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Murderer Issei Sagawa - Issei Sagawa is a celebrity in Japan and not the good kind. Not even the Paris Hilton kind. Issei Sagawa made himself famous, or rather notorious, after committing a murder, and cannibalism, in France while a student in Paris. Sagawa murdered, then ate, his classmate Renee Hartevelt while he was a student at the Sorbonne in 1981. Sagawa had said Hartevelt was healthy and beautiful and that he thought by eating her, he could absorb these qualities into himself. A judge later found him legally insane and was sent to a mental institution. Sagawa is now the subject, and star, of the book In The Fog. Murderer Issei Sagawa