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Published on Saturday, October 11, 2008
By LA Daily News Staff Writer
A strange cold case murder story that stretched around the globe to Japan and back over 27 years, ended this weekend a few blocks from where it began with the shocking suicide of Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura in a downtown jail cell.
"None of this makes any sense," said attorney Mark Geragos, who was representing Miura. "He was extremely engaged in his defense. He was giving us advice and input. He wanted to fight this."
Geragos said Miura, 61, maintained to the end that he had nothing to do with the death of his 28-year-old wife, Kazumi, in 1982. Miura battled extradition to the United States this year, but finally agreed to come back and face trial on a charge of conspiracy to murder his long dead wife.
His suicide in which police said he hanged himself with a piece of his shirt in his jail cell, was the last bizarre twist in a case that had many. The story became a sensation in Japan where it was known as "the Japanese O.J
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