Journal of a Murderer — Lindsay Hawker’s Murder
After murdering a 22-year-old British teacher, Ichihashi went on the run for three years and underwent plastic surgery to disguise his look.
Lindsay Ann Hawker, a 22-year-old British teacher, was murdered in early 2007 in Japan. Tatsuya Ichihashi, the guy spotted leaving the flat where she was killed, was wanted by police for abandoning a body.
Lindsay Hawker was born in Coventry, West Midlands, as the middle child of three girls to Bill and Julia Hawker; her sisters are Lisa and Louise. In October 2006, she relocated to Japan to teach English at the Koiwa branch of Nova in Tokyo, Japan’s largest private English conversation school.
She was popular and outgoing; despite her desire to pursue a Master’s degree, she chose to teach English in Japan for a year. She shared a room with two other female teachers, one from Australia and one from Canada.
On the day she went missing, her family was worried because they hadn’t heard from her in a while. She had kept in touch with them through e-mail, Skype, and the phone while she was there.
