Kijima kanae

Kanae Kijima, now 42, met the three men, aged 41, 53 and 80, online in the Tokyo area in Motivated by financial gain, she poisoned them with carbon monoxide after giving.

Kijima Kanae. Mainichi SAITAMA -- A woman was handed a death sentence in a lay-judge trial here on April 13 for murdering three male acquaintances in the metropolitan area in a widely publicized case, despite her insistence on her innocence. The focus of the trial was whether the three were murdered, killed themselves or died as a result of accidental fires.

Presiding Judge Kazuyuki Okuma recognized that Kijima murdered the three victims and made it appear as if they had gassed themselves to death by burning coal briquettes to generate carbon monoxide in enclosed spaces.

Kanae Kijima (木嶋 佳苗, Kijima Kanae, born November 27, ), known as The Konkatsu Killer, is a Japanese fraudster and serial killer, convicted for poisoning three would-be husbands and suspected of four more, spanning from to She was given her nickname for her frequenting of See more.

Okuma dismissed Kijima's claim that Terada gave her more than 10 million yen in cash the day they broke up. The court also determined that Kijima killed Ando because she took his money without his permission. Kijima pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, but denied the eight other counts, including the murder of the three men.

Her defense lawyers pointed to the possibility that the victims committed suicide after she told them that she wanted break up with them, and urged the court to acquit her. The court should adhere to the principle of the 'benefit of the doubt in favor of the defendant,'" a lawyer on her defense team said.