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Tests are rarely done at the scene of the crime without signs of foul play, according to the MPD officer. But Susan Wiley said that Sgt. Robert Shemwell, the homicide detective in contact with the family, told her that the car’s missing hubcap and the yet-unexplained streaks of yellow paint on its bumper indicated that, even at first sight, the disappearance was not a clear-cut suicide...
...real runaways, the girls insist, because they intend to go home sooner or later?and they have cell phones. "Our parents can reach us anytime," Yuko argues. "They know where we are, sort of." Amazingly, the police use the same measure to define a runaway?if your parents can contact you, you're not really missing. Which explains why the official numbers of Tokyo runaways?though up 15% over the past five years?remain relatively low. Of the 1.4 million minors in the metropolis, about 2,000 were taken into custody as runaways last year...
...under have swelled to 33% of the total, and girls have become the majority. Yet in Shibuya, uniformed officers manning a centrally located police box rarely glance at the obviously underage, mostly female children streaming past long after midnight. "I don't have any reason to come into contact with them," says an officer, who declines to give his name. Michiko says when she's in a strange city she often asks policemen for directions to the nearest hot-sheet hotel. None ever asks where she's from or what...
...When we contact the parents, they're often surprised to hear from us," says Akira Fumoto, a 30-year veteran officer of youth crimes who runs the center. "Ten years ago, if a child hadn't returned home for two or three days, parents filed a missing child report. Today, parents believe they're not missing if they can reach them on their cell phones." Indeed, of the 2,000 or so runaways Tokyo police apprehended last year, only 1,200 had been reported missing...
...must-do item for al-Qaeda activists passing through London. Yarkas is alleged to have visited Qatada on at least one of his estimated 20 trips to London since 1996, and to have transferred money to him as well. Jacquard calls Qatada "the one person who invariably has had contact with everyone and anyone of stature in the radical Islamist world...