A mysterious group
of villains calling itself “The Monster With 21 Faces”, used cyanide and other
toxins to send letters blackmailing two important companies of Japanese food,
Glico and Morinaga.
This was a famous exortion case in the 1980s in Japan. It was primarily directed at the Japanese industrial confectioneries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga It currently remains Unsolved.
This started when
the president of Glico was kidnapped in front of his family when two armed men
broke into his house. This event was followed by the setting of several cars in the parking lot on fire, then
a series of letters were sent in a plastic container along with hydrochloric
acid and if it wasn’t enough, they claimed to have poisoned Glico´s candies,
which resulted in the company losing $21 million dollars.
After all this,
“the Monster” sent one final letter asking for forgiveness of Glico and
then moved on… but to another company: Morinaga. This time they sent 21 letters
full of Cyanide inside a box that stated “Contains Toxins”.
After this, “The
Monster” kept on moving from one company to another, causing one of the police
officers in charge of the case to commit suicide.
“We are bad guys.
That means we’ve got more to do than bullying companies. It is fun to
lead a bad man´s life” were the Monster´s final words to the public.
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