August 21, 1947 - Sachiko Eto
Her crimes unfolded within the closed world of a small religious following she had built around claims of psychic power — a dynamic that gave her authority over the people she would ultimately kill. The deaths occurred during ritual contexts, making the social and psychological control she exercised over her victims as significant as the acts themselves. She was executed in 2012, nearly two decades after the killings.
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Sachiko Eto (江藤 幸子, Etō Sachiko; August 21, 1947 – September 27, 2012), known as The Drumstick Killer, was a Japanese cult leader and serial killer, responsible for six murders in Sukagawa City between 1994 and 1995.
A self-professed guru who claimed to have psychic abilities, she killed several of her cult members during bizarre rituals involving taiko sticks. For her crimes, she was sentenced to death and subsequently executed in 2012.
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