Killer of 9 used counseling techniques to lure suicidal people: expert

A man indicted for murdering and robbing nine people in his apartment near Tokyo in 2017 seems to have used certain techniques also employed in the field of counseling to gain the trust of suicidal victims before killing them, according to an analysis by a counseling expert.Yasushi Sugihara, a professor of clinical psychology at Kyoto University, has analyzed some 200 messages exchanged between Takahiro Shiraishi, 29, and a woman in her 30s who expressed her wish to commit suicide via a social networking service shortly before Shiraishi's arrest.After reading her post, he first instructed h…READ FULL ARTICLE