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[phone ringing]

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[gloomy music]

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[Tim] I was sitting in the garden at home,

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and I got a telephone call

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to say that my…
my daughter Lucie had gone missing.

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My first reaction was, well,
"How do you know she's gone missing?"

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Well, we've not heard from her
for a couple of days.

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She's not answering her phone
and we haven't had the emails.

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She was out working in Japan.

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I was immediately thinking, well,
there must be some rational explanation,

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there must be some reason why
she's not being able to get in touch.

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[reporter 1] Police in Japan
have made a public appeal for help

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in tracing a 21-year-old British woman.

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Lucie Blackman hasn't been seen

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since leaving the bar
where she worked as a hostess.

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[Tim] There were three or four more calls.

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And I knew there was something
that had gone wrong.

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That feeling of complete blind panic

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just crashes in on you.

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[reporter 2] Tokyo,
the world's biggest metropolis.

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An alluring place for many,
a nightmare for one.

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[reporter 3] More than a week has gone by
since British citizen, Lucie Blackman,

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was reported missing.

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[reporter 4] Every year,

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hundreds and hundreds
of bright-eyed young girls

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head for the bright lights of Tokyo.

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[reporter 5] The police have been looking
into potential links

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between Blackman
and a local religious cult.

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[reporter 6] The Japanese authority is now
on the hunt for a sexual predator

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who has been lurking
on the streets of Tokyo for decades.

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[enigmatic music]

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[slow techno music]

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[Tim] When Lucie came to leaving school,

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she wanted to go out into the world,

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like many young people to travel.

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It is a fantastic experience.

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But I remember Lucie saying,

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"Well, I'd like to, uh,
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I'm fascinated by the culture out there,

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and it would be
an interesting experience."

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Japan has this image
of being squeaky-clean, right?

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The country where everyone is polite.

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You know? There's no crime.

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You lose your wallet on the subway
and it comes back to you.

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[Jake] Tokyo in 2000s
was an exciting place to be.

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And there were a lot of foreigners
coming here to do work.

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There was money to be made
and good times to be had.

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Yes, like the rest of channel 4,
I'm in Japan.

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[TV host] This is the country
that's most popular cultural export

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at the moment is Pokémon.

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Konnichiwa and welcome to Japanorama.

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[Jake] The image of safe,
polite Japan was so overpowering.

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Nobody suspected that there could be
this sort of darker underbelly.

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[foreboding music]

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A friend of mine who manages
a guest house contacted me,

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and said that he was very concerned
about a 21-year-old girl

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named Lucie who lived there.

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[Ryutaro] She'd gone missing,

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and he was unable
to get in touch with her.

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It was the first time my friend
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and he was quite upset.

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From the tensed look on his face,

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I realized that the situation
must have been serious.

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Things were whispered
in the Japanese media.

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BRITISH STEWARDESS KIDNAPPED BY A CULT

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[Jake] But the very beginning, you know,
when nobody was aware… There maybe…

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There were some…
a small group of foreigners who knew

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that there'd been someone who disappeared.

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I was a crime reporter in Japan.

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My boss reached out to me
and he said like, "Hey, Gaijin,"

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which is like the term for "foreigners".

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He was like, "We need you." You know?
This is a case that involves Gaijin.

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My initial impression,
she probably went up to Thailand

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but just forgot to tell anyone,
probably nothing to it.

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I went to the Metropolitan
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They briefed me on everything.

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[Mitsuzane] As a superintendent,

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I was placed in charge
of the Blackman case.

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First, we had to rule out
that she hadn't simply run away,

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so we needed to speak
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to see if they were aware of any reasons
that might have led her to do so.

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[Soejima] At the time, a lot of foreigners
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or would work illegally and secretly.

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And those people would often try
to disappear to avoid detection.

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So when I first heard
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I was skeptical
that it was actually a criminal case.

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[reporter 7] Lucie's father,
Timothy Blackman, touched down in Tokyo

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as police said they feared
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I spoke to her about three weeks ago.

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Just a normal, uh, daughter
called her father saying,

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"Hi, Dad. I'm having
a good time in Japan."

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[reporter 8] Did she say anything,
any concerns about her life in Japan?

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She was saying she's enjoying herself
and it's such a nice city.

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[Tim] Something had happened, um,
and we needed to get her back.

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Any concerns you might have
about, um, not having any experience

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of talking to a camera or something,

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you just get on with it
because you're trying to find your child.

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[Jake] When Tim came,
there's massive throngs

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of reporters and people,

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suddenly that story becomes so much bigger

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and then very quickly,
everyone was talking about it.

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You know, what happened to Lucie Blackman.

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[reporter 9]
The former British Airways stewardess

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went missing on July the first.

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Japanese police have made
a public appeal for information

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about a 21-year-old British woman
who went missing in Tokyo 11 days ago.

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[foreboding music]

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[Dave] But Tokyo is a massive city

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with an estimated
27 and a half million people living here.

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It's truly like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

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[Jake] I met Tim Blackman and Sophie,
Lucie's younger sister.

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I got the impression
that he was incredibly concerned,

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but that Tim was also
a very flamboyant showman

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and that he would use
his charisma to stir up things

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so that something got done.

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He is going to make sure that

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everybody gets their ass in gear
and really looks for Lucie.

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[Tim] Jake certainly understood
the Japanese systems,

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and of course, bilingual,
so that was another great asset.

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[Tim] I think he had some contacts
in the police as well

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from the work he did.

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If you have any information,
please contact us.

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[Jake] Even before he came,
the police were looking for information.

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They were definitely
actively soliciting information.

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[reporter 10] Thirty thousand posters
of Lucie Blackman are put up in Tokyo.

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The police are following up
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but they are unsure
if the sightings are credible.

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[Tim] Hello.

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Hello.

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[Tim] Lucie was our firstborn child.

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And she completely transformed our lives.

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She was very special in the family.

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She was very quick-witted.

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She influenced many people around her.

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I think everybody who knew her
when she was growing up as a girl,

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orbited around her light, like,

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she was very much the center of things.

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She decided that a good way
of traveling was to join an airline.

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That was a really big deal.

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But she was missing, in peril.

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The task in hand now was to find Lucie.

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[Mitsuzane] I met with Tim
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to tell him what we knew.

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At that point in my life,
I was not particularly knowledgeable

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about the unique ways of life

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and practices of countries
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and that definitely led to me
being surprised or confused

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by some of the questions that he asked.

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He asked me
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all the security cameras.

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I explained to him that security cameras
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because of privacy concerns.

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He said, "Mitsuzane, is this a joke?
You can't be serious.

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In London,
there are cameras on every single street,

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and they're all made here in Japan."

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[tense music]

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The police reacted as you would expect,
they were the height of politeness.

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[Tim] But somebody came forward to me.

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An English guy
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and he said,

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"Because Lucie is not a Japanese national,
you won't get a police investigation."

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And that really sunk home in me.

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With those alarm bells ringing,

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I thought, "Well, I've got to really think
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of making an investigation take place."

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So I thought, well, the first thing
we need to do is get it into the media.

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[camera shutters clicking]

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We came away
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with the impression that

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they are following
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they are taking a broader view

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and looking at all possibilities
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[Tim] We've set up a press conference
to try and raise the profile in Tokyo.

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They had to move the press conference
to their largest auditorium

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because the entire Japanese media
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I looked at all these people
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"This is how
we're gonna find Lucie, Sophie.

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These people are
going to find Lucie for us."

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In regards to how I feel
at the moment, um…

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I'm sure you all appreciate.
This is my sister who's missing.

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And, um, and I just want her to come home.

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And so, in any way, which anyone can help,

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I'll be very grateful
if they would come forward.

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There's great interest
from the British press.

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[Jake] The Japanese media
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while the British media
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you know, with various theories

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and finding any live body they could
to sort of speak on the subject.

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Whether they knew anything
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whatever made for a good headline.

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[thrilling music]

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[Tim] Well, we heard that Lucie was alive,

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and I was told she'd been put
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That she was being trafficked for sex.

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That she'd been taken in by a cult.

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Lucie is a very skeptical young lady.

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The idea that somehow
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in a religious cult of some sort,

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just didn't ring true at all.

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We thought that was ridiculous.

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[Jake] He brought so much attention
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that the Japanese government

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and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police
had to devote huge manpower to it.

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Usually in a missing persons case,

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you're gonna have
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-[sirens wailing]
-But 100 people? That's not normal.

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[sirens wailing]

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[Jake] Police start to hone in
on Roppongi, the place where Lucie worked.

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And Roppongi was kind of like,
lots of bars,

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lots of hostess clubs.

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Um, a pretty interesting nightlife.

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Lots of foreigners, a lot of money.

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You had, you know, Goldman Sachs,

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Lehman Brothers,
and all those finance people.

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It was like a party, money was flowing.

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Roppongi was starting to see that.

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There were people
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a huge amount of cash in an evening.

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-[champagne cork pops]
-[guest shouts]

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[background chatter]

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[Suzy] I worked at Casablanca,

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which is the same hostess club
that Lucie Blackman worked in.

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It was just a small,
very unremarkable hostess club, really.

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Hostessing is very hard to explain
because there isn't a Western equivalent.

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You go to this nightclub
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and you talk to the older men,
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But there's no sex. It's not like that.

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It didn't feel
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It really was
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which is in my twenties,

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which was going out to bars
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You could make a lot of money
working as a hostess.

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The pay was around
about 50 US dollars an hour.

