The Oh, oh, oh, oh, Welcome to Morbitology, the podcast.

I'm your host Emily G. Thompson, author of Unsolved Child Murders, Cults Uncovered, and co-author of Un murders True Crime Cases is uncovered.

Join me weekly as I uncover some of the world's most heinous murders. So, Hello. Halloween is a time for dressing up, watching horror movies and going trick-or-treating.

It is the one day of the year where the main purpose is to be

scared and to scare others. However, amid all of the harmless activities and fun of the season, violence can occur, and genuine fear can be felt.

All of the gruesome murders detailed in this episode

took place around Halloween time,

giving Halloween some legitimacy

to the ominous nickname Devil's Night. Yoshi-Hyro Petori was a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student who moved in with the

haymaker family in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in August of

1992. He was affectionately known by his friends and family as Yoshi.

Yoshi was the third exchange student that the haymakers had hosted

and the second from Japan.

Yoshi settled in perfectly. He enjoyed fishing with the family and always made sure to help out with his share of the chores.

Brian Haymaker said, he was just a gregarious guy. He was throwing his heart into everything.

He was making friends, he was adventurous, he was having trouble with English, but he was going on anyway.

When Yoshi came to America, he became a student at McKinley High School,

where he was known as a fun loving student who almost always had a smile on his face.

His classmates said that he could always make them laugh,

especially when he randomly broke out into a Western dance step.

His friend, Mandolin Fawn, said, no matter who was rude to him, no matter what happened, he always had a smile on his face.

On the 17th of October, Yoshi and the teenage son of the Haymakers,

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