THE SETAGAYA MURDERS 

Sounds sad

How many children do you have? Wow that many.

She tried her best to save her baby 😔

@@abbyarnold4477 ?????

@@abbyarnold4477 what was that comment for? It has nothing to do with the conversation 🤨

like literal POO and they haven’t found him - WHAT

@@veraniaelizondo4905 His DNA would have to be on the police dna database to find him that way. The clothing could not be traced as South Korea would not cooperate.

i wish i didn’t read this before i finished the video🙃

@@janetpendlebury6808 it could simply be someone who had no record of existing. Someone born on the street and has never been to school and that.

@@Roses-101 Are there many people like that? I can't imagine they could go through there whole life without some sort of paperwork being needed somewhere along the line.

Right? Either the killer was absolutely crazy, or they knew that couldn't be identified by fingerprints, DNA, etc.

could have been a teen from the skatepark so their prints wouldn’t have been in the system ? that paired with how messy and disorganized everything and the animals mentioned in the beginning makes me think it was a teen or young adult

@@ninaa3699 maybe I'm not convinced it was a teen but maybe...even so a person who does that wouldn't just do it once and go live a law-abiding life. Surely their future crimes would flag them. Unless they were from another country and have committed the rest of their crimes there 🤔😕😭

@@AirQuotes yep 100% unless it was personal, this person would have prior crimes. you don’t jump from nothing to breaking and entering, murder/robbery. the crimes might not have been connected because they could have happened in a different country (south korea bc of the shoes)?

@@AirQuotes yk what, i was going through more of the comments and now i’m thinking military. that would explain the sand and why the case has never been solved.

The killer could be an ex boyfriend ,, it’s the only big possibility for an issue with the wife

I think the issue with the wife was the fact she wasn't dying and must have fought back to the point he had to get another weapon. Her attempt to escape may have angered him especially if he was military and assumed fighting a woman would be easier. He has to be former military who is being protected somehow.

@@breehanson3415 good shout !!

I'd guess US military, deployed to Korea and Japan on more than one occasion (hence the collection of clothes from several locations and eras). It's not exactly uncommon for this kind of thing to be done by US military in Japan, and they can be as brazen as they like because they're often protected.

I think the killer is a lover who she was cheating on her husband with or an ex. I think the youngest son was the killers biological child or thought he was, he strangled him but didn’t stab the son. But gave the worst treatment to the daughter who he resented As he knew that child wasn’t likely to be his child and the mother as he strongly hated her for not leaving her husband for him.

honestly so heartbreaking, i can’t even imagine

According to Yasuko’s sister, who lived next door with her husband and her mom, Nina Chan grandmother came back from the Miyazawa’s home after 10 minutes and with shaky voice told her and her husband, ( Yasuko and everyone, it looks like they all got killed) Yasuko’s sister, thought No way, and rushed to the house. As she opened the door she was instantly in shock and saw what seemed to be Mikio’s body, covered with clothes and scattered documents and other things. The house was a mess. As she was about to enter the house, her husband came and shouted Don’t look! Don’t touch anything! Then police came. Yasuko’s sister was informed by the police that everybody in the house had been murdered. Which means that Yasuko’s mother, was the only one who saw the bodies of her loved ones for the last time inside their house. 🙏

They had no neighbours, just the mother living next door, and the house was soundproofed.

@@janetpendlebury6808 the mother heard the thud tho, no? and i’m sure soundproofing can only do so much, if they had been screaming then it would be odd that the mother or anyone hanging around nearby wouldn’t have heard :(

@@pinkmivenus It's probably better she did not hear much, if she had gone to investigate she would have been murdered as well. Plus we dont know if she was hard of hearing, if there were people using the skatepark then they might have been making a noise as well, you often get kids screaming and yelling in parks.

@@janetpendlebury6808 that's very true, you raise a good point. even if she hadn't of checked out any noises she heard the burden of living knowing what happened after that would be huge. in cases like these its only the first reaction to go to "what ifs" , if that makes sense :(

