Japan man rents wife’s murder flat for 20 years, preserves crime scene, spends US$145,000

A grieving husband in Japan paid rent on the empty “haunted house” in which his wife was murdered for 26 years in the hope of uncovering clues about who killed her. His hopes were finally realised when the suspect gave herself up to police in Nagoya, central Japan. She was the man’s classmate at secondary school and had a crush on him. The case attracted public attention after it was reported by the news outlet NHK in early November. The murder took place on November 13, 1999, when housewife...