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Issei Sagawa: A celebrity cannibal who lives freely
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Issei Sagawa: A celebrity cannibal who lives freely

This is the story of a weak and premature child named 'Issei Sagawa' who later went onto becoming a celebrity cannibal. Sagawa in 1981 murdered and ate a female acquaintance and has roamed free since then. JAPAN - Born in the city of Kobe in 1949, Issei Sagawa was a prematurely born child who lived a happy and wealthy life. With a weak body and a small height of just 4 feet 9 inches, nobody thought the boy would turn into a dangerous cannibal - also a celebrity in Japan. It was all normal for Sagawa until he reached a certain age and his cannibal desires started to grow. He was 32 when his increasing cannibal desires led him to murder, rape and eat up a female friend named 'Renée Hartevelt'. Soon arrested after the crime, Sagawa went free since the court declared him legally insan...