Reddit reviews People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up

If anyone wants to read a true crime book about the way the Japanese judicial system works especially with cases involving murder and rape I highly suggest reading:

https://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595

Lots of good ones on here. I'll add People Who Eat Darkness. It's kind of a true crime travel book. Interesting in that it describes a fascinating subculture in Japan that I was completely unaware of.

The People Who Eat Darkness- It is a look at not only a disturbing crime but the culture that gave rise to it and a legal system as confusing as a labyrinth. Came highly recommended.

https://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595

http://www.amazon.com/People-Who-Eat-Darkness-Tokyo/dp/0374230595

Just watched a doc on this case as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fj0ArZ_3r0&list=WL&index=2

Perspectives from the parents, police, lawyers, made it a good watch.

The case of Lucy Blackman.

Girl working in Tokyo as a hostess (basically, a waitress paid to keep flirty company to costumers). She goes missing after a douhan (paid date) with a custumer, and no one heard from her again. Eventually, she is found in a cave on a beach. Head shaved, cut into eight pieces and encased in concrete, she was burried under a bathtub, just a few hundred meters of her killers appartment.

There is a book about it. Is incredibly chilling to read, but very well written.

People Who Eat Darkness: The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo--and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up (2012)

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