Heinous – An Asian True Crime Podcast · Mediacorp
Best of Heinous - The Killer Geisha | Sada Abe | 1936
·33 min·3 clips
Investigators found a blood message reading 'We, Sada and Kichi, are alone' and Sada's name carved into the victim's arm.
As heard by us
A grave, intimate look at obsession and control, set against a case that still unsettles.
This is one of the stronger episodes, and it gives the Sada Abe and Kichizo Ishida case room to breathe. It starts in 1936 with the Shinagawa hotel check-in, the false name, shopping, a film, a massage, and three bottles of beer, then lets the wider Tokyo manhunt and newspaper…
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A 1936 love affair that ends in one of Japan's most infamous crimes.
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