Miyazawa's Mother Is 89 Years Old But The Killer Of Her Son, Daughter-in-law And 2 Grandchildren 21 Years Ago Has Not Been Caught

Mikio Miyazaki Family (Photo by Asahi newspaper)

JAKARTA - The age of 68 is the darkest period in Setsuko Miyazawa's life. His son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were killed in the house.

Now Setsuko Miyazawa is 89 years old. That means 21 years of time have passed since that dark event. But who killed his son's family has not yet been answered.

Last December 2020, Setsuko Miyazawa visited her son's family home in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. In this place on December 30, 2000 a vicious killer broke into the house.

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 the Asahi Shimbun, Setsuko Miyazawa at that time chose to be outside the house. Staring deeply into the two-story house and then venting his frustration because the killers in this house can still roam big.

“There are a lot of clues,” Miyazawa said.

"Why can't it be solved?" he regrets.

More than 282,000 police officers have been involved in the lengthy series of investigations. Tens of thousands of information has been collected by the police. But the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department hasn't even been able to find a trace of the killer.

At the crime scene, blood samples, fingerprints and clothing were found which allegedly belonged to the perpetrator. After killing the family, the perpetrator, believed to be blood type A, was still able to take ice cream and tea at his house.

There are also signs that he is surfing the Internet on his home computer. He even had time to treat the wound. There seems to have been some resistance from the victim.

DNA analysis has revealed that traces of blood (type A) found at the scene not belonging to the family suggest that the killer had a mother of European ancestry, possibly from a country near the Mediterranean or the Adriatic Sea.

Y-chromosome analysis has revealed that the killer's father is of Asian descent, with DNA appearing in 1 in 4 or 5 Koreans, 1 in 10 Chinese and 1 in 13 Japanese. He is believed to be around 170 cm tall and thin.

While looking at the house, Miyazawa said that he imagined his grandchildren rushing over to him like they used to. Twice a week, Miyazawa travels two hours by train and bus from his home in Saitama Prefecture to care for the children while his son and daughter-in-law work.

When he got off the bus at the bus stop closest to the house, the two children waiting outside ran up to him saying, "Grandma."

He let the children play in the garden before he prepared dinner. They always eat all the food he cooks. Her grandchildren bake cakes for her for Christmas and her birthday.

Miyazawa still vividly remembers how Niina sang and the days she cheered for the kids at the school sports festival.

Family is a source of fond memories for him.

“I want to know the truth,” he said in the article written by Yosuke Takashima and Nobuyuki Takiguchi

“Why did the murder happen? Why did my very young grandchildren have to be killed?”