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Tsutsumi Sakamoto (right), wife Satoko (left) and son Tatsuhiko (center) On November 5, 1989, Tsutsumi Sakamoto (坂本 堤 Sakamoto Tsutsumi April 6, 1956 – November 5, 1989), a lawyer working on a class action lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo, a doomsday cult in Japan, was murdered, along with his wife Satoko and his child Tatsuhiko, by perpetrators who broke into his apartment.
Hideo Murai (村井 秀夫 Murai Hideo, December 5, 1958 – April 23, 1995) was a member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult and one of the perpetrators responsible for the Sakamoto family murder. He also helped plan the Tokyo subway sarin attack. [1] Murai held a doctorate in astrophysics.
Kazuaki Okazaki (岡崎一明, Okazaki Kazuaki, October 8, 1960 – July 26, 2018) was a Japanese convicted multiple murderer and former member of the doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo who co-perpetrated the Sakamoto family murder and another murder in 1989. [1]
Sakamoto family murder: 3: Yokohama: Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a lawsuit against Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult disappears with his wife and child. In 1995 it was revealed that cult members had murdered them and buried their bodies. 1990: Sapporo murder: 1: Sapporo: Nagata Ryoji murders a robbery victim during a break-in at a Sapporo ...
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Over the next year, four more women — Regina Sakamoto, Denise Hughes, Louise Medeiros, and Linda Pesce — met similar fates. ... Rader's first known murders were the Otero family in January ...
The prosecution also accused Asahara of masterminding the Matsumoto incident and the Sakamoto family murder. [66] During the trials, some of the disciples testified against Asahara, and he was found guilty on 13 of 17 charges, including the Sakamoto family murder; four charges were dropped. On February 27, 2004, [67] he was sentenced to death. [68]
Shocking new charges have been brought in the case of a family that was brutally murdered in their homes on Halloween night in 2015. Cathy Scott, her husband Michael Scott, Mr Scott's mother ...