Oshiro's Case Report

On Friday, January 29, 2016, Waianae High School’s beloved vice principal (VP), Mr. M Kurose, was murdered. He was last seen by four other teachers and they are all suspects of the crime. The teachers that Kurose has seen that day were: Ms. J Megahan, Ms. J Moriwaki, Ms. M Oshiro, and Mr. M Ratcliffe. Each of these teachers had a motive to kill Kurose. Oshiro is the number one suspect because of her condition, her interview and medical reports, along with her way of avoiding her whereabouts and motives.

As innocent as Oshiro may seem, she has been diagnosed with psychopathy. The violent actions that Oshiro had done alerted her family members to see a psychopathy specialist, “Oshiro was referred to a psychopathy specialist after family members

After the incident with the neighbor’s dog, Oshiro’s family members had taken her to see a psychologist. When Oshiro visited her psychologist, she was given a psychopathy checklist. The results of the checklist showed that Oshiro was positive for psychopathy. With the diagnosis of psychopathy, it is very likely that Oshiro had murdered Kurose. When Oshiro had visited her psychologist, the results of the psychopathy checklist was alerting, “Oshiro scored a 35. Scores of 35 or 36 are considered exceptionally high… Any scores above 30 are in the clinically significant range and indicate psychopathy”(Psychopathy Medical Report, page 1). With Oshiro’s scores and her past incidents, there is no telling what Oshiro is capable of doing. Oshiro was able to get away with killing most of her household pets. She could have used this ‘experience’ as knowledge of how to get away with murder. Oshiro’s state of condition could have been one of the reasons why she had killed Kurose. Oshiro has found a way to mask her psychopathy with innocence, “Brother reports that Oshiro is very charming and easily achieves positive impressions from strangers and acquaintances. Oshiro is nice

Oshiro’s brother explains how she admires Jack the Ripper, “Brother says Oshiro is very interested in Jack the Ripper and maintains an expansive collection of Jack the Ripper memorabilia and collector’s items. Oshiro frequently discusses her interest in taking the life of another with Brother”(Psychopathy Medical Report, page 6). With Oshiro’s interest in Jack the Ripper and her frequent discussions of killing an actual person, there is no mistake that she had the intention of committing homicide. It was just a matter of time before she would attempt it. The statement that was made by Oshiro’s brother relates to the homicide since she is the only one out of the four teachers that had wanted to commit murder. Oshiro’s intention of committing homicide may be a factor to the murder of Kurose. Oshiro relates the crime to Jack the Ripper, “It’s terrible what happened, it’s like Hawaii’s version of Jack the Ripper is loose. Terrifying…”(Police Interview Report, page 7). At the time of the interview, Oshiro gave insight of the crime and she thought it related to Jack the Ripper. It’s coincidental how Jack the Ripper seems to be Oshiro’s idol. It also seems to be a coincidence how Oshiro had always wanted to commit murder. With Jack the Ripper being Oshiro’s idol, there is no reason to why Oshiro wouldn’t follow in his footsteps. Along with the coincidence between