Entombed

In the Japanese city of Suzuka lived a woman named Fujiko Yokoyama. She was 45 years old and married for the fifth time. Each of her husbands had been in his twenties, and the most recent one was a former classmate of her son. This final marriage, however, ended differently from the ones before.

Shao Tong was only 19-year-old university student in the United States when her life ended tragically. Her boyfriend, Li Xiangnan, had just traveled to China, so the case soon became an intercontinental one.

In November 1998, young journalist Noriko Tsujide left work late at night but never made it home. Her car was later found abandoned, with the driver’s seat positioned farther back than usual. Noriko herself had vanished without a trace, and even decades later, the mystery remains unsolved.

Park Jung-hyun was a successful manga editor with a loving wife and four children. Unusually for Japan, he was on parental leave and appeared to be the ideal family man. Beneath the surface, however, things were not as perfect as they seemed.

Li Yinglei was a Chinese-born mother who set out on a Mediterranean cruise with her family in 2017, but she never arrived at the ship’s final port. Her husband claimed that she left of her own free will, yet many pieces of evidence suggested otherwise.

Kazuyoshi and Kazumi Miura were walking down a street in Los Angeles when a car stopped in front of them — and suddenly, shots were fired at them. Kazuyoshi escaped with minor injuries, but Kazumi eventually died from her wounds. This marked the beginning of a 27-year-long saga that ultimately left many questions unanswered.

Daisuke Maruyama, a member of the Nagano prefectural assembly, was interviewed on television on the anniversary of his wife’s death. When he said he hoped the killer would be punished, he couldn’t suppress a brief chuckle. Did he himself know more about the perpetrator?

21-year-old Satoru Kobayashi was waiting for the last train of the evening at JR Ikebukuro Station when an argument with a drunken fellow passenger led to tragic consequences. The indifference of other people on the platform also shocked many.