A young British girl suddenly disappears whilst working as a hostess in Tokyo. Her father is in despair and angry at the official Japanese response. Crimes that Shook the World: Lucie Blackman Murder, ID 2013
The biggest criminal hunt in Japanese history ... The deadly fantasies of a millionaire playboy ... A beast with a human face was finally brought to justice. ibid.
Found in a cave by the Pacific coast. ibid.
Fifty-five-year-old Joji Obara is found guilty on all eight counts of rape and the rape and killing of Carita Ridgway. But on the charges relating to Lucie Blackman he is acquitted. ibid.
A Japanese businessman has been convicted of abducting British woman Lucie Blackman. Joji Obara, who has also been convicted of killing Australian Carita Ridgway and eight other rapes, was described in court as a ‘beast with a human face’.
Between 1992 and 2000, Joji Obara attacked a number of women, drugging them before raping them and, in the case of Carita Ridgway, killing them.
He was earlier cleared of killing Lucie Blackman, but on appeal, Tokyo’s High Court has now found him guilty of her kidnap and of mutilating and concealing her body.
A wealthy property developer, who had inherited much of his money from his father, Obara had hit hard times during Japan's recession in the early 1990s.
Whether his money troubles led to a personality change is unclear but they certainly coincided with his crimes. BBC News online article 24th April 2007
Just a break for a few months, something different. They say a change is a good as a rest. I’m leaving for Japan on 3rd May and plan to return sometime in August. Vanished: The Lucie Blackman Mystery I, letter, Amazon 2024
Getting paid work as a foreigner wasn’t easy. ibid. commentators
Dohan dates. They’re dangerous full stop. ibid.
Lucie does not get back from the date. ibid.
They go to the police and say Lucie Blackman is missing … The British Embassy contacts the police … A mysterious phone call says she has joined a cult and is not coming back. ibid.
Tim and Sophie Blackman called a press conference. ibid.
Some of the [press] stories, frankly, were completely over the top. But they didn’t understand what a hostess bar was. ibid.
Late August in Tokyo, Japan: Lucie Blackman has been missing for more than two months. Her father, Tim Blackman, and her sister, Sophie, had been campaigning tirelessly since her disappearance. Reporters from all over the world had been following the story. Vanished: The Lucie Blackman Mystery II
We found girls had been sexually assaulted. They’d never been publicised, but it happened. ibid.
The name that the bar owner passed on to the police was Eugene. This is not the first time Eugene had come up. ibid.
She’s a foreigner working at a hostess club. Goes on a date with a customer up to the seaside. Vanishes. And there was a commonality in reports coming in from girls working at the clubs. ibid. reporter
And that’s individual’s name was Obara Joji. ibid.
When they [rozzers] went into the cave, that’s when they made the grisly discovery. ibid.
He spoke openly about his hatred of women. ibid.
O’BRYAN, RONALD: Killer Legends 2014 - True Crime Recaps 2023 -
The Candyman: The original was in fact a very real monster behind one of the most horrific crimes … The man who killed Halloween … October 31 1974 … Timothy’s death was a terrible blow … He gave his son a poisoned Pixy Stix … O’Bryan had taken out a large policy on his kids but not himself or his wife. Killer Legends, Netflix 2014
Ronald Clark O’Bryan: A Texan father who never had so much as a parking ticket until one halloween he committed an act so heinous, so cruel, that it blossomed into urban legend. True Crime Recaps: True Story of the Halloween Candy Man, Youtube 14.48, 2023
Deer Park, Texas, 1974: Timothy O’Bryan [son] and his little sister, 5-year-old Elizabeth, were out of their minds excited trick-or-treating … The doctors pumped Timothy’ stomach and they found 16 milligrams of cyanide in his system. ibid.
O’BRIEN, JAMES & TIMOTHY & TED WALKER et al: Cold Case Files TV -
[Mother]: ‘They seen the girl that was taken. That’s how I found out that Shauna was kidnapped.’ Cold Case Files s1e1: Little Lost Girl, A&E 2021
1992: 12-year-old Shauna Howe is leading a girl-scout party. Her best friend offers to walk her the extra block home. Shauna goes it alone. She would never be seen again. And Halloween would change for ever. ibid.
‘We had DNA. That was the start.’ ibid. rozzer
‘Somebody called in and said that the description fit the guy named Ted Walker.’ ibid.
‘2002: Jim O’Brien is a [DNA] match.’ ibid.
O’CALLAGHAN, IAN: Forensics: Catching a Killer TV -
A terrible discovery in the public toilets of a bus station. A massive forensic murder investigation that spanned twelve years. Forensics: Catching a Killer s2e6, Sky Crime 2023
She was identified as 66 year old grandmother and recent widow, Shirley Leach. The pathologist’s post-mortem revealed the horrific extent to which Shirley’s body had been mutilated after he murder. ibid.
