Zheng Yongshan

Zheng Yongshan
locality of the murders
Born	1972 (age 38–39)

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zheng.

Zheng Yongshan (鄭 永善, born 1972) is a Chinese immigrant who also goes by the name of Mie Taniguchi（谷口 充恵) and lived near Tokyo, Japan. She moved to Japan in 2004 and married a Japanese man.

Murders

On February 17, 2006, Zheng was supposed to drive her child and two of the child's classmates to school as part of a carpool arrangement. She stabbed the two classmates in the stomach and back with a 20-centimeter thin fish-cutting blade. Of the classmates, a girl, Wakana Taketomo, was stabbed 19 times; a boy, Jin Sano, 13 times. Both children were five years old. Zheng then dumped the bodies in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, a small town 300 kilometers southwest of Tokyo.^[1]

Recovery of evidence, and sentencing

A passer-by discovered the body of Taketomo on a rural road; Sano's body was recovered in an irrigation stream.^[2] After dumping the bodies, Zheng parked the car 56 kilometers away from the crime scene. She still had the knife used in the killings in her possession. Taketomo was declared dead at 9:45am shortly after she was taken to the hospital. Sano died around noon at the same hospital.^[3] Prosecutors demanded death, but Zheng was sentenced to life imprisonment after she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.^[4]

References

1. ^ Mother kills daughter's classmates with sashimi knife, Taipei Times
2. ^ Mom kills child's classmates, News 24
3. ^ Murder In The Mothers Club, Marie Claire
4. ^ Car pool mom who killed two kids gets life | The Japan Times Online

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Name	Yongshan, Zheng
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Short description	Chinese murderer
Date of birth	1972
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