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Then you've got bonuses
if you drank lots of alcohol.

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And you only had to work
five, six hours, maybe.

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It could really be a… a simple,
innocent job if you wanted it to be.

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I think working as a hostess in Japan,

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it really attracted girls who are out
to have an interesting experience,

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who are out to really live life.

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There were so many
amazing independent girls

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who were looking to travel.

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Just meeting people
who were kind of that brave

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and had that bigger vision of life

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was… was really amazing actually.

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[light music]

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"Dohan" is probably the part
of hostessing that's the most dodgy.

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So a "dohan" specifically means
you have a dinner before you go to work,

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and then you take the customer
with you into the club,

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and then in the club,

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they pay the bonus for the dinner
and then they buy you drinks.

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And all these things
are kind of added to their bill.

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[Suzy] I think there was
a blurring of lines,

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because obviously, going outside
of the hostess club

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with a customer on your own,
in your free time,

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there's gonna be customers
that are gonna assume

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more of that situation.

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I felt definitely under pressure
to bring in more customers

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or to have dohan dates,

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but I never felt…

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Personally, um,
I never felt in danger at the clubs.

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I think maybe some of the things
that were dangerous,

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maybe happened outside the clubs.

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[Clare] I was working
as a journalist in London

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for a woman's magazine,

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and the magazine was very interested
in the concept of hostessing.

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So I went out to Japan

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to look at the whole culture of hostessing
and to try and find out more about it.

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-[man laughing]
-[indistinct chatter]

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[Clare] I felt that money

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was a big factor and power play
between the men and the women.

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That the men had all the money
and… and the women didn't,

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and so therefore, the men were dominant.

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So you could see sexual politics
in play in the clubs as you watched.

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[somber music]

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[Yamashiro] Captain Teramae's
investigation team had been involved

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with the Lucie Blackman case
from the very beginning.

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They told our team that they had found
a potential suspect.

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The suspect was a Japanese man
who frequented hostess clubs

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in the Roppongi district, like Casablanca.

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We had been ordered to find the suspect

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then to bring them into custody,

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and see if they were involved
with the case.

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We had to proceed with caution.

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Because if the suspect figured out
we were onto him,

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he might kill Lucie to cover his tracks.

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We approached his car
before he went to work,

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and asked if he would come in voluntarily
for questioning.

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He agreed to come with us willingly,

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so we brought him
to the nearest police station,

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so we could sit him down
and ask him our questions.

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[ominous music]

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[Soejima] The suspect had an alibi,
which we were able to corroborate.

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Once his alibi checked out,
it was clear to us

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that this suspect could not have been
the person who kidnapped Lucie.

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Which unfortunately meant
we have to go back to the drawing board.

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[suspenseful music]

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[Dave] Having spent a week
with Tim Blackman,

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it's clear he's a loving
and dedicated father

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who believes his daughter is alive
somewhere in this city,

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but he needs
to find her sooner rather than later.

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Dave Russell in Tokyo
for Meridian Tonight.

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It became very clear that Tim had a plan.

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If you stop pushing the story out,

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they'll find… The media
will find something else to look at,

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and then suddenly, the focus is off Lucie.

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So he had to bring the focus
back onto Lucie as soon as possible.

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[Dave] Out on the streets,
putting posters up,

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he wanted to get those posters on the TV,
and everyone would know her face.

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Tim and the police in Japan
had a clash of cultures.

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[inaudible chatter]

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-You can't put signs up on poles here.
-[woman] Ah.

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Well, I'm not taking any down.

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Arrest me.

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[indistinct chatter]

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[Tim] Lucie needed to be found,

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and any parent would be trying
to make the absolute best thing happen

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to try and sort the problem out.

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I wasn't going to be, um,
shrugged off or… or boxed up.

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[tense music]

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[Jake] Tim had been
completely cut out of the loop.

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The way he was doing things,
which made the cops look incompetent,

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made them very angry.

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I think in his anxiety

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and his distrust of the Japanese police
who are very poor communicators,

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um, he felt that, uh,
the more heat he could turn on them,

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the better the results would be.

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[foreboding music]

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[Tim] I'd realized
it was going to be the G7,

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and I knew Tony Blair
would be traveling out there,

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and I knew that there was
a huge media interest in the UK.

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So we took advantage of that situation.

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[reporter 11] Prime Minister Blair
stopped off in Tokyo

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to put his weight behind the case

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of the missing
British hostess Lucie Blackman.

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Working closely
with Japanese authorities here,

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obviously we appeal to people in Japan

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who may know about the case
to come forward

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and give us some leads
that we can follow up,

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because it is a tragic case

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and obviously, the family,
they're at their wit's end.

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-[indistinct chatter]
-[camera shutters clicking]

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[Soejima] The Japanese Prime Minister
made a guarantee.

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"The Japanese police
will apprehend the suspect."

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It was easy for him to say that,

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but that didn't mean
that it was easy for us to do.

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And the pressure of his statements
and the situation began to weigh on us.

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[Yamashiro] There were definitely
some people in the department

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that felt that the original investigation
was moving too slowly.

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So, some of my cops took matters
into their own hands.

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I call them "softshell turtle detectives."

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Detectives who don't let go of a lead.

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We thought it would be better to start
the investigation over from the beginning

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instead of wasting time
chasing down red herrings.

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[Yamashiro] Kuku was one of those cops,
a tenacious and persistent police officer.

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Once he bites, he never lets go,
like a softshell turtle.

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[Kuku] We started our process
by spending our nights going through

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and pulling relevant information
out of the reports that the main unit

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had filed since day one
of the investigation.

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We poured over every last detail
to see if anything was missed.

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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 came across a report that caught my eye.

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It was from the Roppongi area,
which had lots of clubs.

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The report was about a foreign hostess

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who had been working
at a club in Roppongi.

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She was invited by a male regular
to go on a drive to the seaside.

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At some point, she passed out.

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She was unconscious for hours.

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When she woke up, her head hurt badly

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and she felt like
she might have been drugged.

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The report was skeptical.

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It said the source, a club manager,
was an unreliable guy.

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And that what he said
should not be taken seriously.

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But after reading the report,
we thought that was ridiculous.

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A person in that position could
potentially know something important.

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This definitely seemed to tie
into the Lucie Blackman case.

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So, they start going through
these old reports

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and digging up these cases
to see if they can connect the dots.

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Except that the police at the local level
never took those reports seriously.

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So although there
might have been a complaint,

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there was never an investigation.

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[ominous music]

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[Maruyama]
We would find club owners saying,

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"Oh, I remember a girl

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who worked here three years ago
and had the same type of experience."

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Stories like these would pop up
here and there.

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[Maruyama] So we decided to talk
to every single employee from every club

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to see if a similar event
had happened to them.

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In the beginning,
they would say things like,

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"I don't know anything.
I have nothing to do with it."

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[Suzy] Every three months,
the police would come

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and all the hostesses
who didn't have visas

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would have to go out the back door,

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that felt like a very vulnerable situation
for those girls.

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[Jake] Foreign hostesses,
if they suffered,

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they were at huge risk
if they went to the police,

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because it was very likely
that the police would arrest them

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for violating their visa.

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There is no upside to go into the police
if you've been victimized as a hostess.

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[Maruyama] We couldn't talk
to them at work,

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so we'd stop them on the streets
when they happen to be walking by.

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That was the first thing I did.

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But eventually,
several women came forward,

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because they wanted to help us find Lucie.

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In the end, we discovered that

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all of these women had experiences
that were very similar.

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[Jake] These were consistent reports
of hostesses

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um, who have been drugged
and possibly raped

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by a Japanese man of some wealth.

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[tense music]

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When investigating, you often find
that criminals have certain patterns

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of repeated behavior.

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The same way that thieves
have their own methods

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of breaking and entering.

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They develop the series
of noticeable habits.

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[Soejima] And those habits don't change.

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He preferred luxury cars.

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Cars like a Porsche or Mercedes Benz.

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Cars on the fancier side.

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He always invited his victims
to come see the ocean before go to dinner.

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[ominous music]

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[Soejima] And he used drugs.

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The victims said they had symptoms
of being drugged.

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[Maruyama] The next morning,
they would wake up

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with a sense of discomfort
all over their body.

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Some of them reported throwing up.

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Some indicated that they felt
that kind of burning sensation.

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I felt very sorry for them.

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[tense music]

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[Jake] So, with scores
of other testimonies

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from Japanese hostesses
and foreign hostesses,

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they discovered that there has been
a sexual predator active

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in Roppongi for years,
and he has never been caught.

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He has never been brought to justice.

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[camera shutter clicks]

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And the family, uh, has decided
to offer a reward of, um,

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one and a half million yen
for new information

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which leads to finding Lucie.

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[Tim] From our point of view,

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it was yet another moment
to bring the case up on the screen again.

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People thought that I was doing it
because I love being interviewed.

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I just wanted the attention
to continue to find Lucie,

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and the only way of doing it
was to, to… to feed the animal.

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[Mitsuzane] Tim was always surrounded
by members of the press.

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We were concerned he might
accidentally disclose information.

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That could hurt our investigation.

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00:30:41,333 --> 00:30:46,166
We're finding after seven to eight weeks

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that this is becoming
a very stressful situation.

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00:30:49,833 --> 00:30:54,333
[Tim] The fact is that
I still am not given, um,

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information by the police
as to their progress

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as they still consider this case
to be extremely sensitive.

