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Noboru Hashimoto/Corbis via Getty Images Issei Sagawa still walks free through the streets of Tokyo. Issei Sagawa Offers A Straightforward Confession For His Crime He had planned to drop the suitcases in it, but several people noticed the suitcases dripping blood and notified the French police. The taxi dropped him off at the Bois de Boulogne park, which had a secluded lake inside it. He had eaten or frozen most of her pelvic region, so he put her legs, torso, and head into two suitcases and hailed a cab. Two days after killing Hartevelt, Sagawa disposed of what remained of her body. “Nobody believes me, but my ultimate intention was to eat her, not necessarily to kill her.” “What I truly wished was to eat her living flesh,” he said. Ultimately, he said his only regret was that he hadn’t eaten her while she was alive. It was truly a historical moment for me.” “The moment I saw the meat, I tore a chunk off with my fingers and threw it into my mouth. It looked like corn, and it took a while to actually reach the red meat,” Sagawa recalled. No matter how deep I cut, all I saw was the fat beneath the skin. “The first thing I did was cut into her buttock. Issei Sagawa Kills And Eats Renée Hartevelt In Parisįrancis Apesteguy/Getty Images Sagawa being led out of his apartment following his arrest in Paris, July 17, 1981. “It became less about wanting to eat them, but more an obsession with the idea that I simply had to carry out this ‘ritual’ of killing a girl no matter what.”Įventually, he found the perfect victim. “Almost every night I would bring a prostitute home and then try to shoot them from behind,” he wrote in In the Fog. Once there, he said, his cannibalistic urges took over. Issei Sagawa had moved to Paris to study literature at the Sorbonne, a public research university. Then, in 1981, after repressing his desires for 32 years, he finally acted on them. And he believed that at just under five-feet tall, he was too repulsive to attract the kind of physical intimacy that would have tempered his desires.Īlthough Sagawa did once attempt to see a psychiatrist for his urges at age 15, he found it unhelpful and retreated further into his isolated psyche. He was always short and skinny with legs that “looked like pencils,” he wrote in his best-selling book In the Fog. He maintains, however, that he never thought of killing them, only “gnaw on their flesh.” Frankly, I can’t fathom why everyone doesn’t feel this urge to eat, to consume, other people.” “For example, if a normal man fancied a girl, he’d naturally feel a desire to see her as often as possible, to be close to her, to smell her and kiss her, right? To me, eating is just an extension of that. Issei Sagawa says the reasons behind his cannibalistic tendencies can’t be explained to or conceptualized by anyone who doesn’t share his exact urges.
Where other people dreamed of bedding these beautiful women, Sagawa dreamed of eating them. He blames the media’s representation of Western women like Grace Kelly for sparking his cannibalistic fantasies, equating it with what most people would call sexual desire. He even recalls noticing classmates’ thighs in the first grade and thinking, “Mmm, that looks delicious.” He sought out fairy tales that involved humans being eaten, and his favorite was Hansel and Gretel. He remembered with fondness his uncle dressing up as a monster and lowering him and his brother into a stew pot for eating. And for as long as he can remember, he possessed cannibalistic urges and a fascination with eating human flesh. Xuanyizhi/Weibo Issei Sagawa pictured in a promotional photograph for a Japanese magazine. When he discusses his crime, it’s as if he believes it’s the most natural thing in the world. He has even starred in soft-core porn reenactments where he bites actors.Īnd throughout his life, he has been chillingly unrepentant. He has appeared on numerous talk shows and written manga novels that graphically depict killing and eating Hartevelt. In the years since, he has effectively made a living off his crime, and he’s even become something of a minor celebrity in Japan. But after his extradition to Japan, he was able to check himself out of a different psychiatric hospital due to a legal loophole - and remains free to this day.
He was almost immediately arrested and sentenced to a psychiatric hospital. Sagawa, who was born in Kobe, Japan, was studying comparative literature in Paris at the time of his crime. When Issei Sagawa murdered, dismembered, and devoured Renée Hartevelt in 1981, he was fulfilling a dream 32 years in the making. Noboru Hashimoto/Corbis via Getty Images Issei Sagawa in his Tokyo home, July 1992.
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