theory, these individuals may have simply used
[26:25] it as a cover to attack those close to them without the usual
[26:29] scrutiny that would bring. Others maintain it truly was one
[26:35] man who vanished from Atlanta by 1915, explaining why the attack
[26:40] ceased so suddenly. Ultimately, the truth of this
[26:45] case is unlikely to ever be known.

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