Episode 62: Vanished In Tokyo Part 2 (Case Lucie Blackman / Joji Obara)
There is international panic on the fate of the missing British Airways flight attendant… and the crazy leads don’t make it any easier for police.
She was sold to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia).
An adult film producer claims his colleague kidnapped her for producing a snuff film.
The police finally get their first good lead - they knock on the suspect’s door and open up a can of worms. Why is his dog frozen? What are all the videotapes? How many victims does he really have?
*Please listen to Part 1 first (#61)
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
DISCLAIMER: Some links are listed in the source material but the material may never be discussed in the podcast (I just wanted to list them because they gave me a deeper picture of the case in full). If there are un-verifiable sources (ie Reddit) - they are typically referred to as un-verified sources, opinions, and or theories in the podcast and not treated as fact.