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[Mitsuzane] And I would always say

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the investigation is progressing steadily.

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I can't tell you
any of the details just yet.

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[speaking Japanese]

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[Tim] The Japanese thought
I was a bit rude,

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which is probably
how it came over because I wasn't,

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I didn't have the time
or the mental capacity

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to really indulge in their protocols.

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I was in a pretty ragged mental state.

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00:31:41,458 --> 00:31:43,291
[Dave] It was a bank holiday weekend,

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and there was
a big firework display going on,

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and we just stood there
and watched the fireworks and, you know,

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everyone's celebrating around
and really enjoying themselves,

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but obviously, Tim wasn't.

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[fireworks crackling]

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I originally started as a journalist,
you know, just a man following him around.

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Putting a camera in his nose
and him telling me to go away.

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00:32:06,250 --> 00:32:09,666
As time went on,
Tim started beginning to trust me,

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because we're both in a foreign country,

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00:32:12,625 --> 00:32:15,916
um, trying to work out
what we can do to find Lucie.

480
00:32:19,375 --> 00:32:21,750
[Dave] I was getting phone calls
at 4:00 in the morning.

481
00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:22,666
[Dave chuckles]

482
00:32:22,750 --> 00:32:25,208
"Do you fancy going for a walk,
because I can't sleep?"

483
00:32:26,250 --> 00:32:27,416
But he was tired, clearly.

484
00:32:28,041 --> 00:32:30,583
[Dave] It takes its toll.
It really did take its toll on him.

485
00:32:30,666 --> 00:32:36,000
And I'm starting to feel
rather worn down and tired.

486
00:32:37,166 --> 00:32:41,750
As the days went into weeks,
and, you know, carried on and carried on,

487
00:32:41,833 --> 00:32:44,375
and a feeling of hopelessness comes on…

488
00:32:46,250 --> 00:32:50,583
You're really on the edge
of wondering, "Well, what can we do now?"

489
00:32:59,250 --> 00:33:00,583
[indistinct chatter]

490
00:33:00,666 --> 00:33:02,458
[Tim] Thank you. Okay.

491
00:33:03,666 --> 00:33:05,541
[indistinct chatter continues]

492
00:33:05,625 --> 00:33:09,041
[Tim] And I am the father
of Lucie Blackman,

493
00:33:09,125 --> 00:33:11,916
the young British girl
who has gone missing in Japan.

494
00:33:13,583 --> 00:33:18,125
[Tim] The idea had come up to start
a specific telephone number

495
00:33:18,666 --> 00:33:22,916
so that the European
or Western girls who were out there

496
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,583
were able to talk to us direct.

497
00:33:27,208 --> 00:33:31,541
The chances of them
having some information were quite high.

498
00:33:33,166 --> 00:33:37,083
The Tokyo Police sort of
didn't really quite understand.

499
00:33:37,833 --> 00:33:40,791
A, why? Or B, what we expected
to get from it?

500
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:46,333
They were very anti the idea
that we were going to be getting

501
00:33:46,416 --> 00:33:49,416
any information by putting up a hotline,
but they couldn't stop us doing it.

502
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,708
[background chatter]

503
00:33:59,958 --> 00:34:02,708
[reporter 12] The message
from her mother and brother was simple.

504
00:34:02,791 --> 00:34:04,625
"Happy birthday, Lucie."

505
00:34:04,708 --> 00:34:07,291
As a thousand balloons
were released into the sky

506
00:34:07,375 --> 00:34:11,791
to mark the missing
former air hostess's 22nd birthday.

507
00:34:11,875 --> 00:34:13,625
[Jane] It's just so that Lucie remembers

508
00:34:13,708 --> 00:34:17,291
that we haven't forgotten her birthday
because she'll be 22 today,

509
00:34:17,375 --> 00:34:20,708
and she's always loved her birthday,
always had to make a big fuss.

510
00:34:20,791 --> 00:34:22,500
And I just want her
to know that, you know,

511
00:34:22,583 --> 00:34:24,958
wherever she is,
that we haven't forgotten.

512
00:34:25,041 --> 00:34:27,041
[applause]

513
00:34:27,125 --> 00:34:29,125
[enigmatic music]

514
00:34:36,458 --> 00:34:39,375
At this point,
we had found multiple reports

515
00:34:39,458 --> 00:34:43,666
of a man who would take hostesses
out for a drive, drug them,

516
00:34:43,750 --> 00:34:46,041
and attempt to sexually assault them.

517
00:34:47,708 --> 00:34:50,916
One of the victims
was a girl named Jessie from Australia.

518
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:53,583
Her case happened three years earlier.

519
00:34:59,541 --> 00:35:02,708
She had written the man's name
and cell phone number

520
00:35:02,791 --> 00:35:04,500
in her old notebook.

521
00:35:04,583 --> 00:35:06,208
I asked her where it was,

522
00:35:06,291 --> 00:35:10,125
and she said
it was in her home in Australia.

523
00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:12,208
[investigator]
The notebook just arrived, sir.

524
00:35:12,291 --> 00:35:13,833
[Soejima] We reached out to her father

525
00:35:14,541 --> 00:35:17,291
and asked if he would send
the notebook to Japan

526
00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:19,166
so we could examine it ourselves.

527
00:35:20,625 --> 00:35:22,500
[paper rustling]

528
00:35:23,541 --> 00:35:26,833
She had gotten so mad
that she scribbled all over the number.

529
00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:30,500
But when we held it up to the light
we could identify the digits.

530
00:35:30,583 --> 00:35:32,583
[thrilling music]

531
00:35:36,416 --> 00:35:38,833
[Asano] The man's name was Yuji Honda,

532
00:35:38,916 --> 00:35:43,125
and his cell phone number, ending in 3301,

533
00:35:43,208 --> 00:35:45,416
had been written down in the notebook.

534
00:35:49,125 --> 00:35:53,750
So we started checking all the calls
that had been made from this phone.

535
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:01,083
[Soejima] The phone number
was still in use.

536
00:36:01,166 --> 00:36:03,541
We were able to access the phone records

537
00:36:03,625 --> 00:36:08,500
and find that there were about ten numbers
that this person had called.

538
00:36:10,958 --> 00:36:13,500
We then searched these numbers
against our files

539
00:36:13,583 --> 00:36:15,708
to see if there were any matches.

540
00:36:16,708 --> 00:36:20,791
Lucie Blackman's number came up
as an exact match.

541
00:36:23,416 --> 00:36:26,541
[Jake] That's a very solid lead.
It's a huge step forward.

542
00:36:27,333 --> 00:36:29,166
This is the first time
they ever showed that

543
00:36:29,250 --> 00:36:33,041
the person they suspect, um,
has kidnapped Lucie Blackman

544
00:36:33,125 --> 00:36:37,000
is actually connected to her,
that they have had some contact.

545
00:36:39,083 --> 00:36:40,625
[Kuku] The suspect was clever.

546
00:36:41,208 --> 00:36:43,083
He created many false identities

547
00:36:43,166 --> 00:36:45,583
so that they could never be
traced back to him.

548
00:36:47,416 --> 00:36:51,208
We asked the cell phone company
to do a location search to help locate

549
00:36:51,291 --> 00:36:53,166
where the calls were coming from.

550
00:36:55,875 --> 00:36:58,250
At exactly three o'clock,
the call was picked up

551
00:36:58,333 --> 00:37:00,291
by an antenna near Tokyo Tower.

552
00:37:03,291 --> 00:37:06,458
Somewhere between one minute
and five minutes later,

553
00:37:06,541 --> 00:37:10,083
the signal was picked up by an antenna
in a completely different position.

554
00:37:12,416 --> 00:37:16,708
Another five minutes later,
an antenna in the west picked up a call.

555
00:37:16,791 --> 00:37:20,791
Another five minutes later,
an antenna in the east picked up a call.

556
00:37:24,166 --> 00:37:26,625
There's not a car in the world
that can travel that fast

557
00:37:26,708 --> 00:37:27,833
in just one minute.

558
00:37:29,291 --> 00:37:30,500
I was baffled.

559
00:37:32,791 --> 00:37:34,833
Then I thought,
if the calls are being picked up

560
00:37:34,916 --> 00:37:37,583
by four antennas
in four different directions,

561
00:37:37,666 --> 00:37:40,500
there was a possibility
that the caller's signal

562
00:37:40,583 --> 00:37:42,416
was in intersectional area.

563
00:37:48,541 --> 00:37:50,583
[Jake] You know,
we're talking the year 2000.

564
00:37:51,083 --> 00:37:52,041
It's not like the movies

565
00:37:52,125 --> 00:37:55,208
where you can locate exactly
where the phone call came from.

566
00:37:55,291 --> 00:37:58,000
You can kind of connect it
to a general area.

567
00:37:58,083 --> 00:38:03,416
So, they're able to trace the call
to a very high-end area known as Akasaka.

568
00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:07,583
It looks like the phone call came
from a place called Moto-Akasaka Towers,

569
00:38:07,666 --> 00:38:11,208
which is a very expensive
residential building

570
00:38:11,291 --> 00:38:13,708
with security cameras
and all those things.

571
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:15,833
You can't just walk in there.
It's hard to access.

572
00:38:19,875 --> 00:38:22,666
[Kuku] We showed the manager our badges,
and they let us in.

573
00:38:24,125 --> 00:38:26,375
He told us that two rooms
on the sixth floor

574
00:38:26,458 --> 00:38:30,500
were being rented by a man
who worked for a company called P-Orihara.

