Thirty years ago, Japanese Issei Sagawa dragged two suitcases to the Bois de Bois de Boulogne outside Paris. A nearby jogger complained that the suitcases contained the dismembered body of a classmate — a Dutch woman named Renee Hartwilt who had shot Sagawa three days before and died in the Days passed after eating various parts of her body.
He was quickly arrested. Issei reportedly said “I killed her to eat her meat” when they raided his home, after which they found Renne’s leftovers in his freezer.
Sagawa was declared insane, unfit to stand trial, and sent to an asylum in Paris. However, his imprisonment was short-lived, as the French public soon grew tired of their hard-earned francs going to support the evil woman eater, and Ise was swiftly deported. What ensues is a string of bizarre and seemingly overly comfortable legal loopholes and psychiatric reports that lead doctors in Japan to declare him “healthy but evil”.
On August 12, 1986, Sagawa was discharged from the Matsuzawa Psychiatric Hospital in Tokyo and has since become a free man.
Warning: Contains scenes that some viewers may find disturbing.
