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LUCIE JANE BLACKMAN (AGE 21)

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More than a week has passed
since Lucie Blackman has gone missing.

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The Metropolitan Police Department

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has been investigating links
to a religious cult.

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A friend of mine who manages
a guesthouse contacted me…

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and said that he was very worried about
a 21-year-old girl named Lucie

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who lives in his guesthouse and that
he couldn't get in touch with her.

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It was the first time for my friend
to experience something like this

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and he was quite upset.

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And from his tense look,

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I felt that the situation was serious.

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BRITISH STEWARDESS KIDNAPPED BY A CULT

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ROPPONGI HOSTESS

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A 1-MILLION-YEN DEBT

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A PHONE CALL FROM A MYSTERIOUS MAN

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CALLED ON PHONE BY UNKNOWN PARTY

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SUICIDE ALSO CONSIDERED

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I was in charge of
the Lucie case as a superintendent.

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In the beginning, it was possible
that she had simply run away,

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so we needed to know
from her family in detail

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whether she had any reason for doing so.

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Back then…

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there were a lot of foreigners
who overstayed or worked illegally,

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and many of them went missing quite often.

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So, when I first heard about it,

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I wasn’t sure
whether it was a criminal case or not.

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LOOKING FOR MISSING BRITISH WOMAN

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Any information would be helpful.

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Please call us.

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I met with Tim on behalf of the police
and explained the situation.

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I hadn't had much experience

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of talking to people from other countries,

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so I was surprised by the questions
he had in certain areas.

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He asked me whether I had done
a proper security camera investigation.

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At that time,

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I explained to him the limited use
of security cameras in Japan

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because of privacy concerns.

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He said, "Mitsuzane, you must be joking."

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"In London,
there are cameras on every street,

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and they are all made in Japan."

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The first team which was involved
in the Lucie case from the beginning

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was the Teramae team.

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Our team only heard from them
that they had identified a suspect.

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He was a Japanese man who frequented
the hostess clubs in the Roppongi area,

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including Casablanca.

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So, we were ordered to bring that suspect
into custody and find out

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whether he was innocent or not.

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We were nervous that the suspect

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would find out what we were doing,

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and would kill her
if she were still alive.

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We approached his car
before he went to work.

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We asked that
he voluntarily come in for questioning.

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We caught him

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and accompanied him to
the nearest police station to investigate.

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The guy had an alibi,
which we ended up corroborating.

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The suspect was not the one

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that took Lucie.

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We were forced to
go back to the drawing board.

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You can put up the sign on the pole,
but you cannot do it there.

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The Japanese Prime Minister had said,

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"The Japanese police
will catch the suspect."

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We thought that’s an easy thing
to say but it's not easy to do.

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We felt that pressure ourselves.

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I felt that there was

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a slight inconsistency
in the investigation policy.

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So, some of my cops
started to make their own moves.

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I call them Suppon detectives,

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detectives who don't let go of a lead.

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We thought it’d be better to start
the investigation from the beginning

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instead of wasting time on red herrings.

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Kuku is tenacious and persistent.

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Once he bites,
he never lets go, like a suppon.

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We spent nights
going over the daily reports

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that the main unit filed from day one,

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and checked everything in them.

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While I was checking the reports

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to understand how
the investigation had been conducted,

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I discovered a report

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from the Roppongi area
where there were many clubs.

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A foreign hostess working at a club

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was invited by a regular male customer
for a drive to the seaside.

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At some point, she fell unconscious

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and slept for many hours.

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When she woke up,
her head was hurting badly

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and she suspected that
she had been drugged.

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They said the manager of the club
who came up with the information

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was an unreliable guy.

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No one should rely on what he says.

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After reading this,
we thought that was ridiculous.

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A person like this
might provide a legitimate clue.

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We would find club owners claiming that

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a girl who worked for them
had the same experience.

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These stories would pop up

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here and there.

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So we decided to talk to all the employees

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from every club.

