The brutal true face of the serial killer who plunged the Japanese archipelago into shock and terror is revealed.
At 7 p.m. on the 15th, E Channel original web variety show Hyungsuda season 2 (hereinafter Hyungsuda2) episode 40, which will be released through the YouTube channel "Detectives' Chat," digs into an unprecedented case with MCs who visited Tokyo, Japan, former national soccer player Kim Nam-il, and Japanese actress Fujii Mina.
That day's broadcast opens cheerfully at a historic izakaya in Tokyo, Japan. It was a seat specially prepared by Ahn Jung-hwan for profiler Kwon Il-yong, who was visiting Japan for the first time.
Especially, guest Fujii Mina said, "Mr. Ahn Jung-hwan and Mr. Kim Nam-il are so famous as handsome soccer players in Japan that it doesn't feel like the first time meeting them," confirming the two's "world-class" popularity and delighting the scene. In response, Ahn Jung-hwan and Kim Nam-il returned the favor with their trademark bickering chemistry and showed off their variety show skills.
The warmth was short-lived. In the "today's death-row inmate" segment, the story begins of serial killer Shiraishi Takahiro, born in 1990, who shook all of Japan. Even Kwon Il-yong said, "It's very shocking," and this case came to light in 2017 after a brother reported his missing sister.
The method of the crime was despicable and brutal. Shiraishi operated under the nickname "hanging person" on Twitter (now X), approaching women who had lost the will to live and were depressed. He pretended to be warm, saying, "I really want to help people who are having a hard time," but behind their backs he lured victims by sending chilling messages like, "Shall I prepare a way for you to die?"
At Shiraishi's home, which was seized after the investigation, an unbearable scene unfolded. There were as many as eight iceboxes in his house, and inside them investigators found multiple skulls including those of missing women and about 240 bone fragments.
Shiraishi, who had worked as a broker for prostitution establishments and committed these bizarre crimes during a suspended sentence period, was ultimately executed in 2025. That day's broadcast previews the full details of the Shiraishi case and teases a strikingly similar "lookalike" case that occurred in Korea in 2025, heightening curiosity.
[Photo] "Hyungsuda2"
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