Late at night on October 26, 1991, a 13-year-old Japanese girl, Sakuma Nana, mysteriously disappeared on her way home from a convenience store, and has not been heard from since.
The Japanese police investigated in many ways, but only found some fragmentary testimony and a few vague clues, 17 years later, some people found the suspected murderer, who is this mysterious person? Where did he take Sakuma Nana? Today we will talk about this foggy case of the disappearance of a young girl.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > well-behaved and sensible Sakuma Nana</h1>
Born in 1978 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, Sakuma Lives in an apartment with her mother and grandmother in Omiyadai, Wakaba District, Aoba Prefecture, Japan, because her parents divorced. Sakuma Nana was well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, never letting her mother worry, and the neighbors had a very good impression of her.
In 1991, she turned 13 years old and studied in the first grade of Chiba City Omiya Junior High School, where she had a good relationship with many well-connected classmates.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > late-night party</h1>
On October 26, 1991, just after the midterm exams, Nai Nai and three female classmates agreed to go to play together, they played for a whole day, but still felt unfinished, so several people proposed to play for a while at night, but where to go?
At this time, Sakuma Nana suggested that everyone go to her house to play, because her mother had to work the night shift at night and would not come back all night, and there was only her grandmother at home.
A few of the friends were very happy to hear that, and near the evening, Sakuma Nana came to the house with three other classmates on bicycles, and her grandmother warmly received them and prepared a rich dinner for them.
After dinner, Grandma went back to her room to rest. Several of the children were drowsy, and they watched TV, chatted happily, and enjoyed the happy time.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > to a convenience store</h1>
In the blink of an eye, it was midnight, the girls were a little hungry, they went to the kitchen to find food, found that there was no extra food, everyone was a little frustrated, but they still could not bear to wake up their grandmother to prepare food for them.
At this time, Sakuma Nana suggested that everyone could go to the convenience store outside to buy food, and the other girls thought it was a good idea.
So the four girls walked out the door together, and when they rushed to the nearby convenience store, they found that the convenience store was closed, and then Sakuma Nana remembered that the convenience store was only open until 11 p.m., and when they arrived at the convenience store, it was already past 12 o'clock.
Just when everyone was at a loss, one of the girls said she knew that there was a 24-hour convenience store about 4 kilometers away from here, and everyone agreed. However, because the distance was a bit far, they decided to go back to get their bikes.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > thrilling journey</h1>
At midnight, there were very few cars and pedestrians on the road, and a few girls rode their bicycles on the open road, they did not feel the slightest fear, but felt that such an adventure was novel and exciting, and they talked and laughed along the way, and some even sang songs.
They only need to ride all the way north, about half an hour to reach the convenience store, dim street lights illuminate the girls' way forward, because there was just a typhoon two days ago, so there are some small stones and branches on the road from time to time, and they have to move forward carefully.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the convenience store and bought some snacks, and then they didn't stop too much and began to return.
On the way back, the girls were much quieter, perhaps because they were feeling a little tired, or perhaps because they suddenly realized that it was already past one o'clock in the morning, while the girls were still wandering in the silent street, and they felt a little frightened. Everyone laughed unintentionally and unconsciously sped up the speed of the ride.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at National Highway 126, with Sakuma Nana leading the way, and when she passed an intersection, she was afraid that the other girls would not be able to keep up, so she couldn't help but look back. Unexpectedly, she hit a branch across the road, and she fell on the road with her car.
The other three girls saw this, immediately got out of the car, ran to Nai Nai, and just as everyone was checking to see if she was injured, a strange man appeared behind them.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > mysterious man</h1>
The man was about 50 years old, wearing a horizontal striped long-sleeved shirt on the upper body, black trousers on the lower part, a black knitted hat on his head, a round face and long eyes, and a red face.
He stood by a billboard with his hands in his trouser pockets, and when he saw the girls he looked very angry, he asked aloud, "What are you doing?" The 4 girls looked at the man who suddenly appeared, a little overwhelmed for a while, in the face of his tough questioning, the girls were obviously frightened, they looked at each other, and did not dare to answer for a while.
