Episode 61: Vanished In Tokyo (Case Lucie Blackman / Joji Obara)
A Japanese Hostess Club - purchase a table by the hour - female hostesses will come and sit with you the entire time. They pour your drinks, light your cigarette, flirt with you, and stroke your ego.
There’s an unspoken law that all the flirting - was nothing but a fantasy.
But when a British Airways flight attendant disappears while working at a hostess club - a question arises…
Was her abduction someone’s fantasy?
Source notes:
Book - “People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo — and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up” - Richard Lloyd Parry
^One of the best books I’ve picked up in a long time… honestly highly recommend this book for an insane deep dive on this case…
https://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4361278&page=1
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lucie-blackman-joji-obara-and-me-jbzwkqcpzvr
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6242747.stm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-409098/A-Fathers-Betrayal.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/7832817/Tokyo-Vice-extract-Behind-the-Lucie-Blackman-story.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/dec/16/lucie-blackman-timeline
https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/im-haunted-by-my-daughters-murder-9606
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130085949/http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2005_02_27/story_1306.asp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xwLUjk1uI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUUsQ6IWu_4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_b9EhTDhY
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