Sadamichi Hirasawa

Sadamichi Hirasawa

In 1948, a man named Sadamichi Hirasawa robbed a bank in Tokyo by pretending to be a public health official. He gave a fatal dose of cyanide to all 16 people in the bank under the pretense of a routine dysentery inoculation.

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