575
00:38:31,875 --> 00:38:34,583
The manager said
the renter was an unusual guy.

576
00:38:36,958 --> 00:38:39,333
He would walk right past the manager,

577
00:38:39,416 --> 00:38:41,250
he never stopped to say hello,

578
00:38:43,625 --> 00:38:46,625
and he would always look down
so he could hide his face.

579
00:38:50,875 --> 00:38:54,458
The manager said that person drives
a lot of luxury foreign cars,

580
00:38:54,541 --> 00:38:56,291
then took us to the parking lot.

581
00:38:57,458 --> 00:39:00,875
Porsche, Mercedes-Benz,
Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce.

582
00:39:01,500 --> 00:39:04,041
All the cars mentioned
in the testimonies were there.

583
00:39:07,291 --> 00:39:10,083
I didn't know if P-Orihara
was a foreigner's name

584
00:39:10,166 --> 00:39:11,541
or the name of a company.

585
00:39:13,083 --> 00:39:15,333
But there was no information
on that particular room.

586
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,625
The name of the owner
or employer wasn't listed.

587
00:39:20,041 --> 00:39:22,208
And they're thinking,
"This is our suspect."

588
00:39:22,291 --> 00:39:26,083
But they don't have enough evidence
for a warrant.

589
00:39:26,166 --> 00:39:29,666
They're just going on assumptions,
and so the investigation stops there.

590
00:39:29,750 --> 00:39:30,875
They can't go any further.

591
00:39:31,791 --> 00:39:33,791
[tense music]

592
00:39:41,666 --> 00:39:45,166
[Yamashiro] There were a number
of foreign hostesses in Roppongi

593
00:39:45,250 --> 00:39:47,041
whom we were able to speak with.

594
00:39:48,208 --> 00:39:51,875
And fortunately,
there were a few of the women

595
00:39:51,958 --> 00:39:54,625
who were willing to go on the record.

596
00:39:56,291 --> 00:39:59,791
One of them was Monica from England.

597
00:40:01,500 --> 00:40:04,583
She said,
"I think the man's name was Koji."

598
00:40:04,666 --> 00:40:06,666
[suspenseful music]

599
00:40:07,958 --> 00:40:11,166
[Asano]
It was the 10th of October in 1997.

600
00:40:11,250 --> 00:40:14,333
She told us that she met up
with a customer name Koji

601
00:40:14,416 --> 00:40:16,000
in Roppongi that day.

602
00:40:17,833 --> 00:40:21,666
She said that he drove her
to a resort apartment building

603
00:40:21,750 --> 00:40:23,666
that had a view of the ocean.

604
00:40:26,750 --> 00:40:30,375
She told us how she remembered seeing
a long row of palm trees

605
00:40:30,458 --> 00:40:31,791
near the apartment building,

606
00:40:33,333 --> 00:40:35,791
and we immediately thought
of Zushi Marina,

607
00:40:35,875 --> 00:40:41,125
because it was the only place we knew of
in the area that had palm trees.

608
00:40:42,833 --> 00:40:45,541
I thought Monica
might remember more details

609
00:40:45,625 --> 00:40:50,291
if we were there in person,
so we went together to Zushi Marina.

610
00:40:51,583 --> 00:40:53,583
[tense music]

611
00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:57,250
[Jake] Zushi Marina is about
an hour half away from Tokyo,

612
00:40:57,333 --> 00:41:00,291
where it's just
a luxury resort condominium,

613
00:41:00,375 --> 00:41:04,166
and it's in a very expensive area
for the… for the rich and the wealthy.

614
00:41:05,958 --> 00:41:07,875
[Asano] Monica said, "This is it.

615
00:41:07,958 --> 00:41:10,791
This is the resort
where that customer took me."

616
00:41:10,875 --> 00:41:12,083
She was quite certain of it.

617
00:41:15,083 --> 00:41:17,250
We drove around the entire property,

618
00:41:17,333 --> 00:41:21,166
but she wasn't able to confirm
which building it was.

619
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:27,166
All she knew was that it might be
number four or number seven.

620
00:41:28,875 --> 00:41:31,708
I remember we went
to a restaurant in the area,

621
00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:36,583
and we showed the waitress
a picture of Lucie,

622
00:41:39,416 --> 00:41:42,083
and she told us instantly
that she was sure

623
00:41:42,166 --> 00:41:46,041
that the woman in the photo
had been there on July 1st.

624
00:41:46,125 --> 00:41:48,041
HEIGHT 175CM, MEDIUM BUILD, OVAL-FACED

625
00:41:48,125 --> 00:41:50,083
[Asano] I asked her if she had come alone.

626
00:41:51,166 --> 00:41:53,791
She said a man was there too.

627
00:42:02,666 --> 00:42:05,291
[Hatashita] First, I went in
and talk to the assistant manager.

628
00:42:06,958 --> 00:42:10,375
I wanted to get a list of the residents
staying at Zushi Marina.

629
00:42:19,750 --> 00:42:22,083
I had to rule them out one by one.

630
00:42:22,166 --> 00:42:25,000
I knew it would be tricky work
and quite time-consuming.

631
00:42:25,083 --> 00:42:28,708
But if this person was still alive,
we needed to rescue him or her

632
00:42:28,791 --> 00:42:30,041
as soon as possible.

633
00:42:30,125 --> 00:42:34,916
As I went through them one name at a time,
we couldn't find the possible suspect.

634
00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:39,250
One person was suspicious
and I had a gut feeling about them.

635
00:42:40,625 --> 00:42:42,708
So I had an idea,

636
00:42:45,333 --> 00:42:49,125
to search for a man
who had a lot of luxury foreign cars.

637
00:42:50,583 --> 00:42:53,416
Obara emerged as a potential suspect.

638
00:42:54,125 --> 00:42:58,458
When I heard that, I thought,
"Wait a minute, could that be…"

639
00:43:00,583 --> 00:43:03,000
[Kuku] When we visited
Moto-Akasaka Towers,

640
00:43:04,458 --> 00:43:07,375
the name on the rental listing
was P-Orihara.

641
00:43:12,916 --> 00:43:15,000
[Kuku] The Kanji character's "Obara"…

642
00:43:15,083 --> 00:43:16,333
ORI HARA

643
00:43:16,416 --> 00:43:19,208
…can also be read as "Orihara."

644
00:43:27,458 --> 00:43:29,666
I got goosebumps all over my body.

645
00:43:30,625 --> 00:43:33,000
So this is a huge moment
for the investigation,

646
00:43:33,083 --> 00:43:35,750
because this is the first time
that they're able to connect the dots.

647
00:43:35,833 --> 00:43:37,166
A310 JOJI OBARA

648
00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:39,375
[Jake] The police finally have a name.

649
00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:48,291
We learned something new about Joji Obara.

650
00:43:50,125 --> 00:43:53,166
He had been previously arrested
in Wakayama

651
00:43:53,250 --> 00:43:56,291
after he had been caught
dressing up as a woman,

652
00:43:56,375 --> 00:43:59,458
so he could sneak
inside a woman's restroom

653
00:43:59,541 --> 00:44:02,000
and film people who used it.

654
00:44:04,458 --> 00:44:08,458
[Soejima] I talked to some of the officers
who worked on the case during that time,

655
00:44:08,541 --> 00:44:11,208
and I asked them what he was like.

656
00:44:11,291 --> 00:44:13,958
They said completely resistant.

657
00:44:14,541 --> 00:44:17,875
Upon his arrest,
he refused to take a mugshot.

658
00:44:18,458 --> 00:44:22,333
He would turn his face,
and he wouldn't let them take his picture.

659
00:44:22,916 --> 00:44:25,166
Completely uncooperative.

660
00:44:28,291 --> 00:44:31,000
I asked for the mugshot to be faxed to me.

661
00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:34,958
[whirring]

662
00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:46,666
[Hatashita] The fax machines back then
had low quality,

663
00:44:46,750 --> 00:44:48,750
and the photo came out quite dark.

664
00:44:50,458 --> 00:44:53,916
So we put together about 100 photos,
including one of the suspects,

665
00:44:54,000 --> 00:44:55,250
and showed them to the victims.

666
00:44:59,166 --> 00:45:04,291
[Asano] Monica and Jessie were both able
to immediately single out Obara's picture

667
00:45:04,375 --> 00:45:07,375
without hesitation whatsoever.

668
00:45:10,041 --> 00:45:11,250
After all this time

669
00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:16,666
working with pseudonyms and aliases,
we finally had a real name.

670
00:45:16,750 --> 00:45:18,750
[suspenseful music]

671
00:45:21,583 --> 00:45:24,500
[Jake] So now they have a face
to the suspect,

672
00:45:24,583 --> 00:45:29,750
and they realize that if
he is holding Lucie Blackman hostage,

673
00:45:29,833 --> 00:45:32,375
they don't have time
and they really need to hurry.

674
00:45:41,750 --> 00:45:43,875
[siren blaring]

675
00:45:44,625 --> 00:45:48,083
We didn't have anything yet
that directly tied him to Lucie,

676
00:45:48,166 --> 00:45:51,791
but we still felt we could arrest him
based on his other victims,

677
00:45:52,458 --> 00:45:54,291
based on the other victims.

678
00:45:59,541 --> 00:46:03,208
[Naito] At six o'clock in the morning,
we were already in position.

