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デンマーク海岸に浮かんだスウェーデン女性死体－1986年のピル治験日本人女性バラバラ殺人事件
https://blog.goo.ne.jp/afternoon-tea-club-2/e/8ce72bce16749cac735125f51f38ee7c
Gooブログの管理人（ブログ主）は、アクセス画面でその時間帯に読まれている記事10位までが分かるようになっています。しかし、上記の記事が日中このランクに入ることはほとんどないので、もしかしたらこの記事は夜中、海外から読まれているものなのかどうか・・・本当に不思議です。
1986年のこの事件の被害者豊永さんと私はほぼ同世代であるのですが、私はこの事件の記憶がありません。
（なお、下の記事では「ｂ.1962」となっていますが、1986年に22歳であるとしたら、豊永さんは1964年もしくは1963年生まれであると思います。「22歳」という年齢が、それこそ出国当時のものなのかもしれませんが。）
日本語で検索をしても事実関係についてはウィキペディアの記事程度のものしか見つからなかったので、改めてローマ字の名前で入れて検索をしてみたところ、やっとスウェーデン人の方のモノらしいウェブサイトを発見。この方は、ちょうど豊永さんの記事の英訳も付けてくださっています。
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DACOSTARKIVET （The Dacosta Arichive）
Kazuko Tominaga 1986
https://dacostarkivet.wordpress.com/2017/08/25/kazuko-toyonaga-1986/
Summary in English
The first remains of Kazuko Toyonaga (b. 1962) were discovered by a taxidriver on lunch on October 30th 1986, the lower part of her then still unidentified body and limbs. Police initially suspected that it was a case of suicide and postponed the forensic examination. The following day and week however, new body parts emerged in the channels of Christianshavn, some wrapped in plastic bags and a murder investigation led by among others Kurt Jensen began. Rumours circulated that one of the bags was of Swedish origin and that the murderer was a professional, this was later refuted by the Danish police.
Swedish investigator Inge Reneborg and forensic doctor Jovan Rajs arrived shortly after the findings to see if there were any conncetions to the murder of 28-year old Catrine da Costa that took place two years earlier. The Swedes refuted any connection to the murder of da Costa and returned to Sweden.
By November 10th most body parts, including the head of Kazuko Toyonaga was recovered by Danish divers, but no clue to her identity was found. Tips now came in from the public, mysterious cars parked nearby the first finding, a woman’s handbag near the channel, a bloody mattress in a cellar were among them, none seem to have anything to do with the murder. Forensic doctors concluded that the young victim must have had come from Far East Asia. At one point police suspected the body could belong to Keiko Arimoto, a 23-year old female Japanese who had been abducted by North Koreans.
Months passed. In Japan two worried parents contacted the police after their daughter had failed to contact them after a trip to Europe in march 1986. A photo was sent out to Scandinavian police. Talks between Danish and Japanese authorities were slow, but finally in July 1987 the body found in the channels and harbor of Copenhagen could be identified as 22-year old Kazuko Toyonaga through a dentist.
The police now tried to piece together where Kazuko had been, who she had meet during her illfated stay in Europe and Scandinavia. Kazuko had been recruited by a West German medical company called Scherring Bio Design, who needed Japanese test persons for a new birth control pill called Triquilar. Birth Control pills were prohibited at the time in Japan, so the tests had to be carried out outside of Japan. Kazuko and several other young Japanese women were flown to Freiburg in then West Germany where they stayed at Hotell Schiff. Kazuko and the others were paid for participating in the experiments, but it came at a high cost, as Toyonaga became very ill, but soon recuperated.
Who was Kazuko? Investigators found out she was a rather shy and private person, who rarely spent time with other students or attended parties, and she did not seem interested in men. She took courses in English language but apparantly did not speak English. Once the studies and experiments were over Kazuko bought a two month Eurorail card, she said she wanted to travel through Europe before coming home, where she was to marry her boyfriend. Cities she visitied included Rome, Vienna and Berlin and Amsterdam, many of the major European cities. The last leg of her travels were to the Scandinavian countries. In the last days of September Kazuko travelled to Sweden and Norway, ultimately she intended to travel to Copenhagen and then to southern Europe.
Exactly where Toyonaga had spent her time in Norway was never fully understood, she did leave a phonenumber to a hostel, but no one remembered Kazuko there. Bad weather had prevented her from visiting the fjords and she travelled to Sweden and then a short shopping trip to Finlands capital Helsinki. She returned to Sweden and then, probably by train, travelled to Copenhagen where all traces end. When she arrived or where she stayed in Copenhagen was never discovered.
Kazukos father, sister and boyfriend arrived in Copenhagen in 1987, with most of the letters she had sent during her travells. Some letters aroused suspicion, Kazuko mentioned that someone had stolen her blue sleeping bag, and that she felt alone and wanted a travelling buddy. This seemed strange to Kazuko’s relatives as she usually liked to travel alone. No suspicious fingerprints were discovered on the letters. Investigators had little to go on and turned to the public.
Several photographs of Kazuko were published in Scandiniavian newspapers, tips began coming in from several places in Norway, where eyewitnessses claimed they had seen the tourist, knocking on doors and selling photographs. However, the Norwegian police discovered that the person was in fact another Japanese woman travelling through Norway at the time. Danish Police encouraged the public to send in more tips, who had she met? Had anyone seen Kazuko? Who was she travelling with? Newspapers published a photo of a mink scarf Kazuko said she had bought in Helsinki, but no one seemed to recognize or remember Kazuko. The case seemed dead. The following year a headless torso of a woman appeared in the Köge area, but it did not seem to have any connection to the Toyonaga case. Interestingly, two other women connected to the Bio Design project were found murdered in 1982 and 1985 in Freiburg, police speculated there might be a connection. Bio Design denied any involvement even saying the women were not part of the trials.
In 1994 investigators found reason to examine the case again, as another Asian woman was found dismembered at Islands Brygge, the same spot where a taxi driver had found the first body parts of Kazuko Toyonaga 10 years earlier. It turned out that the woman, a Thai mother had been murdered by her Egyptian husband who was sentenced to life in prison.
In August of 2017 30-year old Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappeared after a submarine trip with Danish inventor Peter Madsen. Kim’s body was found dismembered in the harbor of Copenhagen, much like Kazuko had been some 30 years ago. Madsen was only 15 years old at the time of Toyonagas death but police are trying to see if there is any connection.
この豊永さんの事件は、2017年のデンマーク湾のスウェーデン人ジャーナリストのバラバラ死体遺棄事件があったことで再浮上しましたが、上記サイトの著者は富永さんの死と、スウェーデンのKarolinska Instututeの医学者などが逮捕された、スウェーデン人女性のバラバラ死体遺棄事件との関係を疑っているように思えます。
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