Content Warning: True crime, murder, suicide, harsh language, and adult themes. Listener discretion is advised.

Japan is known for many things, but murder usually doesn't rank high on the well known list. Yet, in the 80's you could have been killed for simply getting something to drink out of a vending machine. As suddenly as the murders began, they stopped. Someone or multiple someones, were poisoning drinks in vending machines who, to this day, are still unknown.

Sources Used in this episode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat_murders

https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/10/world/japanese-puzzle-the-vending-machine-murders.html

https://www.grunge.com/364109/the-untold-truth-of-the-vending-machine-killer/

https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/the-vending-machine-murders-6876a52be4a7

https://www.mysteryconfidential.com/2023/05/the-vending-machine-murder.html

https://thecrimewire.com/true-crime/the-paraquat-murders-japans-vending-machine-serial-killer

https://www.publiceye.ch/fileadmin/doc/Pestizide/Paraquat_Leaks/1983_ScienceDigest_ParaquatWeedKillerisKillingPeople.pdf

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/09/27/Japanese-warned-against-poisoned-soft-drinks/9882496641600/

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