OUT OF SIGHT
It was a short and familiar car ride for Satoshi Uematsu from his home to a care facility where he’d spent many hours caring for the disabled residents.
It was the early hours of July 26, 2016, and the roads would have been eerily quiet.
No one would have noticed Satoshi, 26, leaving his home in Sagamihara, located just south-west of Tokyo, Japan.
His parents had moved out a few months earlier to live in Tokyo’s suburbs.
Satoshi’s neighbours might have seen his trademark blond hair as he drove away and wondered where the friendly, polite young man was going.
They would have been surprised to hear he was going to the care home – after all, he didn’t work there anymore.
The Tsukui Yamayuri En residential facility, or Tsukui Lily
