THE MONSTER WITH 21 FACES

The Monster with 21 Faces was a name (in view of Edogawa Rampo's anecdotal scoundrel "The Fiend with Twenty Faces") utilized as an assumed name by the individual or gathering answerable for the extortion letters in the Glico Morinaga case in Japan, in 1984. Varieties of the name's interpretation, including "the Mystery Man with the 21 Faces" and "the Phantom with 21 Faces" have likewise been utilized in articles and books highlighting the case.

Hijacking of Katsuhisa Ezaki

At around 9:00pm on 18 March 1984, two covered men equipped with a gun and rifle (later thought to be pretend rifles) utilized a key taken from the home nearby to enter the home of Ezaki Glico president, Katsuhisa Ezaki. The home nearby had a place with Katsuhisa's kid mother, Yoshie, and was situated on a similar property encompassed by a block facade. The hoodlums had broken into her home and tied her up with a cut phone line. They recovered the way in to her children home which had a security framework introduced. 

Having entered the home of Katsuhisa Ezaki, the two covered men tied up his significant other Mikieko (35 years of age) and his oldest little girl Mariko (7 years of age). Mikieko offered the men cash and one of them reacted, "Hush up. Cash is irrelevant." After cutting some phone lines the two covered men found Katsuhisa Ezaki who was washing with his other two kids, Yukiko (4 years of age) and Etsuro (11 years of age). Katsuhisa Ezaki was kidnapped stripped from his home and taken to a stockroom in Ibaraki, Osaka. 

Three days after his kidnapping, Ezaki had the option to get away from his capturers in the wake of breaking liberated from the ropes they had attached him with. Anyway he couldn't distinguish the offenders or give police any hints concerning their inspirations. 

Half a month after Ezaki's kidnapping, the gathering put a match to a few vehicles at the organization's base camp. Then, at that point, on 16 April 1984, a plastic compartment loaded with hydrochloric corrosive was found inside a Glico organization working in Ibaraki, Osaka, a similar city Ezaki was held hostage in.