 A woman who hired a hitman to murder the wife of her lover, and then complained to police when he didn't do the job, has been arrested along with the hitman, police said.
| "You have the right to remain silent — stop laughing, Dano!... You have the right to an attorney — Dano, I told you to button it!... Anything you say can — Cheeze! Somebody help Dano! He's having a fit!... No, not you, ma'am!" |
The murderous intentions of Eriko Kawaguchi, a Tokyo Fire Fighting Department employee, came to light after she complained to police because the hitman didn't carry out the job, although she paid him about 15 million yen. "I came to know that the wife gave birth and then I felt betrayed (by the lover)," officers quoted Kawaguchi, 32, as saying about her motive for hiring the hitman.
| "As soon as she got preggers, I know, knew beyond a doubt, that he'd been doinking her!" |
Kawaguchi, from the Tokyo suburb of Tama, phoned Takaharu Tabe, 40, from Kunitachi, after she read Tabe's web page on the Internet in November last year, police said.
| "All about me: I'm a tough guy. I like to kill people. Click here for photos of guys I've killed..." |
In January this year, Kawaguchi met Tabe in Tachikawa, requesting that he murder the wife of her lover. In due course she paid him a total of some 15 million yen for the murder and the costs of tailing and keeping watch on the target.
| "Nyah, baby! Bumpin' guyz off don't come cheap, y'know!" |
Tabe offered to murder the target by taking her on a motorbike into a tunnel and pouring poisonous bacteria over her.
| That's what I always do when I want to bump somebody off. Either that, or trap them in an abandoned silver mine and fill the place with poisonous fish... |
Tabe then showed photos of the home and working place of the woman to Kawaguchi. He even gave white powder to Kawaguchi and said he used it to murder the 32-year-old target. But the wife of Kawaguchi's lover was never attacked and recently gave birth.
| "On the bright side, the powder did clear up that scaly stuff between my toes..." |
Six months later, Kawaguchi then went to the Tama Chuo Police Station and made a complaint, police said. Officers are grilling Tabe about the possibility of other murder contracts.
"Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!"
"Oh, yeah? How about this!"
"My footpowder! Where did you get that?" |
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