Tsutomu Miyazaki was a Japanese serial killer who operated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His horrific crimes earned him many nicknames, including “The Otaku Murderer,” “The Little Girl Murderer,” and even “Dracula Miyazaki.”

He abducted, killed, and sexually assaulted young girls as well as preserved body parts as trophies. Read on for a closer look at the ghastly acts committed by Tsutomu Miyazaki.

The Victims of Tsutomu Miyazaki

Miyazaki’s victims were mainly young girls between four and seven years old. In one case, he abducted four-year-old Mari Konno while she was playing outside her home on a hot summer day in August 1988. He strangled her and hid her body in an abandoned building before returning home to his family house. In another instance, he kidnapped seven-year-old Erika Nanba while she was riding her bicycle to school in Tokyo in June 1989.

After murdering her, he decapitated her body and cut off one of her hands before burying it in the mountains of Saitama Prefecture.

The Psychopathy of Tsutomu Miyazaki

Miyazaki had been raised in an abusive household with an emotionally distant father who would later commit suicide due to the shame that his son brought upon the family name. As such, experts believe that this traumatic upbringing may have played a role in his descent into psychopathy, which is defined as a personality disorder marked by abnormal or violent social behavior.

It is believed that this psychosis led him to commit heinous acts such as drinking his victim’s blood and eating their flesh—acts which only further cemented his nickname “Dracula Miyazaki” among the public at large.

One might also note how these gruesome acts served to add humiliation to the victims’ families by sending them postcards describing the murder and even pieces of their daughter’s remains as “trophies.” What’s more, after dismembering bodies, he took photographs of them before disposing them of in various locations throughout Tokyo and its suburbs; some remains were never recovered.

TL;DR

Tsutomu Miyazaki was a monstrous figure whose crimes fill us with horror even today—more than two decades since they occurred. Although there are many theories about why he did what he did, the truth is that we may never really understand what drove him to kill so many innocent children and engage in such sickening behavior with their corpses afterward.

Regardless, it is clear that his actions were heinous beyond words; thankfully justice prevailed when he was eventually arrested for his crimes and ultimately hanged for them at Tokyo Detention Center in 2008 at age 45. May those who suffered from this monster find peace knowing justice has been served..