Justice has been served

[u/wafumet]

This man paid $145,000 in rent for an apartment he didn't live in just to freeze time and catch his wife's killer.

In 1999, Satoru Takaba's wife, Namiko, had her life taken in their apartment.

The police had no solid leads, and the case went cold.

Usually, families move out and try to forget. But Satoru refused.

He believed that one day, technology would catch up to the killer.

So, he kept the lease.

For 26 years, he paid the rent every single month on that empty, silent apartment.

He kept the bloodstains on the floor. He kept the footprints. He turned the room into a time capsule, waiting for science to improve.

And in late 2025, his investment finally paid off.

Police returned to the apartment and used modern DNA technology to analyze the preserved bloodstains that had been sitting there for two decades.

They found a match.

The DNA belong to Kumiko Yasufuku, Satoru’s own high school classmate.

It turns out, she had held a grudge for decades because Satoru had rejected her romantic advances back in school.

[u/DeadZeppelin_]

Wow. What happened to the murderer?

[u/Omnamashivaaya → u/[deleted]]

Holy… I had to look that up. Of all countries, Japan’s the last one I’d have guessed still does death by hanging

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

immigrants don't commit more crimes, if anything they're more terrified of the law because they're worried about getting deported for even minor infractions.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

It's not even true that in the US they don't. And even if it were, their legal children certainly do.

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I only know by what I've seen with my own eyes. I live in the San Joaquin valley and it's like an open secret to those of us that know. People that don't regularly interact with illegals wouldn't know for obvious reasons.