Investigators had retrieved a DNA sample from the cubical that wasn’t Shirley’s. ibid.
‘An individual who had been arrested for drink-driving on 18th February 2006 simply by the name of Ian O’Callaghan.’ ibid. cold-case rozzer
OCHOA, CHRIS & RICHARD DANZIGER: I Didn’t Do It TV - Innocence Project online -
A woman murdered. It appeared to be an open and shut case. But despite a confession something wasn’t right. In October 1988 Austin, Texas, was expanding fast. I Didn’t Do It, Crime Channel 2012
Nancy DePriest appeared to be dead. ibid.
He’d also told his lawyer that it was only because of police pressure that he’d made a false confession. ibid.
A review of the case by the Austin Police department found flaws in the investigation. ibid.
Nancy DePriest was raped and murdered in her work place in Austin, Texas, in 1988. Chris Ochoa pled guilty to the murder of DePriest and his friend, Richard Danziger, was convicted of rape. Ochoa had confessed to the crime and had implicated Danziger. It would be discovered, however, that his confession was coerced and that neither man had anything to do with the slaying or raping of DePriest.
The victim worked at a Pizza Hut in Austin, where she had been tied up with her bra, raped, and shot in the head in the wake of an early morning robbery. She was still alive when the police arrived but died later that night. The police began investigating local Pizza Hut employees on the theory that a master key was used to gain entry.
Christopher Ochoa and Richard Danziger were roommates who also worked at an Austin area Pizza Hut. They were observed by a Pizza Hut waitress eating and drinking beer in what she surmised to be a toast to the victim. Police questioned Ochoa and Danziger in November 1988, and the two subsequently became the main suspects.
... Forensic Science Associates had retained a sample from testing performed at the time of the trial in 1989. Using newer testing methods, FSA was able to exclude both Ochoa and Danziger as sources of the spermatozoa. Chris Ochoa and Richard Danziger were exonerated in 2002.
Ochoa was greeted by the Wisconsin Innocence Project staff and students who helped him prove his innocence. Ochoa now states that his confession and implication of Danziger were the results of police pressure and fear of the death penalty, citing periods of time when they harassed him and threatened him with the consequences of not confessing. Innocence Project online report
OGORZOW, PAUL: Wartime Crime TV -
In Berlin the blackout presents the perfect environment for a violent predator, a dangerous psychopath preying on lone women. Wartime Crime s1e5: The Blackout Killers, 2017
The attacks begin as low-level intimidation … Women are bludgeoned or even stabbed … A serial killer in the heart of the Third Reich … Paul Ogorzow. ibid.
OKLAHOMA BOMBING: see MCVEIGH, TIMOTHY & TERRY NICHOLS
OLAND, DENNIS: The Fifth Estate TV -
In New Brunswick it was the trial with everything, a confluence of celebrity, money and mirth: a beer company dynasty, a father bludgeoned to death. Accused of the brutal killing the victim’s only son. The Fifth Estate: The Richard Oland Case: Murder in the Family, CBC 2016
Dick Oland had been bludgeoned to death with a hammer-like object. ibid.
OLIVE, MARLENE & CHARLES RILEY: Killer Kids TV -
Marlene Olive: and she is about to kill her own mother to free herself from a lifetime of abuse. Killer Kids s3e12: Please Kill for Me, LMN 2014
‘Marlene exerted a lot of influence over him [Charles Riley].’ ibid.
‘He hit Naomi Olive repeatedly in the head with a claw-hammer … He started stabbing her … and shot him [Jim Olive] … and burnt the corpses.’ ibid.
OLOF, PALME murder: viz Assassinations OLOF, PALME
OLSON, FRANK murder: viz Assassinations: OLSON, FRANK
ONG-A-KWIE, SVENSON et al: Killer at the Crime Scene TV -
A 17-year-old girl [Jodie Chesney] has been killed in a park. Her community demands answers. With her prime suspect on the run. Killer at the Crime Scene s3e2, Netflix 2023
Friends tell police the teenager was sitting on a bench when she was attacked from behind. ibid.
‘The first sighting away from the witnesses of our suspect.’ ibid. rozzer
The owner of the car has prior convictions including the supply of cocaine. ibid.
ONOPRIENKO, ANATOLY: Killers: Behind the Myth TV - Anatoly Onoprienko -
Ukraine, 22nd March 1996: outside the town of Busk a cold-blooded serial killer is on the loose and is preparing for his next attack. He has already killed thirty-six people in the past three months. The terrified locals have come to call him The Terminator. Killers Behind the Myth: Onoprienko: The Terminator, 2014
He confesses to a total of fifty-two murders. ibid.
I am Satan. I am Satan in human form. Anatoly Onoprienko