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Case File

The Woman on the Floor of a McDonald’s: Wu Shuoyan and the Church of Almighty God

On May 28, 2014, a woman in her mid-thirties named Wu Shuoyan was beaten to death on the…

October 6, 2026
#899
cold case

The Man They Let Out: The Ashikaga Wrongful Conviction and the North Kanto Serial Kidnappings

Content note: this piece describes the disappearance and murder of several young children between 1979 and 1996, and…

October 6, 2026
#1066
Solved

“Mom, Good Morning!!”: The Murder of Yukari Ogino

A twenty-one-year-old student texted her mother good morning, and two days later the police called. The man who…

October 5, 2026
#1042
cold case

The Money Was Still in the Safe: The Hachiōji Supermarket Murders

Three people were shot dead in the office of a Tokyo supermarket on a Sunday night in 1995,…

October 5, 2026
#889
cold case

The Man in the Ocher Raincoat: The Murder of Junko Kobayashi

Content note: this piece describes the murder of a 21-year-old university student in her own home, two days…

October 3, 2026
#877
missing persons

298 Missing, One Corrupt Cop, One Woman: What Jeju Buried

Jang Mi-ran walked out of her house in Jeju in slippers on May 12, 2026. A police sergeant…

August 25, 2026