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| | News about religious cults, sects, and alternative religions - August 17, 2000 (Vol. 4, Issue 245) |
 | | Wakasa, 66, was quoted by police as saying he had instructed the five, who were aged between 27 and 41, to consume only water after the family spent the last of its savings. |
 | | Wakasa was quoted as telling investigators that the five were not slain, but died one by one starting about two months ago after the family ran out of food. |
 | | Investigators, stunned by the bizarre scene, were questioning the mother Akiko Wakasa, 64, and her brother, Takao, 66, for not reporting the deaths and abandoning the bodies. |
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