Issei Sagawa

, also known as Pang or The Kobe Cannibal, was a Japanese murderer, cannibal, and necrophile. He killed Renée Hartevelt in Paris in 1981.

Sagawa murdered Hartevelt then 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 deported to Japan.

He died from problems caused by pneumonia at a hospital in Tokyo, on 24 November 2022, at the age of 73.

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Category:1949 births
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Category:Japanese murderers
Category:Cannibalism
Category:People acquitted by reason of insanity
Category:Deaths from pneumonia
Category:Necrophiles