After 15 years off searching for the murderer of a 54 year old wealthy gambler who won over $25,000,000 at Australian and American casinos the statute of limitations has run out on Wednesday according to police.
The victim, the president of a real estate Company was found after bleeding to death from a stab wound in his kitchen in his home in
Fuji-Kawaguchiko Yamanashi Prefecture on January 3rd 1992.
Police found footprints made from rubber boots at the scene of the murder, and his attache case was missing, police eventually found the case in Otuski, Yamanashi Prefecture, but police were never able to locate a murder weapon or any evidence leading them to a suspect.
The police did question all of the victim’s friends and acquaintances assuming that one of them may be the killer, but no evidence was ever found pointing to any of them.
In Japan any unsolved murder cases after 15 years are closed and should any new evidence be found a new case may not be opened, unlike in the USA where murder has no statute of limitations, and a murderer can be charged if found even 75 years after the crime was originally committed.
