Japanese man paid rent on an empty flat for 26 years hoping science would catch his wife’s killer and it finally did |
For more than a quarter of a century, Satoru Takaba carried a quiet, extraordinary burden. After his wife Namiko Takaba was brutally murdered in their apartment in Nagoya in 1999, the case went cold. With no arrest and no clear suspect, most families would have moved on, physically and emotionally. Takaba did not. Instead, he…