Episode 11: Lucie Blackman Case

Black Torii — Japanese True Crime · Jul 11, 2026 · 13m

She was twenty-one years old, tall and blonde, and she had come to Tokyo looking for a fresh start. In less than two months she had a new job, a new city, and a whole new life taking shape. Then, on the first of July 2000, she walked out the door to meet a customer who had promised to buy her a mobile phone — and she was never seen alive again. It took seven months to find her body. When investigators finally did, what they found in that seaside cave was so horrifying that the case became front-page news on two continents. What it eventually revealed was something worse than one man's crime…