The fear brought by the Epidemic of Newcastle pneumonia (the Chinese Communist virus), which is spreading around the world, can easily plunge society into turmoil. In the past, there was a horrific mass murder case in Japan, in which the suspect succeeded by disguising himself as an epidemic prevention worker and remained at large after the crime without being sanctioned. This incident was the “Teikin Incident.
According to The Japanese media “Bunshun Online,” the murder took place on January 26, 1948. At the Time, a man suddenly entered the branch of the Imperial Bank in Shiina-cho, Toshima-ku, Tokyo, just before closing time. The man said that he was an official medical doctor and that someone in the neighborhood had been infected with dysentery and had come to the bank, so he came here to distribute Medicine in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
The man took out a bottle of water with colorless liquid and other drugs, demonstrated how to take them, and said that medical expenses would be discussed afterwards, and that it was important to drink the drugs first to prevent the epidemic. So 16 people, including bank employees, took the drugs he handed out one by one as the man instructed. However, after that, many of them immediately felt sick and passed out one by one. One of the bank officers, Masako Murata, ran out of the door and collapsed in the street, causing a public commotion.
In the end, of the 16 people who drank the drug, 10 died on the spot and one person died after being taken to the hospital. After the test results, it was found that the drug the man gave to everyone was in fact “potassium cyanide” which is highly toxic. After the bankers were poisoned, the culprit stole more than 160,000 yen in cash from the bank and left, which is equivalent to 1,669,000 yen today.
Although there have been reports in major media since then that people have witnessed the suspected suspects somewhere, nothing has been done in the end. It has been suggested that “Sadayoshi Hirasawa”, a prisoner on death row who is believed to have committed another similar case, may also be the main culprit in the Teikoku incident, but there are also claims to the contrary that “Lieutenant Colonel S”, a soldier in Unit 731, is the most suspicious. The incident was also rewritten as a novel by the mystery Writer Kiyoharu Matsumoto, but the truth is still a mystery today.
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