Kaoru Kobayashi (murderer)
| Kaoru Kobayashi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 30, 1968 Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka |
| Died | February 21, 2013 (aged 44) Osaka Detention Center |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Criminal charge | Kidnapping, Sexual assault, Homicide (2 counts of murder and sexual assault resulting to death), Theft and Intimidation, Guilty to corpse (2 counts of damage and abandonment) |
| Criminal penalty | Death by hanging |
Kaoru Kobayashi (小林 薫 Kobayashi Kaoru?, November 30, 1968 – February 21, 2013) was a newspaper delivery man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Kaede Ariyama (有山 楓 Ariyama Kaede?), a seven-year-old girl from the Japanese city of Nara. Kobayashi already had a record as a sexual offender at that time. Kobayashi was tried and convicted of his crimes. He was executed by hanging at Osaka Detention Center on February 21, 2013.
Kobayashi was born in 1968, in Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. Because his family was poor, he worked as a paperboy since his childhood. His mother died in 1978. In 1989, he was convicted of sexually assaulting eight children. He received a suspended sentence of 2 years imprisonment. In October 1991, he attempted to kill a five-year-old girl and was sentenced to 3 years in prison. He was paroled on November 9, 1995, and officially released on July 23, 1996.
Kobayashi had worked at a newsstand for Asahi Shimbun in the Tomio area, between March and July 2000, and was very familiar with the Ikoma-Tomio area. At the time of the murder, he was employed as a newspaper deliveryman for Mainichi Shimbun in the Ikoma district of Nara Prefecture.
On November 17, 2004, in the Tomio section of Nara, Kobayashi kidnapped Kaede Ariyama, a student at Tomio North Elementary School, while she traveled from her school to her home. The kidnapping occurred close to Nara Prefecture's west-side police station. Using the girl's mobile phone, he sent Kaede's photograph to her mother with the message: "I've got your daughter".
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