Nagoya dark web murder: Mother reveals daughter’s final message to her killers

AICHI (TR) – Nearly two decades after the murder of a female office worker in Nagoya , the mother of the 31-year-old victim has opened up about the case, revealing her daughter’s defiant final message to her killers, reports CBC TV (Sep. 3).

The case garnered nationwide attention since the killers of Rie Isogai met her via an underground internet bulletin board.

On August 24, 2007, office worker Rie Isogai was abducted from a street near her home in Chikusa Ward by three men who had conspired to commit robbery and murder.

The assailants forced Isogai into a vehicle, robbing her of roughly 60,000 yen in cash. Before murdering her, the men relentlessly threatened her with a kitchen knife, demanding the four-digit PIN to her bank account.

Facing imminent death, Isogai desperately resisted. Ultimately, she gave her captors a fake number: 2-9-6-0.

In Japanese numerical wordplay ( goroawase ), the digits 2-9-6-0 can be read as “Ni-ku-mu-wa,” which translates to “I despise you” or “I hate you.”

“She used to play around with number wordplay a lot,” her 75-year-old mother, Fumiko Isogai, said in a recent interview. “I felt she entrusted her true feelings into that message. It showed she absolutely would not forgive them. I took it to mean I had to avenge her.”

Rie Isogai, left, and her mother, Fumiko (X)

Rie was protecting a bank account containing approximately 8 million yen. It wasn’t until after the incident that Fumiko learned the heartbreaking reason behind her daughter’s fierce determination to guard the funds.

Having lost her father at a young age, Rie was raised by her single mother. Fumiko initially assumed the 8 million yen was her daughter’s savings for her own future or retirement. However, Rie’s boyfriend later revealed the truth: she had been secretly saving the money to buy a house as a surprise gift for her mother.

Following the tragedy, Fumiko led a relentless campaign seeking the death penalty for her daughter’s killers. To honor Rie’s final wish, she eventually used the 8 million yen to purchase a condominium.

“It’s incredibly sad that she never even got to step foot inside, but I live here with the feeling that I am managing the home she entrusted to me,” Fumiko said, noting she sometimes still feels her daughter’s presence in the rooms.

Living alone, Fumiko continues to speak to her murdered daughter every day.

“I say ‘I’m home,’ or ‘Welcome back,’ or ‘What do you want to eat, Rie?’ just like when she was alive,” Fumiko said. “But the sad reality is, I have to reply to myself. I speak alone, and I answer alone.”

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爱知县（TR）——据加拿大广播公司电视台（CBC TV）9月3日报道，在名古屋一名女上班族被谋杀近20年后，这位31岁受害者的母亲公开谈论了这起案件，并透露了她女儿临终前向凶手发出的不屈不挠的信息。

由于杀害矶贝理惠的凶手是通过一个地下网络论坛认识她的，因此该案引起了全国的关注。

2007 年 8 月 24 日，上班族矶贝理惠在千种区家附近的一条街上被三名合谋抢劫和谋杀的男子绑架。

袭击者强迫矶贝上车，抢走了她大约6万日元的现金。在杀害她之前，这些人用菜刀不断威胁她，逼问她银行账户的四位数密码。

面对迫在眉睫的死亡，矶贝拼死抵抗。最终，她给了俘虏她的人一个假号码：2960。

日语数字文字游戏（goroawase）中，数字 2-9-6-0 可以读作“Ni-ku-mu-wa”，翻译过来就是“我鄙视你”或“我恨你”。

“她以前经常玩数字文字游戏，”她75岁的母亲矶贝文子在最近的一次采访中说道。“我觉得她把她真实的感受都倾注在那条信息里了。这表明她绝对不会原谅他们。我理解为我必须为她报仇。”

左为矶贝理惠，右为她的母亲富美子（X）

理惠当时正在保护一个存有约800万日元的银行账户。直到事件发生后，富美子才得知女儿如此执着地守护这笔钱背后令人心碎的原因。

幼年丧父的理惠由单身母亲富美子抚养长大。富美子起初以为那800万日元是女儿为自己的未来或退休攒下的积蓄。然而，理惠的男友后来揭开了真相：理惠一直在秘密攒钱，想买套房子给母亲一个惊喜。

悲剧发生后，富美子发起了一场不懈的运动，力求判处杀害女儿的凶手死刑。为了实现理惠的遗愿，她最终用这笔800万日元购买了一套公寓。

“她甚至都没能踏进这栋房子一步，这真是令人无比悲伤。但我住在这里，感觉就像是在管理她托付给我的家，”富美子说道，并表示她有时仍然能感觉到女儿的存在。

独自生活的富美子每天都和她被谋杀的女儿说话。

“我会像她生前那样，对她说‘我回来了’、‘欢迎回来’或者‘理惠，你想吃什么？’”富美子说，“但可悲的是，我只能独自回答自己。我独自说话，也独自回答。”

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