Is Issei Sagawa dead or alive?
Issei Sagawa was born on April 26, 1949, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. He is also known as Pang or The Kobe Cannibal. Issei Sagawa is a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophile known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981. Issei’s parents were wealthy. His father, Akira Sagawa, was a businessman who had…
Issei Sagawa was born on April 26, 1949, in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture. He is also known as Pang or The Kobe Cannibal.
Issei Sagawa is a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophile known for the killing of Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981.
Issei’s parents were wealthy. His father, Akira Sagawa, was a businessman who had served as president of Kurita Water Industries.
Sagawa’s grandfather had been an editor for The Asahi Shimbun.
Issei Sagawa was educated at Wako University and completed a master’s degree in English Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University.
He has said that while living in Paris, “Almost every night I would bring a prostitute home and then try to shoot them, but for some reason, my fingers froze up and I couldn’t pull the trigger”.
Issei Sagawa dead or alive?
Issei Sagawa is still alive. Issei Sagawa killed Hartevelt then amputated, cannibalized, and completed necrophilia on her corpse over many days.
The Kobe Cannibal was charged but discharged after two years of pre-trial custody upon being found legally mad and deported to Japan.