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In the beginning,
the ladies who worked at the clubs

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didn’t want to come forward.

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We couldn’t talk to them at work,

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so at first, we’d stop them on the streets

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and ask them questions there.

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Eventually, several women came forward

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because they wanted to help us find Lucie.

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In the end,

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we discovered that all these women
had experiences that were very similar.

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Criminals generally stick to
the same modus operandi.

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Just like thieves have their own way
of breaking and entering,

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it's a habit.

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Those habits don't change.

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He drove them in luxury cars

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like Porsche, Mercedes-Benz,

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and so on.

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The invitations were to go
to a place with a view of the ocean

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or to have dinner somewhere.

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And he used drugs.

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The victims said they felt
as if they had been drugged.

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They’d wake up
feeling uncomfortable all over their body.

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Some threw up.

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Some felt a burning sensation.

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I felt very sorry for them.

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There were a lot of people
from the press around Tim.

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We judged that he might reveal something

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that would hinder the investigation.

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I always said that
the investigation is progressing steadily.

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"I can't tell you about it yet."

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Thank you. Okay.

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So, we had discovered numerous reports

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of a man taking hostesses out for a drive

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and then drugging them
in order to molest them.

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One of the victims
was Jessie from Australia.

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Her case happened three years earlier.

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She had written

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the man's name and cell phone number

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in her old notebook,

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which she left in Australia.

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The notebook arrived from Australia.

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We asked her father

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to send the notebook back to Japan
so we can see it with our own eyes.

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She got so mad
that she scribbled over the number.

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We held it up to the light
to try to identify the digits.

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His name was "Yuji Honda"

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and his cell phone number ending
in 3301 was written in the notebook.

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So, we started checking on

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the numbers that had been called
from this phone.

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The number was still in use.

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We retrieved the phone records
of the number.

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We found ten or so
phone numbers it called.

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And one of those numbers…

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belonged to Lucie.

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The suspect created

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many false identities, so that
they could never be traced back to him.

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We asked the cell phone company
to do a location search

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to find where the caller was.

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At three o'clock,

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we found a call that was picked up
by an antenna near Tokyo Tower.

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One minute or five minutes later,

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the signal was picked up
in a completely different direction.

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Another five minutes later,

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the antenna in the west
was picking up a call.

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Another five minutes later, an antenna
in the east was picking up a call.

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No car can go that fast
from one location to another.

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It was a mystery to me.

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Then I thought,

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if the calls were picked up
by four antennas in the four directions,

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there was a possibility that the caller

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was calling in the intersectional area.

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We showed our police badges
to the manager.

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On the sixth floor,
two rooms were being used

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by a company called Plant Orihara.

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The manager said
the owner was an unusual person.

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He walked past the manager,

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he never greeted,

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and always looked down
and didn't show his face.

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He drives a lot of luxury foreign cars.

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Porsche, Mercedes-Benz,
Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce…

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All the cars mentioned
in the testimonies were there.

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I didn't know if P-Orihara
was a foreigner’s name or a company name.

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There was no information.

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The name of the resident was not listed.

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Among the hostesses who we spoke to,

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a few women were willing to go on record.

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One of them was Monica from England.

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I think it was a man
who called himself "Koji."

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It was the 10th of October in 1997.

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She met a "Koji" in Roppongi,

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and they drove to
a resort apartment building

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with a view of the ocean.

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She remembered a row of palm trees,

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and Zushi Marina was
the only place in the area

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that had that.

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She might remember more details,

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so we went together to Zushi Marina.

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Monica said this was it.

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This resort apartment
was the place I was taken to.

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We drove around the premises,

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and she thought
it might have been Building 4 or 7,

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but she couldn’t confirm
which building it was.

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I remember we went to a nearby restaurant

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and showed Lucie’s photo to a waitress.

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She told me that
she was sure it was this woman

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who came here on July 1.

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LUCIE JANE BLACKMAN (AGE 21)
175CM TALL, MEDIUM BUILD

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When I asked her if she was alone,

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she said "No, she was with a man."

