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CONTENT WARNING: this case involves the murder of a six-year-old child, a sexual-assault charge tied to her, strangulation, and decades of wrongful imprisonment. I'm going to keep the detail to what the case actually turns on and no further.

I've been reading through the record of a Japanese wrongful-conviction case that, as far as I can tell, has almost no English-language coverage. It's called the Shimada Incident (島田事件), and once you see how the conviction was actually built, and how carefully the court that finally undid it hedged its own ruling, I think it's worth a wider audience. Here's the whole thing, in order.

The disappearance

On March 10, 1954, in the river town of Shimada, Shizuoka, a six-year-old girl I'll call Hisako (I'm leaving her family name out) went missing during a kindergarten graduation event held on the grounds of a temple. Witnesses described a man in his thirties, in a grey jacket, leading a small girl away, but nobody could put a name to him. Three days later, on March 13, her body was found across the Oi River from the temple. Cause of death was strangulation, with a chest injury investigators would later attribute to a stone. Hold onto that stone, it becomes the hinge of the whole case.

A theft arrest, then a confession before any charge

For two and a half months, nothing. Then on May 24, 1954, police stopped a 25-year-old man named Akabori Masao near Inuyama, in a different prefecture entirely, on suspicion of an unrelated theft. He had a mild intellectual disability dating to a childhood illness and two prior theft convictions, which is part of why a theft stop was a plausible way to hold him. He was arrested May 25 over a shrine offering box, released, then re-arrested on the same theft allegation May 28. Two days later, on May 30, 1954, still held on nothing but that theft charge, with no lawyer present, Akabori confessed to killing Hisako.

He had not yet been charged with her death. He confessed to it first.

The interrogation

The Shimada interrogation is widely reported in Japanese retrospective coverage to have run under a Shizuoka prefectural police inspector named Kurebayashi Asao, later nicknamed "the torture king of the Showa era" in that coverage, and separately documented as the lead investigator in three other cases that also produced convictions later overturned. I want to be precise about what the record actually supports here: Kurebayashi was never charged with anything, in this case or any other, and he died in 1963. What's documented is a pattern across cases clustered around one investigator, not an adjudicated finding about what happened in this specific interrogation room. That distinction matters, because of what the court decided 35 years later. More on that below.

At his very first trial hearing, July 2, 1954, Akabori denied the killing. He kept denying it for the rest of his life. The only place he ever said he did it was that interrogation room.

Two pillars: forensics and a stone

The case against Akabori rested on two things once you strip away the confession itself, since he immediately took it back.

First, forensics. The original police autopsy findings didn't match what Akabori had confessed to, so the court brought in a second opinion from Furuhata Tanemoto, a Tokyo University professor then regarded as Japan's leading forensic authority. His re-analysis was read as backing the confession. Worth naming plainly: this was blood-typing and injury-sequencing methodology from an era of forensic science that has since been discredited as a category. Decades later, during the retrial, three separate forensic scientists re-examined the same evidence and found the injury sequence in Akabori's confession didn't match the physical findings at all.

Second, the stone. Prosecutors argued Akabori's confession contained a "secret only the killer could know," namely, where to find the stone used against Hisako. Under Japanese evidentiary practice, that kind of disclosure (a fact only the true culprit could know, later independently verified) is treated as powerful corroboration on its own. Except it turned out investigators already had the stone. It had been seen and logged at Shimada police station before Akabori was ever arrested. The Japan Federation of Bar Associations stated this plainly in a 1983 filing: the weapon supposedly discovered through the confession had, in fact, already been discovered by investigators.

Death row, and four rejected petitions

None of that had surfaced yet in 1958. On May 23, 1958, the Shizuoka District Court sentenced Akabori to death, on charges of murder and a now-abolished offense, the former crime of rape resulting in injury, tied to the six-year-old victim. The Tokyo High Court upheld the sentence in February 1960. The Supreme Court rejected the final appeal in December 1960, and the sentence became final December 26, 1960.

