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...July 1, a Saturday, Lucie went on a dohan with a customer from Casablanca. The man, whose name Lucie did not share with anyone, had offered her a prepaid mobile phone if she would accompany him to a restaurant near the beach. Her roommate Louise was still in bed in their six-tatami matted room when Lucie left. Louise recalls glimpsing Lucie on her way out in sandals and a black one-piece dress, and a silver necklace with hearts on it. They had plans to see each other in the evening, along with Scott. Lucie phoned Louise three times...

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

...That was the problem, as far as Tim saw it. Among all the possible leads, the most traceable should have been the four calls that had been placed during and after Lucie's dohan - in particular, the three that Lucie had made on a cell phone provided by her "date." Tim says: "The authorities told us that they were unable to get any information due to privacy laws, and they said the technical means of doing so was beyond the capability of Japanese telecom companies...

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

...Meanwhile, leads began to pour into a hot line the Blackmans had set up in Tokyo. Three foreign women came forward with remarkably similar stories. Each had been working at Roppongi hostess clubs within the past few years and gone on a dohan to a seaside restaurant with a wealthy, well-dressed Japanese businessman. Each of the women reported blacking out and waking up hours or days later in this man's apartment. He used a different pseudonym with each girl, calling himself "Kazu," "Yuji" or "Koji...

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

...serious allegations of police ineptitude have been raised by Kazuo Iizuka, the owner of Club Cadeau, another Roppongi hostess joint. Iizuka says that on a Saturday night in early October 1997 one of his employees, a young British hostess, came into his club seriously ill after going on a dohan with a man now believed to be Obara. She had been drugged and, she suspected, sexually assaulted. Iizuka says she was so pale and weak, he had an ambulance take her from his club to a doctor. Tests revealed her liver function was seriously depleted. Iizuka says he took...

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

...eagerly when a new prospect enters the club. Soon, each of the young women is sitting next to a total stranger. They hand out their business cards. They know about Lucie, but that's history. Last week, two girls at Greengrass were sacked because they didn't meet their dohan quotas...

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

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