@@pinkmivenus Based on the fact the grandmother never mentioned hearing any screaming, I’m wondering if the person walking the park path behind the house mistook where exactly the sound was coming from. It was the only house in the area, so when they heard two people shouting without seeing them, one could easily assume that’s the only place close enough that it could be. Perhaps it came from the direction of the house, but outside and further out. That would explain why she didn’t also hear it, giving the walls between her and the outside. As far as the thud, she could’ve innocently assumed it was nothing, being she heard no panicked reactions after the noise. For instance, maybe she thought, “if something is wrong, they’ll let me know.” Opting out of calling immediately, as not to wake her grandkids with the noise. After only hearing one noise and nothing more, brushing it off. I say that because I live in a basement apartment. The amount of loud bangs I’ve heard which turn out to be nothing…. I’ve honestly, I’ve lost count. My landlords are an elderly couple. So, when I first moved in, I was concerned every time I heard something, thinking they’d gotten hurt. I soon realized: they just walk…. REALLY. FREAKING. LOUDLY. They slam every cabinet and drawer they use, not realizing just how loud it is. The husband watches action movies so loud it rattles my ceiling and walls. So, I kinda see why only one thud wouldn’t be seen as cause for alarm. And one of the saddest thoughts I’ve had for a very long time about this case: Maybe Yasuko didn’t make a sound because she knew it’d alert her mother, who’d instantly run over, causing her to meet the same fate.

If they were a traveler, it’s crazy how someone can get away so easily just by leaving the country

what a sad case :( i think the most likely is that some skater made a bet with his friends to go "kill the neighbours that always got mad at us" kinda thing. honestly devastating :(

@@mischahewitt that’s what i was thinking too because of how disorganized and almost juvenile the scene was. no “organized” killer would leave literal crap in a toilet, full outfit, dna, and money at the scene. at the same time with all the evidence, if it was someone local they would have probably been identified? that paired with the shoes from south korea and the train station near by points to a traveler maybe in their teens/young adult hood ?

yeah when true crime youtubers make joke in the midst of describing brutal cases it feels so inappropriate

Gabulosis and Rachel Shannon are both underrated and very respectful. They have a calming demeanor just like Bella

@@Littleone124 💕 thank you so much

@@ghii2821 I agree! I love That Chapter channel but he jokes sometimes little too much and it is inappropriate.

couldn't agree more

yeah, fuck this killer

This reminds me of Peter Manuel case. He lived for, I think, few weeks in a house of his victims. Just disgusting how can someone lack so much respect, honestly. 🤢

For real poor girl she was so young. Fly high

They also stranged a 6-year-old boy. Man, that's so sad.

Honestly, this is what I was thinking too. A lot of weirdos also join the military, and use that as a way to hide their true identities.

It would be odd for a 30 something US citizen/resident to be skating in a random place like that, plus surely someone would have noted an odd appearance (mixed race) or accent. IMO it's more likely he was either Korean (compulsory military service) or Japanese, and had participated in training or exercises in the US or with US troops (to pick up sand from Edwards), and had either gotten the shoes from home if he was Korean or during a trip/training in Korea if he was Japanese (until a few years ago JPN and Korea used hold exercises together).

This seems so plausible 😧👏🏽

@@nathaliaahamilton or to “legally” kill people!!

@@LENZ5369 i couldnt agree more! i think the military idea is good but you dont see many of those kinda people dressed in skating attire running around sketchy skate parks🤣 i think the most likely is a skater who was sick of the family or wanted to look cool for his friends so he went there and killed him. honestly great ideas from everyone tho!

Government cover-up I’m sure

It is very common in Japan to sleep on the highest floor of the house but I agree

@@sarac9275 hmm makes sense i suppose... more height to jump from

@@myselftik weird statement

@@YesIlikebananasSo don't get it? japan...?

@@myselftik don’t get it ? bad “joke” ?

Hahaha that’s what I thought 😂

I thought exactly the same thing! lol😅

Probably because she talks about murders all the time but not often do they involve leaving shit in the toilet

Awful 😞

Yeah sometimes I have to fast forward through the description of the murders, some can be very brutal

actually, i must have forgotten to mention this! Mikio was worried living so close to family would cause family disputes in the future, and he and Yasuko’s sister An agreed so they had both houses soundproofed

​@@bellafiori this is sad to think that if they hadn't done that this family might've been saved

@@bellafiori oh my goodness!!! What!!! No! Why did they soundproof their home!! They could’ve been saved!!!😭😭😭

@@princesaa__ Or the mother could also have been murdered is she went to investigate!

​@vh.1032 the killer had cut the phone line

Yes, that’s exactly what I was going to suggest. It’s mind boggling to me that this hasn’t been done already - especially with a suspect that is supposed to be half Asian and half Western European. That just screams military dependent to me.

I had discounted US military because they prob would have stuck out in JPN either because of appearance or accent/etc. but hadn't thought of dependents raised in Japan -nice. I was thinking along South Korean or Japanese military and had picked up the shoes and sand/bag either by traveling to the US and JPN/ROK or interaction with foreign troops; during exercises/training.

