0:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Listener, if you've been here for a while, you'll know that, from time to time, I drop a black label episode to the free feed. 0:08 [SPEAKER_00]: This is to help promote the Patreon. 0:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I need to give you a heads up on this one, because while black label is often dark, you should know that by now. 0:17 [SPEAKER_00]: This particular case is very brutal. 0:20 [SPEAKER_00]: And I happen to have the most detailed coverage of the case. 0:24 [SPEAKER_00]: So even if you think you've heard it before, know that this one gets very, very extreme. 0:31 [SPEAKER_00]: You've been warned. 0:32 [SPEAKER_00]: If you'd like to listen to more Black Label, head to patreon.com slash obscure crime podcast. 0:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm an indie creator and any support is greatly appreciated. 0:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, if you can't, don't worry about it. 0:51 [SPEAKER_04]: Police officer and the police staff chaplain came to my house. 0:58 [SPEAKER_04]: The chaplain by himself is a major statement. 1:01 [SPEAKER_04]: I mean not too many times to those people come to your house. 1:05 [SPEAKER_04]: I listened as calmly as I could as they informed me that they were pretty sure they had my boy, that he was alive, but that he had been sexually assaulted and he was in the hospital and I needed to go down. 1:19 [SPEAKER_04]: I don't remember too much more beyond that. 1:24 [SPEAKER_04]: My whole system started shutting down. 1:26 [SPEAKER_04]: All I can think of was he's alive. 1:30 [SPEAKER_04]: And there's something I need to do. 1:32 [SPEAKER_04]: And so I got my shoes on and I got in the car and drove down to the emergency room. 1:38 [SPEAKER_04]: The staff at the hospital was really very, very supportive. 1:42 [SPEAKER_04]: One mother had gone with me. 1:45 [SPEAKER_04]: They took us into a conference room and the chief surgeon or staff doctor, Dr. Cumes, came in to tell us the details, then of what had happened. 1:58 [SPEAKER_04]: There was a psychologist there with us also in order to help us through this. 2:06 [SPEAKER_04]: The more people that are there, the more tragic you know it's going to be and yet I was not at all prepared for what the doctor had to say. 2:14 [SPEAKER_04]: He asked, what have we had already been told and I told him basically nothing, you might as well start from the top and if I could take back those words I would love to because the irony was he started from the top. 2:26 [SPEAKER_04]: He had been strangled, he had been stabbed and his penis had been severed. 2:34 [SPEAKER_04]: But just not exactly castration, but it is quite a dramatic mutilation. 3:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Listener, today we delve into a narrative that exposes the merciless and difference of existence itself, where the cosmos offers no intervention to the vulnerable, allowing agony to extend across endless days without any sign of reprieve, and where justice, if it emerges at all, often appears as a weakened after-image and capable of matching the profound depths 4:00 [SPEAKER_00]: This account goes beyond a simple episode of brutality, limited to one isolated instant. 4:07 [SPEAKER_00]: It serves as a stark illustration of how the universe tolerates the deliberate, incremental deconstruction of a human being, with time serving only to hide in the torment. 4:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Turning fleeting moments into a drawn-out symphony of pain that leaves nothing but remnants of a one's vibrant individual. 4:28 [SPEAKER_00]: In this story, we reflect on the destiny of a young woman whose life was illuminated by the subtle glow of youthful hopes, including friendships, emerging love, and straightforward goals. 4:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Only to be squeezed into a secluded nightmare of degradation in anguish, where her dignity stripped away through calculated acts of savoury, by young men who claimed authority from the voids in their own damaged lives. 5:00 [SPEAKER_07]: I remember them having sex with me, I don't remember them hurting me, like physically beating me or anything like that. 5:09 [SPEAKER_07]: I guess after like the third or fourth when I passed out, like three weeks later my eyes got to where I could see. 5:16 [SPEAKER_07]: They were still out black and blue, but they weren't a swallowing shut anymore. 5:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Junka Faruda entered the world on January 18, 1971, in the suburban area of Masato, in St. Toma Prefecture. 5:34 [SPEAKER_00]: She was an energetic and highly regarded student, a Yashio Monami High School, encircled by a dedicated group of close friends. 5:42 [SPEAKER_00]: who appreciated her for her upbeat character, and her firm adherence to her values, would set her apart from many of her contemporaries, with her resolute dedication to avoiding the typical pitfalls of Analescence. 5:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Hiroshi Miyano, a well-known bully whose infamy was heightened by the rumored links to the Yakuza, the mysterious criminal networks that exerted control through intimidation, and hid operations in Japanese society, he developed a one-sided fascination 6:12 [SPEAKER_00]: possibly viewing her innocence as a target for domination or corruption. 6:17 [SPEAKER_00]: However, Junko declined his proposals, uninterested in him, choosing instead to concentrate on our studies and self-development. 6:25 [SPEAKER_00]: This refusal, through Miano's war plans, sewed the beginnings of intense resentment, enabling his animosity to develop unhindered within the ordinary flow of school routines. 6:38 [SPEAKER_00]: As she approached the end of her high school years, graduating in March 1989, Junko looked forward with enthusiasm to be getting her position and an electronics company the following month, a firm specializing in plastic molding where she had already secured employment. 6:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Through her reliable efforts in a part-time capacity, this chance symbolizes not some elevated vision, but a solid groundwork for self-sufficiency, accomplish through her own perseverance and dependability, mirroring her practical outlook on life and a culture that often required young women to traverse restricted opportunities with toys and endurance. 7:18 [SPEAKER_00]: In addition to her near-term objectives, she nurtured more private dreams, like aspiring to be an idol singer, drawn from dazzling pop figures of the 1980s, rehearsing melodies in the seclusion of her bedroom, and exchanging playful imaginings with friends about performing under bright whites and receiving applause, although irrational side kept her focused on the concrete steps immediately before her. 7:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Media and press descriptions refer to our boyfriend at this period. 7:47 [SPEAKER_00]: By the alias, Kawamura, a 23-year-old employee in the construction sector whose consistent work in mild temperament gave Junko a feeling of grown-up partnership their bond originated through shared contacts around Christmas 1987. 8:04 [SPEAKER_00]: Growing shortly thereafter into a relationship marked by authentic tenderness and considerate actions, the actions that highlighted their reciprocal concern. 8:13 [SPEAKER_00]: She presented him with hand-made chocolates, and a sweater she wove over numerous nights, every stitch-a-demonstration of her fondness. 8:21 [SPEAKER_00]: He in turn responded with an 18-carot gold necklace. 8:25 [SPEAKER_00]: They passed time together on straightforward excursions, to the shorelines where the ocean wind brought salt in liberation during sunny days, and to bowing down where the noise of fallen pins blended with their joy and amusement, instances of regularity that encapsulated the gentle, daily nature of their romance, in sharp distinction to the disaster that would soon consume Junko home. 8:51 [SPEAKER_00]: The abduction happened on November 25, 1988, just a few days after she had offered him the knitted sweater as a gift for his birthday. 9:00 [SPEAKER_00]: An object that would subsequently represent a wife, so viciously destroyed. 9:06 [SPEAKER_00]: On that evening, around 830 pm, under a sky darkening with the approach of Winter's cold, Junko cycled home from her part-time position, at the plastic molding plan, her mind likely turning to her residence, in the thrill of viewing the concluding episode of Taunbo, her cherished television series, that delved into subjects of adolescence and strength. 9:28 [SPEAKER_00]: in manners that echoed her own hopeful existence. 9:32 [SPEAKER_00]: The crisp air bit at her face. 9:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The wheels of her bicycle murmuring against the road as she moved through well-known paths. 9:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Entirely unaware that in this short span of innocent eagerness, her course was about to collide with the intentional 9:48 [SPEAKER_00]: of those concealed in the evening's gloom. 9:51 [SPEAKER_00]: That of the group that would come to annihilate everything that was Junko, Hiroshi Miyano, labeled as Teenager A in initial court records, was born in April 1970 as the oldest child appearance who benefited from financial security through their joint incomes, whose home was troubled by persistent marital disagreements, fostering a dysfunctional setting, 10:15 [SPEAKER_00]: where young Miano navigated emotional distress without guidance. 10:21 [SPEAKER_00]: From his primary school period, he displayed aggression through taking items from classmates' possessions, intimidating smaller kids with physical threats and mockery, and damaging properties such as school furniture, recreational areas. 10:36 [SPEAKER_00]: As this conduct spread to the family environment, with explosions that involve striking relatives, or ruining items in anger, his father sought counsel from school authorities, but no continuous assistance followed, in middle school, he discovered a brief outlet in Judo, devoting himself to the activity and obtaining notable success in events. 10:59 [SPEAKER_00]: A phase where the sports framework seemed to moderate his inner conflict, he advanced to a high school famous for its judo squad, hoping to expand on this space. 11:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Nevertheless, the demanding practice schedule and harassment from senior members, degrading customs like compelled tasks or bodily penalties, diminished his determination. 11:21 [SPEAKER_00]: After six months, he departed the club, and six more months later, he left school completely. 11:27 [SPEAKER_00]: rejecting structured learning for the appeal of street existence and rapid profits. 11:33 [SPEAKER_00]: A role as a tile layer supplied temporary order, but it coincided with his immersion in motorcycle groups where the excitement of fast pursuits in a legal behavior intensified his wayward tendencies, numerous offenses causing physical harm and fights entering buildings without permission for excitement, instilling vehicles or merchandise. 11:56 [SPEAKER_00]: resulted in probation, a short interval of a parent's steadiness came after his exit from the group. 12:03 [SPEAKER_00]: He worked diligently as a Tyler, earning commendation from his employer, and began living with his girlfriend, Watanabe's older sister, imagining marriage in a traditional path, he saved funds carefully, acquired his driver's license in May 1988. 12:20 [SPEAKER_00]: and was given a new vehicle by his father, in July, as motivation, but by August, dissatisfaction with his limited earnings reemerged, leading him to forsake legitimate employment. 12:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Through a former schoolmate, he formed connections with the Yakuza, diving into unlawful pursuits like selling counterfeit luxury goods on sidewalks. 12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: selling fake products, and guarding Yakuza gathering spots. 12:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Simultaneously, he commenced abusing paint thinner, the vapor's clouding his reasoning, and dissolving any remaining ethical limits. 12:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Agura, known as Teenager B, 12:58 [SPEAKER_00]: was born on May 1971, and a family characterized by early instability, with his parents separating when he was young, leading him to residing mainly with his mother and sister, and only temporarily with his father for two months at age 10, he exhibited skills in athletics. 13:16 [SPEAKER_00]: excelling in track activities with natural speed, that earned him recognition, showing no significant behavioral problems, until a complex break in his right foot from a skiing incident in January 1986, not only shattered bone, but also his sense of direction. 13:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The injury required prolonged healing, robbing him of physical releases, resulting in indifference towards studies, an eventual removal from high school. 13:45 [SPEAKER_00]: In November 1987, for chronic absences in low marks, attempts at electrician training in night school registration, Wayne Swiftley, has interest fading in the face of monotony. 13:57 [SPEAKER_00]: By May 1988, he passed his days in aimless 14:01 [SPEAKER_00]: receiving probation that July for writing a motorcycle without a license. 14:06 [SPEAKER_00]: A minor violation that concealed a greater internal void, Shinji Minato, designated as Teenager C, came into being in December 1972, the parents involved in medical work, his father as a pharmacist, distributing remedies, his mother as a nurse providing attention, yet their residents lacked the healing quality 14:30 [SPEAKER_00]: with busy time tables leaving little room for family supervision. 14:34 [SPEAKER_00]: He had an older brother, Nugu Haru, born in January 1972, with whom he divided the upstairs area that would become notorious from elementary school. 14:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Minato generated issues through threatening classmates for items or favors, and pill-firing small things like treats or toys from local stores, advancing to middle school, is verbal abuse developing into physical assaults, pushing, hitting, and frightening peers, and rebellion against his father, showed in direct conflicts, refusing duties or throwing insults during arguments. 15:10 [SPEAKER_00]: After completing middle school in March 1988, and beginning high school in April, is behavior declined further, total truancy. 15:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Night spent outside in public spaces or amusement centers, associating with problematic crowds, violent occurrences at home like breaking furnishing or menacing relatives, and leaving school by September. 15:33 [SPEAKER_00]: From that summer, the upstairs sections of Manado and his brother 15:40 [SPEAKER_00]: drawn by the absence of adult presence, a location where cigarette smoke lingered, thinner vapors obscured the air, and plans for mischief were hatched, faced with their son's rising volatility, threats that caused them to retreat, the parents appeared powerless, perhaps too afraid are resigned to seek external aid, permitting the chaos to escalate, and not also face probation for operating a motorcycle 16:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Yasushi Watanabe, Teenager D, was born in December 1971, his early years overshadowed by his parent's separation of age four, and divorced two years later, aggravated by his father's sudden death in a traffic accident, shortly afterward. 16:26 [SPEAKER_00]: leaving him under the care of his mother and older sister in a household colored by sorrow. 16:32 [SPEAKER_00]: He registered for night school in April 1986, but attended it for only a week before abandoning it. 16:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Officially departing in September, October 1986, brought probation for domestic violence, Alpersts stemming from frustration, minor criminal acts followed in June 1987 in March 1988. 16:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Small thefts in destructive behaviors will various jobs from factory positions to delivery roles, and it quickly due to unreliability or disputes. 17:06 [SPEAKER_00]: These fractured origins cultivated aimless hostility. 17:10 [SPEAKER_00]: with probation serving as a temporary check. 17:14 [SPEAKER_00]: All four had attended the same middle school, with Miyano the eldest, Agarun Watanabe, and the subsequent grade, and Minano below them. 17:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The Minano family's upstairs room, occupied by Shinji and Noble Haru, became their central location from summer 1988, as the parents' work left the house unsupervised. 17:35 [SPEAKER_00]: A situation they bore with growing exasperation, but without decisive measures, Hagarra, and the same year as Nubraharu, began visiting that summer in October 1988, Nubraharu stole in motorcycle, drew me ono into the circle under the guise of help. 17:53 [SPEAKER_00]: forming a small band of aggressive youths. 17:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Miano commanded fear from the others, leading with yaccazo-like arrogance, logra, and force structure in his absence, the organization solidifying and secrecy, an imitation of power that hid their profound inner voids. 18:14 [SPEAKER_05]: So when she began to talk about the abuse she'd often just start to scream and she'd fall on the floor and just claw the air and scream for help, I mean, it's just, it's just, 18:45 [SPEAKER_10]: And I, I really cannot talk to her. 18:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Did you say I didn't reason why you don't talk to her? 18:50 [SPEAKER_10]: Because I had not been able to protect her. 18:52 [SPEAKER_02]: I did go. 18:55 [SPEAKER_10]: And I had not been able to get down. 18:58 [SPEAKER_10]: But she was asking me to do. 18:59 [SPEAKER_02]: And she was asking me to do. 19:03 [SPEAKER_03]: And she was asking me to do. 19:05 [SPEAKER_03]: And she was asking me to do. 19:08 [SPEAKER_00]: On the evening of November 25th, 1988, Miyano and Minato, wandered Masano on scooters, intending to steal bags or salt young women. 19:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Their minds filled with predatory designs. 19:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Spodding Junco on our bike around 830 p.m. her uniform fluttering in the dim light. 19:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Miato directed Minato to knock her down, Minato obeyed. 19:34 [SPEAKER_00]: His kick causing her to crash to the ground, skin abrading on rough pavement and painful scrapes, just a touch of what was to come, Minato sped away. 19:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Miyano approached, pretending concern, quote, that's one crazy I've been threatened by him with a knife a short time ago. 19:54 [SPEAKER_00]: You may still be in danger, let me walk you home. 19:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The deception, cooked and simulated kindness, exploited Junko's disorientation after the fall, gaining her trust, Miyano led her to a warehouse, the air thick with dust and the smell of 20:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Where he dropped the facade, raping Junko, and making threats like, I'm his mate. 20:17 [SPEAKER_00]: And we are both Yakuza. 20:19 [SPEAKER_00]: If you obey me, I will spare your life. 20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Let me have sex with you. 20:23 [SPEAKER_00]: If you scream, you're dead. 20:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The violation was brutal. 20:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Her body assaulted on the cold floor. 20:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Pain surging as she suppressed cries. 20:33 [SPEAKER_00]: He then forced her into a taxi to a hotel. 20:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Wrapping her again in a dingy room, the sheets stained in the atmosphere heavy with the spare. 20:43 [SPEAKER_00]: From there, Miyano called the Minato House, informing Agura of the rape, his voice triumphant, Agura urged keeping her, around 12.30 a.m. on November 26th. 20:55 [SPEAKER_00]: The group met in a park, the night cold and quiet, where they checked her student notebook for details, threatening Yakuza harm to her family if she escaped, terrified, her mind reeling from the assaults. 21:08 [SPEAKER_00]: She was dragged to the Manato House, an ordinary home that concealed her nightmare. 21:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Upstairs she was overpowered and gang raped, repeatedly, the attacks were wetless, or body aching from the invasions. 21:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Her parents reported her missing on November 27th, worry escalating, forced telephone calls, three in total over weeks, compelled Jukeau to claim she had run away with safe with friends, and one of the search stopped, each call a blow to her family's hope, prolonging her isolation early in December when the group was asleep, 21:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Junko dialed the ponies, her finger shaking, Miano intercepted before she could speak. 21:52 [SPEAKER_00]: The return call was dismissed as a mistake. 21:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Fury entered attempt, unleashed torture, repeated punches, splitting lips, and loosening teeth and bloody flows, kicks cracking ribs with sharp snaps, heavy objects bruising until skin turned purple and black. 22:11 [SPEAKER_00]: For an objects inserted toward delicate tissues, blood flowing down her legs, skin burned with liders until flesh sizzled and blistered. 22:21 [SPEAKER_00]: The scent of charred me filling the room as she twisted in pain, then they stopped feeding her, or stomach twisting and hunger. 22:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Due to external cuts, weeping pus and internal bleeds, combined with malnutrition that wasted her muscles, 22:39 [SPEAKER_00]: reduced frequently to crawling downstairs to the bathroom on hands and knees that blood. 22:44 [SPEAKER_00]: When crawling became impossible, her legs swollen and useless. 22:48 [SPEAKER_00]: She was made to urinate into a cup and forced to drink it, gagging on the bitter fluid amid the mockery. 22:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Because of the unbearable violence and pain, nerves firing constantly, every motion at torment, Junko repeatedly begged them to just kill her, her voice horse from cries. 23:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Ignoring her, please, they continued the torture for days and days. 23:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Each session, a new creation of suffering, the cosmos providing no bolt of justice to break the cycle. 23:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Junko endured the residence for 40 agonizing days, a span that felt like an eternity of humiliation, where she was abused, raped, tortured without pause. 23:30 [SPEAKER_00]: The perpetrators not only carried out their own cruelties, but they invited and encouraged other acquaintances, some with Yakuza connections to participate in the torment. 23:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Transforming the upstairs room into a layer of group sadism, according to their statements in court, the four-rapeder, more than 400 times, each assault a violent penetration, the left-junko torn and bleeding inside, the pain radiating like fire through a body. 23:59 [SPEAKER_00]: They beat her without mercy, fists and feet landing with thuds that resounded. 24:04 [SPEAKER_00]: bruising skin until it became a patchwork of black and blue, her fractured ribs made every breath of labor to effort. 24:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Her body shrunk to skeletal thinness, skin loose over protruding bones, weakness causing her to shake uncontrollably. 24:19 [SPEAKER_00]: They once hung her from the ceiling by her wrists, rope cutting into flesh until blood drip, using her dangling body as a punching bag, as they 24:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Barbells were dropped onto her abdomen, repeatedly, the heavy metal crushing organs, causing internal bleeding that swelled her belly grotesquely, they forced fed her live cockroaches, bug scurrying in her mouth, crunching under her teeth as she wretched, their legs scrunching her throat in her vulgion, they made her masturbate in front of everyone. 