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I wanted to get
the residents' list of Zushi Marina.

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I went and talked to
the assistant manager.

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I explained the urgency
of the situation and he understood.

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I had to rule them out one by one.

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It's tricky and time-consuming work,

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but if this person is alive,
we need to free her as soon as possible.

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As I went through them one by one,
all of them turned up empty,

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but I had a gut feeling
that one of them was suspicious.

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So, I searched for a man

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who had a lot of luxury foreign cars.

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A person called "Obara" came to the front.

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When I heard that,

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I remembered that…

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at the Moto-Akasaka Towers,

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there was a company named Plant Orihara.

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PLANT ORIHARA

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O BARA

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The kanji characters for "Obara"…

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ORI HARA

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…can also be read as "Orihara."

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I got goosebumps
and felt a shiver all over my body.

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A310 JOJI OBARA

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We found out that Joji Obara…

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had been previously arrested in Wakayama…

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for disguising himself as a woman

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and secretly filming in
a women's restroom.

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I talked to the officers
who worked on that case at the time,

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and I asked them what he was like.

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They said "thoroughly resistant."

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Upon his arrest,

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he refused to take a mugshot.

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He averted his face
and wouldn't cooperate at all.

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I asked for it to be faxed to me.

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The fax machine back then had low quality,
and the photo came out quite dark.

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So, we put together
about 100 photos of suspects

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and showed them to the victims.

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Monica and Jessie

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both singled out Obara's picture
without hesitation.

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For the first time,

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we had a real name
to attach to all the pseudonyms.

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We couldn't pin him
with anything on Lucie,

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but we thought we had enough to arrest him

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based on other victims.

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At six o'clock in the morning,
we were already in position.

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Investigators are nervous
when they make an arrest in any case.

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I was very nervous.

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We placed two people
by the emergency exit,

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two people on the side of the window,

255
00:46:23,375 --> 00:46:26,041
and one person by the door
to keep a lookout.

256
00:46:26,125 --> 00:46:28,750
I think there were
about seven people in total.

257
00:46:29,708 --> 00:46:34,750
I was told by radio that the suspect
was awake and turned on the TV.

258
00:46:34,833 --> 00:46:38,083
So, I continued to monitor the situation.

259
00:46:39,458 --> 00:46:44,916
He always went out to buy the newspaper
at about seven o'clock,

260
00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:48,041
so I thought
there was no need to barge in.

261
00:46:48,125 --> 00:46:54,041
Obara didn’t look like
a bad-tempered person.

262
00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:57,125
I thought he wouldn't be violent.

263
00:46:57,791 --> 00:47:01,708
But I was worried
about him jumping out of the window.

264
00:47:01,791 --> 00:47:03,250
That's all I was thinking about.

265
00:47:05,875 --> 00:47:09,458
Just before seven o'clock,
the door opened.

266
00:47:10,666 --> 00:47:15,416
When I asked "Are you Obara?",
his face suddenly dropped.

267
00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:18,000
He said "Yes, I am."

268
00:47:21,833 --> 00:47:24,458
I think he knew the arrest was imminent.

269
00:48:19,416 --> 00:48:20,583
Please stand back.

270
00:48:22,916 --> 00:48:28,125
I was in charge of the crime scene
at Zushi Marina No. 4.

271
00:48:29,375 --> 00:48:31,833
We found

272
00:48:32,583 --> 00:48:37,083
a lot of drugs and alcohol.

273
00:48:38,291 --> 00:48:41,375
What I remember vividly

274
00:48:41,458 --> 00:48:45,750
was the metal fitting on the ceiling.

275
00:48:47,958 --> 00:48:49,791
I remember wondering

276
00:48:49,875 --> 00:48:53,083
what kind of metal fitting it was.

277
00:48:58,416 --> 00:49:03,125
I was in charge of the search
and seizure at Moto-Akasaka Towers.

