Body found in Mie identified as that of missing schoolgirl

A family's worst nightmare

I hope they will soon find out who did it

Damn this sucks, no child deserves to die, rest in peace!! Peace

According to the news, the girl has been identified and the cause of death is suffocation. Hope they catch the son of a bitch.

@scoobydoo: Actually the police found the body after searching the area. Also she was found naked. So yeah blood boiling! I really hope they find and hang this sob.

Rest in peace! Hope family will recover and the person who did this should come clean and confess, don't add to the suffering of the family.

very sad, May she Rest in Peace. Condolences to her family and friends. I hope they can the one who did this.

Mirai Hayashi,

I know dumb phones don't have gps

"Dumb phones" do indeed have GPS capability, and most manufactured within the last 5 years have incorporated GPS tracking technologies to assist mapping software, as well as help friends locate one another via a request sent across the network.

Perhaps this will be helpful in the police investigation. If this girl had her GPS security permissions set the right way, the police could develop a very detailed picture of where she was, a least on an hourly basis or so, in the days leading up to her death.

I can look at my GPS history and plot exactly where I was over the past 3 days using the saved positional data. But the police have to move quickly with her phone. Older data tends to be overwritten automatically as time passes, and 6 days have already gone by since her disappearance.

My condolences. Hurting any girl brings about terrible karma to the person who did this.

She was one of my former students. I taught her in elementary school. I can't believe this happened!!

Be careful of where you go and what you do with quick acquaintances.

Yeah, this a huge tragedy for the parents. But, in a country where child porn is not illegal and you have the likes of AKB48 and other child soft-porn stars being idolized it should not come as any surprise that this kind of thing happens. RIP little lady. Condolences to the parents.

Moderator: Please repost without the references to AKB48 and child soft-porn stars, which are off topic.

Local residents say very few people walk in the area where the girl’s body was found.

I hope the person who found the body has a good alibi. They must be now number one suspect.

Isn't there a way to find her location from her cell phone? I know dumb phones don't have gps, but I thought they could triangulate her location by finding out what tower her cell is talking to.

Where were the parents? Couldn't they pick her up or anybody else pick her up? They allowed her to walk home alone?

DNA check her?

no security camera?

i'm not condoning carrying of weapons...but if you are going to let your daughter walk around at night alone....at least giver her a big pocket knife....

Where were the parents? According to news reports, the mother and sister were waiting for her at the station. She decided to get off at her friend's station because she wanted to talk to her more. She decided to walk home from there...

Thank God this country has the death penalty!

sorry but what is a "15 year old" doing out at night alone at 11pm. Parents should not be letting their kids out late at night (don't matter if they are with friends). This is irresponsability by parents. This tragedy would have been avoided if the parents would have picked up their daughter after the event. I have seen way too many drunk losers on the streets (specially after big hanabi festivals). RIP to the girl did not deserve to end her live like this. Hope the catch the guy and he gets put in jail for life.