24:56 [SPEAKER_00]: humiliating her as they geared, her hands trembling from agony and shame, sobbing crying tears pouring from her face, they inserted foreign objects into her vagina and anus, including a lip light bulb that shattered inside her, and burst in blue and glass shards, blood pouring, the fragments embedding, causing clasorations that festered with infection, fireworks were forced inside her and ignited. 25:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Exploding within her, in flashes of white and searing heat, scorching mucosa, and causing burns that blistered and pale, the pain so intense she convulsed. 25:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They burned her vagina and clitoris with cigarettes and lighters, the tips pressed until skin-smoked and shard, nerve-screening and white-hot agony, hot wax dripped onto her closed eyelids, sealing them and burning layers that cracked when she tried to reopen her eyes. 25:53 [SPEAKER_00]: They tore off her left nipple entirely with pliers. 25:56 [SPEAKER_00]: The metal clamping down in a crushing grip, pulling until flesh ripped free in a spray of blood, the raw wound pulsing exposed, Junko screaming an animal-like scream that caused many members of the group to stand by on easy. 26:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Sewing needles were pierced through a breath multiple time, through the thick mass of the 26:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of the torturers' friends have been officially identified, including Tetsuo Nakamura and Koichi Ahara, who were charged with rape after their DNA was found on and in the victim's body, traces of semen confirming their involvement in the violations. 26:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Koichi Ahara was allegedly bullied into raping Faruta, pressured by the group to spy his initial reluctance. 26:46 [SPEAKER_00]: After he left the Minato household, Gil overwhelmed him, and he can fight in his brother about the incident, describing the girl's battered condition, his brother shocked and formed their parents, who after consideration contacted the police, two police officers were sent to the Minato house. 27:05 [SPEAKER_00]: However, upon arrival, 27:07 [SPEAKER_00]: They were greeted at the door and told that there was no girl inside the perpetrators composed behavior hiding the horror that awaited upstairs. 27:17 [SPEAKER_00]: The police officers, perhaps influenced by the family's respectable facade or a rush in procedure, declined the invitation to look around the house. 27:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Believing the offer itself was enough proof that there was no girl in the Monato house. 27:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Both officers face significant backlash from the community once the truth came out, their oversight and obvious and glaring failure, and they perform their due diligence, insisting on a search and adhering to protocol, fruitus or deal, would have lasted only 16 days, and she might have recovered from her injuries. 27:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Her body healed, her life restored, the two officers were dismissed for failing to follow procedure, a minor repercussion compared to the agony they helped cause. 28:07 [SPEAKER_05]: No child should, as happened to my child, have a judge deem their risk of rape to be 50% and to have unsupervised visits increased 400% that should not be allowed if there's a risk of abuse. 28:24 [SPEAKER_05]: The child must be protected until it is known that the child will be safe. 28:28 [SPEAKER_05]: In my case, we are drowning in evidence. 28:30 [SPEAKER_05]: You almost never in an abuse case have what we have, which is an articulate child giving a consistent story to expert, after expert, incest experts confirming the abuse as among the worst they have ever seen. 28:45 [SPEAKER_05]: An eyewitness account from an older sibling, both girls with the vaginal scars of sexual penetration. 28:52 [SPEAKER_05]: and the older girl having a founded case in the social service department of Virginia. 28:57 [SPEAKER_05]: Also, I had more resources than any other protecting mother. 29:01 [SPEAKER_05]: I had more evidence and more resources. 29:03 [SPEAKER_05]: If my child cannot be saved, no child in this country can be saved. 29:10 [SPEAKER_00]: At the beginning of December, Faruita tried to call the police again, her voice fainting. 29:16 [SPEAKER_00]: However, she was discovered by Hiroshi before she could say anything, his hand covering her mouth. 29:23 [SPEAKER_00]: When the police phoned back, Miano told them it was a mistake, his tone nonchalon. 29:29 [SPEAKER_00]: As punishment, they doused her wigs and feet in myder fluid. 29:33 [SPEAKER_00]: The chemical odor filling or nose, the fluid burning the wounds on our legs, and then they Sarah wigs on fire, flames rising up our skin, blistering and blackening flesh and excruciating waves, the glass forcing entry in a tearing intrusion that caused severe bleeding, blood gushing and warm streams as tissue ripped. 29:54 [SPEAKER_00]: They then, making the situation so much worse, broke the bottle in her anus. 30:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Junko reportedly went into convulsions as the thick glass cut into her anus, her body jerking uncontrollably. 30:10 [SPEAKER_00]: During their trial, they stated that they thought she was faking a seizure, so they set her on fire again. 30:17 [SPEAKER_00]: The renewed flames consuming more skin, the smell of burning hair and meat overwhelming, she survived these injuries, her body clinging to life amid destruction, and continued to be raped and tortured. 30:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Each day adding new layers of hell, they forced her to sleep outside on the balcony during the harsh winter, the freezing temperatures biting into her wounds. 30:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Frost forming on her exposed skin, hypothermia making her teeth chatter. 30:47 [SPEAKER_00]: They walked her in a freezer for hours. 30:49 [SPEAKER_00]: The cold numbing her extremities until fingers and toes turn blue, circulation failing. 