278
00:49:03,625 --> 00:49:08,625
The most memorable item was his notebook.

279
00:49:11,875 --> 00:49:13,708
I don't know when he wrote it,

280
00:49:13,791 --> 00:49:17,500
but one entry said
he was going to become evil,

281
00:49:18,166 --> 00:49:19,833
that he was going
to devote himself to evil.

282
00:49:22,291 --> 00:49:27,541
He rapidly changed his way of thinking
to become thoroughly evil,

283
00:49:27,625 --> 00:49:31,041
and transformed into a sort of monster.

284
00:49:49,375 --> 00:49:52,916
We confiscated a lot of videotapes,

285
00:49:54,625 --> 00:49:56,916
and I'm not talking
about just two or three.

286
00:50:04,250 --> 00:50:07,375
The videotapes were labeled with names,
although not with full names.

287
00:50:09,041 --> 00:50:14,250
What Obara did was recorded on videotapes.

288
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:21,250
I don't think it's something
I should talk about again.

289
00:50:45,166 --> 00:50:51,916
We learned that
the metal fittings on the ceiling…

290
00:50:55,458 --> 00:51:00,875
were used to lift the victims' legs.

291
00:51:01,916 --> 00:51:06,000
He doesn't think of people as people,

292
00:51:06,666 --> 00:51:09,166
but just as dolls.

293
00:51:09,250 --> 00:51:11,500
I’d never seen a case…

294
00:51:13,541 --> 00:51:19,458
I’d never seen anything so despicable.

295
00:51:20,083 --> 00:51:23,833
I never thought
there were people like him.

296
00:51:49,541 --> 00:51:52,166
Our goal was to find Lucie.

297
00:51:55,500 --> 00:51:56,875
So, I felt the pressure.

298
00:51:58,625 --> 00:52:02,250
But with so much evidence against him,
I thought we had a chance.

299
00:52:04,166 --> 00:52:05,750
While I was talking to him,

300
00:52:06,333 --> 00:52:12,416
I felt that he was
a very warped individual.

301
00:52:14,416 --> 00:52:18,333
He denied everything
concerning his crimes.

302
00:52:20,125 --> 00:52:22,208
Even when I showed him evidence,

303
00:52:23,416 --> 00:52:25,166
he insisted that all of it was an act.

304
00:52:26,166 --> 00:52:29,333
They were all paid.

305
00:52:29,958 --> 00:52:34,791
He'd make excuses like that.
But, that’s all he admitted.

306
00:53:22,708 --> 00:53:24,333
When I saw the video evidence,

307
00:53:24,416 --> 00:53:27,625
I thought this crime was completely
comparable to a murder case.

308
00:53:29,833 --> 00:53:33,750
For a woman,
sexual crimes are as bad as murder.

309
00:53:38,833 --> 00:53:44,916
I remember that we set up
an analysis team in a large room.

310
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:49,958
It’s a room that could fit
dozens of people.

311
00:53:52,541 --> 00:53:54,166
We were short on staff,

312
00:53:54,916 --> 00:54:00,500
so we had to send young officers
from the riot police to help the team.

313
00:54:02,541 --> 00:54:04,250
The victims would change,

314
00:54:04,333 --> 00:54:09,083
but they saw the same crimes
over and over again.

315
00:54:09,166 --> 00:54:13,833
Several of those young officers

316
00:54:13,916 --> 00:54:19,125
had mental breakdowns.

317
00:54:23,416 --> 00:54:25,750
I went to some of the victims' houses

318
00:54:26,583 --> 00:54:31,291
and interviewed them.

319
00:54:31,375 --> 00:54:34,875
They woke up and weren’t aware
of anything happening to them,

320
00:54:34,958 --> 00:54:36,916
that’s what they all said.

321
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:39,625
But we had the evidence to prove to them
that something had happened.

322
00:54:39,708 --> 00:54:42,125
But showing them that was the hardest bit.

323
00:54:44,708 --> 00:54:47,250
They were covering their eyes.

