1st trial hearing of serial murder case in Zama, Japan

1st trial hearing of serial murder case in Zama, Japan

Officials wearing face masks and disposable gloves ask people to disinfect their hands due to the coronavirus pandemic at the Tachikawa branch of the Tokyo District Court on Sept. 30, 2020. Many lined there for the first trial hearing of Takahiro Shiraishi, who has been indicted on charges of murdering, dismembering and storing the bodies of eight women and a man in his apartment in Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2017.

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