{"id":85992,"date":"2024-02-02T23:16:52","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wegotthiscovered.com\/?p=1655362"},"modified":"2024-02-02T23:16:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T23:16:52","slug":"why-did-a-man-behead-his-girlfriend-with-a-samurai-sword-the-shocking-slaying-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/why-did-a-man-behead-his-girlfriend-with-a-samurai-sword-the-shocking-slaying-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did a man behead his girlfriend with a samurai sword? The shocking slaying, explained"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s like something out of a Japanese horror<\/a><\/strong> movie. A man loses it and goes after someone with a samurai sword and, well, let’s just say he aims for the neck and succeeds. This unfortunately and gruesome true crime<\/a><\/strong> tale comes to us from San Mateo, California<\/a><\/strong>. The man is named Jose “Rafa” Landaeta and the victim was his ex, Karina Castro. This is the story of how and why it all went down.<\/p>\n

By the time Sept. 8, 2022 rolled around, any chance of the formerly amorous couple rekindling their old relationship was long gone. There were too many things to prevent that. For one, Castro already had a restraining order<\/a> against Landaeta, and still they were constantly bickering with each other on social media.<\/p>\n

However, it wasn’t always like that. Castro and Landaeta used to live together in a house in San Carlos, near Magnolia Avenue and Laurel Street. A neighbor named Chapele Thorborne said it was a “nice neighborhood” and that the couple moved in together around 2019 and “seemed like they loved each other.”<\/p>\n

The couple also shared a one-year-old child together, so things were obviously amicable at one time. At some point though, that took a sharp turn. A few days before the attack, the couple went exceptionally hard at each other<\/a> hard through messaging.<\/p>\n

During the trial, the IT team for the prosecutor’s office found dozens of Snapchat messages between the couple that were both brutal and threatening. Landaeta, by the way, had been previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and had a criminal record<\/a> that included a 2012 conviction for having sex with an unconscious 15-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

They argued about everything, including their shared child. Castro said<\/a> she would take custody and not let Landaeta see her anymore.<\/p>\n

“Izzy will have my last name. You will have no right to my kid,” he said.  <\/p>\n

Castro also threatened Landaeta by saying she would expose the rape conviction to all the world. Landaeta called her a “snitch lip” and said that she would “F**k around and find out.”<\/p>\n

She texted him back with: “U wanna put a target on my back, ur homies gonna kno the real u,” which was another threat to expose Landaeta’s secret relationship with a man. Then she said, “Dude, go head try and take my a** out.”<\/p>\n

Landaeta then sent a ninja emoji, followed by blood emojis. Those normally innocuous symbols would prove unfortunately prescient.<\/p>\n

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