On Dec. 4, 2012 Miyuki Ueta, a 38-year-old bar hostess in Japan, was convicted for the murders of two men she had “dated.” The court sentenced her to death.
Originally, the charge she was arrested for on November 2,
2009 was not homicide. She was taken into custody for having defrauded a woman
out of 1.26 million yen by falsely claiming that the victim’s son had been lent
money. Her 46-year-old male roommate was also taken into custody for swindling
a tractor dealer. Separate fraud charges were added against the pair on
November 20.
As the investigations proceeded it became clear that the men
whom she had been dating, including one who had to wed her, had been dropping
like flies soon after making her acquaintance. Insurance policies had been
taken out on some of the dead. Police attempted to build murder cases around at
least three of the six deceased, and two of these ended up being prosecuted.
Miyuki Ueta denied involvement in the deaths of the two men she was tried for
killing: trucker Kazumi Yabe, 47, and electronics store owner Hideki Maruyama,
57.
In the trial presided over by Takushi Noguchi, Ueta was
found guilty of drowning Yabe in the sea in April 2009 and Maruyama in a river
in October the same year, both in Tottori Prefecture, by drugging them first
with sleeping pills. Ueta, who was also charged with 16 other crimes, including
fraud and theft, owed Yabe ¥2.7 million ($26,000 US) and Maruyama around ¥1.23
million ($12,000 US), for the purchase of electrical appliances, according to
the court. Judge Noguchi said "capital punishment is unavoidable" for
the perpetrator of such heinous crimes.
Her lawyers filed an appeal and on Mar. 20, 2014 her death
sentence upheld by the appelate court.
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Suspected victims:
2004 – Akira Seo, 42, journalist, struck by train.
2004 – Shinichi Furuta, 27, security guard, drowned.
Feb. 2008 – Houitsu Sakai, police officer, hanged, “suicide.”
Apr. 2009 – Kazumi Yabe, 47, truck driver, drowned
(conviction).
Oct. 2009 – Kazumi Taguchi, 58, unemployed.
Oct. 2009 – Hideki Maruyama, 57, electrician, beaten, found
in river (conviction).
Chronology:
Nov. 2, 2009 – Arrested on fraud charge with male roommate.
Jan. 2010 – arrested for the Hideki Maruyama murder.
Mar. 3, 2010 – warrant for murdering Kazumi Yabe.
Dec. 4, 2012 – Convicted, sentenced to death by hanging.
Mar. 20, 2014 – death sentence upheld.
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上田みゆき- Miyuki
Ueta; Ueda Miyuki
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ALSO SEE: the Kanae Kijima case
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ALSO SEE: the Kanae Kijima case
For links to other cases of woman who murdered 2 or more husbands (or paramours), see Black Widow Serial Killers.
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