Name: VIPPER 2005-02-08 10:25
Nara schoolgirl killer tells police 'I don't think I did anything bad'
NARA -- Police suspect that a former newspaper deliveryman accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl in Nara Prefecture in November had clear intent to murder the victim, investigators said Tuesday.
Kaoru Kobayashi, 36, a former worker for a Mainichi Shimbun sales agent, initially denied the allegations against him when questioned by police and wouldn't cooperate with investigators because he wanted to be sentenced to death.
"I thought I would be punished with the death penalty if I damaged investigators' impression of me," he said.
He has shown no remorse over his crime. "I don't think I did anything bad," he was quoted as telling police.
Nara Prefectural Police investigators are grilling Kobayashi over the motives behind his crime.
Eyewitnesses told investigators that a green hatchback-type vehicle driven by Kobayashi was circling the area where he allegedly abducted the young girl.
Kobayashi had earlier stopped his car along a Nara Prefecture road in a bid to speak to his victim, but after she refused to stop, he overtook her and waited for her to pass his vehicle, investigators said.
He then offered to give her a lift home. After she got into the car, he asked her to accompany him to his home saying, "I left my belongings at home."
He confessed that immediately after he took her into his apartment, about 10 kilometers away from the abduction area, Kobayashi forced his victim's face into a bathtub and drowned her.
Prefectural police have learned that Kobayashi ate lunch at his workplace about an hour after he is believed to have abducted the victim, even though he was not working that day. Investigators suspect that he showed up at the newspaper delivery agency office while leaving the victim's body behind in his apartment.
Kobayashi told police, "I would have kidnapped anybody."
Investigators believe that the suspect had planned to abduct any young girl with a clear intent to kill her.
Kobayashi appears to be desperate, police said. "This year (2004), everything I tried was unsuccessful. I don't mind if I am executed," he was quote as saying during questioning late last year. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 4, 2005)
NARA -- Police suspect that a former newspaper deliveryman accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl in Nara Prefecture in November had clear intent to murder the victim, investigators said Tuesday.
Kaoru Kobayashi, 36, a former worker for a Mainichi Shimbun sales agent, initially denied the allegations against him when questioned by police and wouldn't cooperate with investigators because he wanted to be sentenced to death.
"I thought I would be punished with the death penalty if I damaged investigators' impression of me," he said.
He has shown no remorse over his crime. "I don't think I did anything bad," he was quoted as telling police.
Nara Prefectural Police investigators are grilling Kobayashi over the motives behind his crime.
Eyewitnesses told investigators that a green hatchback-type vehicle driven by Kobayashi was circling the area where he allegedly abducted the young girl.
Kobayashi had earlier stopped his car along a Nara Prefecture road in a bid to speak to his victim, but after she refused to stop, he overtook her and waited for her to pass his vehicle, investigators said.
He then offered to give her a lift home. After she got into the car, he asked her to accompany him to his home saying, "I left my belongings at home."
He confessed that immediately after he took her into his apartment, about 10 kilometers away from the abduction area, Kobayashi forced his victim's face into a bathtub and drowned her.
Prefectural police have learned that Kobayashi ate lunch at his workplace about an hour after he is believed to have abducted the victim, even though he was not working that day. Investigators suspect that he showed up at the newspaper delivery agency office while leaving the victim's body behind in his apartment.
Kobayashi told police, "I would have kidnapped anybody."
Investigators believe that the suspect had planned to abduct any young girl with a clear intent to kill her.
Kobayashi appears to be desperate, police said. "This year (2004), everything I tried was unsuccessful. I don't mind if I am executed," he was quote as saying during questioning late last year. (Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, Jan. 4, 2005)