Issei Sagawa, also known as Pang or The Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese killer, cannibal, and necrophile who was responsible for the 1981 murder of Renée Hartevelt in Paris.
Issei Sagawa, a Japanese cannibal who walked free passed away at 73
Sagawa, a Japanese murderer dubbed the “Kobe Cannibal,” who murdered and devoured a Dutch student but never went to prison, passed away at the age of 73.
Issei passed away on November 24 from pneumonia, and his burial was solely attended by family members, there was no public ceremony scheduled, according to a statement from his younger brother and a friend. Sagawa hosted Renee Hartevelt in his house in 1981 when he was a student in Paris.
He r*ped her, shot her in the neck, and ate various pieces of her body over the next three days. At the time, Hartevelt’s family vowed to press for Sagawa’s prosecution in Japan so that “the killer would never go free.”
Issei Sagawa Family, Age, Education, Early Life
Issei Sagawa was born on 26 April 1949(73 years old) in Kobe, Japan. He holds a Japanese Nationality and he belongs to the white ethnicity. His Zodiac sign is Taurus.
Issei Sagawa was born to rich parents. Akira Sagawa, Sagawa’s father, was a businessman who was president of Kurita Water Industries, and his grandfather was an editor for The Asahi Shimbun. Sagawa was born early and reputedly tiny enough to fit in the palm of his father’s hand, and he got enteritis, a disease of the small intestine, almost immediately.
Issei Sagawa – Education
Issei Sagawa received his bachelor’s degree from Wako University and his master’s degree in English literature from Kwansei Gakuin University.
Sagawa received several invitations to serve as a guest speaker and pundit between 1986 and 1997. Sagawa played a sado-s*xual voyeur in Hisayasu Sato’s 1992 exploitation movie Uwakizuma: Chijokuzeme (Unfaithful Wife: Shameful Torture).
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Sagawa has authored books regarding both the murder he committed and the 1997 Kobe child killings, including Shonen Additionally, Sagawa has published restaurant evaluations for the Japanese publication Spa.
Issei has had difficulty finding work and is no longer able to find publishers for his works. Sagawa was on the verge of being accepted by a French language school after the management was moved by his bravery in disclosing his own identity, but staff members raised objections and he was turned down.
