Cannibal Issei Sagawa Escaped Punishment And Became A Well-Known Author

Publish date: 2024-05-06

In the late 1970s, Issei Sagawa moved to Paris to pursue a Ph.D. in literature at Sorbonne University. In later interviews, he recalled often bringing home sex workers and attempting to kill them but he never pushed forward with his plans (via ATI). "It became less about wanting to eat them, but more an obsession with the idea that I simply had to carry out this 'ritual' of killing a girl no matter what," he wrote in his book. It was at the university where he met a beautiful Dutch student named Renée Hartevelt, who eventually became his friend. One night, Sagawa invited Hartevelt to his apartment under the guise of needing help with studying German. While there, Sagawa shot the young woman and had sex with her dead body.

Sagawa cut into Hartevelt's body and ate parts of her buttocks, breasts, and thighs. Some of the flesh he ate raw, and others he cooked. He kept parts in the freezer as well. In an interview with Vice in 2009, Sagawa claimed that although he wanted to eat a woman, he didn't really want to murder anyone. After killing Hartevelt, he felt a moment of regret. "I realized that I had lost an important friend ... Nobody believes me, but my ultimate intention was to eat her, not necessarily to kill her," he said.

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