Kaoru Kobayashi

Kaoru Kobayashi, 36, told the Nara District Court that he sent a message saying, "I've done what I shouldn't have done," when he was tak ing the body to the roadside ditch where he dumped it.

Kobayashi said he and the stranger exchanged e-mail messages several times, but the stranger stopped replying when he wrote, "I kidnapped and killed a child in Nara."

Kobayashi, a newspaper deliveryman, has admitted kidnapping and killing Kaede Ariyama on Nov. 17 while she was walking home from school.

The Japan Times Weekly: June 18, 2005
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