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Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time; a look into all aspects of a guilty verdict from the burden of proof to conviction to the judge’s sentence and more.
poison flavored candy (The criminal with 21 faces)
On March 18, 1984, a Japanese man named Kahatsu Izaki was enjoying an evening bath at his home when suddenly two masked and armed men broke in and kidnapped him while he was completely naked. Izaki was the owner of a famous Japanese confectionery factory called Glico. The next day, a ransom demand arrived at his factory. The kidnappers asked for 1 billion Japanese yen and 100 kilograms (equivalent to about 10 million U.S. dollars). They said the payment would be delivered to a public telephone booth in the street; they would specify the location later. However, before any payment was made, Izaki managed to escape from the kidnappers before dawn. No one was watching him, and he was able to untie the ropes binding him, break the door of the warehouse where he was held, and flee. Contrary to what some might think, he was not naked during the kidnapping because the kidnappers had given him clothes. After escaping, he ran far from the place until he found two railroad workers who helped him contact the police. The problem was that Izaki could not identify the kidnappers or describe any of their features. Although the kidnapping attempt failed, the kidnappers did not stop. They sent threatening messages to Izaki and his factory. One message demanded $480,000 and threatened to poison the factory's sweets with cyanide if the ransom was not paid. To prove their seriousness and make sure everyone believed them, the kidnappers broke into the factory and set parts of it on fire. This caused panic among the entire Japanese population and forced the police to deploy more than 130,000 officers to catch them. To those who are hearing this for the first time: this is a case that involved the entire Japanese nation, and the police could not catch the criminals. The criminals were smarter than everyone else. The police did not know who to accuse or suspect for a very long time. In the 1980s, the Japanese police were considered among the strongest worldwide, solving 97% of murder cases and 55% of thefts annually. So their failure to solve the Glico case was a black mark in their history and hurt their reputation. A famous Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri, published a large article on the front page saying they did not remember any case in Japan's history where criminals mocked the police like this. The criminals challenged the police worldwide, taunting them for over a year and a half, sending more than 100 messages with hints and information that could help capture them. The first message read: "To the police: Are you really this stupid? With all these officers, you can’t do your job and catch us? If you were really professionals, you would have caught us by now. But since you are incompetent, we will give you some hints." The hints included that the criminals might be insiders working in the factory or warehouse where Izaki was held. The person writing the messages gave more details, like the color of the car they used during the kidnapping (gray), and even the supermarket from which they bought food. At the end of the message, they wrote: "If you can’t catch us with all this information, then you are thieves stealing from the people who pay taxes to the government to provide them with security." The criminals humiliated the police in front of the entire country. After the first message, thousands more followed, full of taunts and challenges. The police worked intensively on the case, but the criminals were extraordinary. The only thing the police could identify was that the criminals' language resembled the dialect of Osaka city residents, so they suspected the criminals were from Osaka. The case remained unsolved until September 1984, when another candy factory called Morinaga started receiving threatening messages. The kidnappers demanded $410,000 and threatened to poison the autumn sweets of all mothers in Japan with a special bitter-tasting potassium substance. They put warning labels on 20 poisoned candy boxes spread from Hakata to Tokyo. On the same day, shop owners and supermarkets found 18 boxes with warning labels; one was found just 32 meters from Izaki's house. Although not all the boxes contained poison, the discovery caused panic. Another message warned that next time there would be 30 boxes without warning labels. Over the following two weeks, more than 40,000 police officers monitored supermarkets and stores across Japan but could not discover whether the criminals had poisoned more boxes or not. Surveillance cameras caught a man with curly hair, glasses, and a baseball cap placing something on a shelf at one of the stores where a poisoned box was found. The video quality was poor, and the police could not identify the man. The police also released recordings of threatening phone calls made to the factory. The criminal requested factory employees to wait for a call at a public telephone booth in a street station. Two officers disguised as factory employees waited there, but no call came. The criminals continued to mock the police, sending letters challenging their intelligence and ability to catch them. By August 12, 1985, more than a year and a half after Izaki’s kidnapping, the criminals sent their last letter and declared they would stop. During this time, the police received over 28,000 letters from the criminals, used more than 130,000 officers, but could not catch anyone. The police eventually suspected that the criminals were insiders at the Glico factory or involved in the warehouse where Izaki was held. 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