Yesterday, a 16-year old girl chopped up her sleeping policeman father with an ax. How? Why? What the...? The details of the crime make it all the more interesting. Here are some factoids from the Mainichi news reports:
1. The girl allegedly crept up on her sleeping father past 4am on Tuesday morning, and chopped him in the neck. She lived with her father, mother, and sister in Kyoto.
2. The night before the murder, the girl had gone to bed early, around 9PM, after eating a bento.
3. Right before killing her father, the girl changed into a black dress.
4. At the time of her arrest, the girl admitted to the crime, saying: "I hate my father."
5. She bought the ax a couple days prior at a hardware store near their home.
6. Suspected motive is her dad's extramarital affairs.
7. In response to this incident, a Kanagawa TV station cancelled the last episode of an anime that featured a teenage girl lashing out violently.
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