280 Thousand Police Officers Have Taken Part In The Investigation, But The Murder Of A Family In 2000 Has Not Yet Been Uncovered

Police ask residents at Seijogakuenmae Station to help them find the killer (Photo: KYODO)

JAKARTA - 20 years is not a short time. During that time, the murder case of a family at their house in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo 20 years ago, has not yet been uncovered.

Mikio Miyazawa (44 years old); wife Yasuko (41 years); his daughter Niina (8 years old) and son Rei (6 years old) were found dead on the morning of December 31, 2000. Rei was strangled to death. The other three were stabbed to death.

Quoted from Japan Today, Saturday, December 11, the police found quite a number of traces of the perpetrator at the victim's house. There are fingerprints and other evidence showing the killer still had time to use the computer and eat ice cream after the murder.

It is also strongly suspected that the perpetrator was still in the house for several hours before leaving the next morning before dawn.

Some 280,000 officers have been involved in the case to date, and the police have received more than 16,000 information from the public, but the killer is still at large. There is a 20 million yen reward for information leading to the arrest of the killer or killer.

A police spokesman said the department would never give up until the case was resolved.

Saturday, December 11, the police distributed flyers at the Seijogakuenmae train station to ask for information to passersby. And this is done every year in the hope that someone will provide new information.

Police are also mannequins wearing clothing similar to what the killer is believed to have worn.

Police concluded the clothes, including sweaters, and knives left at the scene had been purchased in Kanagawa Prefecture. Three types of powdered fluorescent dye were found in shoes and bags left at the scene. In the pocket of the sweater, which had only been sold two months before the murder, were found traces of a fallen bird, a Japanese zelkova, and a willow leaf.