{"id":9995,"date":"2009-12-23T09:15:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=9995"},"modified":"2009-12-23T09:15:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T13:15:40","slug":"j-news-mini-roundup-suspect-charged-in-the-killing-of-lindsay-hawker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/23\/j-news-mini-roundup-suspect-charged-in-the-killing-of-lindsay-hawker\/","title":{"rendered":"J-News Mini-Roundup: Suspect charged in the killing of Lindsay Hawker"},"content":{"rendered":"

J-News Mini-Roundup<\/em><\/strong><\/a> is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills<\/strong>, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning<\/strong> (<\/em>www.hillslearning.com<\/em><\/a>). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese and Chinese language learning options.<\/em><\/p>\n

Background:<\/strong> It was a dreadful night on March 24, 2007. Lindsay Hawker was an English teacher at Nova, a well known language school in Japan. She had met Tatsuya Ichihashi by chance in a caf\u00e9 a few days earlier, and that night had agreed to go up to his room. The next day she was found dead in his apartment.<\/p>\n

The evidence was overwhelming against Tatsuya Ichihashi. Lindsay\u2019s body had been found in a bathtub on the balcony filled with sand and other materials, which Ichiro had been purchasing from the local hardware store. The taxi cab driver had been told to wait for Lindsay to come back down from Ichiro\u2019s apartment, but she never returned. He also fled the scene…<\/p>\n

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J-News Mini-Roundup is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese and Chinese language learning options. Background: It was a dreadful night on March 24, 2007. Lindsay Hawker was an English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t