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Convicted Slayer 1$ HangedTOKYO (UPI5 - Kiyoshi Okubo, 41, who lured eight young women to rape-murdei* deaths by promising them careers as movie stars, was hanged Thursday in Tokyo's Kosuge Prison.Okubo was arrested May, 1971, in Gunma province, adjoining Tokyo, where most of the killings took place. Many of the victims were teen-agers, taken in by Okubo's big car and his story that he was a movieproducer.He wrote and published a book detailing the killings. Police said Okube never expressed any remorse.•'Sooner or later I will be executed. 1 will try to die well, he told the judge who sentenced him in 1973.In accordance with Japanese law, the execution was not announced in advance. It wasnot covered by the press, and no details were given out by prison officials,
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Provo Daily Herald
Provo, Utah, US
Fri, Jan 23, 1976
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