In 1988, acting on a tip from a concerned landlord, local officials visited an apartment in Tokyo's Sugamo area. They found three children, malnourished, and living on their own, and the corpse of another. It was later determined that the children had another sibling who couldn't be located. Here the sad details of the case in this episode.

In 2009 college student Miyako Hiraoka disappeared while walking home from her part-time job. Closure wouldn't come until 2016, after a seven year investigation, but with a shocking twist.

Find out what happened in this episode of True Crime Japan.

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Don't skip just yet!!!. We promise you some fun stories, after all, our main beat might be crime, but who says we can't have fun outside our comfort zone?

From the land of the rising sun, we bring you 3 stories about encounters of the third kind.

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