The Mysterious Toyoake Family Murders (Documentary)
In the early morning of the 9th of September, in a quiet suburban area of Aichi prefecture’s Toyoake city, the stand-alone home of the Kato family was set on fire. Not long after the fire was extinguished, police found 4 of the 5 family members’ bodies in the house. Mother Toshiyo and daughter Rina’s bodies had been stabbed multiple times, while sons Yuki and Shogo had been hit with a blunt object. Father Hiroto was working overtime at his company an hour drive away from his home. Investigators struggled with the investigation due to the burned down crime scene, very little evidence and only a few eye witness accounts. A few months after the the murder-arson incident happened, new information came to light, which made media outlets point their fingers at father Hiroto after initially receiving sympathy from the public. In this documentary we’ll explore the investigation into this murder-arson case, possible theories and the effort of family and friends in their attempts to help police solve the case.
I found out about this case through the “Sora no kai” website while working on the documentary for the Junko Kobayashi murder-arson case. While there’s only a little evidence police could work with, lots of speculations circulate the internet. I’ve tried to objectively put this case together, so that you’ll be able to form your own opinions and insights. This case is extremely heartbreaking, especially for the family members who are still trying their best to help police solve this case. I’ve made this overview in the hopes somehow the culprit or culprits will be caught, so that family and friends can at least have some sort of closure. May Toshiyo, Yuki, Rina and Shogo rest in peace.
If someone by any chance has any information about this case, please contact the proper authorities with the information below:
愛知警察署特別捜査本部 (Aichi Police Station Special Investigation Headquarters)
電話番号 (tel.): (0561) 39-0110
Prefectural police case name: 愛知豊明母子4人殺人放火事件
Read the scripts of my videos at my blog: https://rhetoricamysteries.blogspot.com/
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
04:14 Police investigation
15:51 Theories
26:43 The family’s search for answers
30:56 Conclusion
Music used:
Doug Maxwell – Lost In The Forest
Myuu – Fatal Shrine
Myuu - Underworld
Myuu – Rising Walls
Ross Bugden – Solstice ( / @rossbugden )
Video sources:
B-roll: pexels.com and homemade
Maps: Google Earth
Soccer footage: • QWC 2006 India vs. Japan 0-4 (08.09.2004)
CBC news: • 豊明母子4人殺人・放火事件から9日で19年 「一日でも早く4人に良い知らせがしたい･...
Tokai TV news: @tokaitvnewsonevideo7277402483259919634
Nagoya TV news: • Video
Chukyo TV news 1 (中京テレビ): • 「小さな情報が鍵に…」 未解決のまま18年 母子4人殺害事件の遺族ら情報提供呼びかけ
Chukyo TV news 2 (中京テレビ): • 【情報提供を呼びかけ】愛知・豊明市の母子４人殺害事件から１９年 遺族らが情報提供を呼びかけ
Chukyo TV news 3 (中京テレビ): • 愛知・豊明市一家４人殺害事件から１７年「犯人は絶対に許さない」と遺族
Some important information sources:
Sky’s meeting (Sora no kai) website: https://www.jikou74.com/
Aichi police website: https://www.pref.aichi.jp/police/anze...
Information house overview: / @datvsideb
Interview Hiroto: https://news.line.me/detail/oa-shujop...
TV program: ザ! 世界仰天ニュース
http://sharetube.jp/article/15264/
https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/135909186
https://ooyakeblog.com/toyoake-jiken/
https://ameblo.jp/maeba28/entry-12452...
https://give-a-shot2020.com/news/aich...
https://www.kojitena.com/entry/aitito...
https://tomatomarigi.com/aichi-houka
/ murder-of-4-and-arson-in-toyoake-aichi
https://www.cyzo.com/2010/02/post_396...
https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXLAS...
https://mainichi.jp/articles/20210910...
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