Life term sought for Chilean accused of killing Japanese woman

I wish they still had the guillotine in France.

These kind of people mystify me. You have a beautiful Japanese girls and you go and kill her. WTF?

The evidence in this case seems flimsy and circumstantial at best. The only evidence is that he had dinner with her and took her back to her dorm and some students told investigators they heard a scream. If he actually murdered her, how could he dispose of the body and remove it from the dorm with nobody noticing? Don’t dorms usually have security cameras? The girl probably went deep into the forest and hung herself. The guy may be guilty but he sure didn’t make himself look anymore innocent by returning to Chile immediately.

Rental car GPS and cellphone activity show him on the campus and outside her room more than a dozen times in the days before she went missing. CC cameras have picked him up several times on campus between 10pm and 7am. Yet he claims to have met her by chance in the parking lot the night she disappeared. Used her credit card to buy an airline ticket. Suspected of sending bogus texts to her friends from her phone. Takes the long way back to return the car. Purchased cleaning supplies and bleach. I’d have no problem convicted him with this ‘flimsy and circumstantial’ evidence.

Michael Machida: "These kind of people mystify me. You have a beautiful Japanese girls and you go and kill her. WTF?"

Nationality and beauty don't matter. Murder is murder and it should shock you regardless.

I only hope they have more evidence than they are letting on, because with no body it is hard to absolutely prove what happened.

What?! No guillotine?! Anyway glad the prosecutors are seeking the maximum possible penalty in France for that scumbag.

Death penalty for this guy.

It’s a quite multilateral case with three countries and their different jurisdictions involved. In my opinion it should be resolved such, that the victims’ family determines in which country the penalties are being made, so they can choose how to treat him for his capital crime, more softly and with forgiveness or the hardest possible with a harsh treatment in a death row, although there most probably won’t be a real death penalty nowadays in any of the three countries I think.

A manipulative narcissist or psychopath with above average intelligence. Education should include basic psychology studies to help raise red flags on these monsters that walk among us.

here is an article regarding his psychological review and tendencies.

https://news.euro-24.com/coronavirus/amp/157211

Kobe Bar Owner; that is a very interesting article! I wonder what the psychiatrist was referring to by "a complex way of answering..."?

The psychiatrist Jean Canterino was one of the first to give his testimony regarding the profile of the Chilean, whom he pointed out as having “a very complex way of answering, even though the questions are very simple

I agree. If he killed her, deserves death penalty.

a very complex way of answering, even though the questions are very simple

Sounds to me like a completely useless statement, in any contexts.

I wonder what the psychiatrist was referring to by "a complex way of answering..."?

In layman's terms, it means Zepeda actually believes his own bull-sheet. A slightly more technical response is that he attempts to redirect and frame the conversation where he is the one in control.

Rather like some politicians.

The Death Penalty should indeed be restored in many countries for such crimes. Cheaper than keeping this scum locked up for x years.

28 year's.

I love when all the evidence is released and the sentence is fair and based on real facts.

No forced confessions and no hiding of evidences, and lawyers present at all times.

Gotta love 21th. century justice.

I hope that Japan can catch up someday.

Got life sentence, good news. Don't do bad stuff. It is time for you people to change yourself or else like this will happen.

Got life sentence, good news. Don't do bad stuff. It is time for you people to change yourself or else like this will happen.

He did not get life, he got 28 years. Who exactly are "you people" and what needs changing?