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Furuta was born on 18 January 1971 and grew up in Misato, Saitama Prefecture, where she lived with her parents, older brother, and younger brother. [4] At the time of her murder, she was a 17-year-old senior at Yashio-Minami High School, and worked a part-time job at a plastic molding factory from October 1988 to save up money for a planned graduation trip. [1]
Murder of Junko Furuta: 1: Tokyo: A 17-year-old boy, Hiroshi Miyano, and three other boys abduct a high school girl, Junko Furuta. They rape and assault her for 40 days. They murder her and encase her body in concrete. [6] 1989: Sakamoto family murder: 3: Yokohama
Based on the circumstances of the crime scene and the fact that Junko's father's slippers seemed to have been worn, it was thought to be the work of a known acquaintance of the victim. [ 7 ] In September 2006, ten years after the incident, it was disclosed that both legs had been tied in a special method known as a "karage knot" and that DNA ...
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Concrete (コンクリート, Konkurīto) is a 2004 independently produced Japanese film that is based on the case of the murder of Junko Furuta. The film deals as much with the social factors that produced Furuta's four assailants as it does with Furuta's suffering at their hands. The film involves four boys who kidnap a girl named Misaki.
Relatives of a Travelodge receptionist have questioned whether her "brutal" killing could have been prevented, as an inquest into her death opened earlier. Marta Elena Vento, 27, was punched ...