My sister and her family lived in Japan for 10 years while spouse in navy. They often got things from Korea and other countries and they went all over Japan and spent a lot of time out with the locals

being minor military dependent could explain why he knew the layout of the house and was so comfortable there they might be suspicious if they were and adult but maybe a teenager could seem like some one the family could trust and even invite in. when i hear skater i dont think about adult but teenagers

I don’t think they can access that easily sadly..

Feel the same way. Never heard of a passion case where the killer chilled after with ice cream and a nap. Also there were not even a suspect being mentioned that could possible do a crime like this for personal reasons.

Yeah, I agree too and on the basis that there had been animals killed in the neighbourhood, they must be from or known from the area. Hope justice is sort.

I get the feeling that it was someone that either lived or had family in the area as well since there's not much reason to go to Setagaya-ku otherwise. I know some European countries do this thing to solve crimes where they ask everyone who lived in the area at the time to volunteer DNA in hopes of getting a familial match. Maybe they could find the killer that way. Also, if the killer is ethnically Korean and Michio really did get in a fight with a group of skaters not long before he died, maybe Michio said something or did something that the killer perceived as disrespect. Ethnic Koreans do face a lot of discrimination in Japan so it's possible that something was said or that the killer was just sensitive because of that (not that it gives him an excuse to kill an entire family but it could have been the reason why he picked them as his victims). Maybe one day one of the people in that group of skaters will come forward with some information.

The killer must be in his 40s or older by now

No matter where my husband is he responds Hi bella!!

I love that too and the fact that to me it sounds like Bellaaar :) Beautiful :D

I think they didnt found prints or dna on the front door or near the entrance. I just read it in wikipedia in the japanese version.

@@cezinfante4928 he could’ve worn gloves tho...

The son was killed first in his bed upstairs so if the killer came through the door the dad would’ve more than likely got killed first

@@avarichardson632 that's true so that would make sense that the killer entered from the upstairs area nearest the child's room.

SK police are so shitty..remember there's one of the frog kids case that Bella did previously? I can't with how bad they are doing their job

That's a lie. This is not the claim of the Japanese police, but the claim of the Japanese media(anti-Korean). The Korean police conducted fingerprint checks, but they did not come out. It is a failure of the Japanese investigation. Even if you know the immigration information of Japan, you can catch the criminal. But nothing was consistent with Korea.

Makes u feel so sick how can someone be so evil. Poor family

Yeah it's so sad knowing they were such a beautiful family it's so heartbreaking

appreciate you 🥺

That's a lie. This is not the claim of the Japanese police, but the claim of the Japanese media(anti-Korean). The Korean police conducted fingerprint checks, but they did not come out. It is a failure of the Japanese investigation. Even if you know the immigration information of Japan, you can catch the criminal. But nothing was consistent with Korea.

Actually love this...not ooh I'm first blah blah...but getting hyped n wanting us to join in...love those vibes woo hehe

@@rachaelgrant6813 hehe heck yeah, let's unite and give Bella those views she deserves for putting so much work into these ^_^

@@LeonieWitte you are such a positive 👸princess love it, yes she does n just comes across so warm n funny. Which when it's harder cases being spoken about it's comforting if you get me zxx

@@rachaelgrant6813 yeah absolutely I love the way Bella presents these cased with respect yet also intrigue and yeah

Yeah I was wondering why that was deleted! Was keen to watch 🥺

This makes a lot of sense imo

This actually could be it. And they are paying off the police or soemthing

They actually sold the house and land, and just were last ones to move out And even if you are right, the plan backfired as house became crime scene, and wasn't demolished Out of all theories this seems the least logical

Yeah, I made a comment earlier that the skater clothing could’ve been a ruse. As a parents might have been totally different when he left. It’s on the grandmother next-door didn’t hear anything and that killer had so much time to roam around and use every room in the house. To brutally kill children is especially EVIL. The brazen nature of their behavior within the house is to taunt everyone. Of course, they got away with it! They were in no hurry to flee the scene. Leaving a big dump behind? There’s a statement! 😱

I doubt it’s a hitman, they’re very professional and make sure not to leave any clues behind, which this guy did the opposite of. A hitman would be discreet and wouldn’t be seen walking around days before. Also, if he was a hitman, he probably would’ve used a gun which is quicker and less messy

@@whatevermynameis2852 Right this seems personal like the killer knew the family and murdered them out of anger

@@whatevermynameis2852 no man, I think this was a hitman, very smart and a true psychopath, so smart that makes you think he’s stupid. Think about it, he cut the phone lines, he climbed through a fence and removed the window screen without making noise, he got inside the house through a small window, again no noise, he systematically killed everyone. First the kid, used bare hands, didn’t want to alert the father but wanted to grab his attention, once father goes up he tries to “neutralize” him because he knows once the father is gone, it’s over. But at the same time he wants the father to realize he’s being killed, this is where the psychopath comes in, he wants them to suffer. Once the father is gone he goes for the women. Here he takes more time. He is probably now enjoying it, while being aware and in full control of the situation. He has gloves but doesn’t bother to user them, because he wants to use his barehands, he enjoys killing with his barehands. He’s probably an army or special forces drop out, he is trained in hand to hand combat. On top of that a psychopath. His blood work revealed he is a non smoker, didn’t use drugs on that day. He’s probably even vegetarian. Maybe he’s out there pretending to live a normal life.

