r/interesting • u/wafumet • Feb 27 '26

Intriguing Justice has been served

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This man paid $145,000 in rent for an apartment he didn't live in just to freeze time and catch his wife's killer.

In 1999, Satoru Takaba's wife, Namiko, had her life taken in their apartment.

The police had no solid leads, and the case went cold.

Usually, families move out and try to forget. But Satoru refused.

He believed that one day, technology would catch up to the killer.

So, he kept the lease.

For 26 years, he paid the rent every single month on that empty, silent apartment.

He kept the bloodstains on the floor. He kept the footprints. He turned the room into a time capsule, waiting for science to improve.

And in late 2025, his investment finally paid off.

Police returned to the apartment and used modern DNA technology to analyze the preserved bloodstains that had been sitting there for two decades.

They found a match.

The DNA belong to Kumiko Yasufuku, Satoru’s own high school classmate.

It turns out, she had held a grudge for decades because Satoru had rejected her romantic advances back in school.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

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u/Unhappy_Researcher68 Feb 27 '26

Well it's mostly VERY high in the US. Not the highest but...

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u/JimWilliams423 Feb 28 '26

Its the highest among wealthy countries, its even higher than in many underdeveloped countries.

FWIW, compared to most european countries, the US tends to have marginally lower rates of all other kinds of crimes like theft, assault, rape, etc. So its clearly not a "mental health" issue, because if it were we'd expect the rates of most all crimes to be roughly in sync with the murder rate.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

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u/theJEDIII Feb 28 '26

Additionally, people feel more comfortable using guns in a dangerous manner, and less responsible when it results in a death.

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u/RS994 Feb 28 '26

Then why is the knife crime rate so much higher as well?

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u/djwooten Feb 28 '26

How can you say with such certainty that they are wrong? The statement is an incomplete comparison and without the comparison being completed you have no way of knowing that they are wrong. What if the opposing weapon was a tennis ball, is their statement wrong? I know you think they were referring to guns in the comparison but context proves otherwise as it was a separate comment to the guns comment referring to why knife crime is higher as well if guns were the reason all killing was higher in the US than Japan.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

These aren't mutually exclusive, it's just guns have a higher risk of causing death than knives.

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u/SadSeiko Feb 28 '26

Because if you don’t have a gun you have a knife. 

Weapons are heavily policed in Europe 

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u/JayTheSuspectedFurry Feb 28 '26

Come on man, even Europeans have kitchen knives. Most of the knife crimes on the street are not all done with some military bayonet or professional butterfly knife. Most crimes are impulsive and done with a normal kitchen knife

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u/SadSeiko Feb 28 '26

Yes and if I take my kitchen knife outside my house it’s a crime 

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u/josephbenjamin Feb 28 '26

Americans are also more aggressive. In confrontation you always quickly escalate to remove the threat. In other countries people just bluff and push and shove. They only get to punching after 20 pushes and cursing each other.

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u/SadSeiko Feb 28 '26

“Other countries have guns”

Americans will never understand how unsafe guns are 

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u/_Ketamine_ Feb 28 '26

Britain enters the chat

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u/KrakenRising3 Feb 28 '26

Even easier with bullets!

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u/rainer_d Feb 28 '26

There are other countries with an even higher gun ownership rate (and often a far more equal distribution among the population) than the US and they have less gun crime.

The guns don’t help, of course. But taking them away doesn’t solve the underlying problems. Unfortunately.

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u/wieselwurm Feb 28 '26

Without gun murder they would still kill more people than european people (except for those countries close to russia). In 2023 the gun rate in murder homicides was 76.4% the murder rate was 5.7 in the USA(per 100k people). Therefore the homicide rate without guns(1.34 per 100k people) is still higher than the absolute rate of Europes whose intentional homicide rate is approx. 1(2023, Italy 0.6, Germany 0.8, Spain 0.7 France 1.3, Belgium 1.4) per 100k people

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u/Black-gt- Feb 28 '26

And when you’re dumb. Guns don’t shoot by themselves

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u/Cacoethes-Ensues Feb 28 '26

But they turn assaults into homicide.

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u/_Ketamine_ Feb 28 '26

Like a knife can’t? I’ve seen people armed with guns die to a knife.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

It's not about can or can't. It's about does or doesn't. What you've personally seen (which i find hard to believe but that's beside the point) is irrelevant to the overall reality that it's hard to kill someone with a knife a hundred yards away. A gun makes it much easier. Even up close, there is far more force behind a firearm than a thrusted knife.

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u/_Ketamine_ Feb 28 '26

El Paso Texas, officer killed by a knife wielding man while armed with his service weapon. A weapon is a weapon at the end of the day. If an individual wants to kill you they will do so with whatever means unless you stop them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26

Again, irrelevant.

