Kobe Cannibal, the Japanese murderer who killed and ate a Dutch student, passes away at 73

The ‘Kobe Cannibal’, a Japanese murderer who killed and ate a Dutch student, has passed away at the age of 73.

Issei Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24. His funeral was attended only by relatives and no public ceremony is planned, as stated by his younger brother and a friend.

In 1981, Sagawa was studying in Paris when he invited Dutch student Renee Hartevelt to his home. He shot her in the neck, raped her, and then consumed parts of her body over the course of several days.

After attempting to dispose of her remains in the Bois de Boulogne park, Sagawa was arrested several days later and confessed his crime to the police.

Deemed unfit for trial by French medical experts in 1983, Sagawa was initially held in a psychiatric institution before being deported to Japan in 1984.

Upon his arrival in Japan, authorities ruled him sane and stated that his only problem was a ‘character anomaly’, determining that he did not require hospitalization. Hartevelt’s family had pushed for Sagawa to be prosecuted in Japan, but due to the inability to obtain his case files from the French counterparts, the murderer walked free.

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