324
00:54:47,333 --> 00:54:49,666
One person said,
"Say it’s not me, was it me?"

325
00:54:49,750 --> 00:54:54,333
Some said, "That was in the past
and I don’t want to take it any further."

326
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:59,208
One victim had a nosebleed.

327
00:54:59,291 --> 00:55:06,041
She must have been suffering.

328
00:55:08,250 --> 00:55:11,166
I explained to them that we need to arrest
this perpetrator and punish him

329
00:55:11,250 --> 00:55:13,041
and in order to do that,

330
00:55:13,666 --> 00:55:15,041
we desperately needed their help.

331
00:55:17,208 --> 00:55:18,791
We didn’t want Obara to get away with it.

332
00:55:21,166 --> 00:55:23,208
That's how we felt.

333
00:55:24,750 --> 00:55:29,791
And that's what I tried to explain
to the victims.

334
00:55:33,791 --> 00:55:35,250
That was the only way.

335
00:56:11,875 --> 00:56:18,583
He would take a towel and a brown bottle

336
00:56:18,666 --> 00:56:21,291
and pour liquid from this bottle.

337
00:56:21,375 --> 00:56:26,666
He then placed it on the victim's face.

338
00:56:33,125 --> 00:56:37,458
There were always
towels draped over everyone’s face.

339
00:56:38,708 --> 00:56:42,791
Among the seized items
were sleep-inducing drugs,

340
00:56:42,875 --> 00:56:46,958
and there were large quantities
of ether, chloroform,

341
00:56:47,041 --> 00:56:50,375
and other illegal drugs

342
00:56:51,125 --> 00:56:52,583
that have a sleep-inducing effect.

343
00:56:55,208 --> 00:56:57,833
As I was looking at
various footage of the victims,

344
00:56:57,916 --> 00:57:00,291
I noticed one particular woman.

345
00:57:01,041 --> 00:57:02,125
Suddenly,

346
00:57:02,208 --> 00:57:09,208
her hands started shaking.

347
00:57:09,291 --> 00:57:15,333
I wondered why she was doing
these movements while unconscious.

348
00:57:17,291 --> 00:57:21,750
Chloroform toxicity
can lead to acute hepatitis

349
00:57:21,833 --> 00:57:26,416
which can lead to hepatic encephalopathy.

350
00:57:26,500 --> 00:57:30,916
And I found out that one of the symptoms
is called flapping tremor.

351
00:57:31,541 --> 00:57:37,166
As I researched
the situation of the victim further,

352
00:57:37,250 --> 00:57:40,458
I discovered that she was
a 21-year-old woman named Carita,

353
00:57:40,541 --> 00:57:44,416
and she had died.

354
01:01:17,291 --> 01:01:20,666
We were still primarily focused on Lucie.

355
01:01:22,750 --> 01:01:25,416
We had to analyze every piece of evidence

356
01:01:25,500 --> 01:01:29,291
in order to rescue her.

357
01:01:33,791 --> 01:01:36,875
Obara had a habit of collecting things,

358
01:01:37,541 --> 01:01:42,125
and he kept
a lot of receipts in his apartment.

359
01:01:42,666 --> 01:01:46,791
The evidence analysis team
examined them closely

360
01:01:47,291 --> 01:01:51,166
and they created
a timeline of Obara's actions.

361
01:02:04,291 --> 01:02:08,083
According to our analysis,
on July 1st, at around 3 p.m.,

362
01:02:08,833 --> 01:02:13,000
Obara met Lucie and headed to Zushi.

363
01:02:13,083 --> 01:02:14,875
On the way to Zushi,

364
01:02:14,958 --> 01:02:20,791
Obara and Lucie stopped at a restaurant
near the yacht harbor in Zushi Marina.

365
01:02:20,875 --> 01:02:25,041
This was confirmed
by Assistant Inspector Asano at the time.

