In March 2007, a 22-year-old English teacher in Tokyo failed to show up for class. The only clue was a note left by a stranger, and when police knocked on his apartment door, he fled barefoot.

Lindsay Ann Hawker had been teaching English in Japan for less than six months, having left for England. A tutoring session at a café near Gyotoku station seemed perfectly normal until she accompanied a student home to collect tuition fees and instructed a taxi driver to wait downstairs. The taxi waited for a long time, but eventually left.

Then followed a 31-month manhunt across Japan, approximately 8,000 tips from the public, and a face on a poster that gradually faded from recognition. In this video, we retrace the Lindsay Ann Hawker case, from her fourth-floor apartment in Ichikawa to the Nanko ferry terminal in Osaka.

Timeline:
00:00 Opening
00:28 The teacher didn't show up for class
01:22 The note with the name and the barefoot escape
03:17 Lindsay Ann Hawker, the girl from England
04:00 The man chasing the bicycle
05:04 Class at the cafe near Gyotoku station
05:45 The taxi waiting downstairs
06:19 Inside the 4th floor apartment
07:12 Nationwide arrest warrant and 8,000 tips
08:55 31 months living under a false name
09:47 The face that no longer exists
10:15 The clinic in Nagoya
11:37 Nanko ferry terminal
12:35 Who is Tatsuya Ichihashi?
13:07 The trial and the verdict

This video is made to recount and analyze the case based on publicly available materials and is not intended to promote violence. Please comment with respect for Lindsay and her family.

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