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35-year-old man arrested over murder of teenage girl in 2004

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The statue of limitations for murder was 25 years, again you can check that.

Actually the law was 15 years, and extended to 25, but only for murders committed after the law passed

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When and why did they abolish it...

Here is the official document from April 2010:

http://www.ndl.go.jp/jp/diet/publication/issue/pdf/0679.pdf

The reasons they abolished include (1) increasing public support for abolishing such limitation for serious crimes and (2) advancement of DNA testing.

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It seems quite crazy to have such a statute at all, but then imagine a murderer living 28 years as a proper citizen and having a family of 3 generations, only to get found out on the 29th year, and what is everyone going to do? I'd rather respectfully shut down than try to do well and just in such a situation.

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Why did it take 14 years to do basic investigative work?

You obviously know nothing about "basic investigative work".

As you can see by the article, his DNA and fingerprints were ran against previous crimes and it came up as a match to the 2004 killing.

Since it came to a match, one can deduce that "basic investigative work" was done back in 2004, fingerprints were collected, and other DNA evidence was collected, if it has not been, it wouldn't have been in the database to match in the first place.

The guy's information was not not recorded to him because he never captured of a crime for his information to be entered as tied to him.

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Why did it take 14 years to do basic investigative work?

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When and why did they abolish it, zichi?

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