366
01:02:27,250 --> 01:02:29,291
Then in the evening, around 5 p.m.,

367
01:02:30,375 --> 01:02:34,083
they went to Obara's apartment
at Zushi Marina.

368
01:02:35,625 --> 01:02:38,833
This was where
Lucie's whereabouts became unknown.

369
01:02:40,375 --> 01:02:45,083
Between the night of July 2nd
and early morning of July 3rd,

370
01:02:45,166 --> 01:02:47,958
Obara drove back to Tokyo.

371
01:02:49,000 --> 01:02:53,000
On July 4th, Obara did a lot of shopping.

372
01:02:55,333 --> 01:03:01,791
On July 5th, Obara visited
the Blue Sea Aburatsubo apartment,

373
01:03:01,875 --> 01:03:06,291
one of many properties that he owned.

374
01:03:08,166 --> 01:03:09,333
The next day,

375
01:03:09,416 --> 01:03:15,333
a resident complained to the manager
about noise coming from Obara's apartment.

376
01:03:22,500 --> 01:03:26,000
JULY 4TH, 2000 (TUE)
CASH REGISTER 012

377
01:03:26,083 --> 01:03:31,166
CHAINSAW - 35,800 YEN
TENT - 4,200 YEN

378
01:03:40,083 --> 01:03:42,333
Our analysis led us
to the conclusion that…

379
01:03:45,958 --> 01:03:50,083
Lucie lost her life
on the night of July 1st.

380
01:03:53,416 --> 01:03:55,000
Within the next few days,

381
01:03:55,583 --> 01:03:59,541
her body was transported
from Zushi Marina to Blue Sea Aburatsubo.

382
01:04:01,875 --> 01:04:05,375
And there was a high probability
she was dismembered there.

383
01:04:11,083 --> 01:04:14,166
After analyzing
various pieces of evidence,

384
01:04:14,916 --> 01:04:18,458
we had no choice but to think so.

385
01:04:24,291 --> 01:04:26,000
For the Lucie case,

386
01:04:26,083 --> 01:04:28,625
we also wanted good evidence,

387
01:04:28,708 --> 01:04:32,458
but we only had
circumstantial evidence that he did it.

388
01:04:35,291 --> 01:04:38,375
We needed hard evidence
to build the case for Lucie…

389
01:04:39,958 --> 01:04:44,083
but without a body,

390
01:04:44,166 --> 01:04:45,750
we couldn’t try him for murder.

391
01:05:09,875 --> 01:05:12,583
The prosecutor said it would be difficult

392
01:05:13,333 --> 01:05:19,708
to make a case without a confession,

393
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:27,208
so we knew that
we had to find the body no matter what.

394
01:05:32,000 --> 01:05:35,250
We began to look for any spots

395
01:05:35,958 --> 01:05:41,000
where a body might be buried in the area.

396
01:05:46,958 --> 01:05:50,000
We had no idea where she could be.

397
01:05:51,666 --> 01:05:55,250
It couldn’t be that far
from the apartment in Aburatsubo.

398
01:05:57,041 --> 01:06:02,750
Upper management proposed
to give us one final week to search.

399
01:06:05,208 --> 01:06:07,375
Once the week was up,
they had to shut us down.

400
01:06:10,291 --> 01:06:12,916
My stomach was in knots.

401
01:06:17,375 --> 01:06:19,000
I told my men
that this is our last chance.

402
01:06:19,833 --> 01:06:21,666
I was dreading

403
01:06:22,333 --> 01:06:25,625
what would happen if we didn’t find her.

404
01:06:30,791 --> 01:06:36,500
We really need to nail this guy
with solid jail time.

405
01:06:37,000 --> 01:06:38,458
That was how I felt.

406
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,708
The spots we had to search,

407
01:06:48,666 --> 01:06:50,500
the terrain was dangerous.

408
01:06:52,833 --> 01:06:54,833
We did it over several days…

409
01:06:56,666 --> 01:06:58,666
until we were filthy and foul-smelling.

