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JOJI OBARA TERROR IN TOKYO

When police raided the home of wealthy businessman Joji Obara in Tokyo in 2000, on the suspicion he was a sexual predator, they found hundreds of videos of him raping drugged and comatose women. Among the many victims on the more than 400 tapes was Australian Carita Ridgway, a former model from Perth who died in mysterious circumstances in Tokyo eight years earlier.

“They also found a diary with girls’ names and comments. “Next to Carita’s name, Obara had written, ‘Too much chloroform.’”

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