Issei Sagawa, Japanese cannibal who walked free, dies at 73

Issei Sagawa, a Japanese assassin generally known as the “Kobe Cannibal” who killed and ate a Dutch pupil however was by no means jailed, has died at age 73.

Sagawa died of pneumonia on Nov. 24 and was given a funeral attended solely by kin, with no public ceremony deliberate, his youthful brother and a pal mentioned in an announcement.

In 1981, Sagawa was learning in Paris when he invited Dutch pupil Renee Hartevelt to his dwelling. He shot her within the neck, raped her, then consumed components of her physique over the course of three days.