There's been strange turn of events in an Osaka murder case. A chef had made a series of poor investments which left him 5 million yen in debt. Unable to deal with the shame, he killed his wife and two children before trying to commit suicide by slashing his wrists in an internet cafe. He failed and is in police custody. To make the tragedy worse, investigators have now discovered that his wife, through her own efforts, had a secret savings account with 20 million yen which she was planning to use to send the children to university. The husband said that his relationship with his wife had deteriorated and he hadn't told her about his debts and didn't know about her savings.

Source: Yomiuri (Japanese)

Damn. Real gift of the magi there.

Police should just help him finish what he started. Execute the motherfucker right now.

sublight wrote:Damn. Real gift of the magi there.

Wow. A literate person.

sublight wrote:Damn. Real gift of the magi there.

...er, don't worry too much about the myrrh next time.

sublight wrote:Damn. Real gift of the magi there.

damn, beat me (and most everyone else, the FG crowd is pretty fucking smart) to it.

but now the real question. Does he still get the 20,000,000?

Level3 wrote:Does he still get the 20,000,000?

If it had been my (ex)wife I would have made sure he did.

This summarizes a lot of what is wrong with this country. Nonexistent communication and fatalism.

I hope they do the right thing and give this guy his money. I can't believe that bitch was holding out on him.

Samurai_Jerk wrote:I hope they do the right thing and give this guy his money. I can't believe that bitch was holding out on him.

I think the laws here are pretty much the same as in the US. If you are a party to the demise, you don't get the dust....

Greji wrote:I think the laws here are pretty much the same as in the US. If you are a party to the demise, you don't get the dust....

Like the Menendez brothers of Beverly Hills, who shot their parents in '89 to get the family fortune.