A Japanese student named Issei Sagawa was studying in Paris when he invited a Dutch student Renee Hartevelt to his home.
His intentions towards her female friend was not good. He had evil intentions to eat her. Once they were at his house he shot her in the neck, raped her, then consumed parts of her body over the course of three days.
After consuming some parts of her body he then tried to dispose off her other remains in the Bois de Boulogne park, where he was arrested.
Psychiatric experts deemed Sagawa unfit to face trial, and he was initially held in a mental institution in France before being deported to Japan.
There, he was ruled sane by Japanese authorities, but as the charges against him in France had been dropped, he was allowed to walk free.
Isseei Sagawa made his crime public and capitalised on his notoriety. He even wrote a novel-like memoir titled “In the Fog” in which he reminisced about the murder in vivid detail.
He also recounted details of the incident and his ongoing obsession with cannibalism in interviews and a 2017 documentary, “Caniba”.
Speaking to media outlet Vice, he said he had been “obsessed with cannibalism, my desire to eat a woman had changed into an obligation.”
After Issei Sagawa, made known his murder publicly, he was not arrested he was allowed to enjoy his freedom yet the victims were denied justice.
