A kind-hearted Dutch exchange student volunteered to help a Japanese friend with transcribing poetry at a Parisian university, unaware that she would never be seen alive again.
In a deeply disturbing case, Issei Sagawa admitted to French Police in 1981 he murdered classmate Renee Hartevelt, saying "I killed her to eat her flesh."
Moreover, the depraved killer has never served time behind bars for his abhorrent crime.
Born in 1949, Sagawa maintains his cannibalistic fantasies commenced when he was just six-years-old.
He revealed his favourite childhood story was Hansel and Gretel, and he recalls staring at other pupils' thighs during primary school whilst thinking: "Mmm, that looks delicious."
As he grew older, his cannibalistic desires developed a sexual element as he started fantasising about devouring women's flesh, especially Western celebrities like actress Grace Kelly,reports the Mirror.
When he was 23, he broke into the Tokyo apartment of a young German woman whilst donning a Frankenstein's monster mask.
She woke before the four-foot nine-inch Sagawa could initiate his assault and subdue her. He confessed to police he had intended to sexually attack her, and his affluent father paid compensation to the young woman to drop the charges, allowing Sagawa to walk free.
Subsequently in 1977, he travelled to Paris to study languages and literature at the Sorbonne University. Sagawa, 28 at the time, became friends with Renee, who would regularly visit his flat to teach him German.
On 11 June 1981, whilst she was at his flat for dinner and to assist him with coursework, Sagawa shot her in the neck.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