The man took a few more steps closer to them, and he told the girls: "I am a counselor in this area, according to the relevant regulations, it is a crime for people under the age of 16 to go out after 11 o'clock in the evening without a guardian, and I may call the police for duty, but before that I am happy to listen to your explanations, maybe I will change my mind." ”
At that time, there was a profession in Japan called counselors, who walked on the streets and were specifically responsible for persuading teenagers with bad habits in their jurisdiction.
The man's tone was full of reproach, his expression was also very serious, his voice was very loud, the 4 girls were frightened when they heard that he was going to call the police, they realized that their behavior was really inappropriate, and several girls bowed their heads and were silent.
When the man saw that the girls were not speaking, he said, "Why don't you send a representative to explain it to me alone?" So he pointed at Sakuma Nana and motioned for her to leave with him, nai nai, perhaps out of fear, did not object, she obediently followed him, and they walked toward a small path next to them.
After taking a few steps, the man suddenly turned his head and told the remaining 3 girls: "You don't have to wait, hurry home!" After saying that, he continued to walk forward with Nai Nai.
A girl looked at Nai Nai's bike that had fallen on the side of the road and asked, "What about her bike?" The man replied without looking back: "I will use the truck to transport it!" ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > disappeared without a trace</h1>
The 3 girls did not dare to stay too long, they listened to the man's words, rode on the bicycle to return to Nai Nai's house, they rode while waiting for Nai Nai, the girls naively thought that the man just took Nai Nai to somewhere, to understand the situation, Nai Nai should soon follow.
But until the three of them arrived at the door of Nai Nai's house, there was no trace of Nai Nai, they had no key, only Nai Nai brought the key when they went out, they couldn't bear to wake Up Nai's grandmother, and they didn't dare to go home separately, after all, it was too late, so they could only wait at the door, hoping that Nai Nai would come back soon.
But they waited for an hour and a half, and did not see Nai Nai return, it was already 3 a.m., the three girls began to feel that things were not right, they even had a bad guess, the girls suddenly realized that they did not seem to know whether the strange man was a real counselor, or even looked at his documents.
The more they thought about it, the more frightened they became, and just at this moment two boys they knew passed by the door of Nai Nai's house, and the three girls quickly stopped them and described in detail the whole thing.
The two boys thought it was too strange to hear, and since Nai Nai had disappeared for so long and had not returned, she had to tell her family about it immediately.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > searched many times</h1>
The girls knocked desperately on the door, Nai Nai's grandmother was obviously awakened by this sudden knock, she just opened the door, the girls told nai nai missing things to their grandmother, the grandmother was frightened, she immediately informed Nai Nai's mother.
Sakuma Nana's mother hurried home, and she and Nai Nai's grandmother went to the place where the three girls separated from Kona to frantically search, and also focused on finding the path next to it, but she did not see Nai Nai at all, nor did she find the "counselor". In desperation, they had to go to the local police station to call the police.
After receiving the report, the Japanese police searched all the way along the route of the 4 girls' cycling. Nai Nai and the three girls were separated at an intersection of National Highway 126, next to the narrow path, with a large tree at the entrance, surrounded by dense weeds and trees, and further along the path, there was an auto repair shop, but there were no workers in the factory that night.
Further ahead past the repair shop, there is a row of white guardrails, and at the end of the guardrail is the intersection with another road, where there is a wide road with many residents.
The Japanese police conducted a meticulous search along the road, while also visiting nearby households in the hope of getting some valuable clues.
However, because it was more than one o'clock in the morning when the incident occurred, most people were already resting, so the police got very few clues, and many people said that they had not seen Nai Nai and the mysterious man, nor had they heard any abnormal sounds.
