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NPR animates yakuza girlfriends, serial killers, and other exciting things

Bysarah

Nov 20, 2009

Humming killers

After Jake’s interview on NPR earlier this month, Thomas Dreisbach and other interns put their skills to work in editing a segment about Jake’s time covering the case of Gen Sekine, animal breeder turned serial killer in Saitama. It’s a fun, quick-and-dirty summary of “The Saitama Dog Lover Serial Disappearances, Part 1 & 2” (pages 102-135), and artist Kathryn DeFeo got Jake’s hairdo down pretty good.

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