4. Until the End of Murder: A Serial Strangler

By all accounts, Hiroshi Maeue's childhood was normal. His parents both worked respectable, blue-collar jobs and aside from being a fan of a peculiar choice of entertainment, there was nothing notable about Maeue’s adolescence that would indicate that he would go on to have a compulsion for harming others.

 

Sources:

https://wickedwe.com/hiroshi-maeue/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/maeue-hiroshi.htm

https://web.archive.org/web/20071226194658/http://gonta13.at.infoseek.co.jp/newpage495.htm (from wikipedia reference, in japanese, english Google translation)

http://www.executedtoday.com/2010/07/28/2009-hiroshi-maeue-suicide-website-murderer/ ( not much from here)

https://medium.com/true-crime-addiction/the-suicide-serial-killer-of-japan-true-crime-494ed2be8514

https://vimeo.com/260643824 (lots of info here)

https://www.theregister.com/2007/03/28/suicide_pact_murderer/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/let-s-die-together/305776/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/early-lead/wp/2015/10/16/disabled-japanese-pro-wrestlers-fighting-for-equality-inside-the-ring-and-out/