Hiroaki HIDAKA

Classification: Serial killer
Characteristics: Robberies - Taxi driver
Number of victims: 4
Date of murders: April-September 1996
Date of arrest: September 21, 1996
Date of birth: April 1962
Victims profile: Women (prostitutes)
Method of murder: Ligature strangulation
Location: Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan
Status: Executed by hanging on December 25, 2006

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Hiroaki Hidaka (日高 広明 Hidaka Hiroaki, April 1962 - December 25, 2006) was a Japanese serial killer.

Biography

Hidaka was originally a top student but failed to enter the University of Tsukuba, his target college. He entered the Fukuoka University instead, but eventually dropped out. He often borrowed money, drank and went to prostitutes. In April 1989, he moved to Hiroshima and began to work as a taxi driver.

He married in 1991, and had a daughter in 1993, but his wife entered a mental hospital. He killed four prostitutes between April and September 1996. One of his victims was a 16-year-old girl who engaged in Enjo kōsai. He was arrested on September 21, 1996. He robbed them of 240,000 yen, but he paid 120,000 yen to have sex with them, so he actually robbed them of 120,000 yen.

The district court in Hiroshima sentenced Hidaka to death on February 9, 2000, and then he didn't appeal. He was executed by hanging on December 25, 2006.

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Hiroaki Hidaka

Hiroshima District Court has handed down the death sentence on a taxi driver who murdered four women over a five-month period in 1996. Hiroaki Hidaka, 37, strangled the first victim in the taxi with his tie. After taking \50,000 in cash, he buried the victim, Rie Miyaji, a high school student aged 16, in Numata-cho, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima.

The first murder occurred in April and in August & September Hidaka strangled three other victims in the same way and buried the bodies at various places in Hiroshima. As with Rie Miyaji, he stole from his victims amounts of money varying between \52,000 and \82,000.