410
01:07:20,833 --> 01:07:25,375
We went to the coast
at 8:15 in the morning.

411
01:07:33,375 --> 01:07:35,750
There were a few caves.

412
01:07:39,083 --> 01:07:40,666
I relied on my hunch.

413
01:07:53,208 --> 01:08:00,208
The area was littered with things
that have washed ashore.

414
01:08:00,291 --> 01:08:04,916
So, I cleared everything inside the cave.

415
01:08:05,833 --> 01:08:08,500
When I cleared it,

416
01:08:09,250 --> 01:08:10,916
there was a bathtub.

417
01:08:14,583 --> 01:08:16,875
I flipped it over.

418
01:08:19,375 --> 01:08:21,125
"These are carnivorous bugs," I said.

419
01:08:24,583 --> 01:08:29,583
I cleared that area
and kept digging around it.

420
01:08:35,291 --> 01:08:38,583
At first, it seemed like
a big burlap sack.

421
01:08:39,083 --> 01:08:43,083
And when I opened it,

422
01:08:45,333 --> 01:08:47,083
I was certain it was Lucie.

423
01:08:49,750 --> 01:08:53,250
I was standing on
a rocky place near the cave

424
01:08:53,333 --> 01:08:54,708
when my phone rang…

425
01:08:55,375 --> 01:08:58,458
and I heard Nozoe's voice say "It’s here!"

426
01:08:59,500 --> 01:09:03,708
I couldn’t figure out what he was saying.

427
01:09:03,791 --> 01:09:06,500
So, I told him to wait there
because I was coming over right now.

428
01:09:13,166 --> 01:09:16,916
A huge flock of kites
had gathered above the scene.

429
01:09:18,166 --> 01:09:19,791
Squawking.

430
01:09:20,375 --> 01:09:26,875
They caught the smell of death
and started circling in the sky.

431
01:12:08,333 --> 01:12:12,041
We can now indict him for Lucie's murder.

432
01:12:13,708 --> 01:12:20,708
For the sake of the victims,
he should be given the maximum penalty.

433
01:14:32,625 --> 01:14:34,541
I was so disappointed.

434
01:14:36,500 --> 01:14:39,791
I couldn’t believe
he was found not guilty.

435
01:14:42,000 --> 01:14:46,000
The investigators at that time
were just angry more than surprised.

436
01:14:46,083 --> 01:14:48,291
He had done such terrible things.

437
01:16:36,375 --> 01:16:40,166
In 2010, I had a chance

438
01:16:40,875 --> 01:16:44,125
to visit Lucie’s grave
and pay my respects.

439
01:16:44,708 --> 01:16:49,541
So, I went to England.

440
01:16:55,916 --> 01:17:00,750
Jane treated us to afternoon tea,

441
01:17:00,833 --> 01:17:02,875
which was a first experience for me.

442
01:17:02,958 --> 01:17:05,208
I heard it’s a form of hospitality

443
01:17:05,291 --> 01:17:10,666
and I was very much impressed
by her warmth.

444
01:17:13,708 --> 01:17:17,500
Lucie’s grave is in a churchyard.

445
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:23,125
Her name was written on the marker.

446
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:28,375
"A star lighting in our sky,"

447
01:17:28,458 --> 01:17:31,958
the tombstone said.

448
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:41,166
The fact that Lucie came from
a foreign country to work,

449
01:17:41,250 --> 01:17:45,166
and then became a victim of such a crime

450
01:17:45,250 --> 01:17:50,583
has left certain emotions in my heart.

451
01:17:55,708 --> 01:17:59,041
Every year since,
we go there to appease her spirit

452
01:18:01,166 --> 01:18:07,291
and to pray that she rests in peace.

453
01:18:11,208 --> 01:18:13,458
We’ve been going there
for the last 20 years.

454
01:18:13,541 --> 01:18:15,541
I think this is a rare occurrence.

455
01:21:14,875 --> 01:21:19,875
Subtitle translation by: Ikuko Ohno