A young Japanese widower who Googled words like “perfect crime” and “old man’s death” has been acquitted of his husband’s murder, six years after he died of a mysterious drug overdose.
Saki Sudo, 28, was acquitted after Wakayama city prosecutors failed to prove to judges that she had killed her husband, author Kosuke Nozaki, 77, in May 2018.
Nozaki, who wrote a best-selling memoir titled The Don Juan of Kishu in which he boasted of having spent millions pursuing his “unlimited desire to have sex with beautiful women,” was found dead in his Tanabe home just three hours ago. months after marrying Sudo.
The model, 28, was the only person present at the time of her husband’s death, and prosecutors accused her of drugging him to inherit his 1.3bn yen (£8.6m) fortune.
There were no syringe marks on his body, raising suspicions that he was poisoned.
Eighteen days earlier, his dog had also died unexpectedly.
Sudo has always maintained her innocence, but admitted that she had purchased the drugs at her husband’s request.
And although prosecutors discovered that she had Googled the words “perfect crime” and “death of old man,” she successfully argued that she was searching for them out of curiosity.
The 28-year-old model was the only person present at the time of her husband’s death, and prosecutors accused her of drugging him to inherit his £8.6million fortune.
Saki Sudo, 28, was acquitted after being accused of poisoning her wealthy 77-year-old husband, Nozaki Kosuke, in 2018.
Sudo has always maintained her innocence, but admitted that she had purchased the drug at her husband’s request.
Nozaki’s best-selling 2016 memoir details his sexual escapades in which he wrote, “My goal in life is to have sex with beautiful women.” “It will never change… and there is no retirement age.”
She posted a sequel about her marriage to Sudo, in which she said, “People ask me, ‘Can you really do it?’, and I say, ‘Oh yeah, three times a day on average.'” I have never used Viagra, but I am always vigorous. There is a risk that I will die during intercourse, but going to heaven like this is just what I want.’
Nozaki built his fortune from nothing, selling everything from scrap metal to condoms to liquor, according to the book’s publisher’s website.
In a column Nozaki wrote for the Gendai Business website in 2018, months before his death, he said he was “sure to be happy” marrying Sudo, even though people had warned him that she was probably after his money. .
He said they met at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport when he purposely stumbled to get Sudo, who he said was a model, to help him.
In previous columns, Nozaki said he had begun to become known in Japan after an incident in 2016 in which a 27-year-old woman he met and dated stole 60 million yen in cash and goods from him.