30:56 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the kidnappers told the court that her hands and legs were so badly damaged, swollen, fractured, infected, and it took her over an hour to drag herself downstairs to use the 31:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Her body leaving trails of blood and strange fluids on the floor, due to the severity of the torture, she eventually lost bladder and bowel control, soiling herself involuntarily, for which she was beaten further, fists raining down on her already bruised and broken form. 31:26 [SPEAKER_00]: She was also unable to drink water or consume food without vomiting, her stomach rejecting sustenance and violent heaves, and she was severely beaten for this as well. 31:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The cycle of punishment never ending. 31:39 [SPEAKER_00]: The brutality of the attacks drastically altered for route as appearance, changing her from a lively teenager into a grotesque shell. 31:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Her face was so swollen from repeated blows that her features were indistinguishable, eyes reduced to swollen slits and puffed flesh, lips cracked and bleeding. 31:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Her body was severely crippled, limbs twisted and odd angles from fractures, giving off a rotting smell from infected burns that oozed with pus. 32:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The decay so foul it caused the four boys to lose sexual interest in her. 32:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Their arousal fading amid the horror they had created. 32:16 [SPEAKER_00]: As a result, the boys kidnapped and gang raped a 19-year-old woman who, like Faruda, was on her way home from work, repeating the cycle to satisfy their endless desires. 32:28 [SPEAKER_00]: On January 4th, 1989, the four boys challenged Faruta to a game of Michelle, a past time that turned deadly when she, remarkably, won it despite her weakened state, out of frustration at being bested by their broken captive, the boys erupted in a rage. 32:47 [SPEAKER_00]: They beat her with an iron barbell, the metal connecting with her skull and doll thuds, that drew blood, they kicked and punched her until bruises overlapped in a tapestry of pain. 32:58 [SPEAKER_00]: They poured candle wax into her eyes as they forced the eyelids open this time. 33:03 [SPEAKER_00]: The wax falling and searing drops into her open and exposed eyes. 33:08 [SPEAKER_00]: They made her stand on trembling legs, then struck her feet with a swinging stick, 33:17 [SPEAKER_00]: At this point, she fell onto a stereo unit, her body collapsing into a fit of convulsions, foam at her mouth, since she was bleeding profusely from multiple wounds, and Pust was emerging from her infected burns and yellow streams. 33:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The four boys covered their hands in plastic bags, taped at the wrist to avoid contamination. 33:37 [SPEAKER_00]: They continue to be her mercilessly, dropping an iron exercise ball, underwear stomach several times, the way compressing her internals with each impact, rupturing, spleen and liver and burst of internal bleeding. 33:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Listener, if this sounds repetitive at some points to you, just think they did these things again and again. 33:59 [SPEAKER_00]: They again poured wider fluid on to her body, her thighs, arms, face, and stomach, the liquid soaking into open wounds, and once again, set her on fire, flames engulfing her and roaring in furno, skin crackling like parchment as she screamed. 34:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Through to made feeble attempts to put out the fire, her hands padding weekly at the blaze. 34:20 [SPEAKER_00]: A gradually became unresponsive, her body going limp amid the smoke. 34:26 [SPEAKER_00]: The attack reportedly lasts two hours, a prolonged finale of savagery. 34:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Viruda eventually succumbed to her wounds, and died that day. 34:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Her last breath's ragged, the room-a-reaked of charred flesh and blood. 34:41 [SPEAKER_09]: I had to push him away here, you know, move my head. 34:45 [SPEAKER_09]: He put the blankets, the corners as if the blanket in the sheet of my mouth and put my arm behind me and held both of my wrist with his hand on one side of me. 34:58 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, while he was doing this, he was basically on top of your crown. 35:03 [SPEAKER_09]: He pulled me down and he was moving so he could do this, but then he had a sex for me. 35:11 [SPEAKER_09]: I think it's all bad. 35:14 [SPEAKER_09]: He just kind of pushed me inside and got up and took me to bed. 35:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Did he say anything before he left? 35:22 [SPEAKER_09]: Yes. 35:23 [SPEAKER_01]: What do you say? 35:23 [SPEAKER_09]: He said that to go ahead and tell Ted because no one would believe me anyway. 35:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The next day, will the group was at a Yakuza run forest discussing trivial manners, Minado's brother and Nabohara, called to report that Junko appeared dead, her body cold and still upstairs. 35:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Panicked at the prospect of detection, the trio decided to dispose of the evidence. 35:49 [SPEAKER_00]: They wrapped her mutilated remains in two blankets, the fabric soaking up residual blood, 36:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Miyano borrowed a cement mixture in truck from his former tile employer under false pretenses. 36:06 [SPEAKER_00]: They procured an oil drum used as neighborhood trash, placed a bagged body inside a long with concrete blocks for weight, and filled it with fresh concrete, the wet mix sloshing over her form. 36:19 [SPEAKER_00]: hardening into a solid tomb. 36:22 [SPEAKER_00]: The drum was then encased in a large black garbage bag, and loaded onto the truck at around 8pm. 36:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Their plan was to dump it into the sea, the on-row, spotting an empty lot near a construction site in Koto Ward. 36:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They abandoned it there instead. 