Blood found on clothing owned by suspect in deaths of 3 family members

Please, prosecutors, don't drop this case again.

Listen I know many people are angry about this case, and feel that the police and the prosecutors dropped the ball, but even if he was charged and taken to court, I doubt he would have gotten jail time, it would have been a suspended sentence or a small fine. This man held a grudge, we don't know why, maybe never will, I fear nothing would have prevented this sad terrible event from happening. How many times in the US do we hear about husbands having a restraining order served only for them to break it and attack and injure or kill their wife or partner?

Have police not found the murder weapons?

The DNA tests have come back right?

Did neighbors not hear any commotion?

Six reports of property damage and the police did what?

Wasn't Saito questioned or did the Saitama prefectural police ignore it all?

So many potential errors and police negligence suggested at this early stage…

"But while the filming was completed, Saito became uncontactable during its editing."

As good an example of obfuscatory Japanese doublespeak as you are apt to find; it no doubt translates into something like, 'Saito become involved in a dispute with another member of the production team, and then abandoned the project in anger...'

Wow what else do the keystone cops and prosecutors need?? Seems like they are trying to drop the case again. Wasn’t there video evidence on the surveillance cameras installed by the family , due to having to deal with this nut job because the prosecutors dropped the ball in the past, as well??

I wouldn't call an axe a "blunt object".

If the blood / DNA samples match the 'suspects' then I think they've got him bang to rights?

I think the culprit is not really in doubt here.

The only question is, what to do with him.

They found his clothes with DNA on it. Lets hope for the best outcome.

"...he was not prosecuted in any of the cases."

Why?

The man was obviously mentally imbalanced as his own family moved out to leave him alone. I am also assuming he was gay as he chose to direct a film on HIV in the 80s.

Then, he saw a non-Japanese. a white man, walking in the neighborhood and also saw the foreign car, and we do not know which came first. But he definitely and unequivacbly eventually attacked the family because of this foreign presence and his mental imbalance. What else could it be?

How Sad, Mr. Bishop probably loved this country and it's people only to be taken down by a loser after 40 years.

This is such a sad and cruel attack it should be bigger news than it is.

it’s absolutely abhorrent.

Seems as though the cops really dropped the ball on this one.

This is the one, probably only area where I agree with Rudy.

The "broken windows" theory of law enforcement postulates that minor property crimes, left unchecked, will manifest into more violent offenses.

I realize that the circumstances are not totally analogous here, but it would seem to hold.

oyatoiToday  03:35 pm JST

The cryptic groan of rage and mourning for a lost Arcadia still reverberates through the cryptic galleries of the Japanese mind.

Yea, ok. lol

Horrible, abonimable, abhorrent, and sick.

If the victim was a reasonably public figure involved in health policy in Japan and the suspect has had a deep interest in HIV in Japan, as evidenced by his scrapped film project, perhaps that has something to do with the alleged “grudge” here, though unfortunately there are a few too many mentally ill, reclusive, and xenophobic folks in this country who bear irrational grudges against their gaikokujin neighbors without even knowing a thing about them. This is a tragic, sick, and avoidable incident, and one that I wish might compel police to be more vigilant about the protection non-Japanese need against this kind of misdirected anger and the potential for fatal violence. May the victims rest in peace.

@Ronin Tsukebin, I don’t think that he hated foreigners specially. Since there are living many foreigners also as example my friends, who told me that this guy often had fights with this family. I think there is more a deeper reason why he end up in that way. I hope he will get what he deserve in the end.