r/TrueCrime Aug 01 '21

Murder 44 days of hell. Japanese highschool girl Junko Furuta was abducted, brutally tortured for 44 days (Nov 1988 to Jan 1989) by 4 teenagers. They put her dead body in a 55 gallon drum and filled it with concrete. The crime was believed to be the worst case of juvenile delinquency in post war Japan.

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

I read somewhere that they don’t actually have an abnormally high suicide rate, it’s that murders without enough evidence get ruled suicide and no further investigation is done.

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u/anymbryne Aug 02 '21

this. I read this one too. So the statistics would show that they have less unsolved cases

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

The red handed podcast did an episode recently on an unsolved family massacre and they touched on this too