At that time, the street residents basically did not have monitoring equipment installed, so it was difficult to find Nai Nai.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > new clues</h1>
The Japanese police later drew a portrait of the suspect based on the descriptions of the three girls, and printed a batch of leaflets with the suspect's portrait and Nai Nai's photos and information.
The flyer said: 13 years old, 152 centimeters tall, weighing 42 kilograms, with a mole in his left eye, looking more mature than his actual age. The mysterious man next to him had a gloomy face, which made people look a little scared.
The Japanese police and Nai Nai's family distributed the leaflets at stations, squares, stations, etc., hoping that someone would provide clues.
Day by day, witnesses called the police.
One driver said that at about 1:30 a.m. on the day of Nai Nai's disappearance, he had seen a teenage girl with two men not far from that intersection, and later confirmed by the police that the man said the place was about 260 meters from the place where Nai Nai was taken away by the man.
Another witness said that at about 4 a.m., he had seen a girl and a man at the scene of the incident, walking in the direction of a residential area not far from the scene of the incident, the two did not walk in a hurry, and later the police went to the community to investigate, still did not find any valuable clues.
Years later, Nai Nai's mother still did not wait for news of her daughter. There are very few clues about the case, and the case cannot be progressed, and it can only enter a period of stagnation.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the case was widely discussed at the time. Many conjectures have been raised:</h1>
1. "Truck driver" said
Some believe the mysterious man was a truck driver. Because when the girl asked him what to do with Nai Nai's bike, he blurted out: "I'll use the truck to transport it away".
The man's knee-jerk response suggested that he was likely to be a truck driver or might be working in a truck-related job.
Some people boldly assume that the man drove the truck to the vicinity of the accident site that day, parked the car in an inconspicuous place, and then rested in the car.
At this time, 4 young girls who happened to pass by caught his attention, and when Nai Nai fell, he got out of the car to warn them as a counselor, and took the opportunity to take Nai Nai away. He may have taken Kona to a truck parked nearby and left Chiba Prefecture with Nai Nai forever. Since the man was only passing by, no one in the locals could recognize him.
2. "Homeless man" said
Some people thought that the man might be a nearby tramp, quietly wandering around in the early hours of the day, only to meet the girls, who disguised himself as a counselor and took Nai Nai away.
However, some people soon objected, if it is a local tramp, then the local residents should be familiar with him, especially the man's height of 155 cm, is the most obvious feature, very recognizable, but after visiting, local residents have said that they have not seen such a physical feature.
3. "Thief" said
Some people think that the mysterious man is a thief, because he is close to the thief in terms of his dress, and he is still in the street at one o'clock in the morning, which also has to be suspected. He may have gained nothing that day, so he wanted to take Nai Nai and ask her family for money.
However, some people also expressed doubts, because there is no bustling area near the crime site, there is no high-end residential area, the thief is unlikely to appear there, and according to the confessions of the three girls, the man does not have a bag, which is also contrary to the "thief" statement.
4. Suspected discovery of the real culprit
In 2008, 17 years after Sakuma's disappearance, someone suddenly discovered that from the suspect's portrait, the mysterious person who took Nai Nai looked very similar to a suspect named Nakatsumi.
However, after careful investigation by the Japanese police, it was found that Katsumi Naka had been arrested before Sakuma Nana disappeared, and he could not appear at the scene of the crime, so he was not the mysterious man of the year.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > written at the end</h1>
For years, although the Japanese police and Sakuma's family were looking for her, she seemed to evaporate and was never heard from.
Sakuma's mother has returned to her hometown, but she still pays the rent on time for the house where she and her daughter lived, and she is afraid that one day her daughter will not find a home when she returns. She would also occasionally go back and turn on the room lights and windows, hoping that when her daughter returned, she would see that everything was the same as before.
The disappearance of 13-year-old Japanese girl Sakuma Nana, 30 years ago, the case is still foggy, she disappeared into the night forever, leaving too many doubts, no one knows where she went, no one knows whether she is still alive.
Maybe she'll be back tomorrow, maybe she'll never come back...