679
00:46:03,833 --> 00:46:05,833
[tense music]

680
00:46:08,833 --> 00:46:11,875
Investigators are always nervous
when they make an arrest,

681
00:46:11,958 --> 00:46:13,125
no matter the case.

682
00:46:14,041 --> 00:46:16,791
I'm sure that I was very nervous as well.

683
00:46:18,125 --> 00:46:20,666
[Naito] We positioned two people
by the emergency exit

684
00:46:20,750 --> 00:46:22,666
and two people next to the window,

685
00:46:23,708 --> 00:46:26,041
and one person by the door
to keep a lookout.

686
00:46:26,958 --> 00:46:28,791
There were about seven people in total.

687
00:46:30,875 --> 00:46:33,708
I was informed over the radio
that the suspect was awake

688
00:46:33,791 --> 00:46:35,458
because the TV was turned on.

689
00:46:35,541 --> 00:46:38,000
So I continued to monitor the situation.

690
00:46:40,250 --> 00:46:44,916
He always went out to buy
a newspaper at about seven o'clock,

691
00:46:45,791 --> 00:46:48,041
so I thought
there was no need to storm in.

692
00:46:49,208 --> 00:46:53,208
From what we knew, Obara didn't look
like a bad-tempered person.

693
00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:57,291
Which is why I figured
he wouldn't be violent.

694
00:46:58,333 --> 00:47:01,708
However, I was a bit worried
about him jumping out of the window.

695
00:47:01,791 --> 00:47:03,875
That was my biggest concern.

696
00:47:06,166 --> 00:47:09,208
Just before seven o'clock,
the door opened.

697
00:47:11,083 --> 00:47:15,333
When I asked, "Are you Obara?",
his face suddenly dropped.

698
00:47:16,541 --> 00:47:18,000
He said, "Yes, I am."

699
00:47:21,833 --> 00:47:24,458
I think he knew his arrest was imminent.

700
00:47:27,708 --> 00:47:30,708
[reporter 13] Jo Obara, the president
of a property management firm

701
00:47:30,791 --> 00:47:32,375
was arrested early this morning.

702
00:47:32,458 --> 00:47:35,166
Police say Obara
was often seen in the area

703
00:47:35,250 --> 00:47:38,416
where 22-year-old Lucie
from Kent had been working.

704
00:47:38,500 --> 00:47:39,916
[Tim] We heard there was a suspect,

705
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:45,416
and then not terribly long after,
we heard that somebody had been arrested.

706
00:47:46,541 --> 00:47:47,958
It was big news.

707
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,416
This was the man
who maybe knew where Lucie was.

708
00:47:52,500 --> 00:47:54,500
[ominous music]

709
00:47:56,875 --> 00:48:02,875
Joji Obara was a playboy
who'd inherited a large amount of money.

710
00:48:02,958 --> 00:48:05,333
He was a very wealthy man,
from his father,

711
00:48:05,416 --> 00:48:10,625
but was known by all reports
of neighbors that he was a loner.

712
00:48:12,333 --> 00:48:14,208
[Clare] He owned a number of properties,

713
00:48:14,750 --> 00:48:19,333
and the police began to search
all the properties that he owned.

714
00:48:19,416 --> 00:48:21,291
-Please stand back.
-[camera shutter clicks]

715
00:48:23,625 --> 00:48:28,208
[Asano] I was in charge of the crime scene
at Zushi Marina building number four.

716
00:48:29,958 --> 00:48:32,500
When we went inside, what we found was

717
00:48:32,583 --> 00:48:37,083
a lot of drug related items
as well as a large quantity of alcohol.

718
00:48:38,666 --> 00:48:44,541
What I remember vividly as an inspector
was the metal fitting on the ceiling.

719
00:48:48,625 --> 00:48:50,500
I remember thinking to myself

720
00:48:50,583 --> 00:48:53,083
what the purpose
of that metal fitting was.

721
00:48:54,333 --> 00:48:56,333
[foreboding music]

722
00:48:58,750 --> 00:49:03,125
[Soejima] I was in charge of the search
and seizure at Moto-Akasaka Towers.

723
00:49:03,625 --> 00:49:08,333
The most memorable item was his notebook.

724
00:49:12,125 --> 00:49:15,000
I don't know when he wrote it,
but there was one entry,

725
00:49:15,083 --> 00:49:18,125
he wrote that he was going to become evil,

726
00:49:18,208 --> 00:49:20,541
that he devote himself to evil.

727
00:49:22,541 --> 00:49:25,625
He very quickly took
his own writing to heart,

728
00:49:26,416 --> 00:49:31,041
and he turned himself
into a sort of monster.

729
00:49:34,708 --> 00:49:36,625
[Jake] So after Joji Obara was arrested,

730
00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:39,875
the police raided several
of his properties in Tokyo,

731
00:49:39,958 --> 00:49:41,750
because he was a kind of
a real estate magnate,

732
00:49:41,833 --> 00:49:45,583
including the seaside condominium
at the Zushi Marina,

733
00:49:45,666 --> 00:49:47,791
where he lured many of his victims.

734
00:49:49,833 --> 00:49:52,875
[Hatashita] We confiscated
a lot of videotapes,

735
00:49:55,125 --> 00:49:57,458
and I'm not talking
about just two or three.

736
00:49:58,083 --> 00:50:02,291
-[man shouting indistinctly]
-[truck beeping]

737
00:50:02,375 --> 00:50:04,166
[people murmuring]

738
00:50:04,750 --> 00:50:07,875
[Hatashita] The videotapes were labeled
with names, not full names though.

739
00:50:09,541 --> 00:50:14,250
What Obara did to these women,
it was recorded on videotapes.

740
00:50:15,500 --> 00:50:18,708
But I don't think it's something
that I should be talking about

741
00:50:18,791 --> 00:50:20,333
in detail here.

742
00:50:25,750 --> 00:50:27,541
[Clare] The police found

743
00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:32,791
over 400 VHS tapes of women,

744
00:50:33,500 --> 00:50:35,416
apparently comatose,

745
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:39,041
lying on beds, and him assaulting them.

746
00:50:39,125 --> 00:50:40,791
[static]

747
00:50:40,875 --> 00:50:43,791
It's the stuff of horror films.
[inhales deeply]

748
00:50:45,708 --> 00:50:50,791
That's how we learned the purpose
of the metal fittings on the ceiling.

749
00:50:56,041 --> 00:51:00,000
They were used to lift
the victim's legs off the ground.

750
00:51:02,708 --> 00:51:05,041
He doesn't consider them to be people,

751
00:51:07,041 --> 00:51:09,166
but rather dolls.

752
00:51:09,958 --> 00:51:11,458
I never dreamed…

753
00:51:14,208 --> 00:51:18,375
there could be anyone
that would do something like that.

754
00:51:20,583 --> 00:51:23,833
I've never seen anything so despicable.

755
00:51:30,791 --> 00:51:32,708
[Jake] There were so many,

756
00:51:32,791 --> 00:51:35,666
and the detectives had to go
through them one by one by one.

757
00:51:37,708 --> 00:51:41,166
But among those tapes,
there was not a single one

758
00:51:41,250 --> 00:51:42,083
of Lucie Blackman.

759
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:46,000
[ominous music]

760
00:51:50,208 --> 00:51:52,958
[Yamashiro] Our immediate goal
was to find Lucie.

761
00:51:55,750 --> 00:51:57,458
So the pressure was high.

762
00:51:59,166 --> 00:52:02,666
But with all the evidence we had,
I thought we could make him confess.

763
00:52:04,291 --> 00:52:08,958
Just from talking to him,
I quickly realized that I was dealing

764
00:52:09,041 --> 00:52:12,416
with a person who had
an extremely warped view of reality.

765
00:52:14,875 --> 00:52:18,333
When it came to the case,
Obara denied everything.

766
00:52:20,625 --> 00:52:23,041
Even when I showed him evidence,

767
00:52:23,833 --> 00:52:28,250
he insisted that everything
that happened was consensual.

768
00:52:29,166 --> 00:52:31,541
He said that they all were paid
for their services.

769
00:52:31,625 --> 00:52:34,791
He stuck to that excuse, continuously.

770
00:52:34,875 --> 00:52:36,875
[suspenseful music]

771
00:52:45,583 --> 00:52:48,416
[Jake] Obara denies
any knowledge of Lucie.

772
00:52:48,500 --> 00:52:52,916
He denies ever meeting her,
he denies having any contact with her all.

773
00:52:55,500 --> 00:52:57,583
The focus of the investigation now

774
00:52:57,666 --> 00:53:00,083
has to be based
on the evidence that they have.

775
00:53:00,166 --> 00:53:04,666
Obara is claiming that all the sex
on these videotapes is consensual.

776
00:53:05,375 --> 00:53:09,458
So now, they need to identify
some of the victims who will come forward

777
00:53:09,541 --> 00:53:12,291
and verify the fact
that this was not consensual,

778
00:53:12,375 --> 00:53:13,583
that they were victims

779
00:53:13,666 --> 00:53:15,958
so that they can build
a criminal case against him.

780
00:53:17,208 --> 00:53:19,208
[tense music]

781
00:53:23,250 --> 00:53:26,625
[Yamaguchi] When I saw the videos,
I thought this man's crimes

782
00:53:26,708 --> 00:53:28,958
are completely comparable
to a murder case.

783
00:53:29,833 --> 00:53:33,750
To a woman, sex crimes
can be as horrifying as murder.

