Mariko Iguchi’s Cruel Murder: A Deadly Adventure
On April 2, 1990, 23-year-old Mariko Iguchi, student from Japan’s Ochanomizu Women’s University traveled alone to Taiwan. After leaving the station’s hall, she was nowhere to be found.
In 1990, there was a strange murder case that took place in Taiwan. It was so hard to solve that it would have been considered an unsolved case, but who would have thought that the real murderer would come forward and admit to the crime?
Mariko Iguchi, 23, was in her fourth year at Ochanomizu Women’s University in Japan. On April 2, 1990, she took a self-guided trip to Taiwan. In the 1980s and 1990s, many Japanese students’ first choice for a graduation trip was to go to Taiwan. First, they are quite close. Second, they think Taiwan is pretty safe, which makes Mariko Iguchi’s parents feel better about her going there alone.
On the evening of April 2nd, after arriving in Taiwan, Mariko stayed at the Taipei International Youth House. She began to travel in Taipei on April 3rd. On the morning of the 4th, she sent a postcard to her family in Japan.
