Hi All - I saw a whopper of a story on Trace Evidence last night....
A young man from Japan, living in Hawaii, murdered a wealthy Japanese socialite and her son. His identity was discovered after several pieces of the murdered woman's stolen jewelry showed up in a pawn shop -- he had used his passport for identification to make the pawn shop deposits. The investigation revealed videotapes of him going up his high-rise apartment elevator with the son, and then coming back down alone -- and there were no tapes of the son ever having left the building. A few hours later, the guy returned carrying a big cloth bag under his arm. Later, the tape showed him wheeling a dolly carrying something that looked very much like a body inside the white sack. Blood later discovered on the dolly, which he had checked out from the building's management, matched the DNA of the murdered man.... Not only that -- he had cut a big swatch of carpeting out of the floor of his apartment, but there were blood splatters in the surrounding carpet. And he had removed some cushions from a loveseat, then taken the loveseat down to the basement, for weekly big item trash pickup, where it was soon discovered. Not only did it have huge blood stains beneath where the cushions had been, a bullet was found underneath the springs. The guy put the murdered man's body into his car, and drove it to the opposite end of the island, where he set it on fire, hoping to destroy the evidence. The body was found partially intact, bound with duct tape. He had used charcoal lighter as the accelerant. The guy fled back to Japan, but due to the mounds of evidence Dr. Henry Lee discovered against him, he was extradicted to the US to stand trial, and convicted. Apparently it was all motivated by nothing more than greed. He had met the man he murdered in a scuba diving class and befriended him, with ulterior motives, eventually killing both the son and his mother, as well, in another location, which was also linked by forensic evidence. Somehow sayings like "with a friend like that, who needs enemies?" seems wholly inadequate in a case like that. Ricki Utah To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