784
00:53:39,875 --> 00:53:45,166
I remember that we set up
a video analysis unit in a large room.

785
00:53:45,708 --> 00:53:49,333
It was a big room,
big enough for dozens of people.

786
00:53:53,208 --> 00:53:54,833
[Yamaguchi] We didn't have enough staff,

787
00:53:54,916 --> 00:53:58,583
so we had to take some younger officers
from the riot police,

788
00:53:58,666 --> 00:54:00,500
and temporarily reassign them to help.

789
00:54:03,416 --> 00:54:06,583
The victims in the videos would change,
but the footage showed

790
00:54:06,666 --> 00:54:09,666
the same horrible crimes
over and over again.

791
00:54:09,750 --> 00:54:13,791
A few of those officers couldn't handle
the trauma of seeing the videos.

792
00:54:14,291 --> 00:54:16,416
Several had to recuse themselves

793
00:54:16,500 --> 00:54:19,125
because they were having
mental breakdowns.

794
00:54:20,250 --> 00:54:22,250
[eerie music]

795
00:54:23,916 --> 00:54:26,500
[Yamaguchi] I ended up going to some
of the victims' homes

796
00:54:27,458 --> 00:54:28,708
and interviewed them.

797
00:54:32,208 --> 00:54:34,875
They were sure they went there,
they woke up

798
00:54:34,958 --> 00:54:36,916
and didn't know what was done to them.

799
00:54:37,666 --> 00:54:40,166
I had to tell them we have
the video evidence.

800
00:54:40,250 --> 00:54:42,125
It was very hard for me to show them.

801
00:54:46,166 --> 00:54:49,666
They all reacted to it in different ways.

802
00:54:50,250 --> 00:54:54,333
Some would cover their eyes,
or they would deny it was them.

803
00:54:54,916 --> 00:54:58,750
One victim actually got a nosebleed
during the interview.

804
00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:01,708
She must have been so affected by it.

805
00:55:09,083 --> 00:55:10,875
[Maruyama] I told them
that we had to make sure

806
00:55:10,958 --> 00:55:13,583
that this criminal pay the price
for what he had done

807
00:55:14,083 --> 00:55:15,875
and that they were the key.

808
00:55:17,708 --> 00:55:19,125
I couldn't let Obara…

809
00:55:21,166 --> 00:55:23,250
get away with it, that's why.

810
00:55:25,166 --> 00:55:29,958
And I explained this very carefully
to the victims.

811
00:55:34,041 --> 00:55:35,541
That was the only way.

812
00:55:39,625 --> 00:55:41,625
[foreboding music]

813
00:55:42,958 --> 00:55:46,166
So the police need to show
that the sex was not consensual.

814
00:55:46,250 --> 00:55:51,333
Obviously, if someone is drugged,
they cannot consent to sexual intercourse,

815
00:55:51,416 --> 00:55:54,250
um, which in Japan is called "Quasi-Rape."

816
00:55:55,041 --> 00:55:56,541
[Jake] And they're pretty convinced

817
00:55:56,625 --> 00:56:00,000
that he's used chloroform
on one of his victims.

818
00:56:01,208 --> 00:56:04,166
So, they have a forensic investigator
look at all those videotapes.

819
00:56:05,125 --> 00:56:07,125
[thrilling music]

820
00:56:12,458 --> 00:56:15,708
[Harafuji] He would take a towel
and pick up a brown bottle

821
00:56:15,791 --> 00:56:17,375
from a side table,

822
00:56:17,458 --> 00:56:20,875
and then pour liquid from this bottle
onto the towel.

823
00:56:21,375 --> 00:56:26,250
Then he'd place the liquid-soaked towel
back onto the victim's face.

824
00:56:33,708 --> 00:56:36,875
[Harafuji] Towels were always draped
over the victims' faces.

825
00:56:39,083 --> 00:56:43,791
Among the seized items,
there were sleep-inducing drugs.

826
00:56:43,875 --> 00:56:46,375
There was ether, chloroform,

827
00:56:47,333 --> 00:56:52,375
and a large number of other illegal drugs
that have a sleep-inducing effect.

828
00:56:55,541 --> 00:56:58,541
As I was looking
at various footage of the victims,

829
00:56:58,625 --> 00:57:00,958
I noticed one woman in particular.

830
00:57:01,583 --> 00:57:04,541
Suddenly, her hands started trembling,

831
00:57:05,416 --> 00:57:07,916
shaking in small movements.

832
00:57:09,791 --> 00:57:13,666
I was very curious as to why
her hands were moving like this

833
00:57:13,750 --> 00:57:15,958
even though she was unconscious.

834
00:57:17,791 --> 00:57:22,208
Chloroform toxicity
can lead to fulminant hepatitis,

835
00:57:22,791 --> 00:57:25,625
which can lead to hepatic encephalopathy.

836
00:57:26,875 --> 00:57:30,708
It has a very characteristic symptom
known as flapping tremors.

837
00:57:32,750 --> 00:57:36,041
As I researched
the situation of this victim further,

838
00:57:37,750 --> 00:57:42,083
I found out she was
a 21-year-old victim named Carita,

839
00:57:42,166 --> 00:57:44,416
and that she had indeed passed away.

840
00:57:46,375 --> 00:57:48,375
[somber music]

841
00:57:50,541 --> 00:57:54,875
[Clare] Carita Ridgway,
who was the same age, 21, as Lucie,

842
00:57:54,958 --> 00:57:58,500
disappeared eight years earlier in 1992.

843
00:58:00,333 --> 00:58:03,541
I met Carita's old sister, Samantha.

844
00:58:04,208 --> 00:58:10,208
Both of them had been traveling
in Japan and Australia before.

845
00:58:10,291 --> 00:58:11,958
They were both quite adventurous.

846
00:58:12,500 --> 00:58:16,833
And then Sam herself
went to teach English in Tokyo.

847
00:58:18,958 --> 00:58:23,666
Her sister Carita flew out to join her,
but she couldn't find a job.

848
00:58:25,541 --> 00:58:29,833
So she decided
to find work temporarily as a hostess.

849
00:58:33,958 --> 00:58:37,000
One day, Carita was dropped off
at a hospital

850
00:58:37,791 --> 00:58:41,708
by a man who said
that she'd got food poisoning.

851
00:58:43,875 --> 00:58:45,666
[machine beeping]

852
00:58:45,750 --> 00:58:49,333
[Clare] The doctors couldn't understand
really what was happening to her.

853
00:58:49,833 --> 00:58:52,291
Her body was going into organ failure.

854
00:58:53,125 --> 00:58:54,875
After a week in the hospital,

855
00:58:54,958 --> 00:58:58,000
they had to turn off
the life support machine.

856
00:58:58,083 --> 00:59:00,708
[flatlines]

857
00:59:00,791 --> 00:59:03,458
[Clare] But the police didn't want
to do anything at that stage

858
00:59:03,541 --> 00:59:05,750
because they said, well,
she died of food poisoning

859
00:59:05,833 --> 00:59:08,166
and they didn't suspect
that there'd been a crime.

860
00:59:08,666 --> 00:59:10,041
There was no autopsy.

861
00:59:10,833 --> 00:59:14,750
But fortunately, they did keep
a sample of Carita's liver.

862
00:59:16,875 --> 00:59:20,708
Following Obara's arrest,
the police put two and two together,

863
00:59:20,791 --> 00:59:24,333
and they did an examination
of the liver sample,

864
00:59:24,416 --> 00:59:26,083
and they found chloroform.

865
00:59:26,583 --> 00:59:31,625
And… And then they could arrest Joji Obara
for the abduction

866
00:59:32,125 --> 00:59:35,458
and… and manslaughter of Carita Ridgway.

867
00:59:38,291 --> 00:59:41,291
But the mystery remained
as to what he'd done with Lucie,

868
00:59:41,375 --> 00:59:45,041
and… and he was…
he, he had evidently destroyed

869
00:59:45,125 --> 00:59:48,083
whatever tape he had
of whatever he did to Lucie.

870
00:59:48,166 --> 00:59:55,041
So it was still hard to pin the abduction
and attack on Lucie Blackman on him.

871
01:00:07,666 --> 01:00:09,666
[reporter 14] Tim Blackman
and his daughter, Sophie,

872
01:00:09,750 --> 01:00:11,875
still uncertain what's happened to Lucie.

873
01:00:11,958 --> 01:00:16,708
The 22-year-old vanished in Tokyo
in July while working as a bar hostess.

874
01:00:16,791 --> 01:00:20,208
In a statement, Joji Obara,
a businessman, arrested a month ago,

875
01:00:20,291 --> 01:00:22,041
has revealed more information,

876
01:00:22,125 --> 01:00:25,083
but still denies
any involvement in her disappearance.

877
01:00:25,166 --> 01:00:30,625
It's now transpired that he's admitting
that he met Lucie in the Casablanca club.

878
01:00:30,708 --> 01:00:34,833
Now, we know that to have been probably
about a week before she went missing.

879
01:00:34,916 --> 01:00:40,458
He's got a history as long as your arm
for abducting Western blonde girls,

880
01:00:40,541 --> 01:00:42,875
and lo and behold, a week later,
Lucie goes missing.

881
01:00:43,583 --> 01:00:45,666
The hope that the arrest of Obara

882
01:00:45,750 --> 01:00:50,416
was actually going to bring Lucie back
to us was fairly short-lived

883
01:00:50,500 --> 01:00:54,583
because it did start
to look pretty grimy after that.

