Suicide puts bizarre end to cold case

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By The Associated Press
Published: October 12, 2008

LOS ANGELES — A strange cold case murder story that stretched halfway around the globe and back over a span of nearly 30 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.

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"None of this makes any sense,” attorney Mark Geragos, who was representing Miura, said Saturday. "He was extremely engaged in his defense..”

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 1981. 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 wife.


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