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We hear of murders every day but not many are quite so chilling and moving as that of the murder of 22-year-old Lindsay Ann, whose body was recently discovered in a bathtub of sand in Japan. Lindsay graduated only last year from university and was excited to go teach English in Japan but little did she know what would happen to her when she was there. A suspect has been caught and it is thought that he invited her in for help with some English before strangulating her. What I find most saddening is the fact that Lindsay’s father and long-term boyfriend went all the way across the world to Tokyo to identify Lindsay’s dead body. It was not the kind of reunion anyone would have expected, and I don’t know how the family members must be coping. Only a week before she died, Lindsay also sent a message to her boyfriend on Facebook saying:

Love u lots don’t worry abt the guy who chased me home, its jus crazy Japan. miss u xxx.

Japan really did turn out to be crazier than anyone thought, and this murderer (to whom the incident probably meant very little), ruined all of Lindsay’s and her family’s dreams.

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