Blog trips up murder suspect
Jeez, I'm going to be more careful with what I post, now that I know the coppers are snooping around on things like this....
From the LA Times.
For a generation, LAPD homicide investigators kept alive the case of 28-year-old Japanese tourist Kazumi Miura, shot in the head on a featureless side street in the shadow of a Los Angeles urban icon: downtown's four-level freeway interchange.
For nearly three decades, they pursued her husband, Kazuyoshi, for the 1981 crime. But he remained beyond their reach, as Japanese authorities tried and convicted him of murder, only to see the case overturned. When the break finally came last week, it was the result of Miura's own Internet-fed self-promotion: a personal blog.
Since 2005, police had been monitoring postings by Miura, who had become an outsized Japanese personality because of media coverage of his alleged crimes.
Here's the whole deal.
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