In this case, Miyuki Ueta was arrested on November 2, 2009, for fraud, with the Tottori Prefectural Police using her real name and distributing the press release to news agencies.
[9] However, most of the weekly magazines published the suspect's real name and photographs of her likeness, including sensational headlines reporting her upbringing and life situation.
[9] According to media researcher Keiichi Katsura, the series of reports of Ueta's real name did not slow even after police decided to point out that her guilt was not even established yet.
[11] On March 20, 2014, the Matsue Branch of the Hiroshima High Court, headed by Judge Ihei Tsukamoto, dismissed the appeal in favor of the death penalty.
[15][16][17] The prosecution said that she was definitely guilty of the two murders, as it was impossible for the accused to just lend a shoulder to a man drugged on sleeping pills and take him to his supposed "suicide location", without being directly responsible for it.
[23] One magazine supporting Masumi Hayashi, convicted of a mass poisoning in 1998 and currently incarcerated in the Osaka Detention House, drew comparisons between her and Ueta's case, despite them having no relation.