Location: Throughout Japan, with key incidents in Osaka and Shiga Prefecture 🇯🇵
Story: In March 1984, Katsuhisa Ezaki, chairman of the confectionery giant Glico, was kidnapped from his own bathroom by masked gunmen. Though he escaped days later, the real terror began when a group calling itself The Monster with 21 Faces emerged. They claimed to have laced Glico chocolates with cyanide, triggering nationwide panic, massive product recalls, and devastating financial losses. The group also targeted other major companies like Morinaga, Marudai Ham, and House Foods with poisoned products and extortion letters.🍫
Twist: The criminals never sought ransom. Instead, they taunted police and the media with mocking letters, humiliating authorities and driving one police superintendent to suicide. Despite a massive manhunt and a lone suspect captured on CCTV—dubbed the Fox-Eyed Man, no one was ever arrested. After 17 months of terror, the group announced they were stopping "to mourn" the dead superintendent and vanished. All statutes of limitations expired by 2000, turning the case into Japan's most infamous "perfect crime," leaving behind only questions, fear, and the unsettling possibility that the perpetrators still walk free. 😏