disclaimer: THIS IS A SOLVED CASE. saw this online and HAD to share due to very little knowledge of this terrible case.
warning: what you are about to read in this chapter is extremely disturbing. you are unlikely to hear a more extremely vile or shockingly evil story than this. consider yourself warned from this point on. - Junko Furuta was a 17 year old japanese high-school girl who was kidnapped, raped, and tortured for 40+ days after which she was killed in the late 1980s. The case was dubbed "concrete-encased high school girl murder case", due to her body being found encased in a concrete drum.
The murder was largely orchestrated by four teenaged boys: Hiroshi Miyano, Jō Ogura, Nobuharu Minato, and Yasushi Watanabe. A vast number of the participants in the torture were friends of the boys. Miyano was also known to have connections to the Yakuza.
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Furuta attended Yashio-Minami high school and was known to be a good looking and well active teenager who was popular, which made some students quite covetous. She did not drink, smoke, or do drugs. Despite her clean lifestyle, she was looked down upon by the "bad kids".
Miyano found Furuta very attractive and developed a crush on her. However, her feelings for him wasn't mutual and she ultimately rejects him. With the exception of Furuta, no one has ever denied Miyano due to his deep connections to the Yakuza.
On November 25, 1988: Miyano and Nobuharu Minato found Furuta riding her bicycle home. Under Miyano's commands, Minato strucked Furuta off her bike and ran away. Acting as a "white night", Miyano approaches her and offers to walk her home, gaining her full trust. Unbeknownst to Furuta, Miyano was luring her to a warehouse, where he told her about his Yakuza connections. After he threanted to kill her, he raped her in the warehouse and then once again in a local hotel.
Miyano contacted Minato and the other two friends, Jō Ogura and Yasushi Watanabe, boasting about the rape. Eventually, Miyano took Furuta to a local park to meet Minato, Ogura, and Watanabe.
The captors were vicious with their threats, saying they knew where she resided and the Yakuza will murder her family if she attempts to flee. Furuta was taken to Minato's parents home, where the unimaginable crimes of the boys were set to transpire.
Two days after the abduction, Furuta's disappearance was reported to the police by her parents. The abductors forced her into contacting her mother to say she had ran away from home and to not attempt to search for her.
Furuta was forced to act as the girlfriend of one of the boys when Minato's parents and brother were in the home. Well aware of Miyano's Yakuza connections, the Minatos did not intervene in fear of retaliation.
Officers were contacted a few times about a girl in the residence but the boys would simply deny it. Due to the failure of officers sticking with police protocol, the boys remained undetected and continued in carrying out the savage torture of Furuta.
