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...when he carried Lucie's body parts from his apartment. A driveway turns out to the right of the front door; the marina is straight ahead. To the left there is a small parking lot, then a narrow path leading across stones and cement pilings to the tiny beach, which is maybe one-quarter the area of a tennis court. Five meters back from the water is a rock face with a crevice a couple of meters wide extending a few meters from the beach. It is partially open on top, and light streams into it. There used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Prior to his arrest in connection with Lucie's disappearance, Obara had one notable brush with the law. In 1998 he was arrested in a women's restroom in a beach town called Shirahama in Wakayama prefecture. Obara was in drag, and he was attempting to videotape a woman using the toilets. He was charged with a misdemeanor and fined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...Neighbors subsequently reported seeing Obara that evening pacing the small, 15-m-wide beach adjacent to his apartment building. The next day, records showed Obara was treated at a hospital for extensive bug bites as a result of being outside all night. Despite all this information, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police failed to thoroughly search the area around Obara's apartment until early February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...little before noon on March 1, Tim Blackman, his girlfriend and his two surviving children opened a bottle of Veuve Clicquot champagne on the beach where Lucie had been recovered. With representatives from Scotland Yard and the Tokyo Metropolitan Police looking on, as well as dozens of paparazzi buzzing the water in speedboats, the Blackmans planted a small evergreen tree in Lucie's memory. Tim said of his daughter's end, "I hope Lucie had a glass of champagne, felt a bit woozy and passed out." They prayed. They cried. And then, for some reason, they started to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lucie Blackman: Death of a Hostess | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

...from trying it. Instead of wasting space naming the celebrities who practice yoga, you could have given more coverage to the numerous health benefits and curative powers of yoga for such problems as migraine headaches, panic attacks, menstrual disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome and back pain. DIANE M. PAVESIC Huntington Beach, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 14, 2001 | 5/14/2001 | See Source »

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