36:37 [SPEAKER_00]: The heavy cylinder rolling into the dirt under cover of night. 36:41 [SPEAKER_00]: On January 23, 1989, Miano and Agarro were arrested for the gang rape of the 19-year-old woman they had targeted in December. 36:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Their crimes catching up in peace-meal fashion, a March 29th, two officers from a Yoste station interrogated them after finding women's underwear at their homes, suspecting theft, amid questions. 37:04 [SPEAKER_00]: An unresolved murder of a mother and her seven-year-old son in the district from November 16, 1988, nine days before Junco's abduction prompted a query to Miano, quote, you mustn't kill someone you know, misinterpreting it as a reference to Junco, believing Aguera had confessed, Miano blurted, quote, 37:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Leading to full confession, they located the drum, it's strange odor of decay, seeping through a 305 kilogram monolith, lifted by crane and transported to the station the next day. 37:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Cracking opened the concrete revealed Junko's body, badly decomposed after over two months, bloated with a deema from fluid retention, unmaciated from maldentrition, facial features 37:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Skin's loft in places. 38:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Identification required fingerprints. 38:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The only intact marker left, some accounts note she was pregnant at the time of death, adding another layer of tragedy to the case. 38:12 [SPEAKER_00]: An April 1st, Minato was arrested for separate sexual assault, and recharged with murder, what's gonna be in Nobu Haru follow, though the brother faced no conviction. 38:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Junko Farudus Funerong was held on April 2, 1989. 38:28 [SPEAKER_00]: A somber gathering where family and friends bid farewell, amid tears and incense, had she not been murdered the following day. 38:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Monday, April 3rd, would have marked her first day at work, a milestone forever stolen. 38:43 [SPEAKER_00]: One of Junko's friends delivered a memorial address, her voice trembling with emotion. 38:49 [SPEAKER_00]: She spoke of welcoming Junko back, expressing disbelief at seeing her in such a way. 38:54 [SPEAKER_00]: She acknowledged the immense pain and suffering Junko must have endured. 38:58 [SPEAKER_00]: She recalled how the happy they all made for the school festival, looked really good on Junko. 39:04 [SPEAKER_00]: She promised they would never forget her. 39:07 [SPEAKER_00]: She mentioned hearing that the headmaster had presented Junko with a graduation certificate, so they graduated together, all of them. 39:15 [SPEAKER_00]: She concluded by saying, there is no more pain, no more suffering, and pleaded for Junko to rest in peace. 39:23 [SPEAKER_00]: The words hung in the air, a poignant reminder of shared innocence and lost. 39:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Despite the crimes shocking brutality, 39:31 [SPEAKER_00]: juvenile status initially shielded the perpetrators' identities under Japan's law, protecting those under 20. 39:38 [SPEAKER_00]: However, public outrage and media outlets published their names and photos defying norms and indignation. 39:46 [SPEAKER_00]: The trial concluding July 12, 1991. 39:50 [SPEAKER_00]: After appeals, sentenced them as follows, Mihano received 20 years, Agra got 5 to 10 years, Mihano was given an indefinite 5 to 9 year term, what's on to be received a 5 to 7 year term, the court classified it as bodily injury resulting in death. 40:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Rather than murder to avoid harsh or penalties, a decision that fueled public disc contend. 40:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Miano's mother sold the family home to send 50 million yen to Jungeo's parents as a toneman. 40:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Miano was released in 2009. 40:23 [SPEAKER_00]: In 2013, he was arrested for fraud, but free due to insufficient evidence. 40:29 [SPEAKER_00]: As of recent years, he lives obscurely, possibly under the name Aroshi Yokoyama, Agarus' father, saved for compensation, which was refused by the family. 40:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Agarob was released in 1999. 40:44 [SPEAKER_00]: He married and divorced a Chinese woman. 40:46 [SPEAKER_00]: rekindled Yakuza ties in 2004 at age 31. 40:51 [SPEAKER_00]: He was arrested for abducting and assaulting a man, boasting of past murder and skills in manipulating authorities, sentenced to four years. 40:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Reports claim his mother vandalized Junko's grave, blaming Junko for ruining her son's life. 41:05 [SPEAKER_00]: His father's savings were squandered on luxuries. 41:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Agura died recently. 41:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Details are scarce, 41:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Monato married a Romanian woman in 2006, his status remains private under privacy laws, what's on a being lived dependently with his mother post-release. 41:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Unemployed, succumbing to neurodegenerative disease in 2021, a quiet end of weight of the agony he helped him post. 41:34 [SPEAKER_00]: The disposal site evolved into a casu park, a green area where people now enjoy leisure, oblivious to the horror once hidden there. 41:43 [SPEAKER_00]: The Minato House was demolished after the murder, rebuilt, and sold to new owners, are racing physical traces, but not lingering shadow. 41:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Before the intense torture began, Junko shared a meal downstairs with the Minato family. 