Suspect arrested after missing Japanese ESL student found dead in Vancouver
VANCOUVER — The mysterious disappearance of a Japanese woman studying English in Vancouver is now a police investigation into her death.
Police announced Friday that the body of 30-year-old Natsumi Kogawa was found on the grounds of an empty heritage mansion in the city’s West End.
Police said the woman was last seen in the neighbouring city of Burnaby on Sept. 8 and reportedly spoke with friends the following day. But she wasn’t reported missing until Sept. 12.
Kogawa’s body was found on the grounds of the vacant Gabriola House on Wednesday, a day after RCMP in Burnaby issued a surveillance photo of a “person of interest” walking with Kogawa on a street in Vancouver.