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October 11, 2008

Japanese OJ Simpson commits suicide in California

20081011p2a00m0na014000p_size5Kazuyoshi Miura was called the Japanese O.J. Simpson because the suspicion that he killed his wife caused a huge media frenzy. The 1981 death of his then-28-year old wife appeared to be the result of a gun robbery in a LA parking lot. Then, a former mistress came out and said that Miura had asked her to kill his wife multiple times. The US Air Force had returned Miura to Japan, where he was convicted of attempted murder in 1987 but set free in 1998. He was arrested again in Saipan earlier this year and extradited to California on Friday to face trial there again for the same murder.

Later that day, he hanged himself in his cell. Maybe he got scared. He was having a hard time calling his lawyers in Japan and he also complained that he didn't have a reading light. I just can't stop wondering what his baseball cap in this photo says.

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It says Peace Pot Microdot. =P

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