Along with his ex-wife, Hiroko Kazama, Gen Sekine became a Japanese horror story in the early nineties. Together, the couple owned a dog breeding business…and their victims were customers they’d scammed.

The details of the scam don’t matter all that much for our purposes, but suffice it to say, Sekine would sell people dogs he claimed were rare breeds or for purposes of breeding, only for them to turn out to be, well, not so rare. Or, in some cases, incapable of breeding due to age.

The couple made pretty good bank with this scam. They had managed to build up a reputation as good breeders and they exploited that reputation to rake in ill-gotten dough.

But then some folks twigged to the scam and threatened to expose them.

So, as you do, Gen and Hiroko decided to poison these people.

The problem with poisoning people, of course, is that then you have dead bodies. So the couple forced one of their employees to let them use his property to dispose of the bodies. Rightly thinking that burying the bodies wouldn’t be enough, Gen butchered them. And I mean butchered them, meticulously and intricately cutting up the bodies until there was really nothing left but bones…which he burned to ash.

Fortunately, that recalcitrant employee was a witness and testified to four murders. Gen and Hiroko were both convicted and sentenced to death. Whew!

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