Issei Sagawa aka "The Japanese Cannibal" (lost Renee Hartevelt death footage recorded by cannibalistic murderer; 1981): Difference between revisions

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A picture of Issei Sagawa.

Status: Lost

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 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 three days, cooking several meals, and having sex with the corpse before finally getting rid of the body. In addition to 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 one of his suitcases containing her body parts in a public garden. 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

The alleged tapes are presumed to be in possession of French police. They are unlikely to surface for obvious reasons.

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-On June 11th, 1981, in Paris, France, Issei Sagawa killed and partially ate Renée Hartevelt, a Dutch female student he fell in love with.
+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.
-Sagawa was born in Kobe, Japan in 1949 and was sent by his parents in 1977 to the Sorbonne University in Paris, for his modern literary studies. There, he met Renée Hartevelt, a woman he quickly became obsessed with (he admitted having an obsession for tall European women).
 ==The Murder==
-Sagawa convinced Hartevelt to meet him in his apartment, pretending that he needed her to record German poems.
+While Hartvelt was reading a Johannes Robert Becher 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 three days, cooking several meals, and having sex with the corpse before finally getting rid of the body. In addition to '''''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.
-He then shot Hartevelt in the back using a .22 long rifle, while she was reading a Johannes Robert Becher's poem about death. 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 one of his suitcases containing her body parts in a public garden. 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.
-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 department.
 ==Availability==
-While all of the graphic crime scene and autopsy pictures were published in the magazine photos in December 1983, the tape coming from Sagawa's audio recorder is not known to have been unearthed in any form. If it still exists, it likely remains in police custody, like the Christine Chubbuck video.
+The alleged tapes are presumed to be in possession of French police. They are unlikely to surface for obvious reasons.
-==External Link==
-*[http://murderpedia.org/male.S/s/sagawa-issei-photos-2.htm '''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
 [[Category:Lost audio]]
 [[Category:Lost recordings of real incidents]]
+[[Category:Completely lost media]]
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