884
01:00:54,666 --> 01:00:58,875
You're so beaten down
that you can't distinguish between…

885
01:01:00,166 --> 01:01:04,833
joy or relief or depression or anxiety or…

886
01:01:05,791 --> 01:01:06,916
deep, deep upset.

887
01:01:07,000 --> 01:01:11,958
It's all just in one massive of emotion.

888
01:01:13,791 --> 01:01:15,791
[enigmatic music]

889
01:01:17,625 --> 01:01:20,625
[Naito] Our number one focus
was still finding Lucie.

890
01:01:23,458 --> 01:01:27,250
We had to thoroughly explore
every last piece of evidence.

891
01:01:28,458 --> 01:01:30,125
They could save her life.

892
01:01:30,208 --> 01:01:32,208
[foreboding music]

893
01:01:34,208 --> 01:01:37,458
[Yamashiro] Obara had a habit
of collecting things,

894
01:01:38,041 --> 01:01:41,750
and he kept a lot of receipts
in his apartment.

895
01:01:43,333 --> 01:01:47,208
The evidence team catalogued and analyzed
each individual receipt.

896
01:01:48,166 --> 01:01:51,708
From that, they created a timeline
of Obara's actions.

897
01:01:53,375 --> 01:01:55,041
[Jake] He has a receipt for everything.

898
01:01:55,916 --> 01:01:58,000
And they're able to reconstruct

899
01:01:58,083 --> 01:02:02,541
from the receipts that he's had
where he was moving through the day.

900
01:02:04,875 --> 01:02:09,583
[Yamashiro] The analysis team assumed
that on July 1st, around 3:00 p.m.,

901
01:02:09,666 --> 01:02:13,000
Obara met Lucie and headed to Zushi.

902
01:02:13,750 --> 01:02:15,291
On the way to Zushi,

903
01:02:15,375 --> 01:02:20,208
Obara and Lucie stopped at a restaurant
near the yacht harbor in Hayama.

904
01:02:21,416 --> 01:02:25,458
This was confirmed
by Assistant Inspector Asano at the time.

905
01:02:27,666 --> 01:02:31,375
Then in the evening, around 5:00 p.m.,

906
01:02:31,458 --> 01:02:34,416
they went to Obara's apartment
at Zushi Marina.

907
01:02:36,041 --> 01:02:39,541
It was at this point
that Lucie's whereabouts became unknown.

908
01:02:40,958 --> 01:02:45,083
Between the night of July 2nd
and early morning of July 3rd,

909
01:02:45,166 --> 01:02:47,666
Obara drove back to Tokyo.

910
01:02:49,500 --> 01:02:53,041
On July 4th, Obara did a lot of shopping.

911
01:02:56,041 --> 01:03:01,500
On July 5th, Obara visited an apartment
at the Blue Sea Aburatsubo.

912
01:03:02,458 --> 01:03:07,000
The Blue Sea Aburatsubo was one
of the many properties that Obara owned.

913
01:03:08,833 --> 01:03:09,875
The next day,

914
01:03:09,958 --> 01:03:15,208
a resident complained to the manager
about noise coming from Obara's apartment.

915
01:03:18,958 --> 01:03:22,416
[Jake] And among the receipts,
they find this very curious purchase

916
01:03:22,500 --> 01:03:27,708
for a chainsaw, cement,
and a portable tent.

917
01:03:28,708 --> 01:03:30,666
And they're beginning to figure out

918
01:03:30,750 --> 01:03:35,166
that probably these were used
to cover up the crime.

919
01:03:40,541 --> 01:03:42,583
[Yamashiro] This is pure speculation.

920
01:03:46,458 --> 01:03:50,375
The conclusion of the analysis team
was that Lucie lost her life

921
01:03:50,458 --> 01:03:51,875
on the night of July 1st.

922
01:03:53,666 --> 01:03:55,583
Within a few days,

923
01:03:56,125 --> 01:04:00,791
her body was transported
from Zushi Marina to Blue Sea Aburatsubo.

924
01:04:02,166 --> 01:04:04,666
And she was most likely dismembered there.

925
01:04:11,583 --> 01:04:14,833
[Yamashiro] After analyzing
various pieces of evidence,

926
01:04:15,458 --> 01:04:18,541
we had no choice
but to make this conclusion.

927
01:04:24,958 --> 01:04:28,208
For Lucie's case, we lacked evidence.

928
01:04:29,083 --> 01:04:32,041
And much of what we did have
was purely circumstantial.

929
01:04:35,875 --> 01:04:39,166
[Kuku] We needed hard evidence
to connect Obara to Lucie

930
01:04:39,958 --> 01:04:44,083
because without finding Lucie's body
and confirming her death,

931
01:04:44,166 --> 01:04:46,416
we couldn't try him
for her presumed murder.

932
01:04:50,583 --> 01:04:52,583
[suspenseful music]

933
01:05:11,666 --> 01:05:14,500
We thought that if we couldn't prove
it was murder,

934
01:05:16,416 --> 01:05:18,750
this case would never be resolved.

935
01:05:21,166 --> 01:05:23,833
So we knew that we had to find the body.

936
01:05:23,916 --> 01:05:26,041
This was the most important thing.

937
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:37,208
We started by looking
to see if there were any spots

938
01:05:37,291 --> 01:05:40,250
where a body might be hidden in the area.

939
01:05:47,458 --> 01:05:50,000
We had no idea where she could be.

940
01:05:52,291 --> 01:05:56,125
[Soejima] But we figured it couldn't be
that far from the apartment in Aburatsubo.

941
01:05:57,458 --> 01:05:59,791
Upper management told us
they would give us

942
01:05:59,875 --> 01:06:02,625
one final week to search.

943
01:06:05,208 --> 01:06:07,583
After a week, they'd shut us down.

944
01:06:10,791 --> 01:06:12,875
My stomach was in knots.

945
01:06:18,083 --> 01:06:22,250
I told my men that
this was our last chance.

946
01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:25,666
I was dreading what would happen
if we didn't find her.

947
01:06:31,833 --> 01:06:35,750
We really needed to nail this guy
with serious jail time.

948
01:06:37,041 --> 01:06:39,041
I felt very strongly about it.

949
01:06:45,541 --> 01:06:48,708
[Nozoe] We went to various spots
on the hill where there were crop fields.

950
01:06:49,291 --> 01:06:52,208
The path to the crop fields was terrible.

951
01:06:52,833 --> 01:06:54,958
We searched there for a number of days

952
01:06:57,125 --> 01:06:59,333
until we were completely filthy
and stinking.

953
01:07:07,416 --> 01:07:10,416
[birds cawing]

954
01:07:21,291 --> 01:07:25,208
[Nozoe] We went to the coast
at 8:15 in the morning.

955
01:07:33,750 --> 01:07:35,666
There were two or three caves there.

956
01:07:39,500 --> 01:07:41,791
I thought I'd just try relying
on my hunch.

957
01:07:53,208 --> 01:07:57,000
The area was littered with stuff
that had washed ashore.

958
01:08:00,291 --> 01:08:04,916
So we cleared away everything outside
and inside of the cave.

959
01:08:06,541 --> 01:08:07,791
After clearing it,

960
01:08:09,583 --> 01:08:11,083
we saw a bathtub.

961
01:08:14,833 --> 01:08:16,250
I flipped it over.

962
01:08:19,666 --> 01:08:22,125
"These are carnivorous bugs," I said.

963
01:08:24,583 --> 01:08:28,583
I cleared the area
and kept digging around it.

964
01:08:35,833 --> 01:08:39,000
At first, it looked
like a big burlap sack.

965
01:08:39,708 --> 01:08:43,708
And when I opened it, I saw it,
there was a foot.

966
01:08:45,750 --> 01:08:47,625
I was certain it was Lucie.

967
01:08:50,166 --> 01:08:53,250
[Abe] I was standing
in a rocky area near the cave

968
01:08:53,333 --> 01:08:54,500
and my phone rang.

969
01:08:55,375 --> 01:08:58,458
I heard Nozoe's voice say,
"It's here. It's here."

970
01:08:59,875 --> 01:09:02,791
His words were so garbled
that I couldn't make out

971
01:09:02,875 --> 01:09:03,708
what he was saying.

972
01:09:03,791 --> 01:09:07,583
So I told him, "Wait there.
I'm coming over to you right now."

973
01:09:13,583 --> 01:09:16,750
A huge flock of kites
had gathered above the scene.

974
01:09:18,541 --> 01:09:19,791
Squawking loudly.

975
01:09:20,541 --> 01:09:26,458
They caught the smell of death
and started circling in the sky.

976
01:09:32,208 --> 01:09:34,208
[somber music]

977
01:09:39,250 --> 01:09:42,041
[Jake] Early in the morning of the day
that they found the body,

978
01:09:42,125 --> 01:09:44,291
I was like, "Okay,
I'm gonna have to call Tim."

979
01:09:46,333 --> 01:09:49,458
I'd update him because
the Tokyo Police Department wasn't.

980
01:09:52,666 --> 01:09:55,708
I just remember, uh, this…

981
01:09:56,500 --> 01:09:59,416
this long, long pause when I told him and…

982
01:10:00,666 --> 01:10:01,750
[sighs]

983
01:10:01,833 --> 01:10:05,750
You know, that phone call
really stays in my head.

984
01:10:09,291 --> 01:10:12,375
I can remember precisely where I was.
I was standing in a backstreet.

