August 8, 1968 - Hiroshi Maeue
Maeue's case sits at the intersection of emerging internet culture and predatory violence — he exploited early online suicide forums to identify and contact vulnerable people, presenting himself as a fellow sufferer before killing them. The three murders in 2005 reflected both a specific paraphilic compulsion and a calculated method of finding victims who were already in crisis, making them less likely to be treated with suspicion when they disappeared.
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Hiroshi Maeue (前上 博, Maeue Hiroshi; August 8, 1968 – July 28, 2009) was a Japanese serial killer who lured his victims via the internet and killed three people in 2005. Also known as the "Suicide Website Murderer", Maeue suffered from a paraphilic psychosexual disorder that translated into being unable to achieve sexual release in the absence of performing an act of strangulation.
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