The decapitated body of a cat was found on a sidewalk of Kobe on Sunday, police said.
The grisly discovery was made by a man in his 70s at around 7:55 a.m. in Kita Ward, TV Asahi reported. According to police, the feline appears to have had its head severed with a sharp blade and that it appeared to have been dead for less than a day.
The cat was an adult male and measured about 40 centimeters in length from its neck to its tail. However, the severed head was not found at the crime scene, police said.
When police arrived at the scene, the sidewalk was wet from overnight rain, and no bloodstains could be seen in the area. It is believed that the cat was mutilated at a separate location and brought to the sidewalk later.
Police said they are checking street surveillance camera footage to try and find out who was responsible.
The sidewalk is in a residential area about two kilometers southwest of Hiyodorigoe Station along the Kobe Electric Railway’s Arima Line.
Last year on June 13, four dead cats with crushed heads were found in a cemetery about a kilometer away from the crime scene. Police are investigating whether Sunday’s case is related to that incident
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John
Got a budding serial killer on our hands.
wallace
It's not the first time in Kobe.
falseflagsteve
Maybe another Dexter in the making, probably a teen. They start young before moving onto humans. The firmed must be caught.
owzer
To be fair, Dexter only killed bad people.
NCIS Reruns
In spring 1997 "Sakakibara Seito" (the killer's alias) rocked the nation for two months, after leaving an 11-year-old boy's severed head beside a middle school gate in Kobe's Suma Ward. I remember the shock and astonishment when the perp turned out to be a 14-year-old boy. I hope whoever's killing these animals gets help before he or she graduates to human victims.
tora
No need to investigate whether they related or not.
Eeetto
Making of another Luka Magnotta.
TokyoLiving
Pathetic scumbag cat killers must be punished..
GuruMick
Agree with the possible/likely transition from animals/cats onto human victims.
"Anatomy of Motive " by a US forensic crime expert , adds, an early history of bed wetting and a predilection for lighting fires.
Somebody, probably a peer or a relative, would at least have suspicions about some individual {male, early twenty ?} who could be doing this.
Gaijinmunkey
It'll be an elementary student next
Ricky Kaminski13
Special type of evil that could do that sort of harm to a cat. They are quite clearly gods that live to be served by us mere humans, and it is an honor to just be in their presence.
Whoever the perpetrator is, he/she will be going to hell in a waste basket.