Yoshinori Ueda (serial killer)

Not to be confused with Gen Sekine, perpetrator of similar murders which took place a year later.
Yoshinori Ueda
Born1955 (age 70–71)
Yao, Osaka, Japan
ConvictionMurder x5
Criminal penaltyDeath
Details
Victims5
Span of crimes
July – October 1992
CountryJapan
StateNagano
Date apprehended
January 24, 1994

Yoshinori Ueda (上田宜範, Ueda Yoshinori; born 1955) is a Japanese serial killer who was responsible for the so-called Osaka Dog Lover Murders (大阪愛犬家連続殺人事件), in which five people were poisoned with suxamethonium in Shiojiri, Nagano from 1992 to 1993. Ueda was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death, and is currently awaiting execution on death row.

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