They can't test everyone's dna, it has to be on the database in the first place.

The poop in the toilet reminds me of the Amanda Knox case. I remember thinking about how awful that was. The person who murdered her roommate Meredith Kercher pooped in the toilet too and didn’t flush after.

thisssss!!!!

the question is WHY tho, but at this point we may never know because this case is so old, its probably closed. but yea theres no other way he hasnt been found yet.

Well there’s another explanation. Could the bag could have been stolen or it was bought at a second hand store and the original owner was prior military. It could very well be a red herring.

heheh not quite 12 but i do have one more coming tomorrow!

@@bellafiori eeeeeeeeeeee! Can. Not. Wait! 😝

@@bellafiori Omg what have we done to deserve this 🙏🏼🤍

I don't think a professional would leave all that evidence behind.

@@animelytical8354 Even simpletons knew you shouldn't leave any fingerprints at the crime scene. But he did. And he got away even after all the DNA he left behind. So why did he got away with murder even after all the evidence?

I wonder if the person was high on drugs which is why they left so much evidence and was so brutal. No idea why they haven't been caught though it's very suspicious 🤨🤔😕

@@AirQuotes Unless he took some form of steroids or enhancers but something seems so military of him

@@EM-tx3ly both things can be true

That’s so awesome! We love growing our little garden, and it is such a great experience for kids!

What does this have to do with this case?

@@amandajanebush4939 I think it had to do with the intro, not the case. It was a while ago, so I'm not totally sure.

Why would you put “lol”??? This isn’t an lol moment…

@@Nanubaby3385 honestly a force of habit of how I type, didn't even think about it, sorry if it reads wrong

@@ellismorten oh ok that was kind of messed up for a moment…this case is HORRIBLE

@@Nanubaby3385 it really is, I feel so bad for the family and I am just floored that they never managed to find anyone

@@ellismorten yeah but the Good Lord will have vengeance

You didn't dream, haha. I saw it too and wanted to watch it this morning, but it was removed when I woke up. I als thought I was a bit crazy and dreamt that I saw it🙈

@@CaRLaiTJiE yeah, I saw it yesterday and wanted to save it for after work ughhhh I hope she can re upload later and all her work hasn’t gone to waste

I’m so glad I’m not only on this I even clicked on it but said I had to an account (I was already logged in) then it disappeared

I literally thought I was going crazy I checked Bella's insta and Twitter for an update oml

just looked up your aunts case and I really hope she looks into it! my condolences to your family

HAHA yea fanny has a different meaning in australia …

Also Wondering the same thing happened to me!

The same thing happened to me!! I want to finish it!

The same thing happened to me! :(

CCTV was not around as much, plus not sure how much it is used there.

@@janetpendlebury6808 thats true but couldn't they just ask the cashier who assisted him to describe how he looked like since they have proof of the day and time the knife was purchased

@@salmabdalla I expect so, if they ever found him they could put him in a line up, but finding him would still be the problem! Even if a dozen people could describe him, they still have to find him. Japan has a population of just over 126 million! And he may also have left the country. I found the following on wiki "The investigation into the murders is among the largest in Japanese history, involving over 246,044 investigators who have collected over 12,545 pieces of evidence. In 2015, it was reported that forty officers were assigned to the case full-time. Every year, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department makes an annual pilgrimage to the house for memorial ceremonies. In 2019, it was reported that thirty five officers are assigned to the case".

Me too! I could never rock them, the way Bella does! 😍

I highly highly doubt it. The only thing that fits at all is the sand but, as someone that actually lived in Japan on a military base in that area for 3 years as kid and then lived in Korea for 3 years as an adult, I can think of a million reasons why it almost definitely wasn't an American and also several ways to explain the sand. I know how terrible some U.S service members can behave overseas (especially the younger ones) so it's not that I would put it past them or anything, it's just that in this specific case the behavior of the killer and all of the other evidence doesn't fit with the killer being an American.

good luck on your test !!

I don't mean this in a mean way. But that made me giggle lol. I was just sitting thinking how cool her earrings were, you poor soul! I hope you do well in your test! This can just be a study break! X

Goodluck