A kidnapping, poisoned sweets on shop shelves and taunting letters to the press. The Glico-Morinaga case terrified Japan and was never solved.
In May 1938, 30 people were killed in a single night in a hamlet near Tsuyama, Okayama. The case that inspired The Village of Eight Graves.
In 1999 a shortcut at a uranium plant in Tokaimura, Japan, caused a criticality accident. Hisashi Ouchi, the man called the walking ghost, survived 83 days.
On the last night of 2000, a family of four was killed in their Tokyo home. The killer left fingerprints, DNA and clothing behind, and has never been identified.
The full story of Futoshi Matsunaga and the Kitakyushu confinement murders: how a con man controlled two families for years, the escape that exposed him, and all four podcast episodes.