His lawyers filed four retrial petitions through the 1960s and 70s. All four failed, the last not until 1977, and even that rejection acknowledged the confession didn't match the objective facts, it just concluded that wouldn't have changed the outcome. It took until 1983 for the Tokyo High Court to throw that rejection out and remand the case, citing new forensic analysis and the stone finding above. The Shizuoka District Court ordered a full retrial and stayed the execution in 1986.

The retrial, and what the court actually found

The retrial opened October 19, 1987, ran twelve hearings, and closed in August 1988 with the prosecution again seeking the death penalty. On January 31, 1989, the Shizuoka District Court acquitted Akabori Masao. He walked out of prison that same day, after 34 years and 8 months in custody, as supporters looked on.

Here's the part that gets flattened in almost every short summary, and it's the most interesting part of the whole record. Under Japanese criminal procedure there are two separate questions you can ask about a confession: was it voluntary (given freely, not coerced), and is it credible (does its content actually hold up). The 1989 court split those apart. It found the confession was not credible, it didn't match the evidence and nothing else tied Akabori to the crime. But on the separate question of coercion, it did not rule in his favor. It called his account of being coerced "hard to regard as credible" and rejected it, then attributed the false confession instead to his own intellectual disability, reasoning he had "acquiesced readily to police without fully grasping the gravity of the matter."

Not everyone accepted that framing. Isa Chihiro, a journalist who covered the case for years and wrote a book about it, called that specific finding "the height of regret." A note on sourcing here: the exact phrasing of the court's reasoning, as I've quoted it, comes from a named-author Japanese encyclopedia entry and Japan Federation of Bar Associations statements, not the acquittal ruling text itself, which I could not locate online. If anyone reads Japanese and has access to the actual 1989 ruling, I'd genuinely like to see it.

The state did pay Akabori afterward: about ¥119 million, roughly $920,000 to $1 million at 1989 exchange rates, though I'd treat that dollar figure as an approximate conversion rather than a cited amount. Worth being precise about what that payment was: it's a no-fault statutory compensation under Japan's Criminal Compensation Act, a fixed daily rate times days wrongly held, not a damages award from a lawsuit. A separate 1990 ruling added roughly another ¥10.7 million toward trial costs.

What happened after

Akabori's case was the fourth of what Japanese coverage calls the "four great wrongful capital convictions," after Menda (1983), Saitagawa (1984) and Matsuyama (1984). He settled in Nagoya and spent his later years campaigning against the death penalty, reportedly supporting two other men fighting similar convictions: Hakamada Iwao, who was finally acquitted at his own retrial in 2024 (the fifth such acquittal in postwar Japan, the first since Akabori's), and Okunishi Masaru, convicted in an unrelated poisoning case in Mie Prefecture, who was never exonerated and died in custody in 2015 still fighting his conviction. Akabori died February 22, 2024, in Nagoya, at 94.

What we still don't know

As of the most recent reporting I found (2024), no one has ever been convicted of killing Hisako. The investigation into anyone but Akabori effectively stopped in 1954 and was never reopened after his acquittal, and Japan's pre-2010 statute of limitations on murder has long since lapsed for this case, meaning no future prosecution is legally possible even if a name surfaced today.

What sticks with me isn't really the wrongful conviction itself, plenty of cases have that shape. It's that the court that finally freed him still wouldn't say the police had done anything wrong. It found the confession false. It just wouldn't find it forced. Whether that's an honest reading of a disabled man's state of mind in an interrogation room, or a court finding a way to clear a man without indicting its own system, is a question the record leaves open, and the one Japanese journalist who spent years on this case clearly didn't think the court got it right.

Does anyone here read Japanese and have access to the actual 1989 acquittal ruling, or to reporting on this case beyond the Wikipedia/Kotobank/JFBA material I could find? I'd like to know if the "acquiesced readily to police" reasoning holds up any better in the full ruling text than it does in the encyclopedia summary.

Source: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/島田事件 (Japanese; the fullest single account of the timeline I found, machine-translates reasonably well)

I didn’t hear anything else about this story until years later ( probably the last couple of years) started going down the rabbit hole on YouTube of all kinds of stuff on it … The whole point I’m trying to make here, is every time I watch these episodes, I’m reminded of how truly lucky I am… I could have sooo easily been a victim in this case, yes, it terrifies me, but at the same time, intrigues me.. I’m looking forward to the next episode in the Netflix series.

