Kobe child murders

When

1997

Kind

Murder

Killed

2

Coordinates

34.68° N, 135.10° E

Description

Japanese double-murder case

Injured

2

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1997 Japanese double-murder case

The Kobe child murders occurred in Suma, Kobe, Japan, on 16 March and 24 May 1997, when two children, ten-year-old Ayaka Yamashita and eleven-year-old Jun Hase were murdered. Yamashita was fatally injured in a series of assaults on elementary school girls between February and March 1997 while Hase was abducted, strangled and mutilated before his severed head was left in front of a school.

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