A serial thief who stole... 451 insoles from schoolgirls' shoes was detained in Japan 35-year-old unemployed Daisuke Matsuzaki was caught on the night of October 17: the police spotted a suspicious scooter near the school. Eight slippers were found in the man's pocket. Mitsuzaki admitted that he started stealing in middle school, and two years ago he took it seriously. He picked the schoolgirls he liked that he saw online or on TV, then searched for their schools. How he managed to find the soles of these particular shoes is unknown.