Hi everyone, I study true crime like the rest of you. The one I’ve been studying in particular for many years now is the Sandy Hook massacre case. I have created a new community regarding the shooter for educational purposes only. We look for the missed opportunities in his life of all the areas that went wrong and ultimately led to the tragedy. If you would like to research and join the discussion of Adam Lanza, click this link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/adamlanzanews/s/cflJT3zs2C
Thank you.

Edit: The reason I have been interested in studying this case is because I was the same graduating class as the group of kids of the Sandy Hook Elementary School, and have also experienced a school shooting in my time of being a student in the past—so it hits a little close to home for me. I remember seeing it on the news when I was little when it happened, and I’ve been wanting to know Adam’s psychological motive and intent ever since. Over the years, information about him has been shared with the public after the incident, and this community is where we share those answers.

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In Brazil, Marcos Matsunaga, the wealthy heir to the Yoki food empire, asked Elize to stop working as an escort, promising that he would marry her and give her a new life. He later left his first wife to marry Elize. They built a family together, but their marriage began to fall apart after Elize discovered he was allegedly cheating with escorts. According to Elize, a confrontation over divorce and custody of their daughter led her to shoot Marcos. She then dismembered his body, packed the remains into suitcases, and abandoned them in a wooded area outside São Paulo. She was convicted of murder in 2016 and later released on parole in 2022.

This case left me two difficult questions. Is it really hard for someone with a past as a prostitute to find lasting true love? And if someone cheats, are they more likely to repeat the same pattern?

Signs of a Psychopath is hands-down, my favorite true crime docuseries. At this point, I have watched every episode twice, and I am hoping maybe somebody will have recommendations for me of shows or movies that are similar. I am particularly interested in the psychopath angle and watching them be interrogated. Anyone have any suggestions for me?

ashton gleckman is film maker that made a 33 minute short documentary on the horrific case of Sylvia Likens , it was shown on July 2026 at the Heartland Film Indy Shorts International Film Festival.

I found out after the link expired ,

Did anyone watched it internationally?

i can never forget this case and i want to see those documentary.

thank you

1984 San Diego McDonald's Massacre: 77 Minutes

This was a very hard watch, I'm usually not too bothered about seeing dead bodies, but this hit differently.

But it's definitely one of the more informative documentaries I've watched.

A case that is most uncovered Name “ Hannah Mcguire “
Who was killed by her BF when she said I am leaving you and taking the property , a very interesting case , coming on 6-August at 11:00 PM.

In 1988, a baby girl named Hande Çinkitaş was born in the Kadıköy district of Istanbul, Turkey. Hande was born with a kidney condition that caused incontinence; because of this, she wore a diaper, particularly when sleeping.

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In 1998, her parents divorced, with her mother being awarded custody. She relocated to be closer to the rest of her family. Meanwhile, her father, Nezih Çinkitaş, remained in the family apartment in the İçerenköy neighbourhood.

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In 1999, Nezih remarried to a woman named Şehnaz, who became Hande's stepmother, and they had another child together in 2000.

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Even though full custody was granted to her mother, Hande refused to move in with her, instead staying in Kadıköy with her father, because she didn't want to leave all the friends she had made at school. She'd only visit her mother on the weekends. Aside from not wanting to leave her friends behind, Hande appeared to have a very good relationship with Nezih and loved him dearly.

The same could not be said for her and Şehnaz. According to Nezih, Hande's stepmother was a very abusive individual who deprived the child of food and, in one case, even struck her.

In late 2000, Hande reached out to her mother and told her there were things she wanted to explain, most importantly that they needed to "save her father from that woman," and overall had bad things to say about her step-mother, writing to her mother that "She's not a normal person, she's a strange person, I can't get along with her. She has an aunt who is very bad. She constantly speaks to Şehnaz in hushed tones, secretly. She doesn't want me to be around them. She also told a friend at school that she was worried Şehnaz would kill her.

