of japanese cannibal turned japanese celebrity

Issei Sagawa: Issei Sagawa is a Japanese cannibal turned guest speaker/commentator. Issei is known for the murder of Dutch student Renée Hartevelt, a classmate at the Sorbonne Academy in Paris.

Click here to read about the murder at youcapturedme.blogspot.com (Warning: Link has gross photos).
Click here for videos where Sagawa explained how he killed and ate.



According to wikipedia

Issei Sagawa (佐川一政) is a Japanese cannibal who is known for the murder of Renée Hartevelt...Sagawa now lives in Tokyo and is a minor celebrity in Japan. He is often invited as a guest speaker and commentator. He also writes restaurant reviews and in 1992 he appeared in Hisayasu Sato's film Sisenjiyou no Aria (The Bedroom) as a sadosexual voyeur. He admits to still having fantasies about cannibalism, but says he never wants to realize them again.

Besides books about the murder he committed, Sagawa wrote a commentary book Shonen A in 1997 on the Kobe Children's Serial Murder of 1997, when a 14-year-old called "Boy A" ("Shonen A") killed and decapitated a child.

His story inspired the 1981 Stranglers song "La Folie" and the 1983 Rolling Stones song "Too Much Blood".

[via HWZ]