985
01:10:12,458 --> 01:10:14,541
[Tim] It was a drizzly day, and…

986
01:10:15,291 --> 01:10:20,458
it was Jake, he said, um,
well, you know, they found her.

987
01:10:24,500 --> 01:10:26,125
I was hopeful all the time,

988
01:10:26,625 --> 01:10:29,916
um, right through to that moment,
really, when…

989
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:34,000
and then I think 20 minutes later,
the Japanese interpreter rang me,

990
01:10:34,083 --> 01:10:35,708
and said they have
the dental records back,

991
01:10:35,791 --> 01:10:37,083
it's definitely Lucie.

992
01:10:37,166 --> 01:10:40,583
Um, I just sort of stood
in the street and yelled.

993
01:10:41,708 --> 01:10:47,916
Um, then that was
the first time that I actually decided

994
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,541
that Lucie could be dead.

995
01:10:59,166 --> 01:11:01,166
[somber music]

996
01:11:10,375 --> 01:11:12,708
[indistinct chatter]

997
01:11:15,083 --> 01:11:20,000
[camera shutters clicking]

998
01:11:22,541 --> 01:11:23,916
I love Lucie so much

999
01:11:24,000 --> 01:11:26,833
for the wonderful
and beautiful person she was.

1000
01:11:26,916 --> 01:11:27,958
[sniffles]

1001
01:11:28,041 --> 01:11:31,333
Both on the inside and on the outside.

1002
01:11:32,791 --> 01:11:35,416
She never said an unkind word about anyone

1003
01:11:36,583 --> 01:11:39,041
and always made people feel very special.

1004
01:11:39,708 --> 01:11:40,583
[sniffles]

1005
01:11:40,666 --> 01:11:42,666
She was loved by so many people.

1006
01:11:43,875 --> 01:11:47,208
How could anyone do something so horrific…
[sniffles]

1007
01:11:47,291 --> 01:11:49,583
…so inhuman and so evil?

1008
01:11:51,500 --> 01:11:54,208
When Lucie's killer
is convicted of this crime,

1009
01:11:55,083 --> 01:12:00,000
for me, justice demands, that he spends
the rest of his natural life in prison,

1010
01:12:01,166 --> 01:12:04,125
contemplating the enormity of his crimes.

1011
01:12:08,666 --> 01:12:12,041
[Soejima] We finally have enough
to indict him for Lucie's murder.

1012
01:12:13,708 --> 01:12:20,708
I think… for the sake of the victims,
he should be given the maximum penalty.

1013
01:12:24,333 --> 01:12:30,416
I can't really make any judgments
on how the trial will eventually unfold.

1014
01:12:30,500 --> 01:12:32,375
Though if it is him who killed Lucie,

1015
01:12:32,458 --> 01:12:35,875
I hope he never sees another day
of sunlight or takes another breath.

1016
01:12:39,125 --> 01:12:41,125
[background chatter]

1017
01:12:41,875 --> 01:12:43,875
[gloomy music]

1018
01:13:02,083 --> 01:13:05,125
[Tim] We were sitting in the courtroom
and Obara was over there,

1019
01:13:05,791 --> 01:13:08,333
and it just felt really surreal.

1020
01:13:13,375 --> 01:13:17,666
I didn't have it,
anything left to get emotional about.

1021
01:13:26,041 --> 01:13:31,791
If I pinned my entire life's hope
on him being found guilty,

1022
01:13:31,875 --> 01:13:35,250
then, you know, then I'm just
setting myself up for another disaster.

1023
01:13:51,583 --> 01:13:54,833
[camera shutters clicking]

1024
01:14:03,500 --> 01:14:08,000
The verdict in the court today
has shown that…

1025
01:14:08,833 --> 01:14:09,916
[clicks tongue]

1026
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,583
…Lucie's life was not in vain.

1027
01:14:13,083 --> 01:14:17,458
Lucie brought justice
to, uh, Carita Ridgway,

1028
01:14:18,083 --> 01:14:19,416
and the eight other rape victims

1029
01:14:19,500 --> 01:14:22,166
who bravely came forward
to support the case.

1030
01:14:24,791 --> 01:14:28,125
But unfortunately, today
we've not received justice for Lucie.

1031
01:14:29,250 --> 01:14:31,250
[camera shutters clicking]

1032
01:14:32,916 --> 01:14:34,541
[Maruyama] I was so disappointed.

1033
01:14:36,875 --> 01:14:40,125
Not guilty. I thought, "No way!"

1034
01:14:42,500 --> 01:14:46,000
The investigators at that time
were more angry than surprised.

1035
01:14:46,083 --> 01:14:48,958
Obara had done such terrible things.

1036
01:14:49,041 --> 01:14:50,000
Yes?

1037
01:14:52,125 --> 01:14:55,708
Could you just confirm
what you plan to do as the next step?

1038
01:14:55,791 --> 01:15:00,416
We've made our position
extremely clear that we believe

1039
01:15:00,500 --> 01:15:05,125
that our family deserves
to get proper justice for Lucie

1040
01:15:05,208 --> 01:15:08,958
and that they should give
strong consideration to an appeal.

1041
01:15:09,041 --> 01:15:10,291
[camera shutters clicking]

1042
01:15:10,375 --> 01:15:13,458
The police had
all these disparate threads,

1043
01:15:13,541 --> 01:15:17,000
but they hadn't put it
into a strong enough case,

1044
01:15:17,083 --> 01:15:20,000
and what they subsequently did
when the Blackman's appealed

1045
01:15:20,083 --> 01:15:23,208
was to make the case stronger, really.

1046
01:15:29,041 --> 01:15:31,041
[tense music]

1047
01:15:32,958 --> 01:15:36,958
[Tim] We put absolutely
every ounce of blood, sweat, and tears

1048
01:15:37,041 --> 01:15:38,208
into it that we had.

1049
01:15:39,083 --> 01:15:43,500
We'd… done what we needed to do.

1050
01:15:58,958 --> 01:16:03,875
Today, truth, honor,
and justice… justice have prevailed,

1051
01:16:04,458 --> 01:16:09,583
not only for Lucie, but for all victims
of violent sexual crime.

1052
01:16:10,833 --> 01:16:16,291
He's got life sentence and, you know,
I think… I think justice has been done.

1053
01:16:18,208 --> 01:16:21,666
[camera shutters clicking]

1054
01:16:28,083 --> 01:16:31,375
-[bell tolling]
-[dog barking in distance]

1055
01:16:37,541 --> 01:16:38,833
[Mitsuzane] In 2010,

1056
01:16:40,208 --> 01:16:43,458
I actually had a chance
to visit Lucie's grave.

1057
01:16:45,083 --> 01:16:47,416
I had a chance to pay my respect.

1058
01:16:48,375 --> 01:16:50,125
So, I flew over to England.

1059
01:16:56,375 --> 01:16:59,625
When I got there, I went to see Jane,

1060
01:17:00,208 --> 01:17:04,791
and she treated me to afternoon tea
with homemade snacks.

1061
01:17:05,666 --> 01:17:08,333
She was very hospitable towards me,

1062
01:17:08,416 --> 01:17:10,666
and I was touched by her warm welcome.

1063
01:17:10,750 --> 01:17:12,750
[somber music]

1064
01:17:14,291 --> 01:17:17,458
[Mitsuzane] Lucie's tomb
is in a churchyard.

1065
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:21,625
On her gravestone
was her full name, nickname,

1066
01:17:21,708 --> 01:17:24,000
and how her family wanted her remembered.

1067
01:17:25,916 --> 01:17:30,625
"A star lighting our sky,"
the tombstone said.

1068
01:17:32,875 --> 01:17:34,875
[somber music continues]

1069
01:17:38,500 --> 01:17:41,875
[Abe] The fact that Lucie came
from a foreign country to work

1070
01:17:41,958 --> 01:17:45,166
and then became a victim of such a crime
in our country

1071
01:17:45,250 --> 01:17:49,625
has left a certain emotions in my heart,
which is still there.

1072
01:17:51,583 --> 01:17:53,583
[dramatic music]

1073
01:17:56,583 --> 01:17:59,500
Every year since, we go there…

1074
01:18:01,541 --> 01:18:06,958
to appease her spirit
and to pray that she rests in peace.

1075
01:18:11,583 --> 01:18:13,875
We've been going there
for the last 20 years,

1076
01:18:13,958 --> 01:18:16,166
and it's the only case we do it for.

1077
01:18:23,458 --> 01:18:26,666
[Tim] In some strange way…

1078
01:18:26,750 --> 01:18:31,916
[soft chuckle]
…Lucie has given us an experience of life

1079
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:36,166
however ghastly it's been
and beastly it's been,

1080
01:18:36,250 --> 01:18:42,750
um, you know, it's something
that a legacy which Lucie has left for me,

1081
01:18:42,833 --> 01:18:46,500
in my heart and in my soul.

1082
01:18:48,666 --> 01:18:50,166
And they… they…

1083
01:18:50,250 --> 01:18:56,166
Those feelings are very pure and untainted

1084
01:18:56,250 --> 01:19:00,625
by hatred and anger
and all the rest of it,

1085
01:19:00,708 --> 01:19:04,041
because I've kept that
out of Lucie's memory.

1086
01:19:06,541 --> 01:19:08,541
[somber music]

1087
01:19:18,708 --> 01:19:20,708
[waves crashing]

1088
01:19:28,125 --> 01:19:30,125
[soft music]