The Miyazawa Family Murders

December 30th, 2000. New Year’s Eve in Tokyo. The Miyazawa family

slept peacefully in their home, Mikio, 44… Yasuko, 41…

Niina, 8… and Rei, just 6 years old. Around 11 PM, someone climbed

in through the bathroom window. He strangled little Rei first… then attacked the

others with a sashimi knife so violently the blade snapped inside a victim’s skull.

But here’s what makes this case truly horrifying: The killer didn’t leave.

He stayed inside that home for more than 12 hours, surrounded by the bodies of the family

he just murdered. And what he did during those hours left investigators with over 100 clues…