'Kobe Cannibal' Issei Sagawa, who murdered and ate a Dutch student dies at 73

Issei Sagawa, the "Kobe Cannibal" who murdered and ate a Dutch student but was never imprisoned, has died at the age of 73. Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24, and his funeral was attended only by relatives, with no public ceremony planned, according to a statement from his younger brother and a friend. Sagawa was studying in Paris in 1981 when he invited Renee Hartevelt, a Dutch student, to his home.