Trouble In Tokyo: The Monster With 21 Faces

Unraveling The Web Of Lies That Stumped Japan’s Best Investigators

Alphonse JW (Criminal File)
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16 min readSep 7, 2023

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Collage of images relating to the Mosnter with 21 Faces case
Collage of images relating to the Monster with 21 Faces case— Sourcewww.historicmysteries.com

Having entered the home of Katsuhisa Ezaki, the two masked men tied up his wife Mikieko (35 years old) and his eldest daughter Mariko (7 years old). Mikieko offered the men money and one of them responded, “Be quiet. Money is irrelevant.” After cutting some telephone lines the two masked men located Katsuhisa Ezaki who was bathing with his other two children, Yukiko (4 years old) and Etsuro (11 years old). Katsuhisa Ezaki was abducted naked from his home and taken to a warehouse in Ibaraki, Osaka.

The Monster with 21 Faces breaks into the apartment of the Katsuhisa household.

Good morning Detective, you are actually on time today what a surprise and you brought coffee, how nice, now please come in. You have heard of the Joker I presumed. Arguably one of if not the most popular villains in Batman’s universe, the bane to Bruce Wayne if you will. There is a famous saying by Alfred when trying to describe the Joker “Some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.” And what better way to describe the monster that we will face today?

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