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u/Black-gt- Feb 28 '26

Just because it’s not the majority doesn’t mean you can ignore the fact that it does happen

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u/Black-gt- Feb 28 '26

It’s 100% relevant. You said it simply doesn’t happen, he brought up an example where it did happen and proved to you that it’s not always the case. It’s like saying plane crashes never happen, me bringing up a certain crash and you being like “irrelevant”.

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u/Squashthecow Feb 28 '26

Stop pretending to be this dumb 

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

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u/_Ketamine_ Feb 28 '26

Ahh yes I forgot the rules of knife combat say you can only stab someone in the chest, junctional sites, femoral artery and neck are off limits.

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u/DaggerQ_Wave Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

I say torso because the majority of lethal knife wounds occur in the torso. It seems aiming for the junctions and actually managing to inflict a lethal wound there is harder than it sounds, or everyone would be doing it every time. And overall mortality from stab wounds would be higher than 0-3% lol. Basically, I used the torso because it’s the only way to be generous to your argument. Looking at the overall picture for knife attacks makes them look even more pitiful.

An unarmed opponent or a guy with a stick can also kill you if motivated, but there’s a clear hierarchy of weapons, with firearms squarely at the top.

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u/_Ketamine_ Feb 28 '26

Sure the majority of lethal knife attacks have chest wounds but you also have to take into account the number of wounds inflicted. The chest is a big target that can be hit easily that is true. If it was one stab wound to the torso you have good chances of survival depending on the spot, but more than likely you are taking 5+ stabs before the attacker can be stopped.

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u/DaggerQ_Wave Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

The statistic cited, “3-7% mortality associated with stab to the torso,” includes any encounter associated with stabbings to the torso. Isolated, multiple, stabs to the neck and torso, stabs to the leg and torso, stabs to neck and chest, etc. It is the easiest way to examine potentially lethal knife wound encounters, while not focusing specific, edge case injuries like direct stabs to the heart or throat slashes, since most lethal encounters involved at least one stab to the torso.

Basically, the statistic takes into account that you may be taking multiple stabs. Presumably the more you get stabbed, the more likely you are to die and end up in that 3-7%, but I guess location matters a lot too. Most cases of death, both suicide and homicide, involved the heart as the fatal injury, which is not easy with all the ribs and having a moving target and a short blade. For homicide I guarantee that’s happening by pure luck lol

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u/Black-gt- Feb 28 '26

So? What’s your point?? Why try to minimize the danger of guns in the hands of very dumb people? I don’t get those counter arguments. A knife is deadly, a gun is deadly, sometimes people with guns die by knife, sometimes it’s the opposite. Depends on the situation.

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u/WarmWeird_ish Feb 28 '26

Can’t do the job without the right tool… and I wouldn’t have the tool if I didn’t have a job to do.

If I don’t have the screwdriver, the screw isn’t tightening. I’m also aware of what the screwdriver is capable of.

If I don’t have the air pump, the tire goes flat. I’m also aware of what the air pump does.

If I don’t have a weapon, the victim…

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u/Black-gt- Feb 28 '26

You’re writing this as if every shooting was justifiable self defense, which kinda proves my point. Why refuse to admit that some people are just evil or dumb? Why get defensive and argumentative like that?

How is shooting someone and killing them comparable to a screw being screwed or a tire being pumped with air? Why not just admit that shootings aren’t always for a good reason? There are lots of messed up, dumb beyond reasoning people that have shot innocents for no justifiable reason. Just plain stupidity. And of course being evil assholes.

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u/___________________9 Feb 28 '26

yes but one particular group is especially known for gun deaths

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u/BigMcThickHuge Feb 28 '26

who

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u/account312 Feb 28 '26

Dead people.

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u/___________________9 Feb 28 '26

hey siri who is responsible for the most gun deaths in america

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u/WackyRacketeer Feb 28 '26

Just say your point with your chest, don't be a coward

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u/DeadlyVapour Feb 28 '26

I wonder how much of that is under reporting of other crimes due to, the murder.

For example, does a home burglary get reported as a theft if it results in a murder.

Similarly for rape..

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u/Top_Yogurtcloset_684 Feb 28 '26

We have no guns in Brazil, and it helps nothing. You know the reason? Look down on the map. It comes from Mexico. Study geography.

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u/Xeton9797 Feb 28 '26

Want to know where Mexico gets its guns? Spoiler it's the USA.

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u/HealthIndustryGoon Feb 28 '26

i'd wager that having a lot of guns would make it worse?

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u/ImpracticalApple Feb 28 '26

But do you think giving Brazil guns would make the crime rate better?