On March 26th 2007 the body of Lindsay Hawker was found in a bathtub filled with soil on the balcony of a fourth floor apartment in Ichikawa, a suburb near Tokyo. Lindsay had moved to Japan five months earlier to teach English. Despite almost 10 police officers at the scene the killer managed to escape and evade police for the next 2 and a half years.

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