The man known as the "Twitter killer," accused of killing and dismembering nine people after contacting them on social media in Japan, pleaded guilty in a Tokyo court on Wednesday, local media reported.
Takahiro Shiraishi, 29
, accused of storing the
dismembered
bodies of his victims in refrigerators,
did not refute the nine murder charges he faces, stating that they are "all correct," the public broadcaster NHK said.
On Halloween morning in 2017, police discovered in Takahiro Shiraishi's home nine bodies dismembered into no less than
240 pieces of bone hidden
in refrigerators and tool boxes, dusted with cat litter to try and hide them.
The man is suspected of having lured victims between 15 and 26 with suicidal tendencies through Twitter telling them that he could help them in their projects or even die at their side.
Police arrested Takahiro Shiraishi three years ago while
investigating the disappearance of a 23-year-old woman who allegedly tweeted that she wanted to commit suicide.
After the disappearance of the young woman, her brother would have managed to connect to her Twitter account and detected a username with suspicious messages.
The defendant's lawyers ask that the charges be reduced to "murder with consent", which only carries a penalty of between six months and seven years in prison,
alleging that the victims consented to be killed
, according to NHK.
If convicted of murder, Takahiro Shiraishi faces the death penalty, which is executed by hanging in Japan.
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