They attempted to rape her by covering her mouth with a towel, but when she resisted, they strangled her with a belt and stabbed her in the abdomen with a knife.

[4] On September 12 of the same year, Shoji and the same woman conspired to break into a 42-year-old woman's house, press a stun gun to her waist, hold a petit knife to her throat, bind both wrists and ankles with adhesive tape, and rape her.

Using the cash card he took, he stole 4.25 million yen from a bank's automatic teller machine.

Only Shoji, whose death sentence was upheld, appealed to the Supreme Court against the verdict.

[4] On November 6, 2007, the Third Petty Bench of the Supreme Court rejected Shoji's appeal on the grounds that "the rape, theft of money and goods, and the murder of women who were not in any way at fault were heinous," and the death sentence was confirmed.