|
The Manga Murder ((オランダ語:Mangamoord)) is a solved Belgian murder case possibly involving a serial killer, referred to as the Manga Killer.〔 〕〔("4 Arrested for 2007 Belgian 'Manga Murder' Case" ). Anime News Network. 2010-09-20.〕 The name of the case was coined by the Belgian media and has to do with the notes that were found near the victim. The notes carried a sentence in capital letters and in different colours,〔 originating from the manga series, ''Death Note'': "Watashi wa Kira dess" , a mis-transliteration of .〔 〕 Light Yagami, also known as Kira, is the main character and antagonist of the series. In ''Death Note'', Kira goes on a killing spree assisted by his supernatural notebook, trying to cleanse the world of criminals. The case received much attention from the Japanese media.〔 ==Case details== On Friday, September 28, 2007, parts of a mutilated corpse, the torso and two thighs, were found in Parc Duden/Dudenpark in Forest, Brussels, by two pedestrians who happened to notice the smell of the rotting parts. A short while later the two notes referring to the ''Death Note'' series were found nearby.〔 The detectives working the case were unable to identify the victim, because all crucial body parts are missing.〔 What they did conclude was:〔〔 〕〔 〕 * The body was only a day or two old when found, or had been stored in a freezer. Storage in a freezer is plausible because it can explain the surgical precision of the cut.〔 * The body was Caucasian, between 20 and 30 years old. * The location of the victim was very close to the highest point of Brussels, possibly a symbolic location since Kira acts as a god of death in the manga. * The thighs of the body were shaved, also possibly pointing in the direction of a psychopathic act〔 〕 The detectives mentioned a practical joke by medicine students as one of the possibilities; the academic year had just started and the students have relatively easy access to dead bodies. Still, the police feared that they were dealing with a serial killer.〔 A public announcement asking for witnesses received a single reaction. A jogger had seen a blonde man lying down on the same spot where the victim was found two days later. The next day she saw the man again. The witness thought the man was sleeping and did not pay much attention to it. It is not certain that the man was indeed the victim.〔 〕 The police established cooperation with the working group ''Corpus'', who are involved in the investigation of the Mons serial killer, because there was a similar modus operandi.〔〔The "clean", meaning straight, cut of the limbs was very similar to that of the so called ''garbage bag killings'' in Mons. (''Gazet van Antwerpen, 2007-11-24'')〕 A month after the event, a new article was published in a Belgian newspaper,〔 〕 stating that the detectives still had not achieved any progress in the case. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manga Murder」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|