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How two-month affair with married man drove mistress to murder

Abe wrote an autobiography after her release from jail [Photo: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images]

When Sada Abe became the mistress of married restaurateur Kichizo Ishida, she fell so deeply in love with him that it drove her to murder.

The Japanese couple often carried out erotic asphyxiation on each other as part of their adventurous sex life - but one morning Abe purposely strangled her love in a hotel room and cut off his penis and testicles.

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