A cannibal killer who murdered and ate a female classmate never served jail time.
Issei Sagawa even went on to become a celebrity in his home country of Japan.
Sagawa told French Police in 1981 that he killed his Dutch classmate Renee Hartevelt, saying: "I killed her to eat her flesh."
Born in 1949, Sagawa claims he started fantasising about eating human flesh when he was six years old.
He said his favourite childhood story Hansel and Gretal, and he recalls staring at classmates' thighs in primary school and thinking: "Mmm, that looks delicious."
When he got older, his cannibalistic fantasies became sexual as he started fantasising about eating the flesh of women, particularly western celebrities such as actress Grace Kelly.
When he was 23 he broke into the Tokyo apartment of a young German woman wearing a Frankenstein's monster mask.
She woke up before he was able to attack and overpower the four-foot nine-inches Sagawa.
Sagawa told police he had intended to sexually assault her, and his wealthy father paid the young woman to drop the charges, and Sagawa was free.
In 1977, the disturbed Sagawa went to Paris to study languages and literature at the prestigious Sorbonne University.
Sagawa, then-28, became friends with Renee and she would regularly visit his flat to give him German lessons.
On June 11, 1981, when Renee was in his apartment for dinner, Sagawa shot her in the neck.
He recalled: "I thought about calling an ambulance, but then I thought, 'Hang on, don't be stupid'.
"You've been dreaming about this for 32 years and now it's actually happening!'"
He then raped Renee's dead body before eating parts of her flesh.
Some of the flesh he ate raw, and other parts he ate before consuming.
Over two days, the vile cannibal ate portions of Renee's breasts, calves, lips, and thighs.
When he decided it was time to get rid of the body he two large suitcases and stuffed the rest of her body in them before calling a taxi.
The taxi driver took him to a nearby park and Sagawa tried to dump the suitcases in Bois de Boulogne Park.
However, two horrified joggers saw blood dripping from them and alerted police.
Police were soon able to connect the cases to Sagawa with the help of the taxi driver.
In his flat, they made the gruesome discovery of the leftovers of a meal including cooked human flesh as well as Renee's photo ID card.
He was arrested and was held in France for two years where psychologists examined him.
Sagawa's father again stepped in and hired a top lawyer who had him declared legally insane and unfit to stand trial.
Over the next four years, Sagawa was in a French maximum security psychiatric unit, where he wrote and illustrated a novel, In The Fog.
The book told the disturbing story of a man who murders a woman, rapes her corpse, and eats pieces of her flesh.
Many believed this was an account of his crimes.
Grisly crime scene photos from Renee's murder were leaked and published in a popular French magazine in 1985.
The outrage led to one reporter being arrested and 200,000 copies of the magazine being seized by authorities.
Sagawa was deported back to Japan, where he was sent to a Tokyo hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
Japanese doctors said he had a personality disorder but wasn't legally insane, meaning he could be held criminally responsible for his despicable crimes.
However, French authorities didn't want to help with the prosecution and Sagawa was allowed to walk free in 1986.
He then became a celebrity in Japan and starred in a porn film in 1992 in which he pretended to cannibalise a woman.
Sagawa has written nearly 20 books and had a weekly column in a Japanese magazine.
He appeared on Japanese cooking shows, wrote restaurant reviews and sold paintings.
Now, Sagawa is 72 and lives under a new name in Tokyo.
He is currently being cared for by a younger brother following a 2013 stroke.
Sagawa claims being a cannibal was "simply a fetish.
He added: "If a normal man fancied a girl, he'd naturally feel a desire to see her as often as possible, to be close to her, to smell her and kiss her, right?
"To me, eating is just an extension of that. Frankly, I can't fathom why everyone doesn't feel this urge to eat, to consume other people."
"The desire to eat people becomes so intense around June when women start wearing less and showing more skin," he said, in a chilling interview last year.
"Just today, I saw a girl with a really nice derriere on my way to the train station. When I see things like that, I think about wanting to eat someone again before I die."
In 2018, a film called Caniba was made about his life.
He has never apologised for his crimes or reached out to Renee's family.
