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🗓️ 17 December 2018
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0:00.0 | criminals sometimes like to taunt authorities and their victims families, |
0:09.0 | so there's nothing typical within the following true crime stories. |
0:14.0 | Whoever's behind them is not only clever, but also left behind perplexing clues that even today |
0:19.6 | remain unsolved. |
0:21.5 | These are five unsolved crimes with strange clues. |
0:27.0 | Number five, Glico Morinaga case. |
0:30.0 | Monster with 21 faces. |
0:46.2 | On March 18th, 1984, two armed masked men broke into Katsuisa Zazaki's home in Japan. Once inside they bound his wife and daughter. |
0:50.8 | Zaki was hiding with his two other children inside the bathroom and that's when they kidnapped him. Zaki was a CEO of Glicko, a company that made candy and ice cream. |
0:58.0 | The next day the captors called the director of Glicko and demanded 1 billion yen and 100 kilograms in Gold Bullion. |
1:06.8 | The company managed to buy some time and luckily for them, |
1:10.0 | Zaki actually managed to escape from his captors just three days later on March 21st. |
1:16.0 | The company thought it had dodged a huge extortion case, |
1:20.0 | but things were only just getting underway. |
1:23.0 | By April 10th, several vehicles within the parking lot of Glitko's headquarters were burned. |
1:28.0 | Six days later, they found plastic containing hydrochloric acid along with a threatening letter. |
1:35.1 | The following month, on May 10th, the company began receiving letters from a person or |
1:39.5 | group who called themselves the man with 21 faces. |
1:43.8 | The threats were very serious and they said that they had laced Glitko's candies with potassium |
1:48.5 | cyanide soda. |
1:50.6 | As a result, Glitko pulled their stock of candy from stores causing a $21 million loss and hundreds of layoffs. |
1:58.0 | The man with 21 faces then began sending letters not just to Glico, but to the police as well as the media. |
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