
MDN-Mainichi, By Marvin Feltcher / December 14, 2003
...he climbed up a drainpipe from the third floor of the building and entered the woman's fifth floor apartment from her unblocked balcony. He thrust a paper cutter up against the throat ... gagged her and bound her limbs, then raped her. Before leaving the apartment, he took a photo of the woman's nude body and threatened to spread copies of it everywhere if she told the police about the ordeal she had just been through."
Monkey Man, as the weekly refers to Aso, used the same mode of climbing up drainpipes and spouts to attack women in outer suburban Tokyo. Blame for almost a score of unsolved rapes that have occurred in the suburbs of Hachioji, Hino, Chofu and Kodaira...