Issei Sagawa aka "The Japanese Cannibal" (lost Renee Hartevelt death footage recorded by cannibalistic murderer; 1981)
In the summer of 1981, Issei Sagawa, a Japanese student studying abroad in France, invited Renee Hartevelt, a classmate, to his apartment for dinner and to study poetry. What culminated was Sagawa's intention to kill and consume Hartvelt's flesh.
The Murder
While Hartvelt was reading a Johannes Robert Becher's poem about death, he shot her with a rifle. Using an electric knife, he started taking more than seven kilos of meat off her body. He consumed her flesh during the next threedays, cooking several meals, having sex with the corpse before finally getting rid of the body. In addition of recording the whole butchery (Hartevelt's last words and the actual fire shot were caught on tape), Sagawa also shot a total of 39 photographs showing several "stagings" he made with the corpse.
Trying to make Hartevelt's body disappear, Sagawa eventually committed a mistake by losing in a public garden one of his suitcases containing body parts. The police later found the owner of the suitcase and arrested the man who was to be called "The Japanese Cannibal" by the newspapers. The rest of Hartevelt's body, the rifle, the butchery photos, the tape recorder as well as several other pieces of evidence were found in his Apartment.
Availability
All of the graphic images from the crime scene and autopsy pictures were published in the magazine photos in December 1983 but the alleged tapes are presumed to be in possession of French Police.
External Links and References
- WARNING: THESE PICTURES ARE OF HARTEVELT'S PARTIALLY DISMEMBERED CORPSE. THESE IMAGES ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING. VIEW AT YOUR OWN RISK. Retrieved 17 Feb '19
- [1] Retrieved 20 Feb '19