41:58 [SPEAKER_00]: A bizarre moment where the mother, sensing something a miss, urged her to go home, only to be shouted down or struck by Shinji. 42:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The parents were forbidden upstairs. 42:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Sources vary of parental awareness. 42:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Some suggest they were unaware of Junko still being held upstairs. 42:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Other sources stayed, they were aware, but did not interfere because they were too scared of their son's violence. 42:21 [SPEAKER_00]: It is unbelievable that they cannot notice the violent torture occurring upstairs. 42:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Everett's Japanese houses are small, even though the parents were busy with work and spent limited times at home, a home is a home. 42:34 [SPEAKER_00]: They must have heard the screams, smell burning flesh, felt thoughts. 42:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They knew, but they chose to remain silent, that silence led to Junko's death, turning their son into a murderer, and court documents in a state that all four of the gang showed deep remorse and pledged to become better members of society. 42:53 [SPEAKER_00]: But at the very least, Miano and Agra have betrayed these pledges, with Agra committing violent crimes, and court extremely stern words were heard during 43:03 [SPEAKER_00]: The judge describing the acts as exceptionally grave and atrocious violence inflicted upon a blameless victim. 43:11 [SPEAKER_00]: The brutality was inhumane, the violence, rape, and torture were erratic and relentless. 43:17 [SPEAKER_00]: There was no humanity, no respect for fellow human beings whatsoever. 43:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Jinko was murdered so brutally at the age of 17. 43:25 [SPEAKER_00]: The judge asserted that there was no words that could fully describe Jinko's pain. 43:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Hearing the details of the brutal violence and torture sent upon Junko, a spectator in the gallery fainted. 43:36 [SPEAKER_00]: It was reported that Junko's mother had a mental breakdown, and suffered mental illness after realizing what Junko was forced to go through before her death. 43:45 [SPEAKER_00]: The case had a significant impact on Japan's legal system, the relatively white sentences with the maximum being 20 years for such extreme savagery. 43:55 [SPEAKER_00]: sparked a nationwide outrage, and petitions demanded a harsher penalties for juveniles. 44:00 [SPEAKER_00]: The public reaction led to revisions in the juvenile wall in 2000, lowering the age for trying offenders as adults to 16 for serious crimes, and enhancing rights for victims, a lasting legacy from Farutus suffering, the influence policy, though it came too late for her. 44:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Listener, 44:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Reflect upon the profound cruelty embedded in this tale, where the universe stood by and silent permission as 44 days of unrelenting torment unfolded for Junko Faruta. 44:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Her pleas for mercy fell on death years, as the cruelty is only evolved, degrading loops that humiliated Junko spirit. 44:40 [SPEAKER_00]: and poisoned her body from within. 44:42 [SPEAKER_00]: The captain's complete lack of empathy enabled this progression to persist without pause. 44:47 [SPEAKER_00]: The thrill of absolute dominance overriding any natural revulsion at the festering, corpse-like form they sculpted through their own actions. 44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: until even they turned away in boredom, seeking fresher victims to quench their insatiable urges. 45:02 [SPEAKER_00]: This was not a sudden act of rage, but a sustained campaign of degradation inflicted, where each day built upon the last, all under the gaze of a cosmos that neither flinched nor intervened. 45:15 [SPEAKER_00]: In the aftermath, the tempered application of justice, 45:18 [SPEAKER_00]: freed individuals who proved far from repentant, their white sentence, a mockery of the devastation they brought upon a 17-year-old girl, released after years that pailed in the comparison to the intensity of the torment they inflicted. 45:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Sites of horror were sanitized into places of leisure, the drums abandonment wand, blooming into a park where children now play, oblivious to the concrete encased agony once discarded their like refuse. 45:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Jimco Faruta was more than a victim. 45:48 [SPEAKER_00]: She was a girl with hobbies that brought her joy. 45:51 [SPEAKER_00]: She enjoyed the camaraderie of her school friends, participating in festivals where the air was filled with music in the set of street food, her laughter mingling with others in moments of pure happiness. 46:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Junko dreamed of singing on stages, her voice carrying melodies that express her inner world, the indifference of the universe demands that we, as it's inhabitants, forge our own barriers against such viciousness, less more light like Junko's be extinguished, in similar darkness, arcs flourish with the laughter of the living, 46:22 [SPEAKER_00]: In cities continue their ceaseless pulse of activity, but the echoes of Junko's story serves as a solemn warning against the cost of complacency. 46:32 [SPEAKER_00]: In a world without inherent justice, the responsibility to act falls upon us all. 46:39 [SPEAKER_08]: He had a knife at life right and he kept saying, get naked. 46:43 [SPEAKER_06]: What kind of knife was it to the best you could remember? 46:45 [SPEAKER_08]: I looked like a kitchen knife. 46:47 [SPEAKER_08]: I kept begging them just to win me alone. 46:51 [SPEAKER_06]: Did you leave you alone? 46:52 [SPEAKER_08]: No. 46:53 [SPEAKER_06]: What were you thinking when the defendant woke you up and held an IV for it and had to take your clothes off? 46:59 [SPEAKER_09]: I was scared. 47:00 [SPEAKER_09]: It's crazy.
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