What is Issei Sagawa?
{{Infobox person | name = Issei Sagawa | image_caption = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1949|04|26}} | birth_place = [[Kobe]], Japan | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Author | height = 144.8 cm | criminal_charge = Murder, cannibalism (falsely identified as attempted rape by officials) (Japan) | criminal_status = Unfit to stand trial by reason of insanity }} {{Nihongo|'''Issei Sagawa'''|佐川 一政|Sagawa Issei|extra=born 26 April 1949}},<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.learning-history.com/issei-sagawa/|title=Issei Sagawa: Cannibal Killer|website=Learning History|access-date=September 30, 2018|archive-date=October 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001104014/https://www.learning-history.com/issei-sagawa/|url-status=dead}}</ref> also known as '''Pang''' or '''The Kobe Cannibal''', is a Japanese murderer, [[cannibal]], and [[necrophile]]. He killed Renée Hartevelt in [[Paris]] in 1981. Sagawa murdered Hartevelt then [[cannibal|ate]] and raped her [[corpse]] over several days. Sagawa was arrested but released after two years of [[pre-trial detention]] found him [[legally insane]] and [[Deportation|deported]] to Japan. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sagawa, Issei}} [[Category:1949 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Japanese murderers]] [[Category:Cannibalism]] {{bio-stub}}