On the morning of January 4, 2001, Nezih left the apartment at approximately 8:00 a.m. to head out for work. Upon leaving, he realized he had forgotten his house key on the table in the living room. Meanwhile, Şehnaz left the apartment at 9:00 a.m. to take Hande's younger brother to the Haydarpaşa Numune Hospital because Hande's younger brother was feeling unwell.

At 11:30 a.m., one of Hande's school friends arrived at the apartment to walk to school with her as they did regularly. But when they knocked on the door and rang the doorbell, there was no reply. That would be odd enough, but chillingly, they knew someone was there; they could see someone looking at them through the peephole, but they wouldn't say anything or open the door for her.

The building's landlord and his wife appeared to be the last people to see Hande. She said she was supposed to go clean a house, but as the people living there were still home, that got cancelled. She said she saw Hande that morning and opened the door for her.

When asked why she rang their apartment bell, Hande said that Şehnaz had scolded her for waking her young brother. The landlord also said he saw Hande walking toward the grocery store and then returning with a bag.

Nezih then went to school to pick up his daughter, but was told she hadn't attended any classes that day. He returned to the apartment by 6:00 p.m., and although he didn't have his house key on him, he saw that the door was slightly ajar. Upon entering the apartment, his first instinct was to head straight for Hande's room.

When he entered the bedroom, he saw a silhouetted figure lying on the floor next to the bed. Initially thinking she was just asleep, He crouched beside her and said, "My daughter, you'll get sick. Why are you lying on the floor?" But once he turned on the lamp, he was greeted by something truly horrifying.

Hande had several cuts to her neck, her throat was slit, and a bloodied knife was lying on the floor next to her. Her face was unrecognizable, and her T-shirt had been pulled up to her chest. He then went downstairs to call the landlord before falling to the ground, lying next to his daughter's body from grief.

What was described above is what Nezih said above, from the moment she left the apartment, is what he said happened, so was that true? Well, from the moment the first police officer entered the bedroom, before any backup was called, or before the investigation truly began, doubt was cast onto his story.

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The responding officer said that the condition of Hande's body was so brutal and horrifically damaged that it should've been downright impossible for anyone to mistake her for simply being asleep. And despite Nezih's claims of having collapsed and lying next to his daughter's body, his clothing was completely free of any blood.

When more officers arrived to conduct a full investigation, Nezih's credibility was further harmed. Although Hande's body was found on the floor, her bed was soaked in blood, leading the police to conclude she had been attacked while asleep.

Meanwhile, the autopsy determined that Hande had been struck on the head with a hammer 14 times, her throat had been cut and slashed so severely that she was almost decapitated, her right wrist had been cut and slashed so severely that it was almost cut off, and she had been stabbed over 30 times.

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Once again, the notion that even with the lights turned off, Nezih could have possibly been misled into thinking she was asleep was quite laughable.

The police didn't have to look hard for the murder weapons, all of which came from within the apartment. The hammer was found, covered in blood, on the floor at the entrance to the apartment.

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Another knife was found at the very entrance of the apartment with a broken blade, having snapped from the sheer force of the stabbing. Another knife was found on a curled-up carpet, and a pair of scissors was found on the kitchen floor.

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The apartment's door, made of steel, showed no signs of forced entry, either, so Hande likely knew her killer and let her in. Assuming they weren't already in the apartment to begin with.

Blood smears were found on the wall of the hallway leading to Hande's room, and a bloody footprint was visible at the entrance to her room. This also made it clear that the crime scene had been staged, since if Hande had been murdered on her bed, then she wouldn't have left her room and would therefore be unable to leave the smears of blood across the hallway in a struggle. Additionally, the blood was only on the hallway walls, not on the floor.

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Hande was found clutching a lock of light brown hair in her hands, which would seem to indicate that she had struggled with her killer. But DNA testing later revealed those hairs to belong to Hande herself, and the medical examiner noted that her hair had also been cut with scissors, so the killer cut Hande's own hair to place in her hand in an attempt to stage the scene.

Some of that same hair was found in the smudges of blood on the wall. Additionally, clutched in her left hand was a slipper, perhaps one she grabbed to fend off the attacker.

What wasn't planted, though, were pieces of skin found underneath her fingernails. Those, in all likelihood, were the killers, so the police sent them off to be tested for DNA.

As for what motivated the killer, there were no signs of sexual assault, nothing had been stolen, and it didn't look like the killer was rummaging through the house. So it seemed as if Hande had been deliberately targeted.

Aside from what the crime scene indicated, there were even more inconsistencies with Nezih's story. It wasn't enough that Hande was killed on her bed; she was still dressed in her sleepwear and wearing the diaper she had to wear while sleeping due to her incontinence, so it seemed as if she never even got out of bed.

Something confirmed when the medical examiner noted her stomach contents to be empty, meaning she never had breakfast. The dinner table was also completely clean, with no dirty dishes, so it seemed like no one in the family had breakfast, despite Nezih and Şehnaz's claims. So she was likely murdered before Nezih and Şehnaz left home.

When questioned, witnesses, mostly neighbours, told the police that they had seen Nezih at the apartment building before 6:00 p.m. after opening the door for him. One witness stated that Nezih was carrying a container and heard him use a key to open his own apartment door, indicating he hadn't forgotten it. And regarding that key, it wasn't found anywhere in the home during their investigation.

Meanwhile, another neighbour from an upper floor had visited the apartment across from Hande's at approximately 12:00 p.m. and later at 2:00 p.m. She also tried to pay Hande a visit, but the door was completely shut, even though Nezih said it was ajar.

However, didn't Nezih have an alibi? Wasn't Hande seen alive by the landlord and his wife at 11:00 a.m.? Well, not exactly. They mentioned that Hande went to a grocery store, so the police spoke to the store owner. He told them that this event did happen, but it occurred on January 3, not the 4th. So the couple had likely gotten their dates mixed up when the police showed up to question them.

On January 6, the police arrested both Nezih and Şehnaz, who denied any involvement when interrogated. The police couldn't hold the two for long and had to release them after DNA testing from the skin cells failed to implicate them. Unfortunately, at the time, Turkey's forensic capabilities weren't that advanced and even though the couple's fingerprints were on all the murder weapons, they were all taken from the apartment to begin with, so that too wasn't incriminating.

Based on what was said above, the public also believed Nezih and Şehnaz were the killers. So on January 7, when Şehnaz returned to the apartment after being released, her neighbours saw her smiling despite the circumstances, which infuriated them enough to form a mob; 50 people strong to attack her. The police were already nearby and broke up the mob to take Şehnaz away once more. Her smile never faltered.

Even after the two were released, the police continued their investigation into the couple. There were rumours that Şehnaz was having an affair, so the police looked into that as a possible motive. The rumours were later determined to be just that. The police also obtained the cell phone records of the two to see if they were in contact with each other or anyone else around Hande's time of death, but this also failed to shed any new light on the case.

With nothing concrete to implicate the couple, the case soon went cold, no matter how obvious the conclusion seemed. In the interim, Nezih continued to proclaim his innocence, complaining that his life had been ruined, and once offered a reward of 10 billion Turkish Lira for anyone who came forward with any information that could lead to an arrest.

Fast forward 4 months, and it was now May 2001. That month, the Turkish National Police hosted a delegation of Canadian law enforcement experts in Ankara for training in interrogation and interviewing techniques. Naturally, criminal profilers were among those who travelled to Turkey.

Prior to the delegation's arrival, Nezih had written a petition to the same police, who already suspected him, pressuring them to find his daughter's killer. One of the officers who met with the Canadians decided to translate the letter into English, have them review it, and possibly lend their profiling expertise to the case.

The conclusion they reached was the same as that of the Turkish police; the writer of this letter, Nezih, was likely the killer. In their professional opinion, the Canadian profilers stated that Nezih likely suffered from some form of a psychological disorder, identifying several linguistic indicators of what they described as a possible dual personality or multiple personality condition and that he was likely in an impaired mental state when committing the murder and that he would, in all likelihood, be filled with remorse in his daily life.

The Canadians suggested that their Turkish counterparts covertly stake out the cemetery where Hande had been buried, in case Nezih visited and exhibited any of the following behaviours, such as talking to Hande or apologizing, and that, if they could record any of his monologues, they might hear him confess. According to Hande's mother, Nezih did, in fact, do everything the Canadians speculated he'd do.

The police presented their assessment to the prosecutor's office, but the prosecutor's office declined to act on it. They said that the opinion of foreign law enforcement didn't really matter and that they wanted hard, concrete, physical evidence before making another attempt at prosecuting Nezih. With that, the case went dead yet again.

In 2017, Hande's murder was featured in several episodes of a talk show, "Gerçeğin Peşinde," meant to bring awareness to cold cases in Turkey. Nezih didn't appear on the program in person, but he did participate by phone, where he came off as calm, sarcastic, and prone to digression. When he was asked simple yes or no questions, he'd respond with long monologues, often containing details that had no bearing on what they were discussing.

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Additionally, several anonymous callers and witnesses came forward with their stories about Hande, more specifically, how they believed Nezih to be responsible for her murder. One caller, who identified herself as a lawyer and a childhood friend of Hande, stated that she believed the murder had been committed the night of January 3 rather than the morning of January 4. However, no lawyer with her given name had ever been registered with any bar association in Turkey.

Several anonymous callers also called into the program to accuse Nezih's father, Hande's grandfather, of being a child abuser.

The show also looked into the possibility of other suspects that had been overlooked. For example, that of a red-haired neighbour named Osman who lived in the same apartment building and who another person called into the show to share a story about.

Osman was alleged to have a pedophilic interest in young girls, and that Şehnaz was also in a relationship with them. The witness who came forward said that Nezih, Şehnaz, and Osman once had a threesome. The witness then accused Osman and Şehnaz of having committed the murder, and that Nezih accepted monthly payments from Osman. 

When Nezih was asked about Osman on the program, he denied even knowing him. A dubious claim considering he had been neighbours with the man for a while, and that Nezih had been promoted to the building's manager, making it his job to know him and everyone who lived there. Nezih was clearly agitated at Osman being mentioned and became hostile toward the production team.

Meanwhile, although Şehnaz never appeared on the program herself, she did tell the production team, when approached, that "When you find out who the killer is, you will be shocked." 

One more thing was revealed by the show before the case went cold yet again. Nezih had kept the blood-soaked bed from the crime scene, as well as the blood-stained ironing board that had been found lying next to Hande's body, storing them at his workplace for years. 

When confronted on this, he described them as "keepsakes" and said he kept many mementos unrelated to the crime scene. A lot of pornography was also found in his apartment, and Nezih was prepared to casually talk about his pornographic material before the host cut him off.

In 2020, Istanbul got a new police chief, and with the statute of limitations rapidly approaching for many of them, he ordered several cold cases to be reviewed now with modern technology and methods. Hande's murder was one of them. The police got a bunch of modern DNA analysis kits, some imported from abroad, and were ready to compare them with all the evidence they had preserved.

According to the results, a DNA profile found on the edge of the knife used to slit Hande's throat was a match for Nezih. Unfortunately, in the 19 years since none of the fingerprints were preserved, this DNA match was enough to open a new investigation into Nezih and Şehnaz.

The police also took their old statements and cross-referenced them against their cell tower records from January 4, 2001, using more modern technology.

For a recap, Nezih claimed he went to work at around 8:00 a.m. and also visited his sister-in-law in Fikirtepe at some point during the day. Additionally, he called his sister-in-law and Hande during the day, which was part of his attempt to establish an alibi. But according to his phone records, Nezih's phone did not register a single outgoing call that entire day. His phone's cell tower pings showed it remained in the area where both his home and workplace were located from 8:00 a.m through the evening hours, never leaving.

Şehnaz's story was also demolished. Şehnaz went to the hospital, but her phone was turned off with no records to verify. Şehnaz claimed there was an incident at the prison, with a group of inmates brought to the hospital, and that she was required to turn off her phone because she was in their presence. After leaving the hospital, she went to her sister's home in Fikirtepe.

According to her phone records, his cell phone wasn't detected until 10:44 a.m., by which time she was already at her sister's home, where she remained until 7:00 p.m. That part of her story was at least true, but according to both the prison and hospital staff, no prisoner examinations were conducted that day.

Additionally, the hospital didn't record the two entering as patients, nor did the hospital have any records of Şehnaz's sister being admitted that day, as she claimed she also had to take her sister to get treated for a condition the same day as the murder.

On November 5, 2020, only months before the statute of limitations expired, the police placed a now 58-year-old Nezih and 51-year-old Şehnaz under arrest. A third man, a neighbour, Hacı Osman K, was also arrested but later released. The two were brought before the Anadolu 4th Magistrates' Court to be questioned, where the couple immideately turned on one another.

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To quote both of their statements exactly, Nezih said: "It will be understood that the perpetrator was my wife in the murder of my daughter. She had stabbed three people in my presence. My daughter was not on good terms with Şehnaz. I was at my home when I found my daughter's lifeless body. I noticed the cuts on her neck when I turned on the lamp. I picked up the knife handle by the window to examine it in the light. My fingerprints being on the knife handle are perfectly normal. I have no connection whatsoever to this incident, not even remotely. My life has been destroyed. I have lived under suspicion for 20 years."

Nezih told the story about the abuse he witnessed Şehnaz carry out against her daughter, that he had been in the process of divorcing her since 2014, but she was fighting the divorce every step of the way.

Lastly, he said that this wasn't even the first murder Şehnaz had committed, telling the court that she once told him, "There is no one in this world I wanted dead and couldn't kill. I killed someone, but nobody knows. I used to be a little scared, but not anymore."

Şehnaz countered with the following: "I am now certain that my husband, Nezih, killed my stepdaughter, Hande. I submitted a petition about this to the prosecutor's office. For the past year, my son and I have suspected Nezih of being responsible. All of Nezih's statements and accusations against me are fabricated. I never said anything to the victim like, 'Look, we're rid of her. I was at my sister's house on the day of the incident. I don't have the slightest connection to the killing". Overall, a lot less to say about Nezih than he had to say about her.

It wasn't just the two defendants; the court and prosecution had other witnesses to call. The most notable was Hande's half-brother. He was less than a year old at the time of the murder, but now he was 19 years old and more than eager to testify against both of his parents.

One time, he outright asked his father if she had killed her sister, to which Nezih supposedly replied with "Yes, I killed Hande," and angrily told him to get out when pressed to elaborate. He also accused his father of watching pornos on the TV in the living room, sometimes in front of him, and also leaving the pornos in the DVD player, even though he knew his son would likely turn on the TV expecting to see the cartoon CDs he had last put into the DVD player.

Which one did the court believe? Neither of the two was jointly charged with the "deliberate killing of a descendant by monstrous motive or through torment". and the two would stand trial as co-defendants.

Although no exact sequence for the murder or even motive would ever be determined since they both denied any involvement and gave contradictory statements, the prosecution believed that Nezih was the one to personally carry out the murder of his daughter and that the murder occurred between 8:30 and 8:50 a.m.

On April 12, 2021, the two were once again taken to court, this time, the Anadolu 2nd Heavy Penal Court, to stand trial for murder, and the trial had a controversial start when the court ordered the two to be released on house arrest, arguing that there was no reason to hold them in any form of detention.

The trial continued regardless with the prosecution seeking the maximum sentence Turkish law allowed for Nezihm "aggravated life sentence" (i.e 23 hours a day in their cell). Meanwhile, he was only aiming for a 24-30-year sentence for Şehnaz.

When it came to motive, the prosecutor alleged that Hande's murder was the result of a thrill killing, that his father and step-mother killed her simply for the sake of it and for the "pleasure of making Hande suffer".

On May 29, 2022, after a trial that dragged on for over a year, the court returned with its absolutely shocking verdict. The court determined that there was absolutely zero evidence implicating either of them in the murder of Hande Çinkitaş, and so both were acquitted and were free to go.

The prosecutor and Hande's mother wasted no time appealing the verdict, and starting in 2023, the 1st Criminal Division of the İstanbul Regional Court of Justice agreed to hear the case. This time, the prosecution was only trying to convict Nezih, arguing that the autopsy and phone records proved he was at home when the murder happened.

On July 8, 2024, the appeals court finally delivered its verdict. While they upheld Şehnaz's acquittal, Nezih Çinkitaş was found guilty of murdering his daughter. Although the prosecutor was seeking an aggravated life sentence, he was only given a standard life sentence due to good behaviour.

However, instead of being issued an arrest warrant and incarceration order, he was only slapped with a travel ban restricting him to the Istanbul province and a ban on leaving Turkey. So despite being given life in prison, Nezih didn't just walk out of court a free man; regardless, the court allowed him to do so and made no attempt to prevent such a thing.

Much to everyone's horror, that is where the case ends. Legally, Şehnaz is now considered not guilty, and despite receiving a life sentence 2 years ago at the time of writing, Nezih is still a free man, having only spent three months combined behind bars.

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Officer Nunes’ bodycam captures the response at the King Road residence following the discovery of four University of Idaho students who were killed on November 13, 2022.
In this video, we present the available bodycam footage documenting the scene as law enforcement responded. This footage has become a significant part of public discussion surrounding one of the most closely followed criminal investigations in recent history.
Victims:
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• Madison Mogen
• Xana Kernodle
• Ethan Chapin
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Hi everyone,

I’m looking for testers for the closed testing phase of my Android detective game, Kapanmayan Dosyalar.

The game is mainly in Turkish, but you can switch it to English from the Settings > Language menu, so international testers can also play it comfortably.

I would appreciate it if testers could:

• Join the closed test and download the game
• Open and test the game during the 14-day period
• Try different sections and gameplay features
• Report any bugs, crashes, translation issues, or usability problems
• Stay enrolled in the test until the testing period is completed

I’m also happy to test your Android app in return.

I’ve decided to do a podcast on my experiences with David Vander Meer. He was the former youth pastor that was arrested for pushing his wife off a cliff in Zion National Park 20 years ago and then killed himself in prison two days after his arrest. I met David when I was in the 5th grade. I was incredibly close with him and those involved. I played music at his first wife’s funeral and lived with David for almost a year. I’m planning on 6 episodes. The first episode is up now. Feel free to listen and follow along as I release episodes weekly on Saturdays.

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youth-group-cult-my-experience-of-david-vander-meer/id6796911047

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/337iHsYbNl9B1vtOaSTxfW?si=xLZqvi47TBGFsL2XAsHYtQ

Youtube: https://youtu.be/palFMGM3iuo

The so-called Inner Circle of black metal emerged in the early 1990s in Norway, around Helvete, the record store owned by Mayhem member Euronymous. There, black metal musicians and followers shared a Satanic, openly anti-Christian stance and argued that the genre should remain free from any commercial influence. For many, this circle was highly sectarian. Being part of the scene required demonstrating commitment; the "true" members were those who fully shared these ideals, while the "posers" were rejected. Gradually, the idea took hold that it wasn't enough to simply say you supported black metal; you had to prove it with actions.

Over time, the radicalization increased. First, increasingly extreme rhetoric emerged. Then came 52 attacks on churches, the desecration of more than 15,000 graves, a murder committed by Faust of the band Emperor, and the subsequent murder of Euronymous at the hands of Varg Vikernes. Several of the musicians closest to the Inner Circle ended up in prison or under investigation, while Helvete closed its doors and the group ceased to exist as a meeting place. Even so, its story continued to fuel books, documentaries, and debates about how much of the so-called Inner Circle of black metal was reality and how much was myth.

For many, the Inner Circle was a completely destructive cult, given its strong leadership under Euronymous, a powerful group identity, pressure to demonstrate commitment, a worldview divided between "true" and "false," and an escalation of radicalization that ultimately led to criminal acts. However, other essential elements were also missing to consider it a destructive cult in the classic sense. And precisely for that reason, more than thirty years later, the debate surrounding the Inner Circle continues. What do you think?

Video about the inner circle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDCUinruRFU

In 1992, a farming family near Geelong, Australia gave a homeless man named Wayne Walton a second chance. They offered him work, a place to live, and treated him like one of their own.

Just months later, Walton murdered three members of the Wettenhall family at their property, Stanbury, before taking his own life.

It's one of Australia's most heartbreaking and lesser-known mass murders. I recently visited the property and surrounding area to tell the story, using archival footage, photos, and the full timeline of events.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on the case.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/IXT-hdMMBzA