Zheng Yongshan
Locality of the murders
Born1972 (age 51–52)

Zheng Yongshan (鄭 永善, born 1972), who also goes by the name of Mie Taniguchi (谷口 充恵), is a Mainland Chinese immigrant in Japan who was convicted of killing two children and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Murders

Zheng moved to Japan in 2004 and married a Japanese man. She lived near Tokyo, Japan.

On February 17, 2006, Zheng was supposed to drive her child, and two of the child's classmates, to school as part of a carpool arrangement. She stabbed the two classmates in the stomach and back with a 20-centimeter, thin, fish-cutting blade. One child, a girl named Wakana Taketomo, was stabbed 19 times; the other, a boy named Jin Sano, was stabbed 13 times. Both children were five years old. Zheng then dumped the bodies in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, a small town 300 km (190 mi) southwest of Tokyo.[1]

Recovery of evidence and sentencing

A passer-by discovered the body of Taketomo on a rural road; Sano's body was recovered in an irrigation stream.[2] After dumping the bodies, Zheng parked the car 56 km (35 mi) away from the crime scene; she still had the knife used in the killings in her possession. Taketomo was declared dead at 9:45am, shortly after she was taken to the hospital. Sano died around noon at the same hospital.[3] Prosecutors demanded death, but Zheng was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole after she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Mother kills daughter's classmates with sashimi knife - Taipei Times". Taipei Times. February 18, 2006. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Mom kills child's classmates: World: News: News24". February 17, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
  3. ↑ "Murder In The Mothers Club". Marie Claire. Archived from the original on May 15, 2007.
  4. ↑ "Car pool mom who killed two kids gets life". The Japan Times Online. October 17, 2007. Archived from the original